Help! MM JP tremolo cavity

[azyat]

Hi everyone,
I"m new to this forum with JP7 BFR, and I had been glad to be a part of this community before yesterday's evening, when I picked up the tremolo cover to adjust the springs for a new set of strings and found that thing... You see that hole on the picture? Is it something that can be usually seen on MM?

This guitar is said to be built in 2012 according to the S/N and purchased from the Friend of Musicians (you know whom I mean). Is it kinda store setup drilled for the ground cable? The first owner swears that he didn't change anything, but I feel really bad about this hole from the aesthetic point of view.

Also I thought that MM tremolo is fully floating, but when I'm pulling the bar down, it goes down for half a tone, and then something inside stops it from going deeper. When I pulled up the tremolo cover, I couldn't see anything that could block the tremolo. Maybe somebody could pour some light on it.

 

[Firesource]

That's where they place a chip that identifies the guitar during production. It is scanned by eg. the buffing robot, so it knows which program to load.

 

[azyat]

That's where they place a chip that identifies the guitar during production. It is scanned by eg. the buffing robot, so it knows which program to load.

thanks for the clue to my nightmare
but it looks really strange that it isn't fixed somehow. i absolutely acknowledge that it can't influence the sound, but when you acquire a guitar worth of 3k (brand new), you want it to be perfect in every way

any thoughts about the tremolo? i heard that it had been a problem of earlier JP's tremolo, but they fixed it later. but year of production of my guitar is 2012, i don't think it belongs to those old models that i heard about

 

[DrKev]

any thoughts about the tremolo? i heard that it had been a problem of earlier JP's tremolo, but they fixed it later. but year of production of my guitar is 2012, i don't think it belongs to those old models that i heard about

There was never a problem with the trem. There was a small design change to ensure that the high e-strung saddle didn't touch the mounting post when dive bombing. That was an improvement rather than fixing a design flaw.