Sadly, the result of The "USA is the centre of the universe" again.
As a professional restorer, I have used Gav's stencils for around a dozen games. Whenever there was a problem, he was on the phone with a solution, or would send me down a new stencil if I was having trouble.
I tried using USA based stencil "providers", and they were poor copies of Gav's format. Same everything, even to the point of ripping off the registration areas. I've tried all of them, thrown out most of them and had to fix two of them. I won't mention names, but when a stencil provider asks you to send back the entire set via international express post at my cost, they can get stuffed.
Sad to hear. At least Gav is in the knowledge that what he did create, it was the best quality.
Will be interesting to see how my next two repaints will fair - they are from the USA, and just rolling them out on the floor - they have issues already.
