Phil O'Keefe Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Hi everyone. I visited the Fender factory and Custom Shop in Corona CA today, and I took dozens and dozens of pictures. I thought some of you might find it interesting. If you're interested, you can check them out right here. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tiltsta Posted November 14, 2009 Members Share Posted November 14, 2009 Cool pics. Thanks for sharing them, Phil. It always amazes me how some really beautiful guitar come from something that looks like the closet door factory I worked at in college. I guess a factory is a factory. I should have worked at the guitar factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EJD Posted November 14, 2009 Members Share Posted November 14, 2009 Nice one... very interesting. Rock on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GreatDane Posted November 14, 2009 Members Share Posted November 14, 2009 this is amazing~ thank you for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted November 14, 2009 Members Share Posted November 14, 2009 Too bad you didn't get more info on that Flame (you called it an elite, but the "elite" portion of the name was the class, not the model) It's always been a favorite model of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Preacher Posted November 14, 2009 Members Share Posted November 14, 2009 Great stuff, thanks for posting so many pics, Phil! This ended up being way cooler than I thought it was gonna be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bartak101 Posted November 14, 2009 Members Share Posted November 14, 2009 Interesting, thanks Phil. I find it quite funny the amount of {censored}ed looking guitars hanging about, seems the relics are pretty popular. Some lovely looking guitars, like those orange Gretschs Still a lot of cnc work going on by the looks of it, I imagine quite a few customers aren't aware of that fact. Still, it would be massivly unreasonable to assume that an operation that large could be built around hand work only. What's the difference in price between CS and master built? Good to see that they are in charge of part building too. Any ideas what parts are brought in? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 14, 2009 Author Share Posted November 14, 2009 I don't think they make their own screws... but all the rest of the hardware is made in-house. Glad you guys enjoyed the pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GRAF Posted November 14, 2009 Members Share Posted November 14, 2009 I wonder if they make relic guitar picks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dougie.Douglas Posted November 14, 2009 Members Share Posted November 14, 2009 Cheers Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wein Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Very cool! I did the tour about 10 years ago. It was a really cool trip although I kept look up expecting guitars to fall from the ceiling from the giant thing that looks like the rack at a dry-cleaners.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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