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Title: Repair it or buy another one?
Post by: Awakening on December 30, 2007, 12:34:48 pm

I have an Ibanez acoustic which mysteriously has a hole/crack/opening in it, on the side directly opposite the soundhole. It's been that way for about a month now, and the hole itself is about two square inches in width.

The guitar originally cost me about $300 - would it be better for me to buy a new one or try to get it repaired? (The sound is getting screwy and I hear it will only get worse)

Title: Repair it or buy another one?
Post by: Ryan on December 30, 2007, 02:57:13 pm

get a new guitar

Title: Repair it or buy another one?
Post by: Mince Wobley on December 30, 2007, 03:05:32 pm

Repair it

Title: Repair it or buy another one?
Post by: blood hell on December 31, 2007, 12:13:09 am

Take it to a luthier or any instrument repair shop and see how much it would cost to get it fixed, then base your decision on that. I really have no idea how much it would cost to fix something like that

Title: Repair it or buy another one?
Post by: ATARI on December 31, 2007, 05:45:43 am

If it's worth more than the value of the guitar, then I would say get a new one.  Unless you are really attached to the way that the guitar sounds/plays, or if it sounds much better than I imagine it would from the description that you've given of it, I think this would be a good oppurtunity to get a better guitar.

Title: Repair it or buy another one?
Post by: Pepoke on December 31, 2007, 01:57:38 pm

Get an ovation and it wont happen again

But if you fix it, it would add a bit of character to the guitar. I personally would fix it myself.

Title: Repair it or buy another one?
Post by: Bakubon on January 08, 2008, 02:26:22 pm

It depends. Do you like the guitar in the first place? If you can have it fixed for cheap i don't see any problem. But if a guitar does that mysteriously as you said then i probably would buy a better one.

Title: Repair it or buy another one?
Post by: CorporateGreed on January 14, 2008, 01:32:59 pm

Personally, I'd buy a new one. I have long lost my trust cheaper equipment, but that's
more because of personal experience.

The lowdown is just this though, guitars shouldn't just produce holes like that. I once
bought a custom Ibanez, and i mistreat the guitar as if it were a Bass. It's been this
way for years, and it never so much as flinched.

Costs for reparation will vary depending on what material the guitar is made of, but it
doesn't sound like it's too expensive. The question is wether it sounds well enough, and
wether or not it will still sound well after the reparation.

I'd buy an Ovation like Pepoke said, but I'm biased, so my voice doesn't really count.