These pintles are not deck hardware that is polished to present a beautiful shine to guests onboard. Someone wearing a welding visor that they can’t see out of fabricates these pintles on a metal bench. Welding spatter makes it very difficult to make the weld of the pintles to the brackets look clean. Every set of pintles will have scratches and imperfections that, due to its nature and the fact this will only be used when raising and lowering the mast, and sometimes while trailering, cosmetic scratches, dings and abrasions are not considered defects.