Fender Guitar Factory tour, 1959

[morgan]

Very cool 7 1/2 minutes video tour of the factory.


youtu.be/

[Nick]

Ahhh, the days before health & safety Would have them in a panic attack today if they saw no guarded machines, no respirators in the 'spray booth' & bare chested men getting around. These were almost what you could call handmade too! I bet the old guy bandsawing those bodies had done that many that he could cut them out without any outline markings!
Thanks Morgan, a cool vid indeed.

[J.F. Custom]

Ahhh, the days before health & safety Would have them in a panic attack today if they saw no guarded machines, no respirators in the 'spray booth' & bare chested men getting around...

Aww, c'mon Nick. The bare chested bloke painting the body did have eye goggles on...
True; they were pushed up to possibly protect a receding hairline only but... The foundations for the OH&S were there

I couldn't tell you what half of them were actually doing, but cool to see it in action. Few dollars worth in there at todays rates and a (mono?)tone-wood bunker to rival Martin.

Thanks for the link Morgan.

Jeremy.

[Kim]

The dude on the bandsaw was a demon!

Thanks for posting, loved the sound track.

Cheers

Kim