LOL Well, that's a nice bonus. By that you mean they set it up after you bought it, or it was on the rack and already came 'set up'?
They set it up after I bought it. They sent it to the luthier on staff and actually had a meeting with him and I where he explained some of the nuances of that particular guitar to me
That's cool. Many shops don't do that - or charge extra for it these days. It's usually about $100 extra.
Sweetwater has a 50-something point inspection, but only for guitars over a certain price - and it should NOT be considered a set up. It's nothing of the sort. It's just basically making sure nothing's broken.
That is the last time I bought a guitar from a guitar store. I have no clue what they offer these days, though the store I bought my guitar from closed down when the long time owner retired, one of the guitar salesmen opened his own guitar shop and a piano salesman opened a piano store in the same location the music store had always been, it just got divided up into separate entities. The guitar shop doesnt seem to mind the one or two times a year when I stop in there and plug in a guitar to an amp and crank it to ten and make noise for a couple minutes and then leave LoL
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