Hey guys, it's me bothering you again

Last week i took my american standard to get a set up with my local luthier. The guitar came with a crack in the finish (i think it's in the finish, im REALLY worried about this i would like your opinion). I think the guy used too much force with the screwdriver, here you got a couple of pictures that i uploaded:

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I think it took a dip in the wood and made the finish crack a little. Obviously, i wouldn't trust in that luthier anymore, so i took it to another professional luthier, who told me that the neck plate took a little dip in the wood and caused this finish crack, he remove the neck plate just to check and the crack didn't expanded into the hole or anything, it just what you see there. The Luthier said to me that i shouldn't worry about this, it just a aesthetic thing and it won't expand and it's just a finish thing, it wouldn't bring me any troube in the future. By the way, im sorry that i'm not a great photographer.

The best strat i had, and i love it so much, i would like to have some answers of people that knows about this deal, im really afraid that this will expand or because the dip in the wood i will have trouble with the intonation or whatever.

Many thanks in advance guys, really, kind regards an i hope you could help me.

Honestly bro.....that is pretty minor.Those screws are pretty deep in the body of the guitar and secure.If it were mine, I would just be careful with it and not worry to much about it.If it is a nitro finish, it is notorious for checking and cracking like that.Lacquer gets brittle unfortunately and that would be a prime spot for that to happen.
Just my.02

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It's an American Standard 2010, so i guess it's not nitro. So, shouldn't worry about this, it's not a problem then?

Thank you very much for your reply!

I have two American Standards from the early '90s and one from '87 and they have cracks in the finish like that in various places,it shouldn't hurt anything.

Your guitar's going to DIEEEE!

haha but in all seriousness, should be fine.

Don't worry about that , maybe the wood dry a bit and screw need to be tightened and the finish is not flexible as wood and ....crack

Why you don't ask this luthier , the first one, what he think about that ? You'll see if is explanation make sense. I think he do a good job.

Yeah , It's nothing to worry about. Just a finish crack in the paint. It just sucks that you bring it to a luthier so everything is done properly and you end up having the so called expert overtighten the neckplate screws.

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Ok, you got me some relief fellows

I would like to know if the guitar will be fine because the plate took a little dip into the wood, as you can see it's a little bend in one of the pictures, i hope the crack it's only in the finish and not in the wood itself. It'll be an issue or i'll be fine and should't worry?

Thanks, the guitar is very very sweet.

No worry about that, sure the crack is only on the finish, it can't be on wood.

Hi, its just sad that someone you entrusted with your prized posession could not give you it back in the condition that it left you.
If that was me I would feel real bad about damaging your guitar.

I had a similar problem with my 1994 MIM strat a few months back. Left it with a luthier and came back to me with a crack in the finish at the neck plate. I don't think it has made any difference. I was more annoyed that the luthier let his nut file slip and left a horrible gash through my decal!

Not to worry.....it's mojo.

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Yep, these little finish cracks are both A) common and B) not a big deal at all. If it plays, you're good