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PRS Factory Tour

March 23, 2009 by Josh 9 Comments

Guitar World magazine recently posted a video of their exclusive tour of the Paul Reed Smith factory. I found it interesting that, although machines are used to do the cutting of the body and neck, there is still a lot of manual labor involved in assembling a PRS guitar.

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Comments

  1. Elizabeth says

    March 23, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    Interesting video. I always appreciate a guitar that has some manual labor and custom work. There’s often a lot more than meets the eye to a quality, good sounding guitar.

  2. Ryan says

    March 25, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    I have been fascinated with factory tours after I went to the Taylor Guitars factory tour in San Diego. I think we’re still far away from 100 percent machine manufactured guitars. Nothing beats the attention to detail only a human hand can do.

  3. Rick says

    March 26, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    Really cool, but not exclusive, I saw a PRS tour from Premier Guitar last summer. They had a few videos.

  4. Josh says

    March 28, 2009 at 8:51 am

    Hey Ryan, a Taylor factory tour would be fun! I agree that we’re a long way from machines being able to replicate the detail that a human can bring to guitar-making.

  5. Josh says

    March 28, 2009 at 8:51 am

    Elizabeth, I agree!

  6. Anne says

    March 30, 2009 at 4:53 am

    Wow, I never knew how much sanding went into one guitar, and I am kind of surprised that it isn’t automated.

  7. Sarssipius says

    March 30, 2009 at 6:47 am

    Great vid… Always nice to know how they work!!

  8. Ryan says

    March 31, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    FYI, there are companies working on injection molding wood bodies to reduce the human component required and to equalize the differences in guitars within the same model. Basically, they take spruce, mash it up into goo and injection mold it at extremely high pressure. An example of a company I ran into at NAMM and got to talk with for about an hour is

    http://www.flaxwood.com/home/

    I will be doing a review of their guitars shortly…

  9. Steve says

    April 8, 2009 at 10:44 am

    If you like checking out behind-the-scenes stuff at guitar factories, check out the Fretboard Journal.

    http://www.fretboardjournal.com/

    Sort of like National Geographic for guitarists. In addition to interviewing musicians about gear and recordings, they seem to go behind-the-scenes at different guitar companies at least a few times in every issue.

    Cool video.

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