Ruined the value of the guitar?

[kiteman]

I changed pups on my BD model and the pups wouldn't work with the direct mounts so I'd put on the pu rings.

I thought I had it close to perfect and putting in the screws moved the rings. Duh!

I want to sell it but for what? Was $899. It's handmade by a luthier.

SPECS:
One piece mahogany body, hard maple neck, 12"R rosewood fretboard, 1 11/16" nut, 24 frets, Sperzel locking tunners, graphtech saddles (nut?), double action truss rod, quality hardware, Schaller strap locks.

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[kerc]

Unfortunately, hand-made luthier guitars have no solid resale value anyway, bro. That will be a hard one to sell, especially if you add in the non-conventional design (which is pretty cool in my opinion).

[Commodore 64]

Yeah they are all over CL, all the time. Really tough sell.

[FrankenFretter]

Buck Dharma? Sweet. Hope you're able to get a decent price for it, KM. It sure is pretty!

You might try some of the BOC forums. Probably more likely to run into somebody who's into collecting that kind of thing, or at least somebody who would appreciate the value of that fine guitar.

[kiteman]

Thanks guy, you've confirmed what I thought. :)

I'm a member of the Buck Dharma forum but the password recovery seems to be non existance to them, it doesn't work.

[deeaa]

Nice shape, yeah...seems to me the guitar would sit pretty far right, i.e. picking hand would naturally land on the neck somewhere, when it's strapped on? Is that so? Because the back strap button is so close to the strings?

[kiteman]

The guitar is light and comfy to wear. I haven't noticed anything unusual about the strap buttons. It didn't put me in an awkward position to play it.

It's quite a jammer. The pups I'd put on are the Carvin Holdsworths.

[deeaa]

OK...the reason it interested me is I'm having trouble playing my 'strat' usually with the band, and then occasionally breaking out the Glying-V...the guitar stands so much more to the left of me, I end up playing stuff a full step higher :-) so I rarely switch the type of guitar I play. I hardly ever look at the guitar when I play, so it's important to me my hand always lands on roughly the same frets when the guitar hangs on me.

[kiteman]

I know what you mean exactly. I had an SG and switching between the SG and the strat throws me off so I sold the SG. :)