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Author:  ballbanjos [ Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Totally and completely off topic but cool...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flC7FVnPhnQ

Japanese Shovel Makers. I love seeing how industrial processes work, especially when it's only semi-automated. Seems to me that a lot of this video is not at all unlike guitar building processes, but as I say totally off topic but cool just the same.

Dave

Author:  Pat Foster [ Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:06 pm ]
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That was interesting, seeing the machinery used. Wouldn't OSHA have a heyday in that factory. But Japanese values and culture probably don't make an organization like that necessary.

The final product looks a little like Japanese chisels.

Author:  Darrel Friesen [ Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:37 am ]
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Pretty cool. I've seen a few shovel guitars out there so it's applicable!

Author:  Ken Nagy [ Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:27 am ]
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I worked in a forging shop for 20 years. There is really no comparison to a punch press, and 1,000 to 4,000 ton forging presses. But the ovens and all that stuff is similar. Luckily, I was in the tool room, and not on the floor. Dozens of those things make a lot of racket. Yes. Sometimes your dial indicator would jump with the cycles!

Notice that they do seem to have quality control at every station. Sometimes every part.

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