How We Prepare Lumber for Guitar Making | From the Factory Floor | PRS Guitars
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2022
- 'From The Factory Floor’ takes you on a deep dive into select processes around the PRS factory. In this episode, we explore Rough Cut and Lumber Preparation, where raw materials like mahogany and maple begin their journey through the manufacturing process. From ensuring the lumber is cut precisely to spec to drying the wood for optimal build stability, every PRS guitar starts its journey here.
This process is narrated by Rough Cut Manager Rob Heuer. Enjoy a view “From the Factory Floor” as our Rough Cut team prepares shipments of mahogany and maple for manufacturing.
Curious about the music used in this video?
Music courtesy of 2021 PRS Pulse Artist Honey and Blue!
Song: "Picture Perfect (Live From The Pink Room)"
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You can tell Rob might have been a bit uncomfortable and reading a script but Rob does one hell of a job and major props to him for being a sport and making his video. I found this video to be very informative and have nothing but great things to say about it. BRAVO and thanks Rob and PRS for doing what you do--making the best guitars on the planet. Cheers from Scott in Shady Side, Maryland
his unnatural reading is like the best part of this video, its very charming and funny.
That is a lot of wood in there. I always imagined that one person went out, cut the wood for my PRS out of a tree, and then worked it into a guitar for me. I am going to forget I saw this just keep imagining it how I always did :)
I love when they upload, always makes my happy that I have something to watch
I really appreciate the way PRS let the guys and gals who do the job show the clear pride they take in their work and describe what's happening instead of hiring in a voice-over artist who'd know nothing about what's involved.
This my favorite “from the factory floor” yet. Rob Heuer is awesome.
Fascinating stuff! I'm a big believer that a guitar needs to be prepped correctly before any finish is applied. It's why many vintage instruments are so prized. The wood has dried over time and settled. My DGT is the best playing guitar I have ever owned.
I love seeing the real people that make PRS guitars; this was kick ass!
Best intro yet! 😂😂
Great video - super informative and really appreciated that Rob was telling us instead of a hired, polished spokesperson. Look at all of that wood. Wow - the amazing guitars about to be made! So glad PRS takes the time to create such fine instruments. Thanks for sharing!
these videos are so interesting, please keep making them!
Very interesting. I do believe proper drying makes a big difference in PRS guitars.
How does it differ from other manufacturers' processes ?
I love watching the process of how things are made. Thanks for sharing.
Love seeing the all the intricacies of the build process. Thanks!
Thanks, Rob! You did great and it's nice to see how PRS treats the body blanks and tops before they get made into bodies.
Yes!! Brule Rules!
love these videos, very cool to know about the build process
I really like those videos you ppl make. I only played a PRS guitar once in my life, I remember it had an awesome sound and playability. Those videos show us how much work and love the ppl behind PRS guitars put on there job. Well done, and keep them coming. maybe one day I'll be able to afford one of those guitars.
wow ! interesting video and Rob seems like a cool dude !
This is great Rob thanks man! 👍🏻
And my ‘88 Special is still perfectly straight and rock solid, a touch of truss rod adjustment late Spring and Fall, never any problems. Superb long term quality!
John and Rob are some of the coolest cats on the shop floor.
Good work Rob.
Rob, you make me very nervous pushing that piece of mahogany through that bandsaw without using a push stick.
That's what I thought! "Oops, guys, looks like we've got a red guitar here!"
Nice job Rob 👍🤘👍
Need more outtakes! 😂
This would be my dream job
Cool! I can only imagine how many guitars are in all that wood.
Liked because it’s a great video.
Man, I’d like to hear this guy’s life story - lol - he’s obviously lived a crazy life thus far...
So, is there just no more Honduran mahogany to be had? I own a bunch of old guitars form the 30s-60s, and while I love my PRSi, the wood just isn’t the same.
This guy might have the most perfect job title ever
Fascinating video. I wonder how that differs for the se guitars.
Rob and his team are vital to PRS. With out great guys on the lumber team ; the quality would suffer.
I ❤ my Fender strat but my next 🎸 is a PRS SE CUSTOM 24 black gold sunburst with split pickups
the Chibson factory does the same and are some of the highest quality instruments available and uses exotic woods such as Pa-llet and Sycamore
It's like making a quality pool cue the neck on my 1998 24 is dead nuts intonated everywhere across the fingerboard from the 24th fret on the sixth string to the open first string. And will probably be that accurate in a thousand years if kept well.
What do you guys do with the scraps? I live near by, would love to use have then if they are destined to get tossed
PRS! For your health!
A question; it seems like when the blanks are being heat-dried, the exterior blanks would get dry, but the interior blanks would not get as dry. I realize they are stacked in a way that allows air to circulate, but without a fan of some kind, it seems like the blanks in the middle would not get much air flow.
Thoughts?
They have fans that circulate the air. It doesn't take gale-force wind, just a light breeze is sufficient.
How do yoy avoid wood eating bugs in your delicate wood?
✌ ☮ & ❤
how much lumber do you use?
I'm a little confused. The stack of back blanks goes into the hot room to get the moisture content down to 5-8% but then sits on the shop floor for 2 weeks to "absorb the moisture it wants to"'.
ever buy a baggie of weed and it dries out ? just put a small piece of bread in the baggie and it will absorb the moisture
Rob Heuer is the full hot orator.
How many tree for this?
Why are maple tops always two parts of wood?
It's called book-matching. Saw a hunk of wood down the middle of the thickness, then open it up like a book. The grain that is exposed is nearly identical and complimentary, so you can get extremely beautiful "matched" figuring.
@@DethWshBkr is correct. Also worth saying maple trees aren't usually wide enough either for a full top, thus book matching process.
The presentation of this very interesting video made me think of a question, which may have been answered somewhere else, but I’ll ask anyway. How does PRS take into account sustainability with respect to guitar making? For example, how many trees are being cut to make PRS guitars and therefore how many are being planted in return to compensate? The shipment was presented as coming from Africa, which will be among the most affected by climate change. Thank you.
For your wood
For your tone.
...and if you apply to work here, and our background check sources give us false or misleading information about you, the agreement you sign at the end of our application process will free those background check sources of any liability whatsoever, even if it harms you and your chances of ever making guitars here!
Mahogany & tremolo bridge it's always a no-no, that's why I feel sorry for wasting all that mahogany wood.
PRS doesn't care, those trees took hundreds of years to grow and are irreplaceable, todays trees are full of poisonous biowaste and coal smoke and will never be the same. 500 yeas ago in America the lakes were pristine, now they are sewers . PRS are doing their share to destroy the earths natural resources and there are enough guitars out there, but no one to play them or that can afford them. you don't see kanye west playing a guitar
This is just painful to watch...this guy is a manager of a department and can't simply talk about his craft???? Shocking.....