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Yeah, you don’t fuck with shit a person is that attached to because you think it “looks rough”
Clearly a professional agreed that it didn’t just look rough, the shit was damaged
There’s not enough context here to say that with any certainty. If husband was playing it and enjoying it, then it’s doing the job it needs to. Even if it was actually broken and actually fixed, it still changes the relationship between player and instrument and could’ve easily taken away earned character as a way to make it look “nice”
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the idea of damage as character or lack of maintenance for a musical instrument as an aesthetic decision rather than just a bad decision, but you’re right about there not being enough information
So you think Willie Nelson should replace the top on Trigger?
Sure, why not
Because it’s more valuable as is
I don’t even mean monetary value (though that’s also true, you don’t refinish a vintage guitar because you halve the selling price), but the historical value and sentimental value and enjoyment value. It’s a record of the time he’s put in on it and the dedication to this instrument. That means something, more than “fixing” it ever could.
He has it repaired regularly dumbass, says so in the wiki article you idiots keep posting
What the fuck are you talking about? I’m a single person, I have posted no articles, and I never said the guitar isn’t worked on. Obviously he’s done some repairs to it to keep it playable, but that’s not relevant because the person in this post was playing it before it was fixed. My hypothetical is replacing the top, which is a repair that happens to guitars if the top has been damaged and the owner wants to fix it. Willie is not doing that, which is the smart and correct choice in that situation.
Calling me stupid while being confidently wrong. Sounds about right.