UnderTheSign
Well-Known Member
And the situation with S7G here shows that isn't always the case.It bloody well should, because the builder should be choosing optimum pieces of timber. Choosing quality wood is no different from choosing the rest of the components for a guitar. I wouldn't pay $3k for a guitar knowing that it was going to have a Chinese knockoff Floyd and No-Name pickups. What then makes low-quality wood anymore acceptable?
I never said "low quality" wood was acceptable and I don't think the defects shown here are acceptable either - I merely pointed out that production guitars don't mean you're getting low quality wood.
As for choosing optimum pieces of timer, sometimes you THINK you have a good piece only to later find out it wasn't properly dried, has defects, bullets, whatever in it. And while I think they're a bunch of idiots for doing so, I can understand S7G buying what seemed like a good batch of wood but turned out to not be as good as they thought - and being in the financial troubles and all that they're in, I can imaginee them saying "oh what the hell, we'll just use this".