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Yeah, that guy using the belt sander to thin the top to spec was giving my OSHA Inspector brain chills.
Interesting to see how many women were employed by Gibson back then, wonder if that’s still the case…
Probably not now. I'm sure you were allowed to pay women less then.
The guy spraying lacquer is not wearing a mask! 😷
I believe the story is that during world war 2 they used a lot of women employees while the men were off fighting, and they are the ones who built the coveted “banner” acoustics like the J-35 and J-45. Fender is famous for using women employees as well, such as Abigail Ybarra.
That's correct about Gibson employing women during the war. Here's an article about it: https://vintageguitarnerds.com/the-kalamazoo-gals-the-untold-story-of-women-who-built-gibson-guitars-during-world-war-ii/
There is also a well known book (I haven't read it yet): https://www.amazon.com/Kalamazoo-Gals-Extraordinary-Gibsons-Guitars-ebook/dp/B00JX42ODA
i noticed that too! ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
I suppose it is similar to the "Radium Girls" of watchmaking in the 1920s, who licked their brushes to a fine point while applying radium paint to the watch dials. Many ended up with jaw or digestive tract cancers and suffered painful deaths.
In a similar way, the PFAS chemical family that DuPont made to help your rain jacket repel water or to create your non-stick frying pan were often applied to farm fields via the factory process waste water. These are forever chemicals, but at the time were told to the farmers to be safe. Now those fields are unusable.
It all comes down to the fact either that "we didn't know" or chose to ignore their dangers, either due to the expensive or uncomfortable protection that would be needed. That is, until it became painfully apparent that it couldn't be ignored. I like to think there is a reason that our life expectancy has increased over the last 50-70 years since these videos and I hope it is the awareness of some of these dangers.
In a similar way, the PFAS chemical family that DuPont made to help your rain jacket repel water or to create your non-stick frying pan were often applied to farm fields via the factory process waste water. These are forever chemicals, but at the time were told to the farmers to be safe. Now those fields are unusable.
As being somewhat industry adjacent, while the the PFAS brown fields can't be used for farming anymore I've heard that they're starting to routintely plant trees now as a way to reuse the land, which is at least a faint glimmer of light at the end of the dark tunnel of "forever" chemicals as we can always use more trees.