I do not intend for the following 4 pictures to be an exposure of a deception; no guitar stores here are selling compromised goods to buyers. If they do, the instruments you brought home wouldn't be working. This is my effort to bring you, my friends, to an understanding of quality control. Manufacturers out there are sometimes fighting themselves silly to conceive instruments which require a certain standard of construction which they know they cannot fully conform to, with a limited production cost. However, they are mindful enough to tuck these away so that what (flaws) you don't see, won't make your heart ache. Keep in mind that I bought this guitar after seeing these flaws & accepting the instrument as it is. The guitar in question is my Rally Neosound Jr. & it's all about the binding in the inner F-holes.
I hear some people out there saying I'm being ultra petty with small compromises but this is the Achilles heel of an F-hole finishing. When it comes to making the F-hole edges presentable, the budget instruments won't pull through as well as their upper tier counterparts. In view of the instrument's list price, the binding work you see here might prove to be pseudo-binding after all; ordinary wood surface given the cosmetic fix so that it looks like real binding. Whatever the case may be, the manufacturer has a duty to see this done properly.
7 comments:
for the price paid, i guess it was acceptable right?
the blemish-perfection ratio was more than acceptable, bro :-) this Neosound Jr is well-above average in other departments. we'd be surprised to know that this problem manifests itself in instruments of higher prices.
Cheap instruments doesn't mean QC can be slipshot. Then again, it may be mass produced...can't complaint much.
Fitch
that's right, even if it's a factory product, the manufacturers shouldn't take it easy in terms of quality
that's why i (we) love ibanez's QC, even for a cheap GIO series
Bro Ijau,
I have seen standard Ibanez RGs having faults eg. bad binding paintjobs, improper filing of fret ends and dirty pups/bridge routing.
Fitch
but the exterior is OK right :-) that's usually the case...
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