Whats Up With The Extreme's Annodize?

[AGD]

Cliffo, buddy,

FYI the blue extreme is mine BECAUSE the parts don't match well, that's why we are not doing blues any more.

As far as that Tequila goes your picture doesn't do it justice. It was sooooo bad a guy paid 2000 dollars cash for it yesterday. I am pretty confident in saying it was the most expensive gun sold at WC so far.

AGD

[rudy]

tom just cause a guy paid alot for it doesnt mean its right i mean for all we know the guy liked the way it was a different color. I cannot say cause i have not seen them for sure that they dont match, but you still had to take them to WC cause they were gonna sell there but you should call pk and say hey no excuses whatever is wrong fix it. they are very right in that i have seen hundreds of pics of angels with rotobreech and other guns and no one has that problem. i i know for sure many many people who preordered are gonna be dissatisfied if they show up like that many wont return them but they arent gonna be real happy about it.

[rudy]

btw why did that guy pay 2000 did it come with a full setup? like 3 breeches warp halo flatline 4500 and what not?
it would be interestign to see what the most expensive gun sold at the cup was, although i think some of the custom ir3s that are up in the 1700$ range would be more if they had a AIR tank and matchign barrel kit. also do people get to pick thier valve serial number of the ones present? that would be kinda a cool thing to do since nags are one of the few guns where the serial number is not on the body

[P4ULuk]

Originally posted by snakestang
I am not 100% on this but I am going to say that the markers coming from the UK were not done by PK. It really bothers me to see these breeches coming out looking so bad. As for showing them at World Cup, well I dont really know what to say about that other then, they really should have been perfect.

My best friend has a blue Extreme from IAO and the breeches are close but still not up to par.

My question is this. Why are the Extremes in the UK perfect and PK's are not? Mine is flawless in every way. As a matter of fact the warp breech was annoed well after the marker and it matches PERFECTLY.

Maybe they need to start using another anno source.

Glad you like her
You're correct the anno on the UK markers was not done at PK.

Paul.
p.s. Snakestang has the prettiest Extreme around!!

[Load SM5]

Argh, you did sell her Paul. What are you shooting now?

[P4ULuk]

Originally posted by Load SM5
Argh, you did sell her Paul. What are you shooting now?

An AKA Viking. Anno doesn't match on that but I don't care lol

Paul.

[Shirow]

how could you sell that beauty :0

[shartley]

[P4ULuk]

Originally posted by Shirow
how could you sell that beauty :0

It was a hard decision to make but over all I'm happy with the choices I've made.

Paul.

[Rooster]

"Well I doubt that is Toms answer to leave them like that.
And if it is I dont think I will spend $1300.00 for it.
As for it costing to much money to make it match I find it not likly. There are alot of low end guns that have matching parts."

The question is would you rather pay 1500 for a gun with perfectly matching anno, or 1300 for one that doesn't. Like I said, if it was something simple, it most likely would have been done.

[vf-xx]

I think you guys are forgetting something. A picture is no substitute for seeing something in person. I'm inclined to beleive that that the Tequila fade breech actually matches.

Camera's can play some tricks on the eyes, Red eye anyone? Come on people, have we not taken enough pictures with flashes to realize that picts can be QUITE deciving?

It sounds like the blue one doesn't match, but Tom fixed that by not producing them, so where does that leave us? Geez, everyone is sooo critical these days. Whatever happened to function over form? I would think as mag owners that we would be used to this concept by now. That would be one of the reasons that we stayed with the dull grey body over a pretty cocker or something else eh?

[hitech]

Originally posted by AGD
FYI the blue extreme is mine BECAUSE the parts don't match well...

Guys, Tom is admitting that this one is bad. It DOESN'T match.

Originally posted by AGD
As far as that Tequila goes your picture doesn't do it justice...

And this one DOES match, or at least the anno color is as intended. We can't judge the quality from the picture, or at least that is what Tom is saying. Can't we take him at his word?

[Gijim]

Agreed

You can only trust pictures so much, especially on the internet. I've ordered stuff that was quite different in color when I received it than what was displayed online, take every picture online with a grain of salt and you'll be much happier:)

[FrAuStY]

Yes some cameras that have ICC (Internal Color Correction) will change parts of the picture's color to make "match" what it thinks it should be. In this case.. it was wrong. It could have been the angle in which the breech was shot from.. maybe the flash caused a birghter color and the camera darkened it "thinkin" it would be the right colors. Personally, I'd likr my extreme bare aluminum.. no anno. (I wanna polish the whole thing

[Jonesie]

OK, checkout out my example below...


If you will notice, the top part of the breech DOES match, and the bottom part does not. This is due to the angle at which the picture was taken, I'm sure. I'd be willing to bet that in person, the breech does indeed match the rest of the anno.

Seems to me that the blame should fall on the photographer, rather than the finisher. Additionally, when I pulled the image into Photoshop, it was really grainy, leading me to believe that the image has been scaled down, or the camera was not top quality.

Now, from what I read of Tom's post, I understood it to mean that 'bad' actually means 'good' and that the picture was in fact poor quality. If I am wrong, I will admit that, but I think there might be a miscommunication here.

Later ~ Jonesie