"Thor" ...Holy overtightened neck screw, Batman! Might be time to replace Thor as your guitar tech... you can see in that close-up pic the screw-head has some damage to it, as well- starting to strip a bit...
you can see in that close-up pic the screw-head has some damage to it, as well- starting to strip a bit...
Yeah, already backed that screw off about an eighth of a turn. Shouldn't get worse. Just mind-boggled that 1 someone would crank on them that hard and 2 the plate would crack. BTW, the screw heads are still fine as well as long as u use the correct size screwdriver ... imagine that?!?My exact first thought too.
Fortunately it's not a big deal. Just don't over tighten your neck screws. And there is no need to have them cranked anywhere near that tight.
Damn, bummer! U must have had the same tech the previous owner of my guitar had. It's a same knuckleheads like that work on gorgeous guitars like these!Exact same thing happened on my '07 Luke. It's a bummer for sure. Especially since the serial is stamped on the plate. The crack in mine has gotten much worse over time, too. I'll probably have to look into replacement options eventually.
Ugh, bummer! Orange-peeling... Wow. Never seen that on an EBMMI have received a Polar Noir Majesty with a terrible paint job. Paint had ran on several places. Totally beats me how it passed quality control. Thanks to a grand-master luthier of global range we are lucky to have here in Athens, Greece it is now finished immaculately into a Ferrari Rosso Majesty.
Another Majesty with a curve on one of its sides due to an inaccuracy in the sanding process. Where it was supposed to be perfectly straight.
The NOMAC Majesty had a drop of glue on the forearm contour. Glue that was used to attach the eye-monitors.
My JPXI Cardinal has a very small polish crack on the neck joint along with orange-peel due to bad paint job as well.
Nobody is perfect indeed, and EBMM should not be 'divinified' as it's something that I see happening here a lot. In the end, everything depends on how high standards you have and how-well trained eye you have for details.
Ugh, bummer! Orange-peeling... Wow. Never seen that on an EBMM
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Ditto!I would think that the threads in the wood would strip before the metal plate cracked, if someone torqued the screws too tight - oh man!
if you crank on the plate it will crack...maybe not at first...also most times it is a plating crack not material crack. If we did something wrong we should get a chance to fix it.
Johnny all those problems sort of surprise me....why didnt you give us a chance to fix it?