Modern Saint
Starve your Fear, Feed your Dream!
Mark I think you covered the pictures just fine! I was surprised at how much manual labor goes into each guitar. I assumed machines did more if it than they do.
Working on the factory floor looks like no fun at all. However in the teambuild Custom Shop area they seemed to have a great time. The master builders are sequestered away each in their own area. My favorite guitar of the tour was a Telecaster made up like a White Falcon by one of the master builders. He called it the "White Chicken". Said the price would be $5k - $6k. Unfortunately to rich for me.
The coolest sight was the drying racks in the ceiling that can hold 7,000 guitar bodies.
Thanks to Grover for driving the bus, I had a great time!
I dug the White CHicken too. SO ugly but so cool
Also cool was seeing Abigail Ybarra in her cubicle winding pickups when we got there.
The trip to the Factory was a blast and Speedracer said it best that Mark pretty much captured the whole tour to a "T". I too dug the White Chicken but I could have sworn the cost on that was much higher - oh well. It really was cool to see Abigail Ybarra sitting isolated from the rest of the production. She was adjacent to the custom shopwas had it's own room away from it all. What I consider incredible is that the Corona factory builds approx 500 guitars a day and the Mexico factory 700 per day.
Here is the link to my photoalbume that contains 59 Pics of the my day the factory tour.
http://s1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/modernsaintmusik/Fender%20Factory%20Tour%20in%20Corona%20CA/
Mark has covered most of the tour so here are just some of my personal treasures.
Fender Visitor Sign
Custom Painted Stealth
Custom Painted Stealth
Jerry Murads Harmonicats
Brian Setzer Gretsch Custom Models
Brian Setzer Stray Cat Model
Reverend Horton Heat's Gretsch
Wild composite structure in the showroom
Yours Truly
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