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I don’t think it will change. It sucks because there are people that have his guitars. He does build them. I don’t know if that makes it worse…I guess it doesn’t matter. If I got swindled by a Nigerian Prince or Bob Rusch I still took one up the Canarse.
I made my choice today. I already contacted 8 West Guitars and I have to sell it to my wife, but because the burning void inside and the fact that I have been thinking about a full on Wolf for the better part of 3 years everyday I am not going to let my dream guitar slip away because some guy made some poor choices.

Drew1982 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 24, 2026 9:51 am I don’t think it will change. It sucks because there are people that have his guitars. He does build them. I don’t know if that makes it worse…I guess it doesn’t matter. If I got swindled by a Nigerian Prince or Bob Rusch I still took one up the Canarse.
I made my choice today. I already contacted 8 West Guitars and I have to sell it to my wife, but because the burning void inside and the fact that I have been thinking about a full on Wolf for the better part of 3 years everyday I am not going to let my dream guitar slip away because some guy made some poor choices.

Yeah it does suck, Robert has literally scammed people out of money and time....

Imagine being that dude waking up in the morning and looking in the mirror.

I hope you get a Wolf. On the bright side if you just google "Rusch Guitars" a ton of information comes up about how bad of experience it is dealing with him.

Highly doubt he is building or will build in the future.

Drew1982 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 24, 2026 9:51 am
I made my choice today. I already contacted 8 West Guitars and I have to sell it to my wife, but because the burning void inside and the fact that I have been thinking about a full on Wolf for the better part of 3 years everyday I am not going to let my dream guitar slip away because some guy made some poor choices.

After getting Rusched, you will LOVE working with Bob. Both the person and his craft.

You can't beat Bob. I feel lucky every day that I look at the guitar he built me. Enjoy the process and the eventual instrument.

Does anyone know anyone that can help me either get my money from Robert Rusch so I can still keep my dream of owning a Wolf alive? I am so upset that this guy lead me on for 3 years. Telling me over and over it was being built. I thought about this guitar everyday for 3 years and to have this taken from me is completely devastating.
I know there are much worse things in life and this is a first world problem. But I worked my ass off to get to where I am today still a blue collar middle class man. I saved, sold two guitars, worked an incredible amount of overtime to pay for this. All of it just gone. All in all it’s just another kick in the balls!