Gibson USA Factory Tour 2016【週刊ギブソンVol.95 特別編】 

この工場の近くに住んでたら間違いなくここで働くわ

職人たちは「あのスーパースターがこれを使うかも」なんて思ったらウキウキしてたまらんだろうな

So, she's the one that fucks up the binding. Nice.

My favorite guitars.... GIBSON!!! Just a gorgeous sounding and playing Made in America instrument.

ALL of you complainers are apparently not old enough to remember the quality of guitars made during the 1950s into the 1960s and beyond or you'd not be making such silly comments. The product quality has improved so much over the years that in probably 98 out of 100 guitars made by Gibson, nothing will be needed out of the box beyond adjusting the action a bit, and that could be depending on how long it had been stored before being sold and what kind of conditions it was stored in. On the old guitars, not only did you need to do an action adjustment, many times the tuners were of poor inconsistent quality, which is how Grover machines became so popular, they were just far better than stock. Same with pickups, not consistent from ax to ax, sometimes not matched in the same ax, with one hotter than the other, leaving you with a puzzle to figure out how to get them to sound at equal volume. Fret jobs were inconsistent, more hand work didn't mean better quality, and what's still being done by hand today was done back then, but today they start with an ax that needs less attention by the time it gets to the final assemblers. Yes, there are still a few bad ones slip through, sometimes an entire line has problems for some reason, it took 4 tries for them get me a well-made ES-137 C in the mid-2000s, but I did finally get one. There was a problem with the neck sets on the first 3, something hard to spot at first, which is why I'd taken one home with that problem. So yes, things happen, but over the years I know for a fact these guitars are now more consistently good than 50-70 years ago, and fewer parts need upgrading to have the perfect ax. It's too bad current Gibson ownership and management has gone off the deep end with too many models, bad dealer treatment, expansion into too many other areas having nothing to do with guitars, and any number of mistakes that have nothing to do with the guitars or the craftspeople making them, and if they go under for the 3rd time (or is it 4th?), they'll keep going, and maybe be better than ever. Depends on who does what, when whatever is done with the refinancing. Regardless, I'm an old man now, I've had Gibson guitars since the 1960s, and I still have my 5 Gibson guitars I love today, and they're all really great ones, too. Good luck finding any better...

Gibson's are my favourite electric guitars. I've owned 5 in my life, including my present Custom Shop 2006 ES-335Y Block Inlay model (Ice Tea finish).

It's kinda cool to see where my baby was born.

この間レスポールスタンダード60sを買いました。 こうして製作過程を観ると大切にしようと改めて思いますね😃

Very cool video. Thanks for sharing

Love my LP Standard.

the guitar of my dream GIBSON les paul,,love it very much😍😍💗💗💗

Visited the Gibsone plan 3 times when it was located at the original factory in Kalamazoo, MI.

My 2018 Gibson Les Paul is perfect. I like my Epiphones, I LOVE my Gibson.

Absolutely Fabulous!!!!!!!

wow now wanted a gibson!!!!

Safety is our best tune.

It's really great the work that you guys have been doing since day one and very great to open up a tour inside the factory to show us here through RU-vid, but when I have money to buy a real American Gibson, I'll choose a Custom Shop!!

聞き取りやすい英語だなぁ

Amazing! 👍🏻🎸

Gibson are fine guitars. But should never live in a gig bag

Picked up a 2010 Gibson Les Paul Studio alpine white, gold hardware. dark ebony fret board and the straightest neck that i have ever seen.

Todas maravilhosas....

My 2017 goldtop Classic is perfect...sorry haters!!! Better than my 2003 standard...😁

master fender craftsman!!

Preface- I'm a life-long musician in the busiest band in our state. A year ago I bought a 2016 Gib LP Standard. This was the "core model".. it was "plek'd"- computer perfect. Etc... Well I got it. Action was really high. Intonation was way off. Pickup height was way off. So took it in to my guitar guy. Spent $200- intonation was set, pickup height and action set. Replaced synthetic corian/tusq/whatever you call it nut with a natural bone one. Night and day difference. I love it. It's everything a good American Gibby should be. But why didn't the factory do that? Get your act together Henry- we Americans will pay for good American quality. But don't ignore the small things- they'll burn you

i like gibson .,

2016年製のレスポール買ったから、ここで俺のギターが造られたのか...とワクワクする。

I like gibson les paul...!

I love seeing the craftsmanship that goes into an American classic. Heartfelt thumbs up boys and girls, you make us proud.

😲Gibson my favorite guitar👍

I wonder if any of the final inspection guys ever sub in the line whenever someone calls in sick!

nice tour. been making noise on a 6 string, since 1981, but aint never gotta own a real Les Paul yet. one of these days.

This guy seems know every step very well.

awesome

I hate that they took away the Nashville tour. I would have loved to see it in person

looks like an awesome Factory and I'm glad to see so many people employed. I see a lot of guys criticizing the process but it looks to me like a lot of it is done by hand especially the Precision work. I've only owned 2 Gibson Les Pauls and 1sg but I was really happy with the quality and sound. hands down well worth the cash... don't buy Chinese cheep junk guitars

Have to say my les paul classic 2021 is perfect ,

A lot of precision work but the binding scraping is really impressive!

Did I just miss it - when is the serial number applied? The Gibson serial number has a specific date on it, yet it's appears to be covered in lacquer. So it can't be really be the day it left the factory, right?

Jack QCed my 2016 SG Special.

So when they scrape the binding, is that purely to remove paint etc or does it need levelling too? ie: would it still need doing if it wasn't painted?

New drinking game: Have a shot every time he says "highly skilled"

This is 2016 factory visit. Does it means all gibson les paul product (including faded & tribute model) are been pleked?

Can anyone identify all the guitars shown in the corridor, on the beginning of the Bryan Adams/DHL advert?

I own an L5 and I would like to watch how L5s are made. If you already have a link please share it here. Thanks!!!

This reminded me of "How exactly is a plumbus made"? on Rick and Morty !

I wondered why Gibson is Expensive,,,,,,,, my all doubts are cleared here........

I gotta say, I was more impressed with the Heritage plant tour.

has anyone counted how many times the guy said the word "operation"? my god...

1個くらい分けてくれても…ね？

Why don’t you quite using Richlite and G Force ( Istine ) ....

I just have taken the tours for Gibson USA and Epiphone China. Both fit my humble opinion of high quality. I'll buy the model Sheritan II from a friend whose apartment is bursting with Epi and Gibson gear! Thanks for the posts! Musically yours, RainPlaysMusic

How much curly maple will you waste in 2021. Sold body les paula should be made with oak or lesser woods. ,Ash,or poplar,etc.

Here we have one of the biggest names in guitar, with huge history and respect showing us how they now mass produce this shit they churn out by people on so many an hour, whilst still hanging onto the name and respect earned over the years. Well fellas I now see it for real and it seems China manufacturing takes better care of production. I see now no difference between a Gibson and a cheap guitar from toys r us. Instruments are loved and looked after over many years. The player growing with the instrument. Little did I realise it was slapped together like this. When I saw the guy sanding the neck with fretboard attached I nearly cried. Mass produced shit. Quality has left the building !!! Thanks for the insight

My Les Paul Limited Edition was my last guitar! It ate my savings account! But, I replenished it, and got a Fender Stratocaster and Taylor CE114, the cheapest one they had, and it was still $700! Same as the Strat! Les was 4 times that! Thought my wife was gonna kill me! Now I’m just refitting cheapies! They sound great and play great! Just have to be CAREFUL picking them out, for neck straightness, and certain body characteristics. No hollow bodies though. I can’t work through those “F” holes!

well jim i,d buy another gibson if you would make them like they use to be

After seeing who works there I wonder if I am better off with an Orville or Tokai XD

Круто ! Ничего не скажешь , американцы по технологиям молодцы.Мечтал на таких гитарах играть.

can i order from you

ATTEND, C'EST GIBSON FACTORY À TAÏWAN 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃🔩🔩⛏⛏🔨🛠🛠💩💩💩💩😃

"🇺🇸MAKING AMERICAN GUITARIST GREAT AGAIN ONE PLAYER AT A TIME🇺🇸"

He said heat rises 😂😂😂

Nice to see Santa involved. Keeps him busy for the rest of the year. When his elves are not making wooden puppets and horses they build Gibson guitars

Too bad that this wondereful company filed bankruptcy I am so sad !

👍🎼

if you have watched enough factory tours this is no better then a chiness epiphone but its over 3000 dollars

you notice only one person working there is smiling?

8.35 Bondage,-)

2:37 to 2:34 Oh my gosh!!!!!! (0.0) Four pieces in a Gibson Les Paul, maybe for Tribute, Melody and Studio?; What's going on with gibson?!!!!

Had a les paul 1973 gold top played well beautiful guitar gibson are like any guitar companies turn out good ones and bad ones must make hundreds a week looks like mass production must get boring i make English horse saddles and we do everything our selfs and more skilled looks like theve got no interest in what they are doing why when fitting neck he only shaves the one side instead of doing both sides to get in middle of body after all that if you drop on a good one they play great and sound some times over priced by paying for a old name lots of great companies now not like years ago been playing a leverson blade rh4 now for years and plays great and well made

Yay,f

So it's just like the epiphone plant.

これだけのことやってるのにとんでもない粗悪品が出回るのは残念な話です。

I saw several gaps in the neck joints. They must use filler.

En serio no os da vergüenza demostrar aa gente que las fábricais como rosquillas o galletas? Gibson se le ha olvidado la artesanía de sus comienzos solo importanta el dinero , una pena

what could go wrong.

Lay offs.

The Gibson Guitar side of the company is solid. It's the other "dead weight"_ companies. You say what ?? other companies??? Yea. Gibson Brands, inc has a ton of other companies. That is where the loses are. And they will restructure.

READ>>> Gibson Brands, Inc. Gibson: Founded in 1894 by Orville Gibson in Kalamazoo, Michigan, incorporated in 1902 by five Kalamazoo businessmen; became leading maker of mandolins, banjos, archtop guitars, flat top top guitars, electric guitars and basses; acquired by Chicago Musical Instrument Co. in 1944, by ECL (renamed Norlin) in 1970, by current owners Henry Juszkiewicz and David Berryman in 1986; Gibson-branded products are made at various U.S. facilities. Baldwin: Founded in Cincinnati by D.H. Baldwin as a music store in 1862; first vertical (upright) pianos made in 1890, first grands in 1895; became leading American piano maker; played by Liberace, Dave Brubeck, Marian McPartland, Bruce Hornsby; acquired by Gibson in Nov. 2001; pianos made in Trumann and Conway, Arkansas. Cakewalk: Develops computer software for recording and making music. Products include award-winning digital audio workstations for PC, fully-integrated music making software and recording hardware, and innovative soft-synth virtual instruments for PC and Mac. Cerwin-Vega!: A manufacturing company that produces professional audio components, home audio speakers, and car audio components. Dobro®: Founded in 1928 in Los Angeles by John Dopyera and his brothers, brand name derived from DOpyera BROthers; made resonator guitars with single aluminum amplifying cone, also one of the earliest electric guitars (in 1933); merged with National in 1932 to become the National-Dobro company, then Valco in 1943; brand not used by Valco after World War II but resonator guitars made by the Dopyera brothers under various brands; brand name revived by Dopyeras in 1964; rights sold to Semie Moseley in 1966; brand name reacquired by Dopyera family, dba Original Musical Instrument Co., in 1970, based in Huntington Beach, CA; acquired by Gibson in 1993 and moved to Nashville in late 1997 as part of new Original Acoustic Instruments division; made since 2000 in Nashville. Epiphone: Roots to instruments made in Greece as early as 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulo, who moved to New York in 1903 and made mandolins; House of Stathopoulo brand used by his sons beginning in 1917; Epiphone name (derived from oldest son Epaminondas) introduced on banjos in 1924; became Epiphone Banjo Corporation in 1928; leading maker of banjos in 1920s, then Gibson's foremost competition in guitar market of the 1930s; never recovered after death of Epi in 1943 and acquired by CMI, Gibson's parent company in 1957; new line of guitars made in Kalamazoo introduced in 1958 as "second line" available to non-Gibson dealers; production moved in 1970 to Japan, then Korea and other overseas sources (with occasional special models made in USA); currently acoustic guitars, electric guitars, electric basses, mandolins, banjos and strings, plus Electar amplifiers. Esoteric: A high-end audio video brand, focusing on components of higher value, while adding amplifiers into the product line. Integra: A subdivision of the Japanese manufacturer Onkyo, making a complete line of electronics consisting of home theater receivers or AV receiver, CD player, DVD player and Blu-ray player. It is a well known brand for custom residential installation industry and integrates well with home automation systems major brands where the name "Integra" comes from which was meant to say integration and fusion. Kramer: Founded in 1976, best known for electric solidbody guitars (played by Edward Van Halen); bankrupt in 1990, revived in 1995, acquired by Gibson in 1996; current line includes electrics, acoustics and gear, made overseas since 1998. KRK Systems: KRK Systems, a US manufacturer of professional audio speakers and equipment. Maestro: Electronic effects units in the 1960s and '70s, revived in the 1990s. Onkyo: Onkyo Corporation is a Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer, specializing in home cinema and audio equipment including receivers and surround sound speakers. Stanton: Stanton Magnetics is an industry leader in the design and manufacture of professional audio products for club, mobile DJs and turntablists. The company’s product range includes turntables, high-performance cartridges, CD players, DJ mixers, accessories and the innovative SC System Controller products. Steinberger: Founded by Ned Steinberger; best known for basses (introduced in 1980) with rectangular body, headless design and carbon-fiber materials; acquired by Gibson in 1996; made overseas since 1998. TASCAM: The professional audio division of TEAC Corporation and produces the most comprehensive line of audio recorders, mixers and related equipment in the pro audio industry. TASCAM has been a pioneer in home recording and post-production whose products are relied upon by home users and professionals around the world. TEAC: The largest subsidiary of Tokyo-based TEAC Corporation, a billion-dollar global corporation and a world leader in recording technology for over five decades. From simple magnetic recording devices to sophisticated digital and optical equipment to CD and DVD Printers, TEAC has created a wide variety of innovative products for creating and enjoying music, as well as disc printing, publishing, industrial and aerospace applications. Tobias: Founded as custom bass shop by Mike Tobias in Orlando in 1977; to various locations in California, 1980-89; acquired by Gibson 1990 and continued as a high-end bass maker; production moved to Nashville late 1992; made overseas; made in Conway, Arkansas, beginning in 2003.

I wouldn't call luthiers people making electrical guitars. They are great masters of course but that's totally else than handmaking an acoustic instrument .

I never of heard of gibson, and i play the drum's. Lol

ここまで機械ならもうちょい安くしてもらっても…w

What we have learned, everyone at Gibson is "highly skilled" lol

great craftsman at Gibson, if you don't like this process buy a fender. teenage kids from mexico can make you one easy

5 disliker are epiphone lovers

Didn’t Gibson go bankrupt?

Funny, i didn't see any QC.

An American made Gibson should Never be put in a !!GIGBAG!!

Qui regarde ça pour son cours de musique?😅😂

ネックを作るとき日本は鉋も使うけど、アメリカじゃ電動のやすりなんやね。

highly skilled Gibson manufacture or crap skilled fender strat put to gather with a screwdriver and called mater craftsman lol

ここで働いてみたい

Argh watch the fret board edge trim. It keeps slipping is this a ‘skilled operative’ or a 5 year old.???. The polishing and way they chuck them around is boarding on satanic. Reputation destroyed 😖

The bawdy rise partially race because lunch customarily tap since a royal black. brash, petite creditor

gibson gives the plek pro a bad name

migliaia di dollari per strumenti fatti effettivamente a macchina,,,,,,,,,,,,,non va cosi. io amo Gibson ,ma pago per uno strumento pregiato non per uno da "catena"!!!!!!!

if I were Gibson id remove all these videos, watch the PRS factory tour video, and start again. embarrassing..

All of those production line jobs look really boring. The QC guys (no women?) had to work their way up through all those tedious factory jobs, not surprised QC sucks, nobody with a brain would wanna stay there so long. Plus final QC standards are set by management, not labor. Moral gets killed. Why I buy a Gibson over an Epiphone; for me it's all about the wood and finish, prefer the thin worn finishes and weight reduced LPs. Not available from Epiphone. Why I'd buy an Epiphone over a Gibson; I love the dark Epiphone sound, Gibsons can get kinda airy and brittle.

Swiss cheese bodies. No thanks.

こりゃー買う時しっかりと考えなアカンな！