Guitar Stop: Fender Product Education Tour Guitar Manufacturing

Fender Guitar Manufacturing
Product tourPainting and AssemblyAmps

Fender Musical Instrument Company provides a Fender Product Education Tour for employees, authorized dealers and distributors. Guitar Stop is an Authorized Dealer for The Fender Company, that is our only connection to the Fender Company.

Representing my store Guitar Stop, I had the pleasure of attending a tour in the month of April 2001. Below are pictures from my tour of the Fender factories.

Rough Bodies
Mexican rough bodies

Ash and Alder Blocks for USA bodies

Ash body

Rough Ash block and contoured body. USA Ash bodies are usually made out of 2 pieces of wood, USA Alder bodies are usually made out of 3 pieces of wood. Blocks of Alder for Mexican guitars come laminated with an Alder veneer and the top
beveled direct from the lumber supplier.

routing bodies
Cutting necks

Routing bodies in the USA factory. All of Fender's American and Mexican made guitars are cut and fretted in the USA factory.
Cutting Necks in the USA factory.

Bodies in Mexico
Neck assembly line

Bodies waiting to be sanded in the Mexican factory.

Stages of neck building and a rough body

Sanding Bodies

Drill Presses

Bodies sanded in the Mexican Factory

Bridge blocks drilled in the USA factory

Pickguard Bevel

Pickguards are cut out by a machine. A beveled edge is put on each pickguard by hand.
Metal press machine used for embossing metal.

Product tourPainting and AssemblyAmps

Representing my store Guitar Stop, I had the pleasure of attending a tour in the month of April 2001. Above are pictures from my tour of the Fender factories.

Fender Guitar Manufacturing