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Soto Violins

5.0 (15 reviews)
Closed 11:30 am - 6:30 pm

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6 years ago

THank you for fixing my granddaughters violin! It works great now, can't thank you enough for the quick service and easy pricing!

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3 years ago

Juan is great! I only trust Juan Soto to work on my instruments.

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6 years ago

Awesome Luthier! I highly recommend him. He did a beautiful job rebuilding my beloved violin. It sounds great.

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5 years ago

Awesome Luthier. Very honest, responsible and knowledgeable. Thank you so much for helping us in such short notice.

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7 years ago

Really great quality service! Juan is always fast and detailed on why my instrument needed the service

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Art & Antique Restorations

Art & Antique Restorations

3.3
(14 reviews)
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they restored an antique lamp for me and i was blown away by the quality of the workmanship. It is…read morereally amazing in the lamp is perfect.

Geriatric crime syndicate. Unfortunately at best it's a larp. At worst a rehearsed scam, with bad…read moreactors. I had 4 coin op machines there for 1 month charged me several grand and he is 0 for 4 on getting any to power on and function. He simply doesn't know how to do it, it's straight forward stuff I gave him two Wurlitzer 1100s I have a lot of experience and different collaborations/ colleagues in doing this but limited time and lots of inventory so I am always looking for new helpers. Also have older generations of family members who I grew up around working on coin op some which worked as slot and arcade techs, so I'm pretty familiar with the game. This was my first experience using him for coin op restoration, though I have worked with several other companies here in Las Vegas and honest people who make up for this sort of plague in our community. He first lied and said he had extensive experience in repairing such machines only to reveal later he did not and only knows cosmetic repairs once the machines arrived in his possession. After charging thousands of dollars, one month in no luck he says in turning any of them on yet, and he then tells me it's maybe a "bad idea to fix them after all" and tried to lowball me and buy them all for a couple hundred bucks. A fraction of the money I paid him, when I disagreed he started yelling and clenching his fists, picked up a razor (never a good escalation idea when arguing about anything) and getting in my face. Keep in mind a 1100 is like 10k-15k when pristine, the few grand of money he charged for not getting them to work wasn't enough... he wanted the equivalent of a down payment on a 6 bedroom home, all at my expense and loss. He tried to proposition me on this one day after being fired. This was one day after charging me 1200 for a used speaker he didn't even assemble, and a glass that he put on a pinball machine that (guess what, he also returned to me unrepaired). I hired a real professional to assess his work today for our future court date, the glass isn't even the right size it covers the screw holes and makes it impossible to screw in and mount the glass on the machine. It's also broken and looks like he got it from a junkyard. Some nerve... again keep in mind he is 0 for 4 on coin op restoration for me personally. Negative -1 if you include the one he dismantled and returned in a hundred pieces. He managed to drill holes and clean around the coin tray or whatever may have been in it and aside from those holes he drilled into the locks I don't see anything else done. that's really about it, not including the few grand he got out my pockets. He told me "we all learned a valuable lesson here today" on my way out, that lesson for me is quite simply do not bring your loved items, prized possessions and other valuables that you care about here unless you want to risk destroying them, having them held hostage for additional spontaneous invoices as you schedule to pick them up more broken than before. the other negative reviews are indeed true, and then they milk you for whatever they think you can afford, if they think you can't afford it they'll ask what your credit card limit is. Lots of red flags aside from these other 1 star reviews. I told him stop repairs yesterday after he sent me a 700 invoice that I paid, today when I went to pick the machines up after paying and telling him to stop what he is doing since he is 0 for 4 in 1 month, he started yelling and trying to coerce me telling me I shouldn't go into these things if I can't afford to blindly pay him without any results, then he charged me an additional $500 to release the machines back to me. Few grand in total and all 4 machines are not functional: 0 for 4, avoid avoid avoid ! Trap. I asked him would he start by cosmetic instead of mechanical repairs on his own machines (which by the way he owns only one and it's broken in his shop) he said yes I pointed to it and asked why not replace the sticker decals and he again started bullying and acting belligerent as if that takes the attention off of him being a scammer. By the way this all happened on the first of the month, go figure... those invoices were sent to me on the 30th and first of the month. Perhaps some bad financial planning as well. Super unprofessional all together everytime I have been there he has a homeless sweatshop working for him for meals, turning in their findings exploiting them for free or beneath minimum wage labor. All around ridiculous behavior and no respect or empathy. Spoke to pro appraisers and found out that he also sold me fake reprinted photographs and a modern replica Chiparus sculpture and lied and said they're original.

Art Conservation

Art Conservation

1.0
(1 review)

Art Conservation Inc. also dba Atelier Art (per their pamphlet given - same address), was utilized…read moreby the insurance company that handled the damaged room divider claim from my recent move cross-country. I found the gentleman (name withheld due to privacy issues) who came to my house and telling me in person what I wanted to hear about the costs to repair both the aesthetics and the structure of this damaged piece of art, providing an opposite review and appraisal to the insurance company - costing my nearly 2/3rds of the requested and fair reimbursement as quoted from the Artist who constructed and painted the screen himself. The nail on this 'deceitful' coffin was the Appraiser's misrepresentation of the situation, calling the structural damage to my folding room divider to be caused by 'environmental' factors, when I had repeatedly contacted the movers before, during, and sadly after the move to absolutely crate the hand-painted screen flat, as the previous seven national movers had done; Mayflower, the movers, refused to do this though they promised in both verbal and written communications that they had received and would accommodate my request. Long story short, the craters forced the screen to close in a compact crate when each fold was designed to only close to about 14 degrees. This horrible, unprofessional, and unfair Appraiser has now cost me hundreds of dollars in reimbursement, and sadly to fight this legally with the insurance company would cost me more in legal fees than what I would have been fully reimbursed. After getting the lowball estimate, I contacted the gentleman at Art Conservation Inc directly, also copying the Insurance Adjuster, to ask for specific details of how he would proceed to repair my screen and to verify what he would do, as well as confirm the amount of time and work involved; I never heard a peep back, reinforcing that this company is truly unprofessional, uncommunicative, misleading, and lacking scruples.

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Purcell Galleries of Fine Art

Purcell Galleries of Fine Art

4.2
(5 reviews)

I drove to Chloride, Arizona in 2008 and my photos are from then. I took three friends there to…read moresee the murals on 12/3/18. They would not have seen the murals because it's a one and a half mile on a dirt road, rough in spots, from where the pavement ends and they wouldn't have driven their rental. You do not need high clearance nor 4 wheel drive, but with a regular car, you need to be more careful. Chloride was a counterculture spot during the 1960s and Mr. Purcell painted the murals in 1966. I went to visit in 2008 because I had read that he returned and repainted the murals in 2006. In the 10 years since I've been there, the murals have lost some of their brightness from our sun which fades things. I also have better photos from 2008 because I had my hiking boots and I hiked to the top of the ridge to see the town of Chloride and enjoy the view of some of the paintings on the top of the ridge. This is one of those places that you need to visit. The counterculture movement of the 1960s and Mr. Purcell's run ins with the authorities over marijuana and other things are a good part of the history of this area. I also visited a couple of abandoned mines in the area. There is one still a working mine with gates and warning signs about not entering.

This is totally free to drive in and see, so worth the trip!…read more When you enter the town of Chloride if you stop at the market you will see on the right hand side they will give you a map of the town and tell you how to get here. This was totally amazing. The road is all dirt to get here just make sure you are driving something that can handle the rocks and all. This was done out in no where. Totally nothing around just the town you drive through to get to it. A artist painted Murals and pictures all over the rocks out in this area. He use to work in the mines and he decide to paint and let me tell you he did a really nice job and it is very interesting! I love seeing things like this. I can only imagine how peaceful it was for him to paint out there. It was so quiet while we were there no one around. (Actually a little spooky feeling) Like the hills have eyes lol Make sure to have some walking shoes you can see the path to the paintings there are alot of rocks and all dirt. Not to far to drive if your taking a ride from Vegas. Head over the hoover dam and just keep going till you get to Chloride. You can read previous review and more about the artist here: http://www.purcellgalleries.com/about-roy/ http://www.purcellgalleries.com/gallery-2/ http://rogallery.com/purcell_roy/purcell-bio.htm This was so interesting to read how long ago he painted these rocks ~ Roy Purcell first gained national attention as an artist is 1966 when he painted "The Journey", 2000 square feet of murals on the granite cliff faces in the Cerbat Mountains near Chloride, Arizona. Make sure to take a trip to see this one day you will really enjoy seeing it! And explore the little town while your there, so much history there!

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