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Dave W:
Short video from the Burns factory, 1965, with funny narration.

amptech:
Very cool! First to use polyester, interesting.. That fretting guy made hammering on frets seem easy enough :)

Granny Gremlin:
Interesting: they used mandolin string mount method (not quite a knot, but a bit of a loop back vs normal guitar/bass pure wrap mething)

Shameful:  no grain filler or primer; buffing with all the hardware on and in the way

Not sure:  freehand routing without a jig/template

Then again, none of that it likely to be real production footage.

Dave W:
Yeah, I had to smile at the buffing after the strings were on, figured it was a final touch-up.

Hard to tell about the finish. There are colored sanding sealers, and some companies use grain filler after sealing. Burns did use grain filler.

BTL:
It's not freehand, they are using a pin router with the pin and template underneath the clamping jig.

Look closely again at 0:12 through 0:30.

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