Inside Music Man | Factory tour 

I can't get enough of guitar factory tours. Great stuff.

Awesome love all the Robot Workers... like an Auto factory.. have not until now seen this much automation in building guitars... Cheers 🍻🥃🥃🎸🎼🎵🎶🎶🎶

Yep finish the neck with oil/wax was a great idea, it looks great and feels even better

So cool to see inside their workshop! Thanks for the upload!

I wandered into the London Bass Centre (Wapping) one day in 1998 to buy a set of Rotosounds and came out 30 minutes later with a black Sterling bass which I fell in love with at first sight and touch! I think £1,100.00 in those days. Still a favourite bass of mine and hugely adaptable with 3 band EQ - records like a dream.

Fantastic factory.

Great video! Thanks for the share

When I add up the preferences & favorites of guitarists on their opinions on the best made production guitars (excluding collectibles, boutique builds, Murphy Labs 'hipsterizing'), Music Man, Duesenberg, ESP, US-made PRS & Suhr are always the top of the list. Almost unanimously, the Music Man tuner configuration is the absolute best. Someone whose focus is on the music - it tends to be Music Man & Suhr at the top. Lots of custom shop Fenders & Gibson of course, but the guitars that are actually worth their full price based on their quality - they deserve more respect. Especially the brands that don't make cheaper versions of themselves to cash in on Indonesian labor. Nothing wrong with that, there are incredibly skilled builders in China & Indonesia but it lessens the brand due to the corners cut & the hardware compromises. When I see a Music Man selling for $3700, I know it's a $3700 guitar. Yet another Gibson copy of a '59 Les Paul with hipster-wear will cost you $10k. That's $10k for a $2300 guitar. Nothing wrong with it, but paying someone else to put fake wear on your guitar is as inauthentic as watching puppets schtupp. Buying a Music Man is investing in an American instrument, made in, and by, Americans. Being nationalistic isn't what it's about, hell, I'm Canadian - but here's your chance to get $3700 worth of guitar for $3700. I love Suhr guitars, but find them a bit overpriced for what you're getting. Their configurator is my favorite online toy. I'm saving up now for a Lukather 4 30th anniversary model.

Thanks for sharing this. Just got my 2nd EBMM, great instruments 👏

I have a 2018 Stingray Special and love how it feels and plays! Thank you for the factory tour.

. 6:46 Nardcore t-shirt? Very cool video. I love watching the factory tours. thanks for posting. Music man is fairly close to me and I have never been to the factory.

Finally, a good factory tour! Well done, brilliant work. Thanks for sharing

Great video!

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so cool

I own 3 of their L3 Models because they are gorgeous showpieces and amazingly fun and easy to play.

So cool to see the factory. I own a good deal of music gear. My 4 string Stingray bass is my prize possession.

Everyone that has a MM guitars loves them. I’ve never heard anyone say anything bad about MM USA made guitars. I’ve never owned one. I did buy a Majesty in Arctic Dream (non gloss) one time and the store assured me, that MM would clear coat it for an up charge (I don’t like flat finishes). Anyway, they spoke to MM and they refused to Clear Coat it! So, the store asked me to call MM and I talked to Sterling. He said, that they don’t do that, he made the conversation short. The store refunded my money. Hey MM “ (Sterling)”, I think that it was bad business and short sighted. it wouldn’t have taken much to make a new customer happy. I guess that he did take my suggestion, after that model, they do now use a Gloss Finish on the Majesty. ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️😢😢😢😢😢 Music Man ( Sterling), I know that I’m just 1 nobody to you, but the way you handled this situation left a bad taste. I ended up buying a Tele made of Real Brazilian Rosewood. I also have a Strat made of the same BR wood. If you like, I’ll send you pictures of them..🤙🏻

Great video . Wonder why you don't see this brand around much since the 70's .

Bella/Linda.💪💪💪💪💪💪👑

Fantastic company!!!

thats neat man

The robots are too cool

They also made great AMP. Don't know about nowadays, but 70th was really good. Have one and it's steel working .

If the necks have single action truss rods are they pre-stressed to allow a little forward bow?

Tremendos cumbiones sonando por todos lados

I noticed that the fretboard is glued under tension! They wrap it against a rounded counterpart to create a bow on purpose, obviously: 7:04 Never saw that before. Is that needed in order to work with a single action trus rod? Interesting!

I wouldn't have 1 necks too thin! love the trem! the 4 andv2 headstock, hate some the body shapes!

why do they strap clamp that wet fingerboard onto such a bowed jigg? that's a lot of bow. whats the logic behind that? or is that optical or something? 7:14

Do I get a SLO county resident deal!!? Shell Beach!….lol JP Majesty

Работа мечты

The more the machines do the work. The less a guitar should cost.

Just ordered the latest Stingray Retro 70, I paid some luthiers and not only CNC machines.

I own the EVH Wolfgang & EBMM (both bought used) and like them equal. Only difference is the EB was 1/2 the price.

Stingray basses are superb, if you only have one bass a stingray will cover almost any application

very curious how they maintain selling product with so many workers,

I was hoping to see something that explained the cheapest model costing $2,200... must have missed it. Looks like it's back to Sterling for me!

I don't know about you guys but I just love wood

Notice he got cut at 0:59 when he said they use Honduras…I assume mahogany…

Cool company and they make killer instruments. Just wish they made necks that weren’t pencils!

Was this in San Luis Obispo, California?

No double action truss rod is kinda a deal breaker for me nowadays, especially on over seas guitars where the wood might not be as stable.

How many employees at the shop? Not many, it looks like.

robots painting and buffing that's insane. no wonder these things are $5k

Those tops look thin. I know they are thicker than a veneer but I still don't consider that a full maple cap. It's not just Music Man that does this. I've seen Schecter, Fender, Kiesel and most major brands. For me to consider a guitar to have a full size maple cap, it should be as thick as the top on a Gibson Les Paul. By the time these thin maple caps are put onto a guitar and sanded down. They are to thin in my book to advertise them as a full thickness maple cap. I understand it's to cut cost. At least put a thick piece of plain maple and then a flame veneer. Just to be clear! I'm NOT ragging on Music Man but most of the big brands that do the same thing. If Epiphone can put the same size maple top on their Les Paul's. I feel a company that sales a guitar for 3 to 4 times the price of an Epi. They can put a thicker piece of maple on their guitar.

Urshila will be moving into some man’s home and next thing ya know he’ll be out on the street and she’ll be living high on the hog with Big Bird in some pour guys house.

Crap ! Had a reason to buy a fretless unlined 5 and always wanted Stingray version of this - chased down thru my rep at music store was told they do not do any fretless - so bought a custom designed on Stingray built by small custom shop - argh swear I saw a few dark fretless necks 6:15 ….. drat

For a company that has supposedly made guitars for 50 years, I've never once seen one. What do you think constitutes their guitars being 4,000 dollars? Nothing from your video gave me a WOW moment with their builds.

So much automation. I’m too woke to buy one of these guitars. Should be called Musicperson.

If so much is 🎉done by the robots, then why are the guitars so Expensive? Is it just the California Taxes that raise the prices??

Chibson prices?

They could start out with a bigger piece of wood for the neck and eliminate the scarf joint

Here in Germany the MM's are quite expensive. Not interesting anymore.

Couldn’t they get an articulate exec for the tour?

But Diecast trussrod not strong enough

Ah yes, that foreign land North Carolina.

With all that automation why are Stingray's more expensive than ever ???

Where's all the workers and jobs?!?

They don’t make amps anymore ?

Just wondering what is the difference between CNC router and a robot made guitar in US or China, Mexico or Korea? There is no difference whatsoever, so why the US made guitars are three or four times more expensive? It looks like a money grab or just simple a scam.

“Indian Rosewood” Is NOT from the rosewood family. They just put lipstick on a pig and called it a beauty queen. - marketing BS.

Absolutely no love for this company. Love the stingray basses but since they don’t have any love for left handed player.

Don't take everything Billy says as gospel...

The man with long hair seems as if he has no interest whatsoever. 😅

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Why in the hell would anyone still be using a single action trussrod in 2024...especially on such an overpriced instrument?

still wearing masks!?? Oh yea this is California🤣🤣🤣

The guys tour burned out after about 3 minutes lol

These are high quality guitars... unfortunately they are COMPLETELY ugly and theres only 6 strings. Im never going to buy one because i despise the body shape AND the headstock.....then theres the price...are you kidding????

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