Mine was the same. A small scuff in the paint and on the edge of the scratch plate.ShatoonBringerOfCorn wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:34 pmThe issues aren't anything major, just a few small things that add up to be annoying. Some small marks on the finish (which would happen eventually through use, just annoying to get it out of the box like that), the nut seems like it was cut with a piece of paper, it definitely needs to be filed a bit more, and there's buzz on the two top strings played open, which might be because of the nut or bridge related? Not sure, because I've never played a JM with the Mustang style bridge until now. The tone knob is not straight (or is it supposed to be 'offset'?), so it rubs the pick guard and because that's metal, it seems to have ground off a little bit of plastic as there's a small ring of knob dust on the pick guard. And there's some glue or something in the truss rod hole which just looks ugly, again it could be addressed, but annoying that this seemingly wasn't caught at the factory.
It's just a bit off-putting and annoying when I've had £120 guitars that have been nicer out of the box than this.
The metallic purple is very cool though.
I also had the tone knob catching and leaving a plastic dust ring! Squier are consistent
My lower strings rattled until I replaced the flimsy 9 gauge strings with 10-48 gauge Ernie Ball Ultra Slinky’s. Definitely an improvement but the top strings seem to be catching in the nut now.
Going to get my tech to work on it next week. I think it’s worth getting set up, it sounds and plays fantastic just needs tweaking.
