Today’s adventure brought me to 510 Sycamore St, Nazareth, PA 18064. After parking and meeting some friends, we began our tour of the Martin Guitar factory.
For $5.00 who would know you would get such an in-depth tour. We explored MOST of the factory, got to play some expensive guitars in the “picking room” and get financially irresponsible in the gift shop.
Prior to our guided tour, we visited the museum which had a lot of instruments played by current and former artists. They even had their 2,500,000th guitar ever made in the Nazareth factory. It was blinged out, as the kids say, with over 400 diamonds (below).
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Martin’s 2,500,000th production guitar ever made. It’s lined with around 436 diamonds
After wandering around the museum and seeing some guitars played by likes of The Beatles, Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash and a massively diverse group of musicians scattered across the spectrum of oldies to new and playing a few showcase guitars, we engaged in our audio tour.
Our tour lasted roughly one hour and hit on virtually every check point Martin guitars go through their 2-3 month journey from concept to completion to dealer to the consumers hands.
Below are some images I took with my Fuji 50S Mark II during the tour and around the facilities. The Mexican facility for the lower-end Martins (if that even is a thing) looks just as involved as the Pennsylvanian factory.
- Mike