Gibson Surprised Me With My Dream Guitar!

hey what's up you guys Marty Schwartz here with Marty music I'm so excited right now I am actually at the Gibson guitar Factory in Nashville Tennessee and we are gonna go on a journey a guitar journey we're gonna watch a Gibson es-335 get made from the beginning to the very end now we got to go meet up with master luthier Jim so we got to hurry up and check it out I think you guys are in for a treat let's go I'm hanging out here with Jim Dee Cola Mart hey how are you I'm doing wonderful I gotta say this is like I have to keep pinching myself that this is real I couldn't even sleep last night thank you so much I'm so excited for this ready all right let's do it Oh [Music] [Applause] so here we're laminating the es top or back we use the same press for the top and back so he's using a layer of maple and then poplar and then maple and we rotate the grain on the poplar 90 degrees to strengthen it after he applies the glue he'll put on that top layer of maple and then it will go into the press and this press incidentally came from Kalamazoo every es we've ever made came off of this press so it uses high pressure and 250 degrees of heat to form that top and back and we'll stay in the press for about three and a half minutes and then they'll take it out and then put it on the cooling rack all also be careful this one's hot off the press that's a fresh top it doesn't get any fresher than that the start that is about to burn but the yes can die snip it sir so Marty here's what we're going to glue the rims together so it's a similar process where we have the three ply maple poplar and then maple and we're gonna put it in the rim press and again that's you know kilojoule even fifty degrees of heat and then a couple thousand pounds of pressure it'll have to stay in the press for about three and a half minutes so we'll pull it out and put it in the cooling rack once it cools then we'll slice it because it's about 14 inches wide and then we can get many sets of rims out of that one piece so this is what it will look like when it comes out so so you can see we can get many sets of rims out of this gonna cut it like that yeah it's amazing how delicate it all starts it is so it's a maple center block those rims that we saw bent up will now be glued to that Center block they'll apply the glue and then he'll put it in the clamps and they'll have to dry minimum of a half an hour clamp time before we can take them out he's putting some rim blocks in there but it'll also put the kerfing the kerfing is this spruce that sliced so it bends it's pliable actually bent that one put too far so it bends inside yeah yeah and he'll have to just use the spring clamps by hand and then he kind of snaps the kerfing down to get it the appropriate size depending on where he's putting it inside so you can see we have a lot of automation here but there's also a lot of handwork that has to be done so the purpose of that is to increase the the rim size so you'll have more glue surface on the top and back and now she's going to glue the top and back to that brim assembly she's going to apply the glue with the roller you know I actually just like a paint roller so still apply the glue to the core and then the rim and then glue that top and back on now that form you know she's going to clamp shut and that form will help keep that rim in shape when it gets the you're gluing the top and back on so now she put that core block on top just agonda shim it up and that air bladder fills up and that's the compression that holds her together so here Gary's gonna bind the 335 alright he's taking up binding which is ABS plastic and he dips it into that glue and that glue melts into that binding and he even though the whole outside and everything is slathered in that glue it's just the most efficient way to do it yeah he'll hold it down as you can see around that body but end of the body he'll tie it at the waist and then he'll start wiping the glue off and start that wrapping process it takes an average of a minimum of two months to train one of these crafts and then how to do this and it takes two months because every wrap is in a specific sequence okay it's not just a random wrapping pattern just tighten it up and they figured out what sequence it is to get the proper pressure to have success in gluing up binding in the rims in the waist top of the horns inside the cutaways and so forth and as skilled as it is and difficult they'll still be able to wrap it as we'll see in the average of like three or three and a half minutes and once he's done then the guitar will have to stay wrapped up for a minimum of two to three hours then they can unwrap it and in the case of the es because it's double bond then they'll have to repeat that process okay so now he's preparing the body flattening it out so he gets a proper surface you know under that fingerboard riser he'll do all that prep work to get it ready and then I'll start the fitting process it's going to check the neck to make sure it's straight if it's not straight then it's possible that when he puts the gauge on it to check the pitch that it could be off so now you can see the chisel by hand he's taking it down to get the proper fit if you saw he kind of forced the neck in originally and if you force it in you can kind of get it in there but if he applied glue and then try to do that again that glue will make that next swell up he won't be able to slide it in so now he has to take the chisel and allow enough clearance still have to be tight but it has to have enough clearance to allow that glue to be applied and accommodate that swelling yes make sure there's no gaps around the whole entire surface now that's a pitch gauge that's telling them how far that is off the body and as the ball within a certain window or else you're not going to have enough adjustment on your bridge check it again every flight that glue is gonna clamp it down and he'll only use one clamp if you use more than one you have a risk of putting a curvature in the fingerboard now we're gonna go see the spring okay Marty you're gonna smell the true smell of nitrocellulose lacquer the smell of victory yes so right now Karen is applying the color and the color applying the color is very very skilled because it's not as simple as just spraying the color on the guitar and following an affirmative which is difficult you also have to take in consideration the color of the wood you know two different flame pieces of plain maple can vary in color very drastically so you have to understand you know to pull back or lean in accordingly to achieve that same color once she's done applying the color then she'll seal it with a clear coat of lacquer and that will that will seal that color in so when it goes through scraping to straight the binding clean they won't potentially damage the finish after that then it will go on the topcoat line and get all the multiple coats of clear lacquer how she's giving it that final lacquer coat and that lacquer coat will also pop the color so it'll be clear and shiny so she can see if you know she might have to do a touch-up but but primarily it's to protect the color so it doesn't get handling damage when they scrape it so we saw the guitars being sprayed right after that it will get all the multiple clear top coats it'll go through quality control they'll approve it then it goes into buffing and buffing they'll lightly sand that guitar to remove all the orange peel and then buff it to that high gloss Sheen yeah after that then you can just hire come cheering the fine late and final assembly it enters on the line here and that leaves men on the line will get a parts kit and that parts kit has all the controls knobs pick up Sooners all the parts for that guitar and he'll start that assembly process so he starts installing the tuners it'll slide down the line they'll install the strap pins the pickups the control assembly the knobs then it gets to the adjuster and they install the strings and then start that adjustment process once they get that adjustment process done it goes through the cleaner and then for the final inspector and that's the end of the line okay so curt is the final inspector Kurt's gonna inspect the guitar for playability and aesthetics make sure there's no cosmetic issues and then features and functions so he'll he'll check the electronics he'll check the hardware make sure all the components are correct for that model make sure all the electronics function is there intended to give that final playability test and then he'll sign off on the inspection tag and take a photo which he'll print out and that will accompany the guitar and that photo that that photo is printed out with that digital camera right so we print out the photo he'll sign the serial number sign off on the tag and date it and then that photo is sync with that serial number so once it goes out in the field you know it's the birth certificate for the customer and also it's a good quality control tool for us because we could you know if a customer has and said hey I think you put the wrong switch cap on this guitar we can look up a photo and say oh sorry put the wrong one hot off the presses yeah I think you need to give it that first play yeah what should got to be a meee cord for the awesome I probably never been the first one to like play a guitar is that cool yeah that is amazing wow so cool you guys alright I hope you guys enjoyed watching a cherry es-335 get made from start to finish I even got to play it after the final inspector did his magic with it and it played awesome and Marty on behalf of Gibson we'd like to present you with that guitar oh my god oh my god okay I'm gonna try not to cry can I open it up absolutely this really that's happening this is for you we're honored you guys Jim thank you so much thank you appreciate it so much absolutely it's just like my dream guitar and I got to be there every step of the way you've got to experience it and take part in the birth of that guitar wow I just never would have imagined this and like ever in my life this happening so all I can say it's thank you and thank you to Gibson well we'll have to make another video where we really dive into it go through all the sounds and just really take it out but you're gonna be seeing this a lot in the future thanks again man we really appreciate I'm honored thank you all right you guys we'll see you again this time with a brand new Gibson [Music]

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Length: 12min 14sec (734 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 19 2020