1959 Fender Factory Tour

[Len Rabinowitz]

You have to check this out- Somebody found and refurbished a film of a 1959 Fender factory tour!

Check out the cars in the barking lot- and a young Abigail Ybarra!

They horse around with a couple of Strats at the end- probably 150,000 dollars worth of guitars today.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswcAPvH0P8

 

[suzuki211]

Great clip Len. Thanks for the link

 

[Len Rabinowitz]

I wonder what the original sound track was?

 

[jamme61]

AWESOME! Thanks for the post!

 

[Doubleneck]

Very Cool!

 

[Len Rabinowitz]

I LOVE the old cars in the parking lot!

 

[BadBluesPlayer]

That is so cool, Len. Thanks.

 

[blackba]

Somebody sent me this link a few weeks ago. Really enjoyed seeing the factory, it shows how much as actually hand done.

I wish they had a video showing construction of the Fender amps. Fender amps from the late fifties to early sixities were at at high point....

 

[Len Rabinowitz]

Yeah, I also wanted to see the amps. I wonder where they got this from? Maybe there is more? This is so much better then some of the new factory tours. YouTube had a couple of Billy Gibbons Custom Shop tours which was mostly close ups of some idiots face. Gosh, I can hardly contain my excitement.

 

[gbsmusic]

Very cool! Awesome video, thanks.

 

[sinfish]

Great video. Back in the day when you could work shirtless and drink on the job. not fair

 

[Len Rabinowitz]

I have found a few threads about this on the Internet. Some think it might be earlier than 1959 because of the two tone sunburst used, and the Jaguars shown? Not sure myself.