A Tour of StewMac Headquarters!
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Chris & Matt give a tour of the StewMac headquarters in Athens, Ohio.
Impressed with the place.
Very organized well stocked with tools and power and lighting everywhere,, stew mac rocks!!
Fell asleep watching this video and then dreamed I was also doing a tour of the factory 🤣🤣
Nice look at Stew Mac. I've been very happy with all the fret work/measurement tools I've purchased. Great company to work with!
You did a real service for StewMac doing this visit. I had no idea...
Every time Chris says "super cool", take a drink
I think everyone in this video is on edibles.
Haha a 24 pack consumed 😮
And now I am hammered
Great tour!! Stew Mac is always the 1st stop for parts!!!
Really good to see behind the scenes here and understand where all the stuff I buy from StewMac comes form and how its made. Gives such perspective on the business and people that work there. Kudos.
I didn’t expect that , I now like stewmac more than I did. Looks like a great place
Well I do belive you are the first to do a Stewmac tour. Thanks
Very cool! I'll definitely use them more!
Great tour... Thank you!
Thanks for putting a face on this company and the catalog. I thoroughly enjoyed the tour. It looks entirely different from what I had imagined it to be like. I really feel like I know the place now.
This channel is quickly growing to becoming one of my favorites! The content is continuously great.
We sure appreciate it!
thanks YT for lead me here. I was just zapping on rainy thursday here in south america.
What a great video. I had no idea stewmac was actually a "working shop"...very cool
i love this place!
How awesome to see this. Seems like a nice company and great folks.Thanks for doing this vid!
This is SO cool man!! I had no idea! I built my first acoustic back in the 1900's. I used Stew Mac for almost everything then. So amazing to see this now that I have gotten back into this hobby and still using them today. Thanks for the walk through!
I still have my Stew Mac Banjo Tubaphone kit banjo from about 1989-90 solid banjo.
This is awesome! I had no idea this was in Ohio. Makes me want to buy parts, tools and such from them even more. Love it.
If I lived near Athens, I would work at StewMac, what a cool, old building!
Thank you. Good to see where my stuff comes from.
I was hoping StewMac was a cool place to work and from what I can see it looks like Heaven.
I've been a customer of stewmac since the mid 90's, I enjoyed this!
You guys have been killing it with the best guitar content I've ever seen! The rapid growth of this channel is well deserved, and it will continue to skyrocket. Awesome job, guys!
Agreed. This and twoford are my faves.
@@noamhemsky Same. I'd love for Ted to put out more content, but I understand that he's pretty busy with actual guitar work. So I'm grateful for what we do get from him.
Great materials at Stewmac. I've bought a lot of tonewood from those folks.
Your comment about Stewmac enabling guitar builders hit the mark! I built about ten guitars back in the early 70s shortly after Irving Sloan's book was published. The only luthier wood supply at the time was H.L. Wild in NYC. They carried tone wood and banding/purfling and big blocks for necks. They had a few specialized tools but not a whole lot. Buliding guitars in those days meant biulding a lot of very basic tools as well.
Great Tour!
Very impressive operation. I am looking forward to another season of building guitars.
The Vectrex is a nice touch.
Thanks for sharing the love my brother 🙏 Love Stewmac ❤
One of the old McBee buildings in my native Athens, Ohio, right next door to Miller's Chicken! You did get some gizzards there, didn't you? I grew up 3 blocks from W. State and Shafer, and remember when Stew Mac occupied only a small corner of this building, and before they moved in here. I ran a WWII Army surplus turret lathe at a shop in Nelsonville, that turned pieces for their banjo kits in the early '80's.
We ate the crap out of some Millers! So good. How cool is that!
@@DriftwoodGuitars Right on! That is the former McBee #2 building, and it encompassed the location of Miller's also. McBee's was the largest employer in the county for years, and their claim to fame was a system on paper for freight billing and tracking, applied to railroads. Later absorbed by Royal Typewriter, then Litton Corp. I sure miss Athens!
Been shopping with StewMac from the other side of the globe for many years, in fact they were still in Bozeman and just starting to expand from selling only Banjo and Drum parts over to include guitar parts and a few luthiery related tools when I first sent off for one of their printed catalogues (to be posted to me, no internet in those days!). Finally great to see inside the shop and see where my orders first start out from. Thanks for videoing this tour and putting it up and I smiled at your shipping comment, I've often said my order gets here (South Island, New Zealand) quicker from Stewmac than it takes to get something down from the North Island!
Awesome tour guys. I always wondered what the StewMac place is like behind the scenes. They deliver such great products. Thanks for sharing!
What a beautiful place i love the 3rd floor.i wish i could work there
Man, I want to work there! What a cool place!
I just discovered your channel today and truly appreciate the videos you do. The resource you become when you are detailed and passionate is understated.
I worked in picking packing for stew mac while in college for over a year. Its a really great company that does an amazing amount of business.
Exceptional facility tour … the only thing missing was Dan Erlewine … 😎
Meant to tell you before, Chris. Thank you for your Air Force service. Nice to see where a lot of my money went as I procured Stew Mac tools and parts over the years. Like you, I had no idea of the size and scope.
Exactly! Wow 😮
I appreciate this video. Could be wrong but looks like this would be
A great place to work if I were younger. So many companies now
Days do not treat their employees well. I have worked for companies
that did treat their employees well
as an asset not a liability and in
return the employees gave back so
much to the company in service
and dedication. Everyone is a winner
In this environment. Most employees would rather be shown appreciation instead of a raise. Hats off Stewart
McDonald!
You pay a premium for StewMac stuff, but the quality is typically top-notch, and you're supporting in-house manufacturing and jobs in the USA. Their how-to videos on TH-cam with Dan Erlewine and crew are also fantastic, and would be worth paying for on their own. They also tend to have well-designed tools of their own invention that you can't find elsewhere.
Cool tour! StewMac is always quality. I have bought cheaper tools, but never better.
I primarily play electric, and found your channel through Rhett Shull’s channel. Looking forward to more electric content. That neck joint, and D Tube tweaks are really, really cool.
Would love to see more body shapes, and/or a Hollowbody?
Wow. This was a great walk through. I knew they were a big company but I had no idea it would be light that. And the atmosphere seemed to be absolutly amazing. Seems like a great place to work. Great video guys. :)
StewMac tools are pricey, but you get what you pay for, they’re worth it!
Nice tour! Thanks!
This set's the bar for a guitar workshop, great video 👍
Yeah folks, I worked at Waverly for 21 months. Eric came into the shop one morning and broke the news that we were going to be out of a job, after we packed up the shop to be shipped to Athens. Flatiron Mandolins in Montana pulled the same situation on us in '94 to be shipped to Nashville. Why do they treat Montana like we are some sort of f***cked up third world state -- we are not, we have just as much manufacturing talent and dedication as anywhere. Stewart and Bill MacDonald had been retired for some time and would come into our shop at Waverly to hang out and shoot the breeze as we worked. Two of the nicest old gents one could ever hope to meet. Waverly being shipped to Athens so StewMac could have "better control in house". What a crock -- we never missed a dead line, never had to work overtime and always, ALWAYS, made a product that was tip top quality. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had -- and I've had some damn good jobs, but in the end, always got kicked in the you know where. Bob Shorthill
Stewmac items are pricey but they stand behind the products. I have bought and built several ukulele kits from them. I am now building a 12 fret 000 rosewood guitar kit. When I had a problem with a couple of the materials in the kits they sent replacement parts. Excellent customer service from a quality company. Nice review of the company.
Fascinating!
cool tour , you guys are doing it right. btw ive been watching your channel for a long time and yall are putting out the best video's on youtube . P.S. matt is a great addition too. thanks guys
Pretty cool tour!
I bet y'all were like kids at a candy factory...
Nice to see where I send all my money!
Great Video Guys.
I met the R and D guys for Stew Mac about 2 years ago at the "Chicken Coup". I held a training seminar for them on GTAW (tig welding) of their truss rods at our Hocking College Welding Lob in Logan Ohio. Delivered 16 hours of instruction. We cover tig welding carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum. Then focused on the technique of tig welding the ends of the truss rods. Great bunch of guys. They were all very talented. Lots of fun
What a cool place. Good video guys!
I like how old school the building looks.
This is why I love shopping for goodies at StewMac they are a great company. As a life long musician and now expanding into luthier work I've learned so much from StewMac, and the legend Dan Erlewine. I've even begun learning a lot from Chris and his techniques (though I've not ventured into acoustic guitar building yet), and honestly it makes guitar building more enjoyable than any other "job." It's a passion!
All That’s Left To Do is Everything. That could well be the name of my next album.
I would like that complete toolbox full of tools. That looked great!!❤❤❤
Imagine how much it costs to heat that space in Winter!! Crazy.
WOW! I really thought most parts, were cheap China made stuff. This really gives me a new look at StewMac.
25:21 I want that workstation! Great job guys!
Thanks so much!
Just watched the "Aerosol Guitar Finiching" series...
I wish we had the InterWeb back when I did my first finishes on guitars and bikes. What a great series. Informative end entertaining. Great job guys! You kept me watching the whole series.
Cool tour. I didn't realize they are that big.
That's the first time I've seen where all my $$ has been going over the years! LOL Very nice! I'm in W-NY and things really do get here fast!! Have you guys thought about visiting Warmoth? I buy necks there from the overstock if I get real busy with electric guitar orders. It would be cool to see that also!! Thanks!! 8) --gary
Maker’s Nerd-o-rama! Love it!
A luthier's version on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Thank you. Impressive.
thats an awesome setup..
That's awesome
Great tour, I have bought a lot from them.
nice tour!
Super cool! 😉
Great post! The StewMac headquarters is really nice. I always thought it'd just be an old warehouse stacked with guitar stuff, but it looks like the Apple or Google headquarters in Silicon Valley! Thanks for sharing! :)
Sheetmetal (Airframe Repair Technician? ) I knew there was a reason I liked you!
Yeah man! I as a sheet metal tech for 8 years.
Super cool video.
Curious how many people they employ in total. Any idea?
I was told around 250
Wow, I would have guessed
Move to Ohio and let me intern/apprentice. :) Really cool seeing StewMac though, as I pretty much buy all my tech stuff from them. Their bone nuts make so many jobs easy/quick.
Having you move to my state would be amazing. If you do move here hit me up.
VERY INSPIRING
Great content guys! Loved it. Cheers
I never knew that Stewmac actually makes so much of what they sell.That's interesting.
So THAT’s why a small piece of aluminum costs $300.
Very cool indeed, "but," just slow down a little on the panning with camera, and maybe a second longer when you pull up to something! Love your channel.
Awesome!
Amazing...
And there was me thinking StewMac was a sort of mom and pop deal 😂
He said this is like the StewMac catalog on a wall. I would love to see a StewMac catalog in print. To just sit down and flip through the pages. It would be impossible to publish one, “in this day and age”. There are just so many parts on those shelves. I found a PDF from like 2016
Cool vid! I thought Stew Mac was just a shop.
Stupid me, I honestly didn't realise they did acoustics as well.
Who spotted the Vectrex?? Takes me back to '86
Great video. Nice to see where my money's going to. Really.
Wear hearing protection please…I have 24/7 tinnitus and its a curse. Don’t want to have others do the same mistakes.
Bet doing inventory is a real dream,,,lol
What a guitar music intro? I want cheap Casio🥸
LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
wow!!!!
"that's so cool"