Friedman guitar factory tour

[stratjacket]

Pretty cool video. Interesting walk through and explanations by Grover Jackson. I love videos like this, I can watch things like this all day. The Science Channel How It’s Made may be the greatest show ever made

Makes me interested in maybe trying out the pickups too.

 

[romanianreaper]

That was badass!!! Man, such a great video. I'm with you man, I could watch stuff like that all day. Grover is so knowledgeable and you can tell in his voice that he enjoys what he does.

 

[psychodave]

That was the best Sweetwater video I’ve seen.

 

[errrrrl]

It's cool they use state of the art tools vs everything being made by hand. You would think it would bring the price down a bit. I really want to try a Friedman guitar one day, but I'm afraid I will want to buy it lol. As for the whole relic thing, I just can't get into that for some reason

 

[peterc52]

Also cool

 

[JerEvil]

It's cool they use state of the art tools vs everything being made by hand. You would think it would bring the price down a bit. I really want to try a Friedman guitar one day, but I'm afraid I will want to buy it lol. As for the whole relic thing, I just can't get into that for some reason

The ones I played at NAMM were sick.

 

[Rdodson]

Great video.

I've played several of the Friedman bolt-ons. I'll say this...the neck/body join has been SUPER tight & solid giving every one I've played a very resonant and sustaining tone. Plus the setups have been spot on.

 

[Zado]

Great video.

I've played several of the Friedman bolt-ons. I'll say this...the neck/body join has been SUPER tight & solid giving every one I've played a very resonant and sustaining tone. Plus the setups have been spot on.

There's a bad point in this. My Schecter Traditional had such a tight neck join you could easily lift the guitar by the neck with no bolts attached: it just wouldn't move. Which is great. The bad point is the guitar will 100% develop cracks in the finish with weather change.

 

[GOHOINC]

Great video.

I've played several of the Friedman bolt-ons. I'll say this...the neck/body join has been SUPER tight & solid giving every one I've played a very resonant and sustaining tone. Plus the setups have been spot on.

There's a bad point in this. My Schecter Traditional had such a tight neck join you could easily lift the guitar by the neck with no bolts attached: it just wouldn't move. Which is great. The bad point is the guitar will 100% develop cracks in the finish with weather change.

Most of what they make for the line are already relic'd... just sayin'

 

[Rdodson]

I guess there are always tradeoffs!

A bolt-on lives and dies by the neck join. A telecaster that is tight will out-sustain a Les Paul. Strats are harder because of the trem and the rounded neck doesn't lend itself to as good a fit.

EDIT:
I remembered a study I had read, and looks like I am wrong...not about Les Pauls but Strats
https://www.cycfi.com/2013/11/sustain-myth-science/

 

[Rdodson]

Also this:
https://www.liutaiomottola.com/myth/nec ... ustain.htm
"Although the connection between neck joint type and instrument sustain is usually mentioned in the context of solid body electric guitars, it is often mentioned when speaking of acoustic guitars as well. I could find no formal research on this subject at all - no instrumentation and measurement studies, no formal listening evaluations. A recent study[1] performed power analysis, spectrographic analysis, and listening evaluation on a series of purpose-built instruments. The study was based on only a small population of instruments but it was reasonably well controlled. The power analysis results suggest that the relationship between sustain and neck joint type is the reverse of the conventional wisdom on the subject. Longest sustain was associated with bolt-on necks and shortest sustain with neck through construction. The study also included listening evaluations of recordings of single notes. Subjects could not detect differences in sustain among neck through, set neck and bolt-on neck configurations."

 

[Zado]

Great video.

I've played several of the Friedman bolt-ons. I'll say this...the neck/body join has been SUPER tight & solid giving every one I've played a very resonant and sustaining tone. Plus the setups have been spot on.

There's a bad point in this. My Schecter Traditional had such a tight neck join you could easily lift the guitar by the neck with no bolts attached: it just wouldn't move. Which is great. The bad point is the guitar will 100% develop cracks in the finish with weather change.

Most of what they make for the line are already relic'd... just sayin'

Maybe not everyone would love it even more reliced

 

[fearhk213]

Thanks for posting. That was a great watch.

 

[errrrrl]

Also cool

Wow... Enjoyed that too thanks!

 

[splatter]

It's funny to me how people will dog CNC machines till someone like Friedman starts putting his name on guitars made by them.
Personally, I think its a no brainer. A CNC is gonna be a lot more consistent and accurate than man-made but some traditionalist just can't see it.

 

[PBGas]

That was a great vid! Much thanks for sharing!
I am really interested in ordering one of these at some point!

 

[Deleted member 13074]

Funny in the BAD video comments how someone points out they are using a Chibson to test some products.

 

[Scumback Speakers]

And when they test out the amps with the Gibson, they're using a Scumback DBL attenuator. I didn't even know they had one.