Fender Factory Visit - Photos

BabyFrankReborn

I'm just back from a holiday in California, and took advantage of that to visit the Fender USA Factory in Corona, which is about 25 miles east of LA.  They run informal tours on a Thursday morning, and the one I went on covered the Custom Shop (both the Master Builders and the Team Built area), and the regular USA production area, with the exception of the paint shop.   

Photos were allowed everywhere except the Master Builders area, and a selection of mine are here;

https://photos.app.goo.gl/aqn1SkoG9tAPHcPK8

DrBob

Cool pics 

paganskins

Interesting, thanks for sharing

RMJ

Wow I would LOVE to do that!

Anderz

Wov! Thanks for sharing and posting this. Really good stuff.

Lebarque

RMJ said:

Wow I would LOVE to do that!

Me too!

peaches

Is that Marauder vintage or a custom shop job do you know? 

joeyowen

I'm getting massive GAS just looking at the pics, so I can't imagine how bad it owuld be if I was there

awesome pics

Rocker

Do they give out free samples to their oversea visitors?

Titch

Nice to see that they allow photography in the plant. ( some nice shots by the way) will your next visit to the US take in the guitar museum in Chattanooga?

Strat54

BabyFrankReborn said:

Photos were allowed everywhere except the Master Builders area, and a selection of mine are here;

Yep, and we all know why that is.....lol. They famously cocked up on a prominent US Fender Forum years ago by letting a visitor take and post pics clearly showing that those 50th Anniversary Masterbuilt Strats were not MasterBUILT really at all. 

Nice pics.

gringopig

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thebreeze

Fascinating.  Looks like a fun morning. Thanks for posting.

bgmartinsbridge

I was just going to ask why no masterbuilt photos?
Special order viz etc...?? 

Neil

Great pics - everything so shiny. 

I'd like to take that tour. 

gusman2x

That John Mayer neck will now hang there forever...

Looks like ace fun. Will do that someday. Can you buy a guitar there and then if you have a meltdown?

AlexO

Going back to California in January. My wife doesn't know it yet, but this is how we will be spending Thursday morning there.

Funkfingers

Shock, horror.

Human beings, of Mexican extraction, bringing neither drugs nor gun violence to The United States. Is it remotely possible that Donald Trump was lying?

robgilmo

Titch said:

Nice to see that they allow photography in the plant. ( some nice shots by the way) will your next visit to the US take in the guitar museum in Chattanooga?

Do you get there by choo choo?