Installing Fingerboards, Frets & How to Date Your Gibson Acoustic Guitars

Installing Fingerboards, Frets & How to Date Your Gibson Acoustic Guitars | The Process S2 EP5

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Watch Season 2 Episode 5 of The Process to see how the fingerboards and frets are installed on your Gibson Acoustic guitars and find out how to date your Gibson acoustic guitar from the serial number.
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Your first impression of a guitar is heavily influenced by the feel of the neck and fretboard. In this episode of “The Process,” get an inside look at this critical step in crafting a guitar, one that inspires beautiful music that will be passed down through generations.
Every piece of fretwire on every Gibson acoustic guitar is hand-set. Each guitar’s neck is hand-sanded. From blanks to inlays and fretwire to the finished product, time-honored techniques and skill play a key role. Watch Season 2, Episode 5 of “The Process” to see the labor and care that goes into the fingerboard and fret installation. Watch as Gibson Acoustic luthiers at the Gibson Acoustic Craftory explain each process, including why we use ebony and rosewood tonewoods for acoustic guitars, how acoustic fret inlays are installed and more. Get a behind-the-scenes tour of the Gibson acoustic factory in Bozeman, MT where our guitar builders invite you to watch them hand sand necks, install side dot markers, explain what glue we use on our guitars and even show you how to identify and date what year your Gibson acoustic guitar was made from the serial number.
Gibson TV’s award-winning docuseries, “The Process,” is returning for a second season! This time we’re taking you behind the scenes at the Gibson acoustic factory for an in-depth look at the physical process of making our acoustic guitars. “The Process” explores our newly expanded acoustic factory in Bozeman, MT, featuring interviews with the talented craftspeople that hand-make these beloved Gibson Acoustic Guitars and deep dives into the art of guitar making.   
  
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Chapters:
0:00 It's never boring building a Gibson Acoustic guitar
1:33 Tonewoods used for fingerboards, frets at Gibson Acoustic Craftory - Ebony and Rosewood
2:57 How acoustic fretboard inlays and binding is installed
5:29 How Gibson Acoustic fretwire is installed by hand
7:18 Installing side dot markers on a Gibson Acoustic
8:10 Glue used and fixture process
9:04 Hand sanding Gibson Acoustic necks
9:29 How to date a Gibson Acoustic using serial numbers
10:36 Working at Gibson Acoustic
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@gibsonguitar 4 ай бұрын

▶ Shop Gibson Acoustic Guitars HERE: bit.ly/3HzqMdN ▶ have you seen the NEW Gibson Custom Murphy Lab Acoustic Guitars? bit.ly/3Ub7GlR

@monday6524 5 ай бұрын

One of the things I really like about these videos is hearing from the Gibson team. The sound like they care deeply about what they do. Rob Johns sounds like a wonderful human being.

@monday6524 11 ай бұрын

I love the detailed content and the story. In addition to the “how” guitars are built, it also shows the passion Gibson employees have. I am a life long Gibson guitar lover and have multiple. They give me great joy when played.

@kevwilliams1 6 ай бұрын

Please keep more of these videos coming it’s phenomenal to see the process 👏🏻

@gibsonguitar 6 ай бұрын

More episodes coming soon!

@TheErik249 11 ай бұрын

I just received my 6th Gibson Les Paul via UPS direct from the Gibson demo shop. The 50s and 60s Les Paul standards are beautiful. I have four 60s and two 50s models now. I am a Gibson lifetime lover. Thank you Gibson!

@f3uibeghardt522 11 ай бұрын

Why do you have 4 '60s Standards? I could understand having 2 (one as a backup), but what's the point of buying 4 of them?

@GuitarFuel 11 ай бұрын

So good! I enjoy these videos so much! Thx Gibson for another awesome piece of content 🤘🏻

@basanova3382 11 ай бұрын

Someday my dream 💭 will come to me from Bozeman Montana.

@rareform6747 11 ай бұрын

EXCELLANCE 💫

@incognitoguitars9999 11 ай бұрын

More collections please!!

@davidvandermolen1687 11 ай бұрын

The large percentage of the hands-on building of your instruments is very impressive through all your video series, versus one of your main competitors with acoustic guitars that seems virtually all manufactured by machinery!

@pascalgalipeau1796 11 ай бұрын

Super interesting. Thanks for sharing

@TheSoulsandRevive 11 ай бұрын

Nice footage! Love the look of crown and split parallel inlays. Cheers

@Twobarpsi 11 ай бұрын

Great video!

@marktucker7583 10 ай бұрын

Well done , as usual. Gibson is thriving ❤

@nycshelbygt500 8 ай бұрын

Need to bring back GOLD Fretwire....Looks so good on a Cherry Sunburst or Shade Top.

@Tonetwisters 10 ай бұрын

Really good stuff. I have a '91 J-200 that is just incredible.

@david25876 11 ай бұрын

Awesome ❤

@slpc30 9 ай бұрын

I have a 2019 g45 studio I hope to one day own a j45

@Matticus898 10 ай бұрын

when you love guitar so much, you find yourself here.....

@fckstrato 4 ай бұрын

"And the better the music, the better humanity has an existence on this earth"

@averyfilms1432 11 ай бұрын

Does Gibson use stainless steel for frets? My 2006 Flying V had been played pretty much every day and it has barely any wear

@f3uibeghardt522 11 ай бұрын

No, they don't use stainless steel frets. Stainless steel frets are a big fad right now, but if you listen to many pro guitarists (like Jeff Schroeder), they'll tell you that they have to change strings non-stop because the steel frets are so rough on them. People like them can afford to have their strings changed with such high frequency because they're pro musicians who have dedicated techs and get free strings, but it may not be a good option for a normal guitarist.

@Sekhmet6697 11 ай бұрын

3:34 “Raduis” 😅

@fablepunk 11 ай бұрын

Why dont they show how they do the fret ends nibs?😢😢😢

@danielhoskins4690 11 ай бұрын

I thought they did. A belt sander that sands the end then rotates up 45* to bevel

@christopher-miles 11 ай бұрын

it's pretty simple. it's just the binding and then you cut and shape it to size. the down side is re-fretting.

@fablepunk 11 ай бұрын

@@danielhoskins4690 they dont show how they do between the frets. How do they remove the binding between the frets.

@fablepunk 11 ай бұрын

@@christopher-miles what about between the frets?

@BBGuitars 11 ай бұрын

There's a wall of Gibsons that must have skipped QC at one of the local stores here in Melbourne. Every fretboard had either sharp fret ends, tooling marks on the board or both. Pretty disappointing, especially when the Epiphones next to them were 100%.

@chriskrueger1865 6 ай бұрын

Whaaaat? So, the Gibson acoustics don't get Plek'd???

@gibsonguitar 6 ай бұрын

They do, just later in the process

@cugir321 3 ай бұрын

Maybe someday Gibson will learn how to use their plek machine....my buddy just bought a J45 and it has terrible frets....can't capo without buzzes all over the place. I can level frets by hand and get buzz free capoing. But no!!! Not Gibson!