Quote from Forum Archives on May 13, 2003, 8:26 am

Posted by: twheeler <twheeler@...>

Super story - thanks for sharing it!

Best Regards,

Trey

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 12:44 AM, m-rouse@insightbb.com wrote:

> Six years ago, my wife gave me an Epiphone Dot for our twentieth
> anniversary. About a year later, someone broke into our church, on
> Sunday, between services and stole the guitar. It was covered by
> insurance, and I was compensated for the guitar and GK2-A Midi pickup
> at the suggested retail price. This was enough for me to purchase my
> Godin LGXT-SA on a closeout. Well, the Godin is a nice guitar, much
> better than the Dot, but not as dear to me because the Dot was a gift
> from my wife. Besides that, I've always liked the feel of a 335 type
> guitar.
>
> Anyway, I was looking at guitars on eBay (hey - I know you all do
> too!) and there was an Epiphone Dot just like the one that was
> stolen. Starting bid was $110. As I read the discription, I noted
> that the seller said that it needed a neck reset. That is expensive
> if you take the guitar to a luthier, but having just completed
> building a travel guitar for our missions trip to Brazil, I felt I
> could probably reset the neck. So I bid. I was the only one that
> bid. I recieved the guitar on Friday. Not a scratch on it, but the
> strings were lying on the frets. I measured the neck angle and found
> that it was withing spec.
>
> The problem was that somebody had filed the nut down to the
> fretboard. I was going to replace the plastic nut with a bone nut
> anyway, so I headed down to Guitar Center to pick up a bland. A
> couple hours shaping the new nut, installation, a new set of strings
> and the guitar was playing and looking like I had just picked it up
> at the music store. Played it at church last Sunday.
>
> Bless the Lord, for He is good. His mercy endures forever!
>
> IHS,
>
> Mark Rouse
>
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