Is this normal on Fender Frets?

This is an American Standard Strat... Early 2000's. It would seem like the fretboard 'finish' was never properly scraped off the frets... that is, assuming this is the factory finish and not a refret/refinish. Seems sloppy of Fender to do something like this...

What are your thoughts? Is it normal to have this on the Frets of a factory Fender finish? I checked a Tele I own, and this is present in only ONE fret... slightly. The Strat has this on 70% of the frets...

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x103/guilleshop/Other/IMG_3418.jpg

Perfectly normal. On a maple neck the frets are installed and then the finish is applied afterwards. You can remove it with wire wool - tape off the fingerboard and your pickups. Or just play it more, the finish will soon come off the frets by itself...

Thanks BBB... so, Fender doesn't bother removing with Steel Wool... sloppy :)

Thanks BBB... so, Fender doesn't bother removing with Steel Wool... sloppy :)

On more expensive models - yes, they do. However they have been doing it like that since the fifties on regular production models so why change now?

I had some on my MIM but not that much. So I just scraped a few frets with my fingernail each time I picked it up to play, after a week it was gone.