michaelw Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 A visit to the old EMI Hayes plant now run by ex-EMI employees as The Vinyl Factory. http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/audioslideshow/2010/jun/29/work-and-careers-heritage
Papa Hemi Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 QAlso visited the furniture maker and the weaver - love it all, particularly the very proper voice of the reporter. Thanks!
Guest Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Didn't notice the tradesmans' crack LOL Furniture maker was good. Those dovetails are amazing. Ditto the master thatcher. Good to see quality craftsmanship surviving.
a poindexter Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 thanks for that mr w . i also enjoyed the printing and the hedge laying ones , great to see old trades still going!
T110 Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 michael w;127361 wrote: Didn't notice the tradesmans' crack LOL Furniture maker was good. Those dovetails are amazing. Ditto the master thatcher. Good to see quality craftsmanship surviving. My 3 yr old daughter calls it a Builders Crack:D:D
kaka Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 The printing one is excellent - thanks very much Are newer LP pressing plants more automated than that, or is there always a lot of manual attention to the stampers between runs?
nixon76 Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 If I had loadsamoney I'd get all my furniture bespoke. There is something very satisfying in owning something that someone with real skill has lavished with joy and pride. Same goes for HiFi gear I guess.
Shane Hanify Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Thanks for sharing MW, appreciated. Ah. Handbuilt objects nixon. If only. Cheers, Shane.
got tinnitus Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 HiFi News recently did a nice article on the same.
NeilNZ Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 I have in fact just ordered a pocket knife from the guy who features in one of those... Bespoke is the way to go for everything if you can.
Guest Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 Wow less than £20 for most of those handmade knives. Thanks T110; I temporarily forgot the exact term.
NeilNZ Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 Exactly! Thats why I had to have one... true handmade crafted items are becoming rare, and those with the skill and knowledge to build things aren't getting any younger... I envy the calligrapher beyond words! Even the Letterpress typesetting!!
gortnipper Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 And they use a Garrard 401 to test the wares.... :-)
Nak-Mad Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 gortnipper;127456 wrote: And they use a Garrard 401 to test the wares.... :-) In a handcrafted plinth??
Epoximan Posted July 15, 2010 Posted July 15, 2010 Hi, I worked at the EMI factory in Lower Hutt in 1976-79 operating the record presses. The system was even more hands on than in the video. We had to stuff the label on the two die's and place the plastic on the Shell (Tape ->Acetate->Master ->Mother -> Shell -> Record),take it out and place on cutter, then bag it. Repeated every 29.6 seconds. Could manage just over 7,000 records in a week @ 60 hr/week. We got a weekly $$ bonus for every record over 4,000. A shell was good for about 4,000 pressings. Classical pressings (Deram) were from new plastic (biscuit) whilst the likes of Solid gold hits were from 50:50 new:recycled. Recycled biscuit was reground factory cuttings and records returned due to faulty pressings or overstocked. Had a mate in the EMI cassette division as well. Also a mate out at Polyram in Lyall Bay at the same time and they were much more mechanised, but had far more rejects. I think the Lower Hutt plant had a pres sold to a local and it was run recently maybe 5 yr ago
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