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Great new machine. I love it!
Picked this little beauty up on Ebay several weeks ago. Unfortunately, UPS damaged it. Managed to find the actual Chinese manufacturer.. there are apparently several building identical machines... and got some replacement parts. I got it for such a good deal, I was loathe to send it back to the seller, who was being very cool about it all.
This particular job is something my assembly guy has been doing for years. Tedious, slow... For this task, I've probably paid him four or five times what I paid for this machine, over the last year or two. No longer will I have to pay him to make these little leads. What you see in the little tray there would have taken him a whole day...
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"Daddy, why don't we have any christmas presents this year?"
"Because my boss bought this great new machine off eBay"
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But seriously, this frees up a ton of time for other stuff. Like actual assembly. I'm considering putting this to use making these little leads for some of my competitors who have to do it manually still. I've seen this machine as high as $1500, and up to $2000 in some place. I scored it for $500.
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See if you can get some business using that thing. Sweet rig!
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Wow Wolf, with this new machine and the wire wrapping one you seem to be building up for much higher production.
I had thought yours was a Small nitch market. Are you finding many new customers for your pickups, selling to larger Guitar makers, or what? Not trying to be too forward here, just nice to hear of a good success story. Especially with a fellow Pelican Cheers Richard Last edited by tevake; 12-11-2015 at 10:32 AM.. |
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Too cool - great seeing your little factory coming together!
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Sweet! I'm looking forward to a visit and tour one day.
Cheers! freebornguitars.com
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I started some serious development on a new pickup designed to fit in a rout that's not designed to accept it (P90 for humbucker routs) using the traditional P90 coil geometry, which no others do...they all cheat by altering coils. (change the coils, change the sound) A 50+ year old problem has finally been solved gracefully. We're putting together a Kickstarter campaign (preview, feedback appreciated) in hopes to fund the tooling because the year's been so slow. Youtube's "Doug and Pat Show" will be fitting a 3D printed beta pair this weekend, and filming a segment/review on it next week. Hoping it catches some attention. I sell a fair amount to the smaller, high end guitar builders. Used to sell a lot to Fernandez Guitars in Japan, till I fired them as a customer. No large companies like Fender or Gibson though. Mostly to players. Quote:
 COme on up, any time! Portland isn't too far!
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That's a neat machine but I have no idea what those cut leads are for. Can anyone explain or show photos?
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Not one of mine, but here you go...(from a Gibson Burstbucker) 
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