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I saw 300guitars post a YouTube video of a Fender Factory tour from 1959. I’m an absolute sucker for old (or new for that matter) factory tours. I really enjoy seeing how great things get made. I really dig old footage to see how things looked back in the day. Imagine the Fender factory in 1959. No air conditioning. No respirators or proper ventilation. Limited safety precautions on dangerous equipment.  But seeing how they took pride in their work is quite inspirational and humbling.

Over Christmas I had an opportunity to watch some great slides and film footage of my inlaws. Normally.. that would suuuuuck, but it was really cool seeing how people dressed back in the 50s. There was definitely some magic in the air post-WWII.  I definitely related to that with this factory tour.

Here is the factory tour from 1959.

Please take note at 5:58 – Abigail Ybarra

This video is a much more recent tour of the Fender Factory, but what blew me away in this video was at 6:18. Here we have Abigail Ybarra again! She was winding the pickups the whole time. Imagine, that she wound Hendrix pickups, Clapton pickups, Springsteen pickups.. crazy. I like the ju-ju factor there.

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I love shop or factory tours of pedal builders. Love ‘em. A few months ago I posted a tour of the Electro-Harmonix factory, and a friend of mine just recently sent me a great YouTube clip of a tour of the the Death by Audio factory. Death by Audio is out of Brooklyn, New York and are know for making some crazy pedals. If you’re into making insane noise come out of your guitar, you should seriously look to these guys!

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So after my post about the Screaming Bird Treble booster and video associated with it, I was intrigued by the ‘normalcy’ of the ‘clutter’ by the engineer. I guess, I had super preconceived notion of a NASA like environment where engineers had to wear environmental control suits, etc. This video, I got the impression the Electro Harmonix was a normal ‘factory’ with normal people and with normal clutter, so I wanted to dig into this further.

Sure enough, I found a great video by boingboingvideo with a Electro Harmonix Factory Tour! I’m sure you guys will find it as interesting as I did. I would love to meet these people and check out the shop.

I thought it was interesting that they bought NOS tube. Curious if they re-sell them or planning to use them for something else??

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