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Music Industry
Eric Pritchard and Metis provided crucial technical assistance to Paul Reed Smith and his fledgling PRS Guitars starting when he was working in a third-floor walk up on West Street in Annapolis, MD. Metis designed and manufactured virtually all of the specialized machines and fixtures needed to manufacture world-class guitars. Eric also assisted in the design of the guitars and has a patent on the unique, self-locking string tuners.
When PRS moved from manual procedures to computer controlled machines, Pritchard consulted with PRS staff to help develop new guitar manufacturing processes and then produced fixture designs for the computer controlled machines. The fixture designs were uniquely integrated with the computer control in three ways: First, the fixtures have identification codes that are checked by the programs to insure that the proper fixture is in the machine. Second, some of the fixtures move or clamp under computer control. Last, since the guitars are wood and the fixtures are metal, the system can detect errant operation and shut down before great damage is done.
Pritchard has continued the research and development of the technology that began in the PRS guitar amplifier. Soon Pritchard Amps will begin production.
Contact
Us:
Located Just Outside of Maryland, Virginia & Pennsylvania at
290 Pritchard Lane, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411;
Telephone: 304-258-4799 Fax: 304-258-4763
Eric Pritchard and everyone at Metis respects and honors the intellectual property of our clients and potential clients. Unfortunately, this limits our ability to provide examples and information of prior experience, particularly on more recent projects.
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