Electric Guitar episode of "How is it made?"

[Ian Price]

This was on discovery at 09:00 this morning. It was a flying tour of the Gibson factory and how they make guitars. Pretty interesting but the scripting of the narration needs some serious work. There was one scene where the body was being chambered and the narrator said "the body is being routed so that the electrics have somewhere to go". The next scene was of a maple cap being glued to the chambered body.

I did have a moan about it (and was told off by my partner!). I'm pretty sure that the chambering has nothing to do with "where the electrics will go" and will be mortally embarrassed if I am wrong.

Anyone else catch it?

[dave_mc]

nah, i missed that one unfortunately, though i might have caught the tail-end of it one other time. i think there are a couple of different ones too i think, i remember seeing one at the godin factory, and another at the framus. I always seem to miss them though :lol: there's an amp one at traynor, it seems to be on all the time...

[SG Thrasher]

This was on discovery at 09:00 this morning. It was a flying tour of the Gibson factory and how they make guitars. Pretty interesting but the scripting of the narration needs some serious work. There was one scene where the body was being chambered and the narrator said "the body is being routed so that the electrics have somewhere to go". The next scene was of a maple cap being glued to the chambered body.

I did have a moan about it (and was told off by my partner!). I'm pretty sure that the chambering has nothing to do with "where the electrics will go" and will be mortally embarrassed if I am wrong.

Anyone else catch it?

Maybe it was referring to the channel that goes from the cavity to the selector switch(I'm presuming it's an LP)

[ailean]

I've seen that one before, and the Godin one. I think explaining chambering to the audiance is a little beyond the scope of 'How it's made.' They tend to be pretty simplistic :) Quite interesting though.

[Ian Price]

I think explaining chambering to the audiance is a little beyond the scope of 'How it's made.' They tend to be pretty simplistic :) Quite interesting though.

Cheers Ailean - you've just reminded me that the general public aren't guitar geeks! You're probably right in that is too much attention to detail. I now wonder how many of this show, and similar, I have watched and thought "that's interesting" without realising that someone else will be saying "that's not quite how i works".

[ailean]

Cheers Ailean - you've just reminded me that the general public aren't guitar geeks! You're probably right in that is too much attention to detail. I now wonder how many of this show, and similar, I have watched and thought "that's interesting" without realising that someone else will be saying "that's not quite how i works".

A depressingly large amount I'm sure.   PDT_022

[Ian Price]

Cheers Ailean - you've just reminded me that the general public aren't guitar geeks! You're probably right in that is too much attention to detail. I now wonder how many of this show, and similar, I have watched and thought "that's interesting" without realising that someone else will be saying "that's not quite how i works".

A depressingly large amount I'm sure.   PDT_022

Probably. Maybe I need to research each subject thoroughly just to make sure. I'm not sure I could keep myself interested enough to read up on sausage manufacturing or yo-yo assembly though.

[ailean]

+1  :D

I think that would qualify for Uber Geek status though.

[Ian Price]

+1  :D

I think that would qualify for Uber Geek status though.

 :D

[_tom_]

It's on sky+ anytime still if you guys have it? Watched it earlier, it was the one in the Gibson factory.