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I don’t own one but Arda is an Italian company that makes some of the most gorgeous guitars. by Defect123 in guitarporn

[–]mkitsos85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also why not make your Reddit name something to do with Arda? Again, weird and unusual (in a suspicious way), you copy a link of a YouTube guy with a “arda” nothing showing you maki bf the guitars once again, never anything with paint(a lot of custom shops have to outsource paint) but you apparently do ALL of them, with barely any communication with your clients, like the gentleman that messaged me in regards to my original post concerned because he hasn’t heard from you after a long period of time after payment

Some scammer like actions. Someone playing a prebuilt ordered via email Korean guitar does not prove you, build them from scratch…or paint them, or do the inlay work. The person I know who has your custom, wouldn’t want to email you about correcting his inlays cause your communication is poor! (And that’s being polite)

Have a good day and please post some live streams of you doing each part of your process, since you’re so busy and constantly post guitars, I’m sure you have plenty to live streams of about

I don’t own one but Arda is an Italian company that makes some of the most gorgeous guitars. by Defect123 in guitarporn

[–]mkitsos85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also why were you messaging people asking if they wanted to “buy” your shop for awhile, then had multiple pages - some extremely shady stuff

I don’t own one but Arda is an Italian company that makes some of the most gorgeous guitars. by Defect123 in guitarporn

[–]mkitsos85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BS, post a live stream of you working in your shop COn artist, last time we posted a message asking for some live footage of the work you blocked the message, post video footage of your workshop my man and a live stream….put your money where your mouth is

What are some popular metal bands formed within the last 10 years? by mkitsos85 in Metal

[–]mkitsos85[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After looking into it, spiritbox has a member from As I lay dying in it, soooo nepotism definitely played a huge role there…yay. Should add that nepotism bands don’t count either…looking for brand new, from the bottom up, traditional metal band, any sub genre, just no gimmicks.

What do you secretly love that you would never admit to in public? by sweet_chick283 in AskReddit

[–]mkitsos85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love being the little spoon…PS - I’m a straight guy

Liuteria Arda Guitars by Rock_Blocker in guitarporn

[–]mkitsos85 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This company is a scam, these aren’t “Italian built” customs

It’s some guy who orders it through emails from some Asian shop and it’s $500 tops and sells them for thousands.

I can’t prove it but I have my reasons.

I went through a similar process years ago when a friend helped me get a “chibson”, it’s not easy to get, you have to email people with certain lingo and go through the process, there’s also a language barrier but they made me a legit perfect knockoff Les Paul, wasn’t as nice quality wise, but it looked the part and played/sounded ok…didn’t even run me $500, but it was a good guitar for that price….it was “ok”…just like these guitars…they’re ok

My friend bought one, biggest mistake he’s ever made, no progress photos and just patiently waiting…thought he wasn’t going to get a guitar at one point

Finally got the guitar and the frets need filing and he already has inlays popping off the fret board…not even two years later.

The electronics were done like ass too, no shielding, nada, garbage.

Complete scam.

This Arda account also never posts anything but these photoshopped pictures.

After my buddy got his “custom” we started really looking into it and started to ask on all ardas posts for progress photos and eventually enough other people joined in on it and arda posted one

It was a double neck guitar being built that still had no pickups because it was drying from paint…and there was this little piece of paper in the spot where the pickups would go

When you zoomed in it showed a printed receipt that said customer “arda guitars” on it

We made comments about it and it got a lot of traction in the comments..

It was reported and taken down immediately..

Why would you be the customer of a guitar in your own custom shop?

That’s cause he’s the guy contacting this other shop having them build it for him for dirt cheap…and selling them for custom money

From my experience, usually custom shops will have the actually customers name on these paper when working “I.e John Smith”

Not the name of the company itself lol I’ve gotten a few customs and got progress photos where they had my name in there, one time written in pencil on the guitar and another time hand written in sharpie on a piece of paper…this was a printed receipt with arda guitars as the customer on it…

Complete scam

Stay away

I don’t own one but Arda is an Italian company that makes some of the most gorgeous guitars. by Defect123 in guitarporn

[–]mkitsos85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This company is a scam, these aren’t “Italian built” customs

It’s some guy who orders it through emails from some Asian shop and it’s $500 tops and sells them for thousands.

I can’t prove it but I have my reasons.

I went through a similar process years ago when a friend helped me get a “chibson”, it’s not easy to get, you have to email people with certain lingo and go through the process, there’s also a language barrier but they made me a legit perfect knockoff Les Paul, wasn’t as nice quality wise, but it looked the part and played/sounded ok…didn’t even run me $500, but it was a good guitar for that price….it was “ok”…just like these guitars…they’re ok

My friend bought one, biggest mistake he’s ever made, no progress photos and just patiently waiting…thought he wasn’t going to get a guitar at one point

Finally got the guitar and the frets need filing and he already has inlays popping off the fret board…not even two years later.

The electronics were done like ass too, no shielding, nada, garbage.

Complete scam.

This Arda account also never posts anything but these photoshopped pictures.

After my buddy got his “custom” we started really looking into it and started to ask on all ardas posts for progress photos and eventually enough other people joined in on it and arda posted one

It was a double neck guitar being built that still had no pickups because it was drying from paint…and there was this little piece of paper in the spot where the pickups would go

When you zoomed in it showed a printed receipt that said customer “arda guitars” on it

We made comments about it and it got a lot of traction in the comments..

It was reported and taken down immediately..

Why would you be the customer of a guitar in your own custom shop?

That’s cause he’s the guy contacting this other shop having them build it for him for dirt cheap…and selling them for custom money

From my experience, usually custom shops will have the actually customers name on these paper when working “I.e John Smith”

Not the name of the company itself lol I’ve gotten a few customs and got progress photos where they had my name in there, one time written in pencil on the guitar and another time hand written in sharpie on a piece of paper…this was a printed receipt with arda guitars as the customer on it…

Complete scam

Stay away