That's the one thing we still don't do.
The reasons begin with a lack of space, continue with a lack of skilled labor, and go on and on from there.
Our web site is 13 or 14 years out of date, but still states this up front.
The work we have done on that basis is pretty strictly for other shops, and mostly during the mid-summer and early fall "slow season". A professional technician usually knows how to pack equipment to arrive in one piece, and what to expect from it when the job is done. Biggest trouble we have had when I got talked into fixing "my buddy's" radio. A radio that arrives damaged is a money hole. If it's insured, the shipper will want to send it back. We unpack, inspect, call the sender, repack and hand it back to the UPS driver. All for free. Not a job I would apply for.
Just one problem. The "slow" season kinda stopped coming around a couple of years ago. Then again, the shops who sent us work that time of year keep closing.
Funny how that works.
Some day the volume of work that gets carried in the door will fall below the comfort threshold. And I'll have to choose between having work shipped in, or just go back to repairing tube-type guitar amplifiers.
Maybe.
But hey, thanks for the compliment, Sonoma.
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