thats the real power behind prs. with every process there can emerge a porblem not earlier noticed. its just very nice fot the folks buying a prs that the guitar is going to be as good as possible
...guardando i factory tour mi accorgo di come sia importante la manualità, la professionalità, la cura, che occorre mettere nel fare le cose. Dovremmo tornare a farlo noi italiani...Anche in ambito musicale, tra i maestri del pianeta, ci siamo anche noi... Un tour in una azienda che produce chitarre. Bellissimo...
You're not kidding. I used to work for PRS. Millions in business a year; the people who run the company making money hand over fist; I knew people in the front office who weren't even 30 and they're buying real estate; meanwhile the poor bastards who actually make the fucking guitars were driving falling-apart cars and living paycheck to paycheck. I sure do hope Paul sleeps well at night.
people are always whining over paul reed smiths being "not worth the price"...look at what these things go through, the amount of time they take to create, the quality control, the precision (and value) of the few and ONLY MACHINES they go through... my custom 24 has served me impeccably over the past 10 years...I ride it hard and know it'll be back to play as perfectly as it did on day one every time...that's more than worth the price you pay
Compared with other guitars in the same price range they match up nicely. Easy to play due to the standard PRS low action setup and nice sounding pickups.
damn, now i know why PRS is so expensive. 1. sourcing the wood 2. preparing the wood 3. tons of handwork 4. lots of machines 5. more hand crafting 6.fret jobs 7. quality control 8. tons of finishing works. and a crap ton more. PRS= totally worth it..
I want that job cutting up the guitars! (07:00) My work day would be over in no time. I would have to get a big van to come to work in tho. Nothing like taking your work home is there.
@ljuglampa I have a Custom 24 as my main guitar and an SE Custom 24 as my backup, both are great guitars, the SE model has a very similar feel, the only thing I'd recommend to someone is you may wanna switch out the pickups with the higher end ones.
its annoying that they cut it up, but they used to get people stealing the guitars that didn't meet spec out of the skips, cause they were still great quality
No, the SE (Student Edition) models are manufactured in Korea, not in the US, and has cheaper tone wood, less exclusive finishes and hardware and less detail work.
Thats not entirely true. As the quality of a guitar goes up it is true that you see a more streamlined neck joint with little heel. But only to a point. Most top end luthiers feel that two woods in the body kill tone. They also have found that better resonance is seen with a bulkier joint. Fender and Gibson's top models all have this. PRS has done this pretty much perfect with the body shape. You can play the top frets without feeling any hinderance from the heel.
yeah it is depressing, but that factory is being payed to make specific instruments, and they have to be high quality, so I suppose they don't allow selling seconds unless there's someone right buy the person saying "I want that" :(
Yeah it makes me cry when they cut them up, but if you think about it it makes sense. If there were poor quality PRS guitars around then they would give the decent ones a bad name.
-.=... I was watching the guitar get cut up, and then i saw all the comments, they're such spoilers lol... but it hurt, i'd have that guitar (maybe ill go work there and just take one lol)
i heard on the parker factory tour it takes this many hours of work to make a guitar 5hrs=fender strat- 8hrs= gibson les paul 35hrs= parkers fly. anyone know how many work hours a prs takes?
yep (you speak unparelled sense!), im a large scale independent luthier and i find it crazy they did that,any mistakes that happen id make damn sure they were corrected, my instruments are not substandard by any means though as they sell for the very competitive £400-£600 bracket. what this is is just a phony PR stunt, they blatently cut it crudely like they were cutting scrap wood, if this was done for real no wonder theyre not as big as some others, ill be honest theres a lot of blah in the
good god why dont they just sell the unfiished guitars that dont meet quality as project guitars for a lower price and ppl can customize there own prs im sure someone wont mind having a loose knob or a small hole in the top of there guitar if they get to make it there own
Lol, you guys ever think that the workers slack and talk all the time, but the day they made this the boss was like "K guys! were doing a video, look serious, no bullshit or it's your balls! (or rape for women =|...)" Lol
No you heard correct. I am surprised you haven't heard about this before. It is the same concept as using microwave curing or even infared to thermoset the compound. They all use EM waves to heat and cure the glue. By using RF adhesion compound they can cure evenly and quickly as RF radiation penetrates these woods. These machine are super expensive and really are only practical from an industrial standpoint as it increases workflow. Not practical for you.
guitar business, and this is some of it, i dont subscribe to that thats why people are amazed at my very much pimped up beauties. at the start our guys are craftsman, if they were theyd be able to switch from gluing up to fretting, weve all seen the pace these work at, ive never seen any bespoke factory work as fast as this, theyre obviously labourers and thats another lie.
It's so stupid that they cut he guitar in half. I mean, plenty of people would be happy to have those guitars. Offer a discount on the "blemished" guitar! It's just so wasteful.
There are children in third world countires without guitars. Why can't we give them the PRS rejects. We are so wasteful in this country. LOL ! Paul pleeease give me one of those blemished PRS guitars !! Put it in the dumpster and I'll pick it up.
thats the real power behind prs. with every process there can emerge a porblem not earlier noticed. its just very nice fot the folks buying a prs that the guitar is going to be as good as possible
...guardando i factory tour mi accorgo di come sia importante la manualità, la professionalità, la cura, che occorre mettere nel fare le cose. Dovremmo tornare a farlo noi italiani...Anche in ambito musicale, tra i maestri del pianeta, ci siamo anche noi... Un tour in una azienda che produce chitarre. Bellissimo...
You're not kidding. I used to work for PRS. Millions in business a year; the people who run the company making money hand over fist; I knew people in the front office who weren't even 30 and they're buying real estate; meanwhile the poor bastards who actually make the fucking guitars were driving falling-apart cars and living paycheck to paycheck. I sure do hope Paul sleeps well at night.
I mainly a fender player. But you can't deny the build quility of PRS.
people are always whining over paul reed smiths being "not worth the price"...look at what these things go through, the amount of time they take to create, the quality control, the precision (and value) of the few and ONLY MACHINES they go through...
my custom 24 has served me impeccably over the past 10 years...I ride it hard and know it'll be back to play as perfectly as it did on day one every time...that's more than worth the price you pay
Compared with other guitars in the same price range they match up nicely. Easy to play due to the standard PRS low action setup and nice sounding pickups.
At 6:59 i was crying! why oh why! to bad looked like a beauty!
SpringNO works fine in PRS guitars.
You can see it in RUclips or in the SpringNO web.
I freakin love PRS!
damn, now i know why PRS is so expensive.
1. sourcing the wood
2. preparing the wood
3. tons of handwork
4. lots of machines
5. more hand crafting
6.fret jobs
7. quality control
8. tons of finishing works.
and a crap ton more.
PRS= totally worth it..
i can't believe they do that... that's insane!
I want that job cutting up the guitars! (07:00)
My work day would be over in no time. I would have to get a big van to come to work in tho.
Nothing like taking your work home is there.
@ljuglampa I have a Custom 24 as my main guitar and an SE Custom 24 as my backup, both are great guitars, the SE model has a very similar feel, the only thing I'd recommend to someone is you may wanna switch out the pickups with the higher end ones.
7:00 it broke my heart away!!! :(
its annoying that they cut it up, but they used to get people stealing the guitars that didn't meet spec out of the skips, cause they were still great quality
holy shit!!!!!don't cut it!!!l am happy to take it!!!
when they cut that prs i cried abit
I think I felt tears roll down my face when I saw them actually cut the guitar...why, god? Why?
lol when they cut it that hurt my soul lol
You buy a Ginson for the name but you buy a PRS for the sound !
one day wen im older im gonna work there, its my dream hahaha
7:00 we need to make some sort of peta for guitars !
No, the SE (Student Edition) models are manufactured in Korea, not in the US, and has cheaper tone wood, less exclusive finishes and hardware and less detail work.
Thats not entirely true. As the quality of a guitar goes up it is true that you see a more streamlined neck joint with little heel. But only to a point. Most top end luthiers feel that two woods in the body kill tone. They also have found that better resonance is seen with a bulkier joint. Fender and Gibson's top models all have this. PRS has done this pretty much perfect with the body shape. You can play the top frets without feeling any hinderance from the heel.
At 6:58 it reminds me of a scene from Hostel or something
@cyclist4now if they would do that, the prices of the other (high quality) PRS guitars would drop immediatelly!
A tear came to my eye at 7:00 :'(
@ljuglampa for the most poart thats correct, however mahogany isnt a cheap tone wood
7:01...started crying
I cried when they cut the guitar
yeah it is depressing, but that factory is being payed to make specific instruments, and they have to be high quality, so I suppose they don't allow selling seconds unless there's someone right buy the person saying "I want that" :(
6:59 aaaaaaah noooooooooooo that hurts me
When use cut that guitar in half my hart dropt
Damn I would take the ones that dont meet spec rather than just cutting it up.
@eVillGanja i was just gonna put that, but first i looked at the comments to see if anyone else said it d:
Yeah it makes me cry when they cut them up, but if you think about it it makes sense. If there were poor quality PRS guitars around then they would give the decent ones a bad name.
-.=... I was watching the guitar get cut up, and then i saw all the comments, they're such spoilers lol...
but it hurt, i'd have that guitar (maybe ill go work there and just take one lol)
the workers should have stock options.
I'd have to say PRS and Hamer put more handwork into their guitars than Gibson or Fender does by far.
I screamed a little bit at 7:00 ...
Are they Pleking their frets now?
How I can find a hunk of wood sexy? I don't know. All I know is that those things are gorgeous.
i heard on the parker factory tour it takes this many hours of work to make a guitar
5hrs=fender strat-
8hrs= gibson les paul
35hrs= parkers fly.
anyone know how many work hours a prs takes?
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a toosie roll pop.
yep (you speak unparelled sense!), im a large scale independent luthier and i find it crazy they did that,any mistakes that happen id make damn sure they were corrected, my instruments are not substandard by any means though as they sell for the very competitive £400-£600 bracket. what this is is just a phony PR stunt, they blatently cut it crudely like they were cutting scrap wood, if this was done for real no wonder theyre not as big as some others, ill be honest theres a lot of blah in the
6:59 ... It hurts :(
a little bit of me died at 6:58
the guitar was cut ? :|
One hundred and five degrees what?
I never can understand why folk in the US are unaware that there are a different "degrees" of heat....
Must be Fahrenheit, if it were Celsius the camera wouldn't be operating.
ILL TAKE IT!!!!!!! Dont cut it!
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
7:00 i almost got sick
i seriously got sick at 7:00
good god why dont they just sell the unfiished guitars that dont meet quality as project guitars for a lower price and ppl can customize there own prs im sure someone wont mind having a loose knob or a small hole in the top of there guitar if they get to make it there own
cutting the guitar up seemed so messed up.
@AdamCroke it made me piss my pants cause i have a custom 22
I'm pretty sure some of those factory workers take some of those b-stocks home every once and awhile and make them work, Hell I'd do it.
7:00 ohhhh my bulls....
@ 7:00 NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lol, you guys ever think that the workers slack and talk all the time, but the day they made this the boss was like
"K guys! were doing a video, look serious, no bullshit or it's your balls! (or rape for women =|...)"
Lol
WHY CUT IT!? give it to me, i don't care if there's a fucking dent on it
if you see all these brandnew guitars you might think that the´ll be cheaper XD
No you heard correct. I am surprised you haven't heard about this before. It is the same concept as using microwave curing or even infared to thermoset the compound. They all use EM waves to heat and cure the glue. By using RF adhesion compound they can cure evenly and quickly as RF radiation penetrates these woods. These machine are super expensive and really are only practical from an industrial standpoint as it increases workflow. Not practical for you.
7 min how dos that guy sleep at night
he said "wood"
sell them as seconds
I died inside at 7:00
Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They cut it in half...should donate them to poor kids that want to learn as long as they are playable!
why must they do thaaaaaaat!?
7:02 noooooooooooooo!!!!! Give me that!!! don't Cut it!!!! i could repair that myself!!
I don't like how fast they are working.
poly? i thought PRS uses nitro...
7:00 not only broke my heart, but it is an absolute waste of wood. Save a tree PRS.... Geez..
Unfortunately, I'm not a good enough player to make a $2000+ guitar worthwhile for me to buy. Something to ASPIRE to, I guess...
6:57 aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ouh look its a scraths in paint job lets cut it in two
7:00 me myself ain't gonna buy from PRS
6:57 NOOOOOOOOO Thats just about the worst thing I've seen on the internet :(
Korean mades = STUDENT EDITION btw
@AdamCroke it's just wrong man :*(
@ProGAMER24 its a joke, chill out
yeah, i mean sell the thing. ill buy it and put it on my wall for looks dude.... i dont care, give it to me... haha
I cringed when I saw that guitar get cut in two.
They use all Fadal CNC machines... in the industry we call those Fatal... they suck
saw it at 7 min and new every fucking comment here would be about it so i decided not to even bother.....
Its painful 2 watch them cut that guitar up.
guitar business, and this is some of it, i dont subscribe to that thats why people are amazed at my very much pimped up beauties. at the start our guys are craftsman, if they were theyd be able to switch from gluing up to fretting, weve all seen the pace these work at, ive never seen any bespoke factory work as fast as this, theyre obviously labourers and thats another lie.
It's so stupid that they cut he guitar in half. I mean, plenty of people would be happy to have those guitars. Offer a discount on the "blemished" guitar! It's just so wasteful.
Damn dont cut that guitar up!! Give it to me, I think having a guitar with a slight "flaw" in it would be kinda cool, makes it unique....what a waste.
cut the guitar up! wtf! just sell them as se's! hahaha i'd buy an imperfect carved body se!
wtf sell the guitars as seconds dont waste
sell me those b-stocks! what a waiste!
Incredible waste of CURLY maple.
There are children in third world countires without guitars. Why can't we give them the PRS rejects. We are so wasteful in this country. LOL ! Paul pleeease give me one of those blemished PRS guitars !! Put it in the dumpster and I'll pick it up.
I think any self respecting player is sadly :(
chopping 2nd-style guitars in half! what a waste!
What a waste of wood. Seriously, sell it b-stock. No need to waste resources like that.