Comments

• nomadgtr Colorado✭ Bumgarner, Marin, Holo, Barault

  November 2021 Posts: 123

  I agree with Scoredog, time to ask for your money back. You could have had several guitars built in that amount of time with other luthiers who are more customer-centric.
• ChrisMartin Shellharbour NSW Australia✭✭ Di Mauro x2, Petrarca, Genovesi, Burns, Kremona Zornitsa & Paul Beuscher resonator.

  November 2021 Posts: 959

  And if and when you do get any deposit paid back.......NAME and SHAME so the rest of us do not make the same mistake.
• vanmalmsteen Diamond Springs ,CANew Latch Drom F, Eastman DM2v, Altamira m30d , Altimira Mod M

  November 2021 edited November 2021 Posts: 337

  Just got my van Halen guitar, a Kramer, retro 80s kind of deal. Took 19 months I believe. By the time it got here I had forgotten about it and was sort of over it.lol

  Obviously the Covid stuff severely disrupted production and distribution

  
• billyshakes NoVA✭✭✭ Park Avance - Dupont Nomade - Dupont DM-50E

  November 2021 Posts: 1,402

  https://djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/109102#Comment_109102

  Make sure you add it to the guitars in your profile! 🎸🤘

  
• Bones Moderator

  November 2021 Posts: 3,323

  Maybe ask for progress pictures? Is it close enough to drive over and see it?
• cmcmurphy22 New Bumgarner, Zwinakis

  November 2021 Posts: 39

  I can highly recommend working with Craig Bumgarner. Great guy and amazing guitars.

  
• nomadgtr Colorado✭ Bumgarner, Marin, Holo, Barault

  November 2021 Posts: 123

  I concur cmcmurphy22. Craig is an example of the kind of luthier I described above that I look for when commissioning a new build.
• swiessler NorCalNew Dupont MD20,Gibson L5,Bumgarner F hole(DiMauro type)

  November 2021 Posts: 78

  I agree with both of the last two comments. Craig is not only a talented luthier, but patient and accessible

  to prospective clients. He remains that way throughout the entire process.
• Gouch FennarioNew ALD Originale D, Zentech Proto, ‘50 D28

  November 2021 Posts: 122

  Time-pressuring and/or over-communicating with a quality luthier 100% guarantees you won’t be getting the best work that luthier is capable of.

  (Which is not to say no schedule and/or zero communication is acceptable; I’m saying if you want “the goods”, you need to submit to the idea of letting a sensitive craftsperson rip and do what they do. Late stage feedback/adjustments of the finer setup points is a simple matter of peeling off some reasonable quantity of $20s from a big visible stack)
• ChrisMartin Shellharbour NSW Australia✭✭ Di Mauro x2, Petrarca, Genovesi, Burns, Kremona Zornitsa & Paul Beuscher resonator.

  November 2021 Posts: 959

  https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/109128#Comment_109128

  Maybe, but two years?