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Laurus broken headstock


flaviusm
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This can be a negative feedback too for two shipping companies, but I think is more important to see the repair of a broken Laurus headstock. I’m not a luthier, so please don’t curse me that I don’t have a repairs stand, table or... I don’t know.
Regarding the negative feedback, be careful if you want to send parcels through Colissimo and Posta Romana (French and Romanian national mail). I don’t know where was the idiot, but was easy for him to destroy a bass guitar in a bombproof parcel.
You can see in the pictures the headstock before and after the shipping, plus the repair. Many thanks to ABM Germany with the perfect customer service and, of course, the high quality products!
As you can see, I tried to put those individual pieces, but appears some cracks under the screws on B and C strings (too thin wood there). Then I bought another headstock piece that works. Unfortunately, they don’t had a black one, so let’s shine a little bit 🤩.
In the end, please excuse my English and “enjoy” the pictures!

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Indeed, Flavius, thus Laurus looks better now and the gold headstock piece suits it perfectly without looking weird.

Couriers are a strange destroyers breed. Reminds me of a quite similar accident with a one of kind bass. It was in the UK and the company was, the already well known for this kind of job, ParcelFarce, not to name them. See my feedback if you want to read the story.

That said, I enjoyed that bass, but ended up trading to a friend who also traded it to another friend, who traded it back to you. And I know how much you love this bass. Enjoy this new Phenix. 👍

 

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@flaviusm, the bass looks great! I have always thought Laurus basses look odd, you have made it look less odd! :)

I was the recipient of the bass that @Hellzeromentioned was badly wounded by UK Parcelforce... Tony of course packaged the bass in a very over-the-top fashion, I honestly believe that if you dropped Tony's packaging from a 10 story building the contents would survive, however Parcelforce managed to destroy it! An almost impossible task...

Couriers will always break things because they simply just don't care, they do not get paid enough to care and most companies pay 'per delivery' so couriers are incentivised to act with hast and no care.

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