No CNC machines here. They are doing it the old fashioned way.

[Nitro Express]

This is a guitar factory in China. To be honest, it reminds me of the old Fullerton Fender factory when my brother and I took a tour there years ago. I will never forget them shaping necks with belt sanders and saw dust going everywhere. It was a real mess.

[ELVIS]

So, you're saying one out of about 150 might be good...

[indeedido]

That would be good for Chinese standards.

[jhale667]

1 in 150 on a good day.... I'll take some good ol' USA CNC over that any day.

[Nitro Express]

my main question is what was the dude painting on with the brush? Paint? Primer? Wood filler? Maybe the bargain model is hand painted with latex paint and the delux model is sprayed with automotive polyurethane.

Also some of those bodies looked like laminated plywood.

[Nitro Express]

So, you're saying one out of about 150 might be good...

Yeah. Just like Fenders were in the early 80's.

[ELVIS]

My main neck is a scalloped 21 fret 1983 Fender USA from my first Strat I found in a pawn shop in 1984...

This neck shape is the foundation for the American Standard Strat...

[Nitro Express]

Here's how they made the ones everyone jizzes themselves over.