Taylor Guitar Tour

Nate getting an impromptu guitar lesson.

What the employees do on break.

New friends watching the buffer robot.

Taylor Guitars give free tours daily (M-F) and we recently went on one.  The tour lasted almost two hours, we had an awesome tour guide, and we learned a ton about how they build guitars.  Here are some of those things:
*The wood they use for the guitars comes from sustainable forests.  Sapele is one of the main types of wood they are now using.
*They make approximately 500 guitars per day.
*They make left and right handed guitars
*The work hard to match up the wood perfectly and symmetry plays a big part in how they piece the pieces of wood together.
*The fretboards are made of ebony because this material absorbs the oil from your hands.
*They use a glue that glows under a black light for checking their work.

*They use robots for some things and humans for other things and sometimes both (for example buffing is done by robots and humans).
*The scraps of wood get ground up and turned into hamster bedding.
 *Some 'b' words we learned - buffing, bracing and binding!