This Is How He Shipped It. Just Like This.

No, dear readers, this isn't the photo I took after removing packing materials. This is exactly what greeted me when I opened the box. This is how someone chose to ship me a set-neck guitar in thirty-degree weather. But wait; it gets worse.

This damage was disclosed to me after the guitar was shipped. He said he dropped the tape gun on the guitar. Given the lack of tape on the box, I'm suspicious. Also, in order for his story to be true, he'd have had to have dropped it twice on the front of the headstock and once on the back. (Jim Garrison: That's one magic tape gun!)

The rest of the guitar is dirty, dingy, dented, dinged. It's tempting to just flip it for what I paid and forget about it. Except: this guitar has the hand-wound Ren Wall HRW pickups that were a very rare option on Heritages of the era. And it's a one-piece back, and an Ultra top, and a lovely color. I'm going to rehabilitate the old (eleven-year-old, anyway) girl. Watch this space.