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Seriously,So, I bought this bnew from a Reverb seller. The plating/metal plate finishing looks like this. My FR originals, Schallers, and even my FR1000 and cheap floyds have a smoother finish than this.
Is this normal? Or a reasonable return? For Gotoh trem owners, how does yours look like?
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Who hurt you today bro? Relaaaax.Seriously,
If you have to zoom in with your iphone, it is not a fucking issue.
Customers like you, who want unreasonable perfection, are annoying as fuck, and part of the problem of western society wanting everything perfect and immediately.
Get over yourself. It looks like you haven't even installed it on the fucking guitar yet.
So, I bought this bnew from a Reverb seller. The plating/metal plate finishing looks like this. My FR originals, Schallers, and even my FR1000 and cheap floyds have a smoother finish than this.
Is this normal? Or a reasonable return? For Gotoh trem owners, how does yours look like?
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I've had some with rough plating, especially black, but that's the worst I've seen that I can remember off hand.
Thanks for the straightforward and reasonable response, goodsir!
Does it make the plating weaker in the long run?
Probably an exaggerated response to years of dealing with people wanting perfection. Seriously, working with metal, wood, or flesh, imperfection exists. 100% perfection is a great goal to have, but nothing is perfect, and I am tired of dealing with the facade that anything is perfect. Those pictures are taken within two inches of the surface in question. I would consider that pretty damn zoomed based on my phone camera.Who hurt you today bro? Relaaaax.
Lol the camera isnt even zoomed in. Point and shoot in natural light.
Why are you Americans so angry geeeeezzzz
Probably an exaggerated response to years of dealing with people wanting perfection. Seriously, working with metal, wood, or flesh, imperfection exists. 100% perfection is a great goal to have, but nothing is perfect, and I am tired of dealing with the facade that anything is perfect. Those pictures are taken within two inches of the surface in question. I would consider that pretty damn zoomed based on my phone camera.
I literally just ordered a Gotoh 1996 7 string trem for my E-II arrow 7 to replace the Floyd that it has now. Seeing an imperfection on the edge like that, which does not affect performance or feel would not encourage me to go to a forum to question if it was a return or not.
Back when I worked in the music instrument industry, I dealt with returns that required a zoom lens to capture. I got fed up with customer expectations back then. Apparently the sentiment has not faded much with time.
My 1990 B.C. Rich Platinum Virgin and 1995 Washburn Dime 333 have both been retrofitted with Gotoh 1996t tremolo bridges. Here are pictures of all of their edges. None of them are polished smooth. Those bridges have been on the respective guitars since 2016 and have not had any premature finish wear.
Those edges are not meant to be polished. The OG post was bitching about finished metal edges that were never meant to be polished smooth as they are not edges that are used as a palm rest while playing.
As I said in my previous post, I just ordered another Gotoh bridge as I have never had issues with the finish quality. I guess you could say that my expectations are reasonable based on my experience with thousands of factory guitars and various tremolo bridges. Max, you should realize my experience level, being that you were the moderator who chewed me out for posting about where I worked when I was working in the MI industry.
If the OP wants polished perfection, he needs to look at other bridges.
Yes, it is normal. No, it is not a reasonable return. For the Gotoh trems that I own, see pictures above.Is this normal? Or a reasonable return? For Gotoh trem owners, how does yours look like?
I think that's what they were asking.
I definitely would be asking the same thing if my "Floyd Killer" looked like that.