GJ2 Guitars Factory Tour with Grover Jackson & Jon Gold

basically what Grover is doing these days and has done for a long time is a long way from the early Jackson charel days technically the attitude's been the same but the way of actually achieving the end has been very different there was a lot more hit and miss before the Advent of CNC machines and computer controlled lasers and Plex and all the other techn ology that we have to work with now to make a much better much more consistent instrument and of really high quality we're going to start the program it's going to basically cut away most of the material at the head Showtime at the Apollo a really good operator can do things almost as quickly as a CNC machine but a human being has good days and bad days the CNC machine just does the same thing day in and day out the same way consistency and quality tolerancing that you you just can't do with the manual Machinery it's just amazing how cadcam software and CNC machines have revolutionized this business I could never make guitars the old way I couldn't do it don't want to do it this has allowed us to do things that we could only have dreamed about we fit Parts together that are seamless and that is the end of that particular particular operation you're trying to hold essentially metal working or Aerospace type tolerances in a material that won't hold tolerances cuz wood swells and shrinks with the humidity and the temperature the idea is that if you have a tolerance in the Machining and then you have a tolerance in the material if you can at least control one of those you're half the way there in terms of Machining things we're able to hold tolerances that 20 years ago you couldn't do it is the most magical era ever a ple machine is a computer controlled neck analysis and fret grinding machine it will analyze the state of the neck the Frets trust Rod adjustment and fix anything that's wrong with it you end up with perfect instruments perfect playability intonation every single time all our guitars now are pleed so the Fret work is absolutely impeccable people that had their guitars pled will never go back it's that good this one's very very important to me it's Michael Jackson and that's Greg Wright reason that particular picture is so important to me is uh when I started making guitars my parents sort of had written me off I think my parents thought oh well you know our son basically didn't finish high school and didn't get a college education now he's in California making guars and uh this came out with Greg playing a charil guitar and it was in People magazine and and my mother called me up and she said uh you know we saw that People magazine thing and I said yeah it's pretty cool and she said yeah you know she says we were just talking we we couldn't quite figure out what happened cuz we thought you were a loser we just figured that you weren't going to make it that we'd sort of failed and now your guitar is in the center fold of People magazine and so we just thought well maybe we were wrong maybe you're going to turn out to be something here's a picture of Dave Gilmore with a guitar that I didn't make for Dave I actually made that guitar for a guy named Berard ktky who had a store in Hamburg and Dave happened to go into this music store music number one in Hamburg and he played this guitar and he fell in love with it but Bernhard wouldn't sell it to him because it was his personal guitar so Phil Taylor who's worked for Dave forever called me up and said can you get that guitar out of burnhard for Dave and I called burnhard and I said I got to have that guitar back dog I I got to have that guitar back and he said well you can make me two guitars for the one and I'll give it back to you I did and he gave the guitar to Dave and Phil was very gracious to sent me this picture of Dave playing the guitar autographed by Dave so I'm pretty proud of that for the longest time the famous black Strat uh had a charel neck on it uh because that guitar went through many incarnations but for the longest time it had a neck I made on it and I was very proud of that as well Tom deont from No Doubt is is one of our great friends that's Tom at a nam show press event playing a model that is sort of still in development that's Zora in the '90s I ran Washburn for a few years I was pretty instrumental in bringing Dimebag Daryl to wasburn and this is a picture of me and Daryl who was one of the greatest guys I've ever known he was absolutely committed to his fans and loved his fans and they loved him rabidly so for all the outrageousness D beg darl was a giant in my mind this craft this vocation gives me an enormous sense of Pride to be able to make these instruments you have to have a lot of passion to be in this business once you're addicted to the guitar business you're in you're in for life this is a wild roller coaster ride but if you love the guitar If you love what this thing does I really don't think it's a choice it's a calling and you answer the calling we're a small very Hands-On company there's six of us full-time and a few part-timers who augment you know what we do we want to make the best guitars we can make a reasonable living have some fun and provide for our Workforce

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Keywords: Factory (Building Function), Guitar, Electric, Factory Tour (Business Operation), Grover Jackson, Jon Gold, GJ2 Guitars, Tom Dumont, Dimebag Darrell (Composer), David Gilmour (Musical Artist), luthier, Plek

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Length: 5min 57sec (357 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 10 2014