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Woodworking Equipment
Metis has designed a wide variety of specialized woodworking equipment. The most notable are two tracers built for PRS Guitars. The first was designed and built to carve the bodies and necks of guitars. Paul Reed Smith, the founder, wanted a machine similar to one he found in an ad. After considering the production rigors, this machine was built on a surface plate and used linear and rotary ball bearings to trace in three degrees of freedom. This machine produced about 50,000 guitar bodies and about 10,000 necks. In 1987, Paul and I investigated computer controlled routers and found them to be very expensive and quite slow in three-dimensions. In fact, carving a body would take longer than done manually with the tracer. Consequently, the neck operations were split off to a special cylindrical coordinate neck carving machine. This tracer also operated with three degrees of freedom, but in this case, one axis was the neck rotation. See the pictures.
Additionally, Metis has designed and built a wide variety of specialized woodworking equipment:
- Stair building / installation
- Cabinet assembly equipment
- Gang Saws
- Computer Integrated Fixtures for Computer Controlled Machines
- Specialized Wood Cutting Systems
- Abrasive Radiusing System for Necks
- Gluing Fixtures
- Router Fixtures
- Shaper Fixtures
- Gluing Presses
- Tracer Fixtures
- Drill Fixtures
- Part Registration Systems
- Inlay Cutting Systems
- Bandsawing Fixtures and Guides
- Automatic Box Joint Saw
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.
Copyright © 2001-2004