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Post by TKennedy on Jan 25, 2011 20:58:15 GMT -5
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Post by Supertramp78 on Jan 25, 2011 21:14:02 GMT -5
This is so cool. I was born the year that film was shot.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 25, 2011 22:28:32 GMT -5
I enjoyed that. The hats, the way the plain white t-shirts look at little different than they do today, all of those people look like they're from a photo album of my family from way back then.
And no safety glasses or safety anything.
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Post by theevan on Jan 25, 2011 22:29:57 GMT -5
Imagine spraying paint and lacquer all day every day with no protection.
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Post by TKennedy on Jan 25, 2011 23:48:36 GMT -5
Things are a little better at Kennedy Guitars. He'll do a twelve hour shift for three squares and a couple of Hot Wheels.  |
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Post by Fingerplucked on Jan 25, 2011 23:50:43 GMT -5
This is so cool. I was born the year that film was shot. Give or take 5 years, I was shot the year that film was born. |
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Post by RickW on Jan 26, 2011 1:07:27 GMT -5
Look at the freehand work. CNC? What the heck would that be. You watch those guys pushing wood through bandsaws with their hands, and wonder how they have any fingers left.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 26, 2011 7:53:22 GMT -5
I enjoyed that. The hats, the way the plain white t-shirts look at little different than they do today, all of those people look like they're from a photo album of my family from way back then. And no safety glasses or safety anything. Yeah. The sleeves were baggier, I think. That old guy cutting bodies on the band-saw was spectacular. Wow ! I expect the guy doing the spraying succumbed to some lung complication. Ha ha. No shirts in the factory. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2011 7:54:40 GMT -5
Not only no protection, no shirt, even in the final inspection and set up line. I don't want some sweaty bruiser playing my Strat, even if they do wipe it down before tossing it in a case. Look at the freehand work. CNC? What the heck would that be. You watch those guys pushing wood through bandsaws with their hands, and wonder how they have any fingers left. Practice, notice the radius cuts that he does so he can get inside the cutaway with that wide blade. This step in making a solid body is still the same. A CNC doesn't handle large waste pieces very well so it still has to be roughed out on a bandsaw. Very cool video indeed. |
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Post by millring on Jan 26, 2011 9:01:08 GMT -5
Hard to believe the achieved any uniformity with those methods.
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Post by omaha on Jan 26, 2011 9:08:21 GMT -5
That is awesome stuff. Just fantastic.
No air-conditioning...just open doors and big fans.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2011 9:25:02 GMT -5
Hard to believe the achieved any uniformity with those methods. You do, and the only hard template you have is in your head. The roughed out body was screwed to a hard template and then cut to shape on a Bearing Router. After rounding over all the edges the body cavities and neck pocket were cut with a Pin Router which follows a pattern on the bottom of the template. The last step was the waist contour and then the body was sent to sanding and finish. The necks were done pretty much the same way. I still have neck and body templates for a Telecaster, Duo Sonic and my Bluesmaster. |
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Post by Greg B on Jan 26, 2011 9:29:52 GMT -5
This is so cool. I was born the year that film was shot. Same for me. Is that really your shop? But it's so clean! And there's all that stickered wood in the background. Do you have a couple set for sale?  Re: The Video I noticed that they were using a pin router to get the neck shapes exactly right. I bet the final shaping of the bodies was also done on a pin router. There were probably more lap steel guitars in that video than Fender sold this year.  I'm pretty sure the girls at the desk were winding pickups. Imagine not only building the instrument, but manufacturing the pickups as well. Then again, in 1959 who else could do that? And yet, as I watch this I realize that even though it was almost 52 years ago a shop is a shop. If you're comfortable in a shop environment then that still looks familiar. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2011 9:35:10 GMT -5
Terry has a discipline that you and I do not have, he cleans his shop almost daily. Then again, he might have elves.  |
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Post by Greg B on Jan 26, 2011 9:42:26 GMT -5
Well, Millring told me that for every 24 hours you spend cleaning your shop you gain one day of productivity.
Or something like that.
I think my shop needs a week of cleaning.
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