charlie brown Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ESDP16FBNH/sn11556718 3 out of the 4 shown, of this 335 model/finish, have crooked TRC's! And, that's just at one dealer! Can't believe Sweetwater would put up with that. Especially, hoping to sell them at $3500 dollars each! PFFF!! CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brantobrien Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Actually the truss rod cover is perfect… the rest of the guitar is crooked ;-). Jk. It is sad that such a small, but highly visible detail would get overlooked. If it sounded and felt great though I'd still get it if they marked it down. No excuses, but musical inspiration comes mostly from the ears and hands for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted September 15, 2016 Author Share Posted September 15, 2016 Understood, but for 3 such (otherwise beautiful) oddities to turn up, at the same dealer, with the same problem, makes one wonder where Gibson's QC was, that/those days they were built, inspected, and then shipped to the dealer. And, why too, the dealer didn't notice it, prior to listing them, as well? Also...how many other's like that, are at various other dealers??? Very odd! CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobouz Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Wow, those are hugely off. UNACCEPTABLE !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerwagonjohn Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 When I bought my 2009 ES-345 new the truss rod cover had the STEREO engraved at an angle. I E-mailed Gibson and asked if they really wanted me show off my new guitar with that cover. They sent me a replacement that is better but it is not perfectly straight. Thanks John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted September 15, 2016 Author Share Posted September 15, 2016 Found 2 more! http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ES5516SCBG Although, admittedly, they're not quite as blatant, they're still not straight, and on $5,000 dollar CS guitars, too! CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ess Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 I'm sure many of the big retailers buy B Grade stock from the manufactures very cheaply and try to palm them off as 1st Grade. Thommen in Europe actually labels them as B Grade. You hear so many horror stories of bad quality guitars bought from the big retailers, even taking into account their high turnover it seems suspicious and impossible to believe they left the factories as 1st Grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 I'm sure many of the big retailers buy B Grade stock from the manufactures very cheaply and try to palm them off as 1st Grade. Thommen in Europe actually labels them as B Grade. You hear so many horror stories of bad quality guitars bought from the big retailers, even taking into account their high turnover it seems suspicious and impossible to believe they left the factories as 1st Grade. That may be true, but this isn't usually something you see from Sweetwater. this is definitely not what I've come to see as the "norm" for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 Just checked (10:30 AM, 09-16-2016), and Sweetwarer (finally) took the 3 with the TRC problem, off their site! Good for them! Hope they'll check a bit more carefully, from now on? CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 I'll bet Gibson ate all those guitars with the TRC issues. You'd have to awfully hung over or whatever to line them up so badly. I'll bet QC is triple checking them this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaicho8888 Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 That's terrible and ruins the whole look! Definitely hand assembled just after Monday morning punch in or before quitting time on a Friday...no jigs? Hey, same TRC slant...could be the same assembler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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