Baddest three days ever....

Chris P. · May 08, 2013, 05:08:03 AM

Highlander · May 08, 2013, 03:34:35 PM

Girls and wood...

uwe · May 08, 2013, 06:03:51 PM

They do come to grips with it, obviously.

Chris P. · May 09, 2013, 03:24:24 PM

Barklessdog · May 09, 2013, 07:27:03 PM

Such a clean facility. Some great pictures there. It must of been a horrible trip for you.

Wilbur88 · May 13, 2013, 10:20:34 PM

The QR code reader in the truss rod cavity is an amazing innovation.

Chris P. · May 14, 2013, 02:01:33 AM

Yep, it's quite a strange factory. In first place there's the wood storage with woods sometimes 20 years old. Wood will be there for three to five years at least before being used. Then it's also a lot of handwork with crafts(wo)men, who select all woods for necks and bodies. Really old fashioned, but in the other way computers are used to check the humidity of the woods.

After that it's CNC routers galore. The QR has all information about the bass, so they know which radius, colour, hardware colour, pickups et cetera to use. The neck machine is amazing. It can make any radius you want. It installs frets and it PLEKs. The fret slots are not through the whole width of the neck, but it are slots. So a bit of wood is left on every side of the slot. It makes the neck even stiffer (Warwick players like that) and you don't see and feel fret edges.

After CNC it's hand labour again, with sanding, finishing and installing electronics and hardware.

Lacquering is quite cool too. It's ultra thin and with some help of UV lighting you can touch the finish ten seconds after spraying.