Fender and Gibson, the cost is it worth it...Discuss amongst the group.

[Marcel]

My current theory is that someone doing the QC checking at the Fender factory must have had a brain-fart, or it could have been the one applying the labeling, not sure why that wasn't picked up during the QC checking, it's glaringly-obvious enough.

The signed QC card that came with the guitar has four signatures. The 4 supervisors were 'Prep', 'Assembly', 'Tune/Test', and 'Inspector' so yeah you would be forgiven for thinking that one of them missed the error, but for all four to miss I think there must be other wicked games afoot... Either that or they are all oblivious to the odd tree due to the forest...

No matter what... I'm very reluctant to give it back... I have a sweet tooth that craves for sweet sugar...

[wazkelly]

Tend to agree with your theory of same old, same old and nobody could spot the difference.

No matter what is on the headstock, if it feels good and also sounds good, definitely a keeper. If not you would obviously send it back for a replacement.