STEVE MCCREARY: You can see it's Honduran Mahogany and we've got wood that's some from Peru, mostly from Central America. There's a different weight, density in the two same species that we're able to source different woods for different weights that we're using to [INDISCERNIBLE] for electric guitar bodies or for flat-top bodies so it's kind of it's all -- Even with the electric guitars, everything goes back to the wood.

We started electrics just a couple of years ago, and we've been doing flat-tops for 35 years and we thought, "Well, we've got a good woodshop and some talented guys so electric guitars are just a matter of, you know, making a piece of-- a body and sticking some good pickups in it," but we found out really quickly that you actually have to have the right wood too, so we spent a lot of energy sourcing the right woods and right weights and densities.

You just got to walk in there and just kind of do the whole thing. It is kind of cool. A '40s Ford, and we do our CAD work in here and all the design work for all our parts and fixtures. And this is our mill. A lot of standard woodworking tools, planers, sanders. We got a kiln over here. We've got joiners, band saws, table saws, a variety of woodworking tools. We have a CNC machine for making parts.

As you can see, we'll take a chunk of the mahogany we saw in the warehouse and just trace out the small tip and make a neck plank for it. You can see the Sharpie marks on here that we did when we traced it out. And then, we can go to one of our machines and start putting surface on them that we can later carve into our necks.

The surfaces will enable us to set them up on a fixture for doing our rough shaping, and I'm going through it as fast with it as we can, so this is not a gold Rolex. This is my backstage pass. Then we're starting to carve on the back with one of our [INDISCERNIBLE] one of our 290's.

[LUTHIER CARVING OUT A 290 ELECTRIC GUITAR BODY VIA MACHINE]

That's for one of our it's called the 290 model. Our shop is on Highway 290 so this is named after that. The model is named after the highway. [SOUNDS LIKE] For that question, there's the side benders for the flat-tops, a variety of cutaway benders. [INAUDIBLE] for the shop, obviously. A little gang saw for making our curfing for the flat-top guitars.