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Fender Mexico Factory A Photo Tour Guitar Finishing The bodies and necks are now sealed and finished in their state of the art paint rooms. The Mexico factory only sprays Poly. With some equipment changes, they could spray Nitro, but for now Poly is all they do. This of course dispels the rumors that the US guitars are sprayed in Mexico. |
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the bodies are being sealed with a special wood sealer.
It is a wipe on type of gel and sets up very quickly.
They used to use a different type that had to be brushed on.
This is easier and works much better.
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Bodies are being sprayed in one of their special paint rooms. |
| As well as necks being finished in another. It was explained to me how the paint rooms work, but it kind of went over my head. Something along the
lines of more air is exhausted out of the room than is push
into it. It then keeps the air cleaner for the people
spraying in the room. |
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As a side
point, ever wonder how they made a SplatterCaster? I know
I did. Do they put it in on a turntable, spin it and drop paint on it like those pictures we used to make at the Fair when we were kids? |
| Yep, that’s exactly
how they do it. They first paint the body a base color, then mount the body with the pickguard on one of these turntables, spin it, and drop paint on it. They of course had charts on the wall as to what colors to use, and the basic quantities. The bodies and pickguard have to be marked so the correct sets are matched up later. The body then has a thick coat of Poly applied so you can’t feel the paint ridges, and also to protect it. The pickguard goes
off to have the electronics put on them, and they put them
back together when they finish the guitar.
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After the bodies dry, they are individually checked. |
| The bodies are light sanded, and smoothed out even further on these huge belt sanders with super fine grit belts. |  |
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The bodies are then buffed out on these huge buffers. Each person has an area of the body they buff. After they are done, the next person buffs another area of the body. |
| The bodies are now done and ready for final assembly. |  |
| Now on to final guitar assembly (Click to continue) |
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