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Quotes
"Eric, the impact that you have had on this book, PRS Guitars and me personally is immeasurable. Thank you for your years of dedication, hard work, care, innovation, and patience" - Paul Reed Smith
"‘I met Eric Pritchard in 1980', says Smith, ‘and he began to teach me how to be a machinist.....Eric still does engineering for us and he was responsible for building the machinery to start the factory. And before the factory, he would create things like the 3D Duplicating Router [designed to carve body tops [and necks]] and made a joiner, a planer and a few other machines.’"
"‘I called Eric Pritchard and said I needed a tuning peg where you can just put the string in, turn the peg, and it’s locked, just like a boat’s rope-fastening cleat’, says Smith. Pritchard suggested achieving this with a cam. The original version had a ring around the peg which did the job....Those cam-lock pegs were on the first guitars I took to NAMM in 1985.’"
Dave Burrluck, The PRS Guitar Book, Balafon Book, 115J Cleveland Street, London, W1P 5PN, England.
"The [PRS guitar] bodies are carved with the 3-D tracer, one of several machines developed by Smith and his co-inventor and mentor Eric Pritchard"
Tom Wheeler, American Guitars - An Illustrated History, Harper Perennial, 10 East 53 rd Street, New York, New York 10022
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