You got it backwards. Both guitars start with "1011" which means the 11th week of 2010. If it were built in 11th week of 2011, it would be "1111". The majority of the 1011 370/12 MIDs were actually built at the end of March 2010. The last two were built in April 2010, the last being completed on the 13th of that month. This guitar has been out there for about a year and a half.Hotzenplotz wrote:Well, the serial number of this guitar is 10118xx. The first given back guitar also started with 10118xx. The 11th week of 2011 started April, 14.johnhall wrote:We're more than mystified, especially when you consider the last 370/12 Mid was made on April 13, 2010.
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As for the defect, I assure you it did not leave our factory this way. When we do see buffthroughs, they do not go all the way down to the wood like that. Moreover, MID is easily the most difficult color to "mask" a defect on. There is black paint underneath the blue, any alleged paint or marker touchup should have been patently obvious to anybody inspecting it as the blue touchup would not match at all. When we do repair the MID finish, we sand and respray the black first, so the MID color looks uniform.
I'm also puzzled how this manifested itself so readily, with just a simple polish. So I guess the guitar was just laying around for a year, it wasn't cleaned off prior to shipping?
Also, whenever a problem like this arises, I am the one that decides what to do with it, and I would never send a guitar out with such a colossal defect when I know full well that I will hear about it later in some form or another. This is especially true if it is a 370/12, since it seems that the folks that have those on backorder are generally more likely to take part in forums like this.
Personally, I'm thinking there is more to the story here as it relates to this particular guitar.