Don’t fuck with people’s shit without asking wtf. Life isn’t like TV, not every surprise is going to be appreciated.
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