Beautiful guitar! I am glad to hear to got your baby fixed, but $485 for that repair was highway robbery. My R8 had 3 or 4 similar dings on the back of the neck and my luthier charged me $40 to fix it. He told me the process is easy. He filled the dings with multiple coats of lacquer letting each coat dry until the ding was filled. He was doing a refret at the time, so maybe he gave me a better deal on the ding repair. He leveled the fretboard, refretted with stainless frets, installed a new bone nut and fixed those dings I mentioned. Total cost for all that was $390.
I don't rely got anything to compared it too price vice, so it's hard to say. With all respect, remember I'am living in Norway, where salary, taxes and general living cost are a bit higher then US.
We are few people and there's not that many that can make a living from fixing guitars. I had a 4 hours drive to get mine done :laugh2:
Tor,
Given the typical costs in Norway, and the results of the repair to your Historic LP, I think you did well.
Lacquer finishes that incorporate tint over dyed pore filler have a translucent quality that is nearly impossible to spot-repair with an invisible blend. One can get close, and it looks like the tech who did your work knew how to do that.
All good.
Nothing to fix, u just got it reliced.
if you become rock star someday, someone would pay few grand to get exactly the same ding :rofl
Drop filled, leveled, buffed out, etc.