Anybody expierenced in repairing Grand Unicorns?

Ugh. Ariankentara, it always breaks my heart to see a Windstone so thoroughly broken. That packaging job is horrendous!! I hope you get a really decent refund, I’d say that fellow is worth a quarter of whatever you paid for him at this point.

If for some strange reason you cannot find a more experienced person to repair this uni I would be happy to give it a try for you. The most extensive repairs I’ve done on unicorns has been simple filling in of pit holes in a mother uni’s coat. I also have two severely damaged dragons coming to me sometime in the next couple of weeks so I’ll have more repairing experience by the time I’d be able to get around to your uni in any case.

Anyway, like I said – if no one else steps forward to do it, I definitely would love to do my best 🙂

That’s a shame 🙁

I agree with a lot of people here. That seller should be giving you a huge (if not full) refund.

Luckily the breaks on the legs seem pretty clean and there don’t look to be many small pieces. They should glue back together fine, and with a little touch up paint it will be beautiful. 🙂

Oh, and as far as someone to repair that, I hear Kyrin is one of the best Windstone surgeons around 😉

Sad to look at. Sorry for you. An the piece both. Kyrin is the best at this but there are others that do repair work also and I hear just as well. After you get this eBay thing taken care of put out a wanted someone to repair post.
Even though this looks bad there are those that can make him good as new. Good luck to you.

Not so overwhelmed now, Drag0nfeathers. Though I was. As for people getting their pieces back everyone who had pieces with me have gotten them back. The way you put it you make it appear that I don’t return people’s Windstones at all…which is not true. Talk about making me look like a thief & not to be trusted. I am sure that wasn’t your intent, but if you read what you wrote, that can easily be the conclusion drawn.

If I repair any more pieces in the future, it will be one at a time, no more agreeing to let someone send more than one at a time…yeesh, who knew that agreeing to take one person’s “few” quick repairs, was in reality about 14 pieces all told. I had thought I was agreeing to like 5, not doing that ever again.

I may be willing to work on this guy, my biggest concern is the sheer weight the broken legs are going to have to support, not sure if this can even be done or not, but willing to try.

If you aren’t in a huge rush, contact me in January after the holidays. I should be up to taking new projects then, I have all the previous ones off my plate, just need to ship a few things that i have held in trust & want to work on some of my own stuff for a few months.

Kyrin

Most of the trouble with contacting me was that people were depending on emails & forum messages when they should have used the phone. Everyone who has had something with me has had my phone number. I was a bit unhappy that so many people complained in public on the forum rather than simply picking up the phone & calling me.

So while I may have been gone from the forum, I really wasn’t out of contact with them, except through their perception because I wasn’t using the forum or emailing. I did tell them that email & forum messages was not a good way to get a hold of me, btw. I almost never use my email anymore, it has become a spam trap & I can’t find legitimate emails for my life due to the 100’s of spam messages I get. Ask poor PixieDust about that, she had to put hers in all CAPS just so I could find hers!

That is what upsets me so much, folks went out of their way to bad talk me on here, but were just as guilty for bad communication as they accused me of. Not fair, & slamming me in public was inappropriate in the extreme.

If you have an issue with someone on a forum, I don’t care what it is, you DO NOT post it publically! You take it up with them.

I realize that I may not have been perfect in my communications, but I was never more than a phone call away…just to make that very clear to all those who think I left everyone who had stuff with me hanging, I didn’t.

My turnaround for things got bogged down unacceptably for several reasons, some of which was my willingness to accept things before I was ready, then getting way more than I ever anticipated. I will no longer accept multiple repairs past 3 pieces from the same person. I will also no longer accept a repair being sent to me with the agreement that it is okay if it sits here til it’s “turn” because the owner doesn’t want it sitting at their place, then get mad at me cause their “turn” isn’t immediately after I get it as they hoped it would be.

So from now on, when I have something not done, nothing will be accepted until it is done. That way my turn around will not get bogged down by having too many repairs in house. Those doing repairs, try to avoid accepting a lot of multiple repairs from one person, especially if you still have several other repairs you are trying to get done when they send you the lot. Not to mention when you are going through a major life upheaval.

Lesson learned.

Kyrin

Thanks Scenceable, I do agree for those scamming people & such, yes definately post it publically, that is a matter of protecting the general public.

You are right, I am working towards getting everyone’s stuff where it belongs. My biggest issue at present is being out of packing peanuts, I did a trade, but well it didn’t work out so well as I ended up using up all the peanuts to send the trade half back, so I ended up negative peanuts again. *sigh*

Talking about sending things back, I gotta run, catch you guys later…gotta ship a dragon!

Kyrin

Trying to paint you in a bad light wasn’t my intention Kyrin. In fact, I usually recommended you myself, but I have since stopped giving that advice only because of people privately contacting me saying after I did so, they never heard back from you so I felt like I had put them in harms way.

Granted, there are two sides to every story and I’m not trying to step on your toes of take your business. Frankly I hate doing repairs, but it seems these days nobody wants me to paint them PYOs really so I have only been taking them on because of (one) your absence on the forum, and (two) there’s been no money in the painting business really and I’m good at repair, so why not? *shrug* Doesn’t really matter if I enjoy it as much as painting. I’m still doing a job.

Anyway, I have a huge project on my shoulders at the moment that I am having trouble to complete just because of the sheer mass quantity of individual sculptures that are involved. 30 now to be exact from one customer, so I understand how overwhelming and almost hopeless it feels when you have that many pieces at once. My intention wasn’t to discredit you so I apologize if it seemed that way, but something as simple as having prompt responses to inquiries can go a long way. Most people understand repairs aren’t easy. If they were people would do them on their own and if time = quality most people don’t mind waiting either. Just being “available” if someone asks for a update really means a lot and when people feel ignored they usually jump to the conclusion they have been swindled, even if they haven’t. That’s all I was trying to point out, so again I’m sorry if what I said upset you.

Also, if you need peanuts, I have MASS QUANTITIES I’d love nothing better then to be rid of if you want them. 🙂