It's even a bit deeper than what you point out below, Kirk.
Many of the contract manufacturers are American companies that have set up shop
in China (or Mexico).
In this case who is to blame for the lack of quality?
BTW, The washer bottle made it. Cleaned it up and put it in last night.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Hargreaves" <khargreaves2@gmail.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:53 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
> 59 BE 1275
>
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