How We Quality Inspect a Guitar | From The Factory Floor | PRS Guitars
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- 'From The Factory Floor’ takes you on a deep dive into select processes around the PRS factory. In this episode, we explore final quality inspection, where our team meticulously reviews every guitar before it heads to casing. From fine-tuning the setup to ensuring a perfect finish, everything is inspected in this final quality check.
This process is narrated by Quality Control Manager Jeff Marolda. Enjoy a view “From the Factory Floor” as our Quality Control team inspects a beautifully figured Custom 24 in Faded Whale Blue.
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)"
• Honey and Blue - Pictu...
Unbelievable…what an amazing guitar company…
This is the reason I own 4 USA made PRS guitars. The finest production guitar made today, with the highest standards.
Not a good look when the company produces different standards for the same customers... My Indonesian made showed up a mess and has to go back. Not sure how it passed inspection. Took me all of one second to notice the defects. I've seen nicer used guitars.
The quality of PRS 408 is at such a high level it won’t let me play it without washing my hands first. Love PRS guitars. Can’t wait to get my next one.
John rockin' that Master Buckethead shirt..... wooooooooo!
Killer Buckethead T-shirt!
Love the attention to detail, just shows real pride in the product. Fender Mexico should watch this. Every Mexican Fender i've tried has had a terrible fret job.
Even the SE line has great QC. You aren't going to go wrong at any price point
I got a Mira, I was actually surprised how well it was made and set up for that price range and made in Indonesia. It isn't the caliber of my 10 top custom but it is still a great guitar and probably one of the best in the under $800 range.
Absolutely 👍🏻
As of 2022 this is not the case.....
I order a brand new CE 24 with a absolutely gorgeous top. When it arrived it had a loose tone pot and a poorly glued heel. Got refunded and took my money to a real guitar company.
@@midnightcruiser7762 one bad experience does not make a company bad. Your case is pretty much isolated, especially if we're talking about the CE series, which is just before the Core series.
It’s cool knowing my angelus a50e went through this, I even have the tag
So these are the guys I need to thank for sending me this terrific guitar - all set up! THANKS!
Those videos about factory processes are amazing!
Jeff and gang do an awesome job!!!!
Nice video, I really enjoyed seeing how a PRS sees the light of day and the light that it casts in capable hands. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
So thrilled to find out what’s gonna come out next year from you guys. ;)
These folks do amazing work. Never bought a Prs could find any Q.C. issues with. Thanks to all at PRS for the commitment to a quality product! Happy holidays
Excellent. Les guitares sont tellement belles. Je suis vraiment fan de PRS.
My wife bought me a SE custom quilt black gold sunburst for my birthday a couple of months ago and the guitar is beautiful and plays awesome! Love it!
Your wife is awesome. Love my SE. Probably the best gift I could ever imagine getting. A beautiful guitar that is pretty much a work of art for you to spend countless hours enjoying.
I will always remember the magic of opening that PRS case and that specific smell right from the factory ;)
Great video for friday morning!
Watching all of your video's on how you're making these guitars has sold me on having one as my next purchase! The GAS is strong!
I still have my PRS Blue Whale CE-22...Its a beautiful guitar!
Looking forward to FINALLY getting my Private Stock !!!
I did a tour of the MD factory once, and I think I may have seen Jeff doing a playtest at the end of the tour!
Those awesome guitars and dream guitars to be honest. So thank you guys
Not a musician, but I know excellence when I see it.
You folks are great.
never too late to learn. I got back into playing after 20 years of not playing and in 6 months I have already surpassed where I was 20 years ago.
@@mr.nobody68 Gave up classical guitar back in college. Could not create. No regrets. I improvise with golf clubs now.
I absolutely love my PRS. Bought my first in 2002. Nothing to complain about. This is likely *part of* the reason why.
My next guitar is going to be an SE Custom 24 in blue or charcoal. As soon as Christmas is over I'm pulling that trigger. I can't wait.
I have a charcoal burst, it was the 1st PRS I bought. I upgraded everything on the guitar I could. Not because it really needed it but I love to make every guitar I own mine. It made me buy 2 more and soon I'll have my 4th. You won't be disappointed they're incredible guitars.
What a concept, quality control! I had 6 core PRS's, all beautiful, I've cut down to my 3 fav's as I don't play as much. One is the first PRS I ever took off the shelf, felt as if it was made for me. Also have an older CU22 SE and it's as playable as the cores. All my Gibby and Fender buddies said they would never compete, HA HA, guess what.
Can't wait to get mine.
Amazing.
I have 2 SE models... maybe Core soon, but my SE both are keepers..
They even inspect the SE lineup. Salute to PRS.
Ha! I bought the same guitar as in the video for my son in last month. Thanks for your efforts.
Wow. That's awesome.
Jeff seems like a fun boss
My Silver Sky never lets me down and it seems I’m discovering something amazing about it all the time. Thank you Paul for making such quality instruments!
Beautiful
perfect 💛
Another reason why PRS is the best of the best. 👍
Bought a custom 24 in 2016. after a few months I had a problem with the finish. It took many months but didn't cost a penny to fix and I'm in England ....this guitars done more miles than I ever have.
I’m currently playing and learning in an SE standard 22, i noodled around on a core custom 24 at the guitar store earlier this year. I hope I can afford a USA PRS someday.
Nice!! Getting a 2021 SE Custom SH LTD run today or tmrw dep on mail
They could just send all their guitars to me to quality inspect - happy to help
Hypnotic.
Honestly I can not afford a core guitar but I have purchased a CE24 bolt on a SE24 Custom and a SE Tremonti all of them far exceed my expectations every time I pick them up to play them 🥂 I am currently saving for a Silver Sky 🤞
A little birdy says se silver skys will be launched feb/mar.
Let's see if this comment mysteriously gets deleted 🤐
@@PaulCooksStuff What about the fiori?
@@ragnakak the birdy didn't mention them.
Awesomeeee
Don’t listen to him, Tanner. Your hair is perfect.
on my behalf please thank you to MTi (not sure of the exact letter) for the assembly and SMW for the final Check
for my Custom 24 08 charcoal cherry burst (2021 model)
The S.O.P. of PRS is just better.
Every guitar is checked the same way other companies look at custom built instruments.
5-Stars! ★★★★★ to PRS for providing an affordable option to the CE... It was hard to find, but I'm diggin' my Hollowbody II SE Piezo Tobacco Burst !
I've been thinking about adding one to my PRS collection. Hope you like yours!
My guitar dream is to own a Core PRS. Holy smokes those are beautiful works of art. I'm actually a pianist, but know a bit of guitar. I would love to get my hands on one of these gorgeous instruments and do a review video on my channel.
Some people buy instruments even though they don't care much for it.
Keep checking ads until you see someone struggling to sell his PRS. Doesn't happen that often, but it does happen!
I was tracking an ad for 6 week until I saw him lower his price from 1500$ to 1250$ (5 years ago)
I told him I had a budget of 1000$ and if he's willing to drop his price, I'd be in front of his porch in a few hours.
And he accepted! And that was my first core model, which allowed me to trade for different ones afterwards.
Best investment I made 👌
I'd love to work for PRS. The best guitars\m/
We are hiring right now!
My Dream Guitar 😚🎸
Justin Johnson showcased your guitar- that sold me on it! I’ll buy one this year
That's awesome! Justin Johnson is a baaaaaaad man. Thanks for the love, LiveLife.
PRS are the best!
:)
Will you guys open up the factory to be toured soon? My dad and I love your guitars and have wanted to tour the factory for YEARS, but every time I’m in town it seems to be there aren’t any tours going on
I like this guy.
Dammit I'm gonna have to buy one of these one day. Aren't i
For me, having a metal headphone hook inches from an expensive guitar is an accident waiting to happen. This video gave me heart palpitations! 😜😜😜
That's the equivalent of having a paper cut while sitting inside an ambulance.
Meh
😎👍💗🇺🇸🎸 LONG LIVE PRS!!!
Relic free since 1985!
Damn you see the state of that rack at last bit 😂
This guitars are almost too perfect 👍🏼
I noticed he never checked out the tremolo to see if it played in tune is that something that was forgotten on the video or do they check that out just wondering thank you
I wish SE had this level of QC. I bought a 277, and the tone knob is loose, and a couple string slots in the nut are cut too deep. I can probably fix the tone knob myself, but the nut will need to be replaced.
I'll be completely honest, I've not been impressed with the PRS SE imports I've tried, but EVERY PRS guitar I've tried from the S2s on up, I've been impressed with every single one of them. Loved the necks and fretwork on them. I know I've had my criticism of PRS' unwillingness to offer stainless steel frets on at least some of their models, their S2s on up (Core Models, etc.) are top notch regardless.
how i wish to own lefty prs, its my big dream
PRS is my favorite company, but I'm not 100% satisfied with their QC. New, my 2001 Core Custom 24 came with a pickup selector switch that wouldn't stay where you put it. (Took it apart and re-bent the spring tabs to fix it. That's OK.) My new S2 594 Singlecut came with another pickup switch issue. This time around, there was often silence or static when the bridge pickups were selected. (This issue is not yet resolved..) This same guitar also has 2 specs under the paint that stick out, although I'm nitpicking a little. (They're minor and can't be noticed unless you're looking for them.) The same guitar also came with a very noticeable and annoying string buzz from one bridge saddle. PRS missed this, and so did the guitar store that sold it.
My fairly new PRS SE T50E acoustic had deep tooling marks on two frets which I had to sand down, otherwise the string would get stuck in them while bending. But, it had slightly better QC than my USA S2 594. This frustrates me! The lesson (I guess) to buy guitars only directly from a store, in person.
I dream of owning a PRS one day....
I gotta say man… PRS yes please
I think someone should send this series to Gibson!!!!
Working there would be like going to heaven everyday
Been there a long time. It's a dream.
@@awsumsum Really? I mean I can't think of anything worse than having to tune guitars all day.
I have a question. Do the se's go thru the same QC as the USA models?
I own a core custom 22 with dragon pickups ,I bought it in the Caribbean from a PRS dealer but the dealer is no longer in business , there is no competent tech in the country that can service this guitar ,I am not a professional musician so my guitar is in good condition however my frets are a bit worn and paint is fading and some minor servicing . What do you guys recommend?
I have a 2003 and 2010 custom 24. While these are easily the finest made guitars there are not perfect. For a start on both instruments the saddle screw on the high e string unscrews and falls on the floor after about 3 months . This is easily fixed by putting a small amount of thread seal on the screw to give it a little more resistance. Also on the 2003 one it had one of the pickups wired out of phase, again easily fixed with a soldering iron.
Jeff’s “Giddy up!” rivaled only by Cosmo Kramer’s.
Pity the QA never happened on my 2012 NAMM P22 . High frets in places, action was deliberately high on the low E string to compensate, one tuner is so stiff and hard to adjust. At the time I bought the guitar I did not know what a Fret was and did not know the difference. Promising myself to learn to play guitar all my life, I bought this guitar new in Australia in 2014 . It does not tap play on the neck. Contacting PRS in the USA had no result, their response was that it should. Out of warranty, asking the local distributor who to trust to send it to were two Luthiers, interstate, 800km away in opposite directions. Great business model. This is a 1 in 100 world wide limited edition guitar, I wonder what the other 99 were like?
That's crazy. I love my PRS, I'm sorry you had such a ...disappointing experience.
Many posts here showcase similar experiences.
What model is the first guitar he inspects?
Beautiful. If i was John i would not be wearing a solid ring but a silicone copy...im past a perfectionist😂
Was that a generic "Giddy up" or a Kosmo Kramer "Giddy up" ?
Buckethead shirt :)
After 30 years of buying cheap, run of the mill guitars I have finally made it to a PRS Private Stock. It sits on a stand in my bedroom so that it’s the last thing I see before going to sleep, the first thing I see when I wake up. When you have that kind of instrument and $12,000 invested you are not only driven to play, you are inspired by what it unlocks. True coil taps with no volume loss and real single coil tone is like taking off a Les Paul and grabbing a Strat. Just with on click of a switch. The action is so perfect without fret buzz and perfect intonation. Tune it when you begin, never have to touch the keys again. Magic
Necesito una PRS.
What kind of cloth and spray are they using at the end to wipe it down?
Microfiber cloth and I'm fairly certain they use the PRS branded guitar polish.
So they should do the final inspections it is what is expected, the quality is high and so is the price
What pick is he using?
It’s great to see. Unfortunately for me, my S2 Vela antique white had a black mark straight out of the bag. Under the clear coat and cannot be fixed. It’s taken care of from a warranty pov, but those velas are hard to find in Australia
What is the color of the guitar at 6:00? it's AMAZING
ciao Simone, potrebbe essere un faded whale blue
My 5k 10 top has glue residue all over the fretboard
Do ALL PRS Guitars get this QC check at the same level?
My last two PRSi needed neck and fretboard work. I've stopped buying since. I actually think their QC has gotten quite a bit worse which sucks. I love custom 24's
I couldn’t agree more. I played around 15 to find one that was set up correct with no neck or fret issues. Including private stock. There was one issue I saw over and over. The bridge hardware bottomed out with no way to lower action. If bridges need to be bottomed out in factory set ups, there’s something seriously wrong.
My inspector missed a nasty ding and unpolished frets... Sent mine back. Pretty sure no one looked at it before it went in the box.
It’s true when they say PRS is one big custom shop
Why l have 5... one is a mira semi hollow from 2010
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"help keep QC tight as a hole " .....giddy up 😲
Jeff looking like that connor kid from terminator 😅
Today I found out that Jeff's hat is detachable.
When someone asks (WhY dO P.r.S gUiTaRs CoSt So MuCh) 😂
What’s the measurements for the 12th fret height?
just look here on youtube for a PRS guitar setup. Setups and string height (action) are pretty much personal preference. For me personally their spec is a reference point to start.
I usually start at 3/32 at the low E, 2/32 at the high E, and then use a radius gauge to set the height of the 4 middle strings. I also look for .010 relief at the first fret and .010 relief at the 8th fret. I’m certainly no master but these measurements using 10 gauge diaddario XL’s gives me the exact action I want, no fret buzz anywhere. Of course that all depends first on whether you have level frets in the first place. Good luck!
So, my new PRS is essentially used. Lol.
I remember a time when people got tattoos to be ‘different’. Lol
Cool that you dont do any Trem system QA and just hope it will work well when arrives to the customer... luckily the Tremonti guitar i ordered will arrive with Stoptail :)