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Re: [Spridgets] Chinese Quality Always Bad?

To: Edward Perez <eap2140@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Chinese Quality Always Bad?
From: Bill Gilroy <wmgilroy@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:28:19 -0800
Me too.  I also want to see the church puppets.  The best we had when I was
a kid was penguins, but they were real scary!

-g

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Edward Perez <eap2140@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I just want to see the singing, riding, puppet dog!!
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2@gmail.com>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 1:53:47 PM
> Subject: [Spridgets] Chinese Quality Always Bad?
>
> My brother in law went into Guitar Center.  Closed his eyes and asked the
> guy to hand him different acoustic guitars.  He kept his eyes closed as he
> did not want to be swayed by labels.
>
> He played Martins, Taylors, Gibsons, the whole gamut.  Price was no object
> as he had just received a large inheritance.
>
> Note that my brother in law is a very fine musician.  He paid his way
> through college as a studio musician playing keyboard and guitar.  As a
> very
> young man he worked with Nelson Riddle in Los Angeles. .  his musical
> resume
> is very impressive..
>
> So he has an ear. .
>
> He came out of Guitar Center with a guitar known as a Parkwood.
>
> When I got a chance to play and look at it I was extremely impressed with
> the build quality, the finish (nitro) and the way the guitar produced highs
> with a deep bass.
>
> The kerfing, all the details of the build were second to none.
>
> Then I read inside that the thing is made in China. .  which totally caught
> me off guard.
>
> The Chinese can build to a high end quality (at least guitars) if the owner
> of the company orders them to build to their highest quality.  And I would
> guess has a rep in the manufacturing facility to enforce the quality of the
> work?
>
> My father in law has made many trips to China to have an automated puppet
> built for his business.  He had at the time been making puppets for
> churches
> for the last 35 years.  . and making a very nice living from his 20
> thousand
> square foot facility where his puppets were manufactured.
>
> The quality of this automated teaching dog that rides into the classroom on
> a tricycle and sings and talks to the children is as good as anything I
> have
> seen.
>
> >From what I have been told, when you go to China to have a product made
> they
> ask you if you want their highest quality, medium quality or the lesser
> quality.
>
> My take, most of the businesses that order stuff from China order on the
> low
> quality side to make a buck. .  and as the Chinese are willing to comply,
> they get the bad reputation that sticks with them. And they brought this
> reputation on themselves complying with requests to turn out low quality
> items.
>
> Ok.  . start taking some shots at me. .  I know that I may have struck a
> few
> nerves with my email!!!
>
> Kirk
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