We toured the Tyler Guitars factory // Rich Renken tour & interview

Visit Tyler guitars: https://www.tylerguitars.com Tyler's JTG (import line) guitars: https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=... In this video Brian and Bradford get a tour of Tyler Guitars, as well as a history lesson on rock guitar royalty from Rich Renken, General Manager of Tyler Guitars Table of contents: 00:00 - Welcome to Tyler Guitars 00:13 - Woods 02:38 - A bit on construction methods 03:49 - Origin of the shmear finish 06:38 - Jim Tyler's bench 07:37 - The 'JTG' import line from Tyler 08:12 - Dann Huff signature 10:23 - The first Tyler's and the famous players he built them for 13:49 - Tyler will never make a relic version of their guitars - this is why 14:55 - Let's look at some crazy Shmear finishes 20:05 - Bit of history on James Tyler and how he got started building guitars 27:27 - Paint booth 29:55 - Tyler's pickups 30:41 - Tyler's absolutely insane electronics