Factory Visit

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Originally Posted by adam

I'm still here DrNomis, leave early Friday morning, hopefully. I only thought on Saturday, "hmmm, I wonder if I need a Visa?". Of course I do. The good people at the Perth Chinese Visa Office kindly sympathised with me being a complete fricken idiot and have arranged the Visa for pick up Thursday (day before I leave).

Keep the comments coming, it's good stuff I didn't know about.

Wokka, I thought we had decided on a clean, single coil size rout in the TL bridge. Not that they got that right, as they've gone the humbucker size again. I think the single coil size would be best then you can rout (file?) out if you want something bigger in there.

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Ah rightio, I'll wait till you get back from visiting the Factory, I have some guitar projects to work on in the meantime anyway, as Dedman said, hope you have a great time mate.

How about veneer sheets for headstocks? Some of the Flame / Quilted Maple would be nice! If it was available separately so you could add as part of the build process.... Anyone else like that idea?

Great idea Brendan.

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Originally Posted by Brendan

How about veneer sheets for headstocks? Some of the Flame / Quilted Maple would be nice! If it was available separately so you could add as part of the build process.... Anyone else like that idea?

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Definatley

Enjoy the trip...

But, you know we'll expect a full video documentary showing the PBG kits being made when you get back, no pressure ;)

great idea Bman and Weirdy. They may not want video camera's in the factory in case we see some method or technique they may not want us to see but worth a go !

Would definitely be cool to see the techniques behind it if its allowed!

There is a video of a tour of the factory that makes Chapman guitars (and quite a lot of other brands) in Korea, I imagine the Chinese factory would be similar but without the dust masks and safety boots :P IE huge multi head cnc routers cutting 6 or more bodies at a time.

Thanks for all your feedback guys, appreciated. I will raise all of these issues.

I'm sure I will be able to get some video... I've seen some still shots from the factory and it doesn't look that exciting, but I'll try and get some stills/video of the various steps... and maybe even some shots of the actual Luthiers (I use that term loosely) who make our kits and guitars.

I'll check this thread again next Tuesday night, before the Factory visit on Wednesday.

all the best for the trip Ads, what's happening with GOTM judging do you want us to send comments/scores to Brendan or wait for your return?