Big Al
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You're accepting mediocrity and defending bad workmanship.
The pickguard and its bracket are an extremely poor design. Quite why they can send out elaborately painted and finished guitars with this shoddy contraption knowingly damaging the surface is beyond me. The crude nut and bolt need to be kept further away from the guitar's body by way of a longer bracket. Epiphone manage this so why don't Gibson??
Just look at the healthy gap between the bolt and top of the guitar in this photo I took of a 2020 Epiphone Les Paul hanging on the racks. Gibson know that some people remove the pickguard and even if they don't there should be no damage underneath. It's nothing like removing a table leg and complaining about a mark that's hidden by the leg like a previous poster remarked.
Really? Well hell there is a flippin screw hole ON THE FACE of the guitar when you REMOVE the pickguard,[something Gibson doesn't support. Pickguard protects finish],.
Why oh why do we endure these indignaties? OMG!! I just unscrewed the truss rod cover and took it off, you know to look kewell and check the workmanship and wouldn't you know it, 2 flippin screw holes!!!!! AND THE TRUSS ROD NUT WAS NOT EVENLY PAINTED!!! NOR WAS THE ROUT FINISH RUBBE OUT AND POLISHED!!!!!! WTF!!!!!:bigal:bigal:bigal:bigal
Yes I'm agahst!, agog with outrage! Just saddens me, ...... to read such ignorant drivel. Yes indeed just buy an Epiphoney and spare me the hubbub, bub.
To the op, brother what you see on new guitars is the slight surface marring of fresh lacquer that has a metal bracket screwed against it. You could rub that out easily, if you wanted, not a crack. You would see the exact same thing on an Epiphoney if they had nitro lacquer instead of a super thick plastic poly finish.