Epiphone Factory tour

Actually, Wikipedia on shoe sizes is an interesting read. What a mess! And America (sorry) is the worst, with two different sizing schemes currently in use.
 
This may be confusing it's been years but as a Machinist grinding automotive crankshafts they were were all ground to standard in thousands worldwide
Same with CNC cut files in the US and the CNC machines in the China factory sure look US made to my eyes. We had Metric conversion charts but they would add up to standard.

I wounder if my new car is Metric. It was a gift I would never have picked out this Aston Martin DB-11 V-12 twin turbo 8 speed.

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67plexi said:
my new car. It was a gift I would never have picked out this Aston Martin DB-11 V-12 twin turbo 8 speed.
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Are you serious? Over $400K on the road :-(

Web quote, "The V8-powered DB11 is available to order in Australia from $368,000 before on-road costs, some $27,000 less than the V12."
 
DonP said:
Actually, Wikipedia on shoe sizes is an interesting read. What a mess! And America (sorry) is the worst, with two different sizing schemes currently in use.
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Yep we have UK, US & Euro in our faces all of the time. I've given up, I find the Euro system is consistent and ask for or order online in Euro exclusively.
Away from shoes I'm a mess, I think metric for everything EXCEPT for how tall people are and measurements from 1" and under, I know what a 0.001" is.
 
I'm sure the factory in that original video handles higher end guitars. A special, for example, would see much less hands on. That's why they're cheap.
 
67plexi said:
This may be confusing it's been years but as a Machinist grinding automotive crankshafts they were were all ground to standard in thousands worldwide
Same with CNC cut files in the US and the CNC machines in the China factory sure look US made to my eyes. We had Metric conversion charts but they would add up to standard.

I wounder if my new car is Metric. It was a gift I would never have picked out this Aston Martin DB-11 V-12 twin turbo 8 speed.

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But did you know that American measurements - feet and inches - are defined in metric? The metre is the the reference by which they are defined.
 
DonP said:
But did you know that American measurements - feet and inches - are defined in metric? The metre is the the reference by which they are defined.
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I spent time as a engine machinist in the family business. For me, its easier and faster thinking in terms or thousandths of an inch...
 
Indeed. And for many practical purposes an approximate conversion between decimal inches and metric can be done in the head as the conversion factor is close to four.
 
I started having trouble with the metric system in the 70's when things started to be sold in grams instead of ounces, or fractions thereof.
I got along better with nickels, dimes, and heights of finger counts.
And the sandwich baggies were all the same size then too.

The units and conversions never bothered me in maths like calculating the surface area and volume of a parabola crossed by a line spun around an axis though.
 
Interesting video indeed. I own a 2006 Epiphone Les Paul Standard (in black) that was probably made at the same plant. It's a real great playing guitar after I did a complete set-up on it. I would rate it up there with a Gibson LP Standard for sure.


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bea said:
And i can't get into non-metric parts. Guess why?
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Because non metric parts are stupid... The whole world measures things using the metric system,
except for some die-hards in the United States. The meter is a known fraction of the circumference of
the earth we all live on. So it makes sense to measure things by it.

Our English tradition gives us a system of measurement based on body parts of some aulde English King.
(Which one I don't know, maybe Henry Vlll). The inch, that's the width of the King's thumb. The foot...
well you know. The Yard, that's the length of the King's Arrow. There's another (little used) unit of measurement,
it comes to about 127mm. It's called the Royal Shaft.

Really dumb, huh? And in our United States, the whole military is metric, The whole medical system is metric,
anything involving Science is metric... So the only holdouts that have any clout are the building trades guys and
the Society of Auto Engineers. And they had enough clout to stop us from converting, decades ago.

I learned the metric system in about 1961, in 8th grade Science class... About the same time the Les Paul guitar
was discontinued due to lack of interest, and poor sales numbers. They told me, 'You have to learn this, our country
is going to change over!" So I learned it. And I've been using it ever since. But our nation balked and refused to
make the jump. SAE guys thought it would be too expensive to switch.

So when I got a little older, and began working on cars, I had to buy two sets of wrenches and other tools.
I thought then, and I think now that this was one of the stupidest things I'd been forced to do up until that time.
I was still young of course. Now I drive a Chrysler minivan, with a Mitsubishi engine, and a Bosch starter, and the
whole thing is a hodge podge, and I never know what tool is going to fit what part. It's pretty stupid to have two
systems of screws and fasteners, almost as stupid as sending a U.S. made space craft into orbit to rendezvous with
a Russian made space craft, and have the air lock on one craft made to metric measurements and the air lock on
the other craft built and measured with royal body parts. You cain't fix stupid. And you can't breathe if all yer
air leaks out into space.

And it's really stupid to have guitar parts that won't fit interchangeably too. I'm against that. A 10mm pot shaft
ought to fit in a 10mm hole in a guitar top, with precision and without fuss.

End of rant....
 
Colonel, the USA is actually in good company in sticking to the old Imperial system. Liberia and Myanmar are still with you. And we don't use the earth as the basis of the metre any more - it creaks and shifts way too much. It is the distance travelled by light in 1/299792458 of a second.
 
I don't care if a country uses metric or the whole inch/foot thing. The USA uses the inch/foot thing and that's fine with me. Other countries use metric and that's fine with me too. What isn't fine with me is countries trying to tell each other what measuring system to use ;)

Me, I like countries using different money, different measuring systems, eating different food, driving on opposite sides of the road, talking different, dressing different, etc. It'd be a mighty boring world if the whole world did everything the same way. And, for me that includes measuring things and even those countries that drive on the wrong side of the road (which is a matter of perspective based on which country you live in - lol).

Not sure if I went off track here - if so, just ignore me ;)
 
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