Godin's are really nice guitars. If any of you are wondering, that's a Graph Tech Ghost piezo system, you can install it on almost any guitar with TOM, Floyd or fender style bridge; it's not just limited to Godin. And yes, mass produced guitars have pretty much the same processes anywhere; with the exception of PRS, who's manufacturing vids are on Harmony Central.
Many guitars in the 40s didn't have bridge pickups. That's not really true nowadays. Also the neck pickup has a more "acoustic" sound than the bridge pickup imo.
supernintendo64 They don't mean bridge pickups as in "a pickup close to the bridge." They mean a pickup inside the bridge itself, which a vast majority of guitars do NOT have. And it does give a more acoustic-like sound because it doesn't pick up string vibrations (they aren't magnetic). Rather they pickup the vibration of the entire instrument. Look up piezo pickups.
i hate when people call the whammy bar a tremelo. a tremelo effect quickly moves the volume up and down, never changes pitch. a whammy bar alters the pitch.
0:42 The frets aren't level, so they sand them down to be level. 1:19 They straighten out the neck. Won't it already be straight after sanding the frets down to be level? After all, they're always making sure multiple frets are level with eachother. If frets 1 to 5 are level, and 2 to 6, and 3 to 7, etc, then fret 1 to 24 should be level, right?..
Do Goden guitars have a threaded bushing in the neck for the neck screws to go into? They are mentioned two times but I didn’t see them and I’m not aware of any other guitars that have them.
@imadey0utube they have been tested. they have to be, otherwise you may buy a brand new guitar for 500 bucks or so, and having it not work. how much of a bummer would that be?
any1 know where i can get the parts they showed in part 1 and 2 to make my own electric guitar, or would it just be cheaper and better quality to buy a bc rich warlock from guitarcenter for like $190(thats after 6% sales tax)?
Yeah and when the gauge hits zero the neck is perfectly straight..LOL Where in the hell do they get this info for their narration ? I have watched many of there "How it's Made" episodes and every one of them is fucked up with wrong information or descriptions.
@Jocke337 nahh, gibsons aren't really handmade, the are made very similar to this video except in bigger batches:P I still love my gibson but I can pick up any gibson no matter what the price and point out hundreds of little cost-cutting corners and mistakes, nothing big, but it just makes you wanna cry when you pay that much for a "handmade" mass-produced guitar:p
actually the narrator is referring to a piezoelectric pickup that some godin guitars have built into the actual bridge piece - pickup which is, in fact, very different to the 'bridge position' pickup you are probably mistakenly referring to because of its manner of picking up vibrations and not changes magnetic field and because of it's distinctive 'acoustic guitar' sound it manages to produce i guess it's not the narrator that hasn't got a clue about guitars, huh ?
For the tap test, why do they hit it that hard? If you touch the pole lightly it makes a pop... :P rofl, I love how the narrator failsXD haha, building instruments and working on them is fun, that's what I'm gonna do for a living, I'm an apprentice right now:)
become an aprentice - there are lots of private guitar makers around the country, assuming u have some carpentry skills, drop in or send in pictures of your work...
wow didnt know curing time for the finish was so long!!!! i wouldnt like to be the guy installing everytthing..... one slip and all that curing time wasted LOL
