thomann set ups

cormhag

. do guitars from thomann come set up well. i really dont want to buy it and find the intonation is crap or something.

sei046

if your gettin a deal the intonation shouldnt worry you too much tbh. usually they are fine as far as i know. They wont set up anything up prob but it shouldnt be far off.

Doctor J

Depends on the manufacturer. I doubt Thomann open every guitar to set it up. It takes 15 minutes to intonate and set up a guitar. You should learn how to do it yourself because the changing seasons alter your guitar anyway, so if it's set up in winter it'll have to be set up again in summer. Wood expands and contracts with changes to temperature and humidity and, as a result, setups are a needed regularily.

sei046

Doctor J wrote:

Depends on the manufacturer. I doubt Thomann open every guitar to set it up. It takes 15 minutes to intonate and set up a guitar. You should learn how to do it yourself because the changing seasons alter your guitar anyway, so if it's set up in winter it'll have to be set up again in summer. Wood expands and contracts with changes to temperature and humidity and, as a result, setups are a needed regularily.

point and match

-=al=-

eh i doubt it, most factory sealed guitars arent set up great, just moderatly done, u nearly always have to set a new guitar up =/

Johnny Storm

My Lite Ash Strat which I got from Thomonn recently needed a good bit of tweaking to the truss rod. When I got it, it had backwards relief. Also the strings that it came on it were crap and just wrapped around the tuners not in the "locking way" - whatever that's called. Despite that, surprisingly, the intonation was good. It had a lot of tuning instability for the first week or so until it settled down.
My belief is that it actually set up OK to begin with (probably in Korea) but that it was freezing and soaking up the damp in An Post's proverbial big huge warehouse for about 4 days before it was delivered not to say however long it was in Thomann's warehouse and in-transit from Korea etc.

Cormhag - are you talking about an electric guitar? If so setting the intonation is easy once you have a tuner and a screwdriver. Believe me I am a total bodger but even I can do it. In fact changing the action and adjusting the truss rod are all very easy (given a little bit of practice and care) on an electric.
Acoustics are a bit different as far as I know....

Karl Hungus

Johnny Storm wrote:

Believe me I am a total bodger

What in god's name is a bodger? Is that like a badger with a speach impediment? :v:

Johnny Storm

An itinerant chair-leg turner. Obviously.

EDIT: an incompetent mender of things
What are they teaching the kids at school these days? :rolleyes:

Maccattack

surely it depends on the guitar. Thomann send everything i the factory packaging, so if it is set up at the factory the answer is yes.

My Tele came set up. sweeeeet.

Brenner

Just thought I'd warn you that...

Thomann are a shower of Fupping Backstards!

I had to take them to a german small claims court to get a refund on broken goods that they wouldn't refund me for *after I'd sent them back*!

Just thought I'd say that, promised myself I would if I ever saw someone thinking of buying from them...
Would Recommend http://www.musicstorekoeln.de/en/Guitars/3_0_G_0_A/0/0/0/gitarren/musicstore.html

Johnny Storm

Tell us more.;)

Eoin Madsen

I made a return to Thomann a couple of years ago which was refunded (for store credit, as is their right) without a problem.

selephonic

I also had a tele arrive with perfect setup, haven't altered it since it arrived about 8 months ago.