Fender Factory Tour on Guitar Universe

[@JBiggsNewJersey]

2:35 Wow. For anyone worried about changes in string tension or truss rods damaging their necks, don't worry about it

[@BassOutcast]

I'm with you , man ! Good thing the guys at Fender Japan remember us , and offer guitars like the Jazzmaster , Jaguar and Mustang in various colors for us lefties , not to mention their great selection of basses (especially the Jag bass).

[@ErikSWE]

MiM - Made in Mexico by Mexicans - $500 MiA - Made in the US by Mexicans - $1500

[@vitorjjb]

In Brazil we like more the Japanese Fender... Really better then american standard.

[@ErikSWE]

The Fender Japan guitars are indeed high quality (better QC than the US ones for sure), problem is that they false advertise the neck profiles, making them almost Ibanez Wizard-like when they say "C" or "modern C". Imo that makes it harder to find a really good one.

[@Cornelius87]

Mexican working in the U.S - $9 an hour. Mexican working in Mexico - $9 a day. thus the difference in price.

[@ErikSWE]

keltic185 That's my point. Fender's non-CS US-guitars is a scam.

[@bezoc]

Erik Nyberg Is that true?

[@muddywalker3736]

best guitar ever this thing is a blues guitar like no other

[@StratBurst92]

Excellent, love my 2011 American Standard Strat.

[@nickw2725]

i have a mexican made telecaster and its sounds just as good as the us version, its honestly just personal preference.

[@justinbrown9910]

Same here, mexican strat and it sounds just as good, cant tell a distinctive difference

[@jaycook2323]

I can assure you both, it DOES not sound "AS" good.

[@wingsweeklypage8096]

@JayC23 I beg to differ. I have worked with several professional musicians who argue that Mexicans sound better, as they can still use Nitro versus Poly. The Mexis are now mad to the standards of guitars from the US in the 40s and 50s. I too built a custom out of a Mexi body. Close your eyes and listen to any, they sound just as good, even better in some cases.

[@MartyMartin87]

I got an American Deluxe Telecaster in butterscotch blond and I'm very happy with it

[@CBOrion21]

I have a MIM where I re-did the setup and replaced the pickups. One of the best playing guitars I own.

[@renehernandez9803]

I got a strat made in Mexico and i am happy with it!

[@oaxaca911]

I went on this tour today!! So lucky to live in so cal. It was only 45 mins away and I got to go to the beach after. Perfect day

[@gauloiscalifornien]

I visited this place, workers sleeping on their benches, eating on the spot, the tour guy explaining to a quality control kids that the hardware was not the right one on the guitar he showed us, just in front of me, and I had a Johnny Marr on order at the time! Guess what happened, the tremolo bar was not the right one when it showed up at home 🏡, it was a strat bar, shorter and bigger in diameter. I had to call their customer service 3 times, send pictures to finally get the right bar, pretty disappointing. I don't think I will buy guitars more than 600 to 800💵 anymore. It's the same with Gibson, quality is gone.

[@garynash7594]

I'm just sayin' 😬 I love Fender everything, but..... I worked on a "Custom Shop" beautiful Turquoise 50's Strat and ..... It left the factory like that?? No respect for the end user, unplayable?... yeah somewhat!!!! Selling RocknRoll memories to the baby 🍼 boomers?? Well you need a memory for something that's gone... Just who was it that made it go???

[@MuscleDad420]

This is one of the better hosts I've seen, actually. While the questions he asks are obvious to you, not everybody is aware of what frets or how many pieces of wood their may be made out of and asking those questions is indicative of a good host. He also pronounced Townshend's name right and doesn't cut off the professionals mid-sentence with ridiculously stupid observations.

[@MegaGears1]

i love fenders, they always give a good sound and have a good feel. i am getting an alder body with maple neck. nice vid.

[@GoMiGman]

All the great necks available on today's guitars with rosewood or other exotic fretboards, bindings, scalloped frets, asymmetrical necks, thin or fat necks, this, that or the other thing....don't even come close to a plain Fender Stratocaster maple neck with nothing added to it. To me, that is THE BEST neck to play on. It really confirms the saying - "The simpler the better".

[@chris-ip4pk]

I love my usa Tele.. smile every time I play it

[@guitarfoundry]

i've got loads of strats from all different eras..they are greater than the sum of their parts and are such a versatile guitar, also the Strat is capable of presenting techniques that weren't even invented when the guitar was designed.. Cheap build techniques, but an awesome, inovatative creation.

[@Muppio]

This is really cool. Thanks for sharing!

[@MarkAyt]

The one factory I wouldn't mind working in.....

[@weslenne352]

How long does it take for 1 guitar to be put together from start to finish?

[@nutmegger1957]

I can't help but wonder if the American Series (lower priced) American-made Strats are made in this building, by this same crew, using the same process???

[@essa15555]

I love fender guitar.

[@SmokeyJoe4991]

Fenders all the way

[@stubmandrel]

Hmm. Tried a new Fender MIA Precision yesterday and bought a Squier made in Indonesia Jaguar a month ago. The p-bass was good but I'm afraid the Jaguar plays better and I'm not convinced it sounds worse on the P-pickup (although the J-pickup is weak)... I've got a 1987 made in Japan Fender and it's outstanding. It doesn't really matter where they are made, it's the QC in the factory at the time that really matters. Fender MIA went through a very blue patch in the CBS days.

[@tit4tat4dat]

@johnsoncm65 ..... one can say that about any mass-produced product... yet...when you imagine Leo carving out the shape of the first few Tele`s and Strat`s there is a touch of class and art in that...just because we`re exposed to them every day the items can become quite common...but in their original form they are pieces of ART..and so was the Model T....and by the way..in your name..I mean the `cm65`....is that your size?... 65 centimeters?

[@mellobassman]

Thanks so much. Good day.

[@frenchkids]

@PopExpo Have you ever owned a Gibson? A lot of people that are hung up on Gibsons tend to have a problem with the price tag. 'It's unobtainable, therefore it must be for yuppies.' They're extremely versatile, as are stratocasters. I've owned practically every guitar Fender and Gibson have made, and I can honestly say that they both make unbelievable guitars. I couldn't pick my favourite manufacturer.

[@Heggel]

what's the song that plays the guy at the end? the name??

[@OlieBeer]

I have a stagg stratocaster and it has a great sound and just like the same as fender :)

[@private5074]

What is the title of the music in the video please?

[@simon01ize]

I've Never Tried A Stratocaster,But I Love Telecaster's That Tone-Just Great!

[@PopExpo]

i wanna see the section of the factory where they make the amps

[@mellizoteta]

whats the name of the songs in this video?

[@DJ0KNUF]

where's the next part!?

[@chewymids]

Wow, I guess they just grabbed photos off the web for the montage? I took the photograph of the Sonic Blue Yngwie Strat at 5:21, my old guitar.

[@lespauldc]

even though the body work is as good--I think it is in the hardware where USA and MIM differ. Having played and used both I find MIM harder to keep in tune until you change (upgrade) the tuning keys. Also the pots are of a cheaper grade--just me though

[@PopExpo]

thats what i love about fenders, no nonsense. no gay flame tops, or overdone binding, or gay "Burst Colors". Just, wood, paint, and strings...... rock.

[@mellobassman]

Whats that name of the song @ 6:50?

[@Thearcher1982]

i want to work here..pls is there someone can help me

[@guadalupereynaga9253]

No wonder the fenders sound so badass our Raza Mexicana make them Puro México

[@BangDoMusic]

I wish I could own 1 of them !!!

[@BigWillieWillHom]

I Love These Fender Guitars Alot!! I Own 26 - Fender Strats, 4 - Fender Teles & 1 - Fender Jazz Bass!! :)

[@johnnyguit8168]

BigWill/TheSuperBluesUniverse 26 huh? But can you play em? I've seen so many guys who think their guitarists w/ rich parents but are way to lazy to practice but they sure like to go around and tell everybody how many guit's they have! Kinda like givin a $10,000 set of Callaway golf clubs to a blind man!

[@guitarfreakRSS]

my favorite guitars are PRS but i love fenders just second to PRS. I also kind of like gibson.

[@blahblahoww123]

i want to work there...

[@8118fields]

couldnt agree more!

[@FilmForger]

This is how REAL Rock Stars look!

[@gdj1954]

I'm so glad my Stratocaster was built in Japan.

[@GoMiGman]

Never tried a Strat?!?! You don't know what you're missing! Easily, hands down, no question about it, the easiest and most comfortable electric guitar to play. This is, IMO, 50% of the success of this marvel of this top 10 greatest invention of mankind. The other 50% is the classic look of this ageless design. The most identifiable shape of anything ever built. Truly the definition of "A Classic"!

[@negrorusconi5960]

GoMiGman que

[@iloverush123]

Bass necks, yay!

[@StratocasterJoe]

@tigrarulez They're all fenders... it's a fender factory. A factory for fenders.

[@ucbookman]

They also have a factory in Japan, BTW. My MIM jazz sounds like heaven. We all love your non sequitur-ds here anyway so keep yelping and ranting like a PO'd chihuahua.

[@zzipdrive]

AMERICAN Standard/Pro series Fenders have different features & specs than MIM standard series instruments.

[@EdJones1960]

PRINCE - I Wanna Be Your Lover from the 1979 album "Prince"

[@chriskimguitar]

I wish I can work there, I would feel like working in heaven.

[@markbrown908]

i got a strat years ago mim it still rips just like one made in america i just changed the bridge pickup and keys. i wouldent trade it for a 2000 dollar fender no fucking way

[@porwaiwitlikhit4677]

Lol I got a 2000 dollars strat

[@markbrown908]

wanna trade....... jk

[@MANDALAMUSICNYC]

my mim is killer weighs 7 lbs flat has the vibe mojo and feel of a real 1958 signed a vintage guitar snob who has owned hundreds of vintage fenders and grew up on 48th street

[@WilliamSlaght]

Well both Fender Guitars and Gibson Guitars have their own style. How can it be cheesy? But, seriously, I love Les Paul, and SG, buff, Flying V, buff, Explorer, it's ok, but Les Paul, WOOT! I mean Les Paul knew how to make a guitar, and it became a classic. But the rest of the guitars looked like showoffy in a way. But still some people see the beaty, doesn't mean your taste is better and you should question their other taste. Opinions are never right, only correct for the person who haves it.

[@skatertrev7]

Yea that would be sweet! And they do a crazy good job with their stress tests! 6:00 = omg

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

"The Fender Factory, the place where they make the Fender Stratocaster"! What about all the other foreign companies across the globe that make them for peanuts and pay low wages to the poor buggers that make them?

[@Brando-nx6ub]

yeah I wanna see the squier custom shop... lol surely it's not a depressing sweat shop..

[@BangDoMusic]

@jlunch : Oh, I'm Vietnamese, Its not easy to touch an origional guitar like Fender in my country !!

[@husnushepherd]

Where is maiden ?

[@2Phast4Rocket]

Looks like all the MIA Fenders guitars are made my Mexicans.

[@ouncy]

...so? That's why they're not called MBA.

[@the_largest]

Do they dry the wood first!??!!?!?

[@Extracelestial]

When did they let Richard Ramirez out?

[@csabika199012]

I wish I worked here....

[@LITTLEREDKINGS]

2:50 !! wow!

[@rbbrown2106]

The people who work at the MIM Fenders, cross the boarder and pull another shift in the American Fender factory.

[@ExternalInputs]

They must have scoured the country to find a tool this massive to use as a presenter.

[@PopExpo]

@amalienworkshop1 Key word "some" usually its 2 tone sunburst or 3 tone sunburst but that Gibson "burst" color ....rarely

[@chamann]

Why so mexicans working at Corona´s factory? Something people do not know, Mexico has the oldest guitar luthier tradition in the entire American Cont. thanks" the spanish conquistadores, many of these mexs are the descendents of the first luthiers and Fender knows it, when playing a Fender G. you have history in your hands. cool!

[@CheckThisSaw]

turn on the trancribe audio on 6:36

[@TheJhaley12]

so the Squiers are made here too?

[@ouncy]

Nah mate, think Asia.

[@TheJhaley12]

people can't recognize sarcasim anymore i guess.

[@ouncy]

Pretty shit sarcasm.

[@TheJhaley12]

lol perfect sense

[@ouncy]

If it was the other way around, that would be sarcasm. The way you put it just makes you sound ill-informed.

[@Heggel]

@leecanwrite yes, but i mean at the 7:30 min somebody??

[@Maver380]

Where is Brazilian rosewood?

[@Tapa504]

No scope for a little dissatisfaction after buying a Fender bass. Fender makes the owner proud.

[@binayakjungkarki5002]

Better than anything🙂🙂

[@WilliamSlaght]

Eric Clapton is more of a Gibson Guitar guy than a Fender Guitar Guy... Check out the other tours of: Gibson Factory Tour & PRS Factory Tour Grrrreat guitars!

[@Plushiedelude]

@PopExpo ...i think you forgot sunburst...

[@justmeeagainn]

Great idea: make a video with so much music and factory noise you can hardly hear a word they’re saying. 👍🏼

[@fishybishbash]

I have a Strat - but I'd really love a Tele. Something about them. Extra twang factor.

[@yenlam3133]

I forgot below to type 'roadhouse' strat. (Chuck R.777RnR)

[@samucabitim]

non-native Americans doing the hard work.. Gee!! this won't let Mr.Trump happy don't tell him everybody. happy Christmas and new year guys!!

[@soulvaccination8679]

Trump is the greatest president in American history.Jobs Jobs Jobs.Money Money Money.Kept his promises Promises..He didn’t lie like all the rest rest rest.And he has 6 years to go.Just imagine what he will do.If you don’t like him then step aside.

[@cottonfever1221]

@ktmrider5292 AAAHH!! I LOVE IT!! Aint that the truth,thats the GOSPEL!

[@vsmcax1007]

Find some time to make more lefty models plz!! Jazzmasters Jags etc..

[@ricardocabrera7811]

The guy at the end totally looks like Richard Ramirez

[@AmatHour]

@ktmrider5292 The quality on the mexican MIM fender isn't near the quality. I have both.

[@29frusciante]

check out the paul reed smith factory and you know why they are so expencive compared to everyone else, i love strats but ive a new found respect for p.r.s guitars...

[@heathen_actual]

hahaha!! "This bad ass MoFo!!" that was hilarious! i just love the random little cable thing on the right of the camera... it was awesome...ly gay

[@jetxyz]

Better than Gibson Factory

[@bassa69]

why so many people saying about mexicans making guitars in the usa

[@RagnorBC]

"Fender still uses the same routers that Leo Fender originally used" Still using routers from the late 40's, are we?

[@PopExpo]

when I say "burst" i mean gibsons version. fender's sunburst and gibson's "burst" i two completely different things.

[@DmitryChaplinsky]

David Levitra

[@diamonddust22]

@LesPaulRockerProduct I didn't have the money or skill, but I spent 2 years and buily my own custom bass. If you want something bad enough, you'll do it, if you don't, you'll talk about it.

[@U2935]

I didn't know that cylian Murphy knew about guitars!

[@masonthurman]

wasn't this tool on "28 days later"? lol

[@dustoff85]

Huge mistake, you failed to mention Richie Blackmore, in my opinion he is the Strat King. Better than Clapton in my opinion. I saw both in concerts, the Cream in late 60’s Los Angeles Forum and Blackmore also at the Forum

[@markd3570]

"Rock Hard Maple" lol. It's Hard Rock Maple, aka Acer glabrum. At least I hope it is.

[@TomHollandGuitar]

@PopExpo no gay burst colours? there is a stratocaster burst :)

[@dorkdoll]

the fender strat the worlds first democratic guitar designed by you built by fender great

[@44eelz]

@TheSugarFreedom ... yeah, thats where the durability comes in, we can build anything lol ;-)

[@red_dead_dutch]

6:02 so thats the stairway to heaven.....