After reading 2 pages of this garbage I've come to the conclusion 90% of people don't have a clue what they're talking about, the factory we've just seen had near identical assembly techniques as Gibson, Gibson is a factory job it's not a magical hand building guitar wonderland, check out the Gibson line tour. With guitars now all you're paying for is the name, specs and QA and that's it, they're built so close to one another in terms of technique it makes little difference anymore.
@Shrieken213 False as shit. You can do anything with any guitar, doesn't matter what it is. As for sounding better? Depends on the hardware/wood the guitar is made with. Gibsons are generally made of mahogany (les paul, flying v, explorer, etc etc) which have good resonance, no doubt, but shit, they are a bit overpriced as balls. I'll stick to a Ibanez RG with some bare knuckle pickups.
In the 20s electric guitars were just acoustics with pickups out in, then up until 1932 they were archtop hollowbodies with pickups, and by 1932 the telecaster was released, quickly followed by the les Paul, both of which were fully solid
LMAO! All those guitarist you just named are from like the 70s dude. Before ibanez was popular. Check out Animals As leaders and tell me an ibanez can't do good cleans lol Do you not realize all the world's leaders in guitar chose ibanez at some point or are still with ibanez? Steve vai, John Petrucci, Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, Herman Lee, Korn, Paul Gilbert, Mick Thompson, Joe Satriani, hell even eddie van halen owned an ibanez.
No, it does not. You think all the guitar manufacturers are going to do something that adversely affects the tone? The guitar body has strategically placed bare areas that allow the wood to breath and age properly. The primer, sealer and lacquer have no effect on the tone whatsoever. Look at the EVH Wolfgang and tell me Eddie doesn't know what he's doing. Your misinformed friend.
guys....anyday you ask an artist...gibson is better than ibanez...you move from the west to east.....india...singapore...you get gibson assembled in china with their own crapppy materials....at those places ibanez is the best....hell you even get a china made PRS and Les Paul...if you live in the US or europe for that matter Gibson is the best...
Gibsons have horrible bridges, their pickups are drowning with treble, and they are now assembled in china. an ibanez Prestige will top anything gibson has to offer.
all i hear is computer guided machine. gibson goes old fashion, one person cuts the neck and doesnt need refrences. thats why gibson is better it has more of a warm sound
Oh, and i'm totally going to be biased, i swear by ibanez, but gibson is pretty damn boss too. If i had to record any sort of rhythm stuff, give me a chunky ol' les paul, but otherwise i'll stick to a prestige neck.
wow... everyone who says wood has no matter in sound of electric guitars are idiots! I work at a music store and work with music/guitars in general. Ok, maybe your not idiots. You just may not know any better. So let me teach you. Look up at next comment^^
@metachozoite Also, try playing two different guitars. One by the First Act brand. One by Fender. You'll notice on the First Act that the intonation is impossible to fix due to poor measurement and anything above the 6th fret will sound flat and out of tune. You'll notice that the tuning pegs spin on their own. You'll notice that it just sounds ugly. On the Fender, depending on the model, the the only problem you might have is intonation and that can be fixed in a matter of minutes.
Got a first act acoustic guitar I got when I was four or five it’s got a low e string a g string and a b string hence its name “toothless” it is my absolute favorite guitar to tap on
i use a wood called purple heart for my my guitars. i wish they would make a video to show handmade guitars, the real art work of making guitars. no artist uses a machine to draw his paintings/ sketches. machinery=cheating.
The terms "fretboard" and "fingerboard" are interchangeable, with the latter actually being the more technical term. Fingerboard is more appropriate in some respects as it the term of choice by most, if not all, major guitar manufacturers. Also, there are fretless basses and guitars. Though fretless guitars are considerably less common than fretless basses, they have been utilized by the likes of Steve Vai, Frank Zappa, and Pat Methany to name a few.
Anything you do to a guitar will have an effect on its sound, wood included. It's just that the tonal difference in wood on a solid body electric is very minimal compared to the electronics.
percentage of the Ibanez Guitars that come with EMGs are less than 10%...the only ones that do are 9 times out of 10 Artist Signature series or modified..And not all of ibanez guitars are neon lol why even say that? Ibanez is what started badass paint jobs anyway. Before charvel, bofore Esp, before anybody. A lot of times, people that want a guitar that sounds and plays well prefer an ibanez. Low action, smooth necks, lightweight, WIDE variety, 6,7,8 strings, etc. Gibson is for country dudes.
i work at a shipping dock here in northern Ga Close to Tennessee where gibson ships from. I constantly load GIBSON USA guitars daily to and from China and Nashville. They are ASSEMBLED in china. Materials from the USA. And first of all, Ibanez is known for using MANY DIFFERENT BRIDGES. That includes floyd rose, licensed floyd rose, hardtail, etc. When was the last time you saw a gibson with a floyd rose? never. Many of Ibanez Bridges are considered equal to FRs. Gibsons were great 30 years ago.
I don't have to film or show you anything. You can call and ask gibson representatives themselves. And having to "look very hard" for a gibson having a floyd rose secures and validates my point. They hardly use them. I can walk to my nearest music shop and find crappy 120$ ibanez guitars with all types of bridges. I'd have to "look hard" to find a gibson with a floyd.
Why do they take a board that is the width of a guitar already, cut it, then dry it, then glue it, then dry it again? Why not just use a solid peice of wood? Not only would it be stronger and glueless, but it would eleminate an extra two months of dry time. They all do it, so there must be a good reason. Does anyone know it?
@MrOzMendez No, I'm saying that part 1 of a video is just part 1. You said only part of a guitar is being made, but that's because the video isn't exactly finished, as obviously stated by the terms "Part 1" and "Part 2." Your criticism is faulty.
The only thing i don't like is that when they put the primer, sealer, wood stain, lacquer, it kills the tone of the wood. For best performance of a guitar, just add paint and add some rubbing compound to make it shine.
It's a Godin Pay attention. It shows them putting on the logo, and it goes on the body, not headstock. Gibson puts it on the headstock, like most companies.
total MYTH body's wood doesnt have any influence at sound! just think... if you use softwood and finish the instrument with epoxy paint, all softness gonna be lost the choice of wood can be done for final weight or aesthetic if its transparent stain or varnished search for: PEREIRA, R., LAIBIDA JUNIOR, A., FREITAS, T.. Sobre o acoplamento corda-corpo em guitarras elétricas e sua relação com o timbre do instrumento. Physicæ, Campinas, 9, jun. 2011.
This topic deserves to be made again. The quality of the video is terrible by modern standards. And I think the process has also changed since even cheap guitars are now pretty good as well.
hey does anyone know where to get 2 part acrylic lacquer. I can find poly, and nitrocellulose but there is an acrylic finish that dries in 2 hours and i can't seem to find it. by the way that blue guitar in the beginning of the clip has no finger inlays except one.
emgs sound great. its not the pickups that ibanez is getting wrong. but what range? high end ibanez are very nice. but they equate to a mid range schecter. also, back in the 80s, other great brands we know today didnt have a standing at the time. gibson was the safe way to go. but put humbuckers in a fender and it sounds almost the same through the same amp. which was always marshall. lastly, what do you consider flashy? to me that would be a dean razorback or a bc rich warlock
That's great but Ibanaz is used for metal music I would say and that great to have a guitar for every style, but it's better to have a instrument made for one type of music that the user can play, that's just my opinion, cause two of my favorite metal guitarist use Ibanaz and I think it sounds really great.
i have a Godin Freeway Classic and a Seagull M-6 cedar acoustic...they are high-quality, great-sounding, affordable guitars...my Freeway classic has a Start sound for about 400 bucks!
I posted the vid to my band to show what the cables look like going into a Godin guitar. It's kinda like an umbilical cord than just your normal cable.
@metachozoite I understand where you're going with this, but you're not entirely correct. Some guitars are absolutely brilliant - high end pickups, resilient wood, flawless neck shape, etc. You also have to know how to maintain its value and how well it can be played. A buzzing string isn't always the guitarist's fault. It can be a manufacturing error (uneven fretting, faulty bridge, etc). While it's true that you need to play well to sound good, you also need to have a feasible instrument.
@JTNickelz I happen to be the proud owner of an Ibanez Ventura electric/acoustic with a bottom cutaway and it is one of the best guitars I've ever owned. I have an Epiphone Les Paul and currently have my eye on 3 Gibson Les Pauls. I have and probably never will modify them other than a string change or a good disassemble-clean-reassemble. I hope that you can understand.
so he screenprint the company name and then proceed to blast over it with 22 coats of spraypaint and laquer... that doesnt make sense...
@AnOddMusician yes there are...
Musicman have rosewood neck guitars.
Gibson is iconic but hardly the best made guitars....please. I have 1 and love it but it's far from the best a true luthier can produce.
After reading 2 pages of this garbage I've come to the conclusion 90% of people don't have a clue what they're talking about, the factory we've just seen had near identical assembly techniques as Gibson, Gibson is a factory job it's not a magical hand building guitar wonderland, check out the Gibson line tour. With guitars now all you're paying for is the name, specs and QA and that's it, they're built so close to one another in terms of technique it makes little difference anymore.
The reason why I always watch How its Made is because of the man with his great voice,it relaxes my feelings😄.
@CHOCOmoney826 : Aply to work for them and be partners, so you can share ideas!!
“The wood has to be dried so it doesn’t warp” that does literally nothing clearly because it still warps eventually anyway
It's good that thay do this so when the guitar gets to ya it doesn't look like you can use as a 90 degree.
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Why was this made before i was born
@Shrieken213 False as shit. You can do anything with any guitar, doesn't matter what it is. As for sounding better? Depends on the hardware/wood the guitar is made with. Gibsons are generally made of mahogany (les paul, flying v, explorer, etc etc) which have good resonance, no doubt, but shit, they are a bit overpriced as balls. I'll stick to a Ibanez RG with some bare knuckle pickups.
1920s? 1950s? Where's this narrator getting this from? I'm sure it was fully complete and made by les Paul around 1960.
In the 20s electric guitars were just acoustics with pickups out in, then up until 1932 they were archtop hollowbodies with pickups, and by 1932 the telecaster was released, quickly followed by the les Paul, both of which were fully solid
LMAO! All those guitarist you just named are from like the 70s dude. Before ibanez was popular. Check out Animals As leaders and tell me an ibanez can't do good cleans lol Do you not realize all the world's leaders in guitar chose ibanez at some point or are still with ibanez? Steve vai, John Petrucci, Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, Herman Lee, Korn, Paul Gilbert, Mick Thompson, Joe Satriani, hell even eddie van halen owned an ibanez.
No, it does not. You think all the guitar manufacturers are going to do something that adversely affects the tone? The guitar body has strategically placed bare areas that allow the wood to breath and age properly. The primer, sealer and lacquer have no effect on the tone whatsoever. Look at the EVH Wolfgang and tell me Eddie doesn't know what he's doing. Your misinformed friend.
guys....anyday you ask an artist...gibson is better than ibanez...you move from the west to east.....india...singapore...you get gibson assembled in china with their own crapppy materials....at those places ibanez is the best....hell you even get a china made PRS and Les Paul...if you live in the US or europe for that matter Gibson is the best...
Man I love this show!
Gibsons have horrible bridges, their pickups are drowning with treble, and they are now assembled in china.
an ibanez Prestige will top anything gibson has to offer.
all i hear is computer guided machine. gibson goes old fashion, one person cuts the neck and doesnt need refrences. thats why gibson is better it has more of a warm sound
this might be how to make a guitar, but any guitar where the head is a different piece from the neck (at 2:32) is a really cheap guitar!
@JTNickelz so you're saying all guitars sound like shit, when they come straight outta the factory? there is not a perfect one?
First here from the How It's Actually Made
google godin guitars and click the MUSICIANS FRIEND page, ull c its not that cheap
Wow!!! Awesome video!!! I'm flabbergasted by all that goes into making a guitar!!!
Oh, and i'm totally going to be biased, i swear by ibanez, but gibson is pretty damn boss too. If i had to record any sort of rhythm stuff, give me a chunky ol' les paul, but otherwise i'll stick to a prestige neck.
@foolintherain100 I bet you they charge a lot for that cheap neck...
the only high quality version of this on youtube is the joke one
@JTNickelz Whats up with Petruccis Ibanez or Bensons Ibanez?
wow... everyone who says wood has no matter in sound of electric guitars are idiots! I work at a music store and work with music/guitars in general. Ok, maybe your not idiots. You just may not know any better. So let me teach you.
Look up at next comment^^
@iwannagosurfing139 That isn't what I'm saying at all.
Tiger maple :)
@metachozoite Also, try playing two different guitars. One by the First Act brand. One by Fender. You'll notice on the First Act that the intonation is impossible to fix due to poor measurement and anything above the 6th fret will sound flat and out of tune. You'll notice that the tuning pegs spin on their own. You'll notice that it just sounds ugly. On the Fender, depending on the model, the the only problem you might have is intonation and that can be fixed in a matter of minutes.
Got a first act acoustic guitar I got when I was four or five it’s got a low e string a g string and a b string hence its name “toothless” it is my absolute favorite guitar to tap on
@AnOddMusician Yeah that's what I meant, Mr. Specific lol
@Mr98giuliano Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy GX. :)
@Shrieken213 My cat sounds better than Ibanez.
i normally put on that amount on my fingernails, but a guitar! NO way!
@Pamahana97 How can your mom hate it?
@LaMarche7 That was my first year of playing the guitar, the fretboard and the neck were the same thing to me. Sorry to offend you, perfectionist.
Gadin guitars? WTF?
how did you get this video
i mean guitars.plural...
all guitars have frets
i use a wood called purple heart for my my guitars. i wish they would make a video to show handmade guitars, the real art work of making guitars. no artist uses a machine to draw his paintings/ sketches. machinery=cheating.
Gibson is my shit
this are godin
yay Godin!!
oh okay lol
Godin.
HI MR.ROBINSON
The terms "fretboard" and "fingerboard" are interchangeable, with the latter actually being the more technical term. Fingerboard is more appropriate in some respects as it the term of choice by most, if not all, major guitar manufacturers. Also, there are fretless basses and guitars. Though fretless guitars are considerably less common than fretless basses, they have been utilized by the likes of Steve Vai, Frank Zappa, and Pat Methany to name a few.
Anything you do to a guitar will have an effect on its sound, wood included. It's just that the tonal difference in wood on a solid body electric is very minimal compared to the electronics.
Ibanez sound crap because of their pickups. They're shite, and I'm an Ibanez player!
eliten0Ob definetely but the Seymour Duncan Ibanez Humbuckers are pretty good
im so entertained by this show i drool watching it
two minutes twenty nine seconds. its backwards.
percentage of the Ibanez Guitars that come with EMGs are less than 10%...the only ones that do are 9 times out of 10 Artist Signature series or modified..And not all of ibanez guitars are neon lol why even say that? Ibanez is what started badass paint jobs anyway. Before charvel, bofore Esp, before anybody. A lot of times, people that want a guitar that sounds and plays well prefer an ibanez. Low action, smooth necks, lightweight, WIDE variety, 6,7,8 strings, etc. Gibson is for country dudes.
i work at a shipping dock here in northern Ga Close to Tennessee where gibson ships from. I constantly load GIBSON USA guitars daily to and from China and Nashville. They are ASSEMBLED in china. Materials from the USA. And first of all, Ibanez is known for using MANY DIFFERENT BRIDGES. That includes floyd rose, licensed floyd rose, hardtail, etc. When was the last time you saw a gibson with a floyd rose? never. Many of Ibanez Bridges are considered equal to FRs. Gibsons were great 30 years ago.
Well,..... That was pretty worthless and an uninformative
I don't have to film or show you anything. You can call and ask gibson representatives themselves. And having to "look very hard" for a gibson having a floyd rose secures and validates my point. They hardly use them. I can walk to my nearest music shop and find crappy 120$ ibanez guitars with all types of bridges. I'd have to "look hard" to find a gibson with a floyd.
Why do they take a board that is the width of a guitar already, cut it, then dry it, then glue it, then dry it again? Why not just use a solid peice of wood? Not only would it be stronger and glueless, but it would eleminate an extra two months of dry time. They all do it, so there must be a good reason. Does anyone know it?
I came this whole video
Cummed..
*went
**jk
@MrOzMendez No, I'm saying that part 1 of a video is just part 1. You said only part of a guitar is being made, but that's because the video isn't exactly finished, as obviously stated by the terms "Part 1" and "Part 2." Your criticism is faulty.
The only thing i don't like is that when they put the primer, sealer, wood stain, lacquer, it kills the tone of the wood. For best performance of a guitar, just add paint and add some rubbing compound to make it shine.
It's a Godin Pay attention. It shows them putting on the logo, and it goes on the body, not headstock. Gibson puts it on the headstock, like most companies.
@MrOzMendez Part 1 here.
Part 2 in that general direction ->>
Put it together and you have pretty much the whole guitar.
Learn2troll
You phrased it like you were saying you weren't quite sure but didn't 100% think so. You should've just said they're not.
I like how it takes half a year just to make that block of wood.
You're talking smack, sir.
and its easier to find an ibanez with a stoptail than a gibson with a floyd. but the ibanez wont be as nice.
@Shazeen82 They modify their guitars, don't they? An Ibanez straight from the factory just doesn't sound good.
@OPOCHKA a clamp doesnt need to be modernised at all. what would it do? clamp the wood down 2 seconds faster?
@JTNickelz i like ebony , but there aren't electric guitars with ebony fingerboard
what episode was this on ?
Cool vid I have a telecaster but I have no idea how to play it sum1 help plz
@myway43 i got a freeway clasic, and it plays better than my lespaul goldtop
total MYTH
body's wood doesnt have any influence at sound!
just think... if you use softwood and finish the instrument with epoxy paint, all softness gonna be lost
the choice of wood can be done for final weight or aesthetic if its transparent stain or varnished
search for:
PEREIRA, R., LAIBIDA JUNIOR, A., FREITAS, T.. Sobre o acoplamento corda-corpo em guitarras elétricas e sua relação com o timbre do instrumento. Physicæ, Campinas, 9, jun. 2011.
I know this is old but that softwood thing is the most retarded things I've ever read
You don’t play do you ?
Cheap guitar's have a lot of laquer, gibson uses
6 coats
nah. Only the heavenly Ibanezez. Ibanez Rawks!!!!!
i thought gibsons are supposed to be hand made >_>
Can anyone tell me if Ibanez makes good acoustic bass guitars?
Did you get it
i like my american fender strat its great
haha. he calls it "ultraviolent" light.
No he didn't. He said, "Ultraviolet."
but there not just a guitar its a bass
Did he say that the frets are made of lead?...
Cool machine for the frets
omg wow
Bbb.b.b.b.. But that's not how hollow bodied electrics are made
Some guitars don't have frets at all.
hollow bodies sound fuckin epic
This topic deserves to be made again. The quality of the video is terrible by modern standards. And I think the process has also changed since even cheap guitars are now pretty good as well.
why not glue the wood first and then dry it? that way it wont be taking months for it to dry
hey does anyone know where to get 2 part acrylic lacquer. I can find poly, and nitrocellulose but there is an acrylic finish that dries in 2 hours and i can't seem to find it. by the way that blue guitar in the beginning of the clip has no finger inlays except one.
emgs sound great. its not the pickups that ibanez is getting wrong. but what range? high end ibanez are very nice. but they equate to a mid range schecter. also, back in the 80s, other great brands we know today didnt have a standing at the time. gibson was the safe way to go. but put humbuckers in a fender and it sounds almost the same through the same amp. which was always marshall. lastly, what do you consider flashy? to me that would be a dean razorback or a bc rich warlock
@JTNickelz Oh, that's true...you're right! :) Thank's!
godin's guitars sounds pretty good
only when it has frets ; )
That's great but Ibanaz is used for metal music I would say and that great to have a guitar for every style, but it's better to have a instrument made for one type of music that the user can play, that's just my opinion, cause two of my favorite metal guitarist use Ibanaz and I think it sounds really great.
i have a Godin Freeway Classic and a Seagull M-6 cedar acoustic...they are high-quality, great-sounding, affordable guitars...my Freeway classic has a Start sound for about 400 bucks!
:D Godin! I love my Godins! I have two!
I posted the vid to my band to show what the cables look like going into a Godin guitar. It's kinda like an umbilical cord than just your normal cable.
@metachozoite I understand where you're going with this, but you're not entirely correct. Some guitars are absolutely brilliant - high end pickups, resilient wood, flawless neck shape, etc. You also have to know how to maintain its value and how well it can be played. A buzzing string isn't always the guitarist's fault. It can be a manufacturing error (uneven fretting, faulty bridge, etc). While it's true that you need to play well to sound good, you also need to have a feasible instrument.
@JTNickelz I happen to be the proud owner of an Ibanez Ventura electric/acoustic with a bottom cutaway and it is one of the best guitars I've ever owned. I have an Epiphone Les Paul and currently have my eye on 3 Gibson Les Pauls. I have and probably never will modify them other than a string change or a good disassemble-clean-reassemble. I hope that you can understand.