Cutting the slots in a guitar’s neck for the frets requires special tooling, and [Gord]’s contribution to his friend’s recent dive into lutherie was this lovingly engineered and c… ...

Warmoth Hombre, Strat design, 25-1/2" scale, guitar neck; Grover 502G Rotomatic Tuners; Grover 520G Bridge, ... Next, you’ll need to build a jig to clamp the two halves together for gluing.

Virtually all of the rest of the equipment is manufactured in-house by the company’s own die and jig makers and other machine designers and builders. A group of workers hand-finishes guitar bodies.