Where I used to work...

[David Schwab]

Even though my work space is organized to my own eye, my products are meticulous and thats what counts.....

Your workspace looks neater than mine!

Hey, I spot a G5 in that picture!

[soundmasterg]

Possum, I hope that nut appears sometime before I go to use those pickups again! Its my own fault for taking them apart the way I did. Oh well, I have extra pickups I can steal a nut from.

[Possum]

nuts and G5

Dave man you got a good eye, yes its a G5 180ghz dual, nice machine though the power supply blew up after about 5 months of owning it. Reminds me I gotta get some Apple Care here shortly. I make my living on Macs and the G5 was my first foray into OSX, still my main machine for doing prepress work is an old G4 OS9 machine. There's still a ton of stuff on that machine that will never run right on OSX.

Greg I'll probably find that nut when we move in about 15 years if I'm still alive then, I'll keep an eye out for it but I really think the "vortex" sucked it up....I did find .85 cents in change though

[David Schwab]

Dave man you got a good eye, yes its a G5 180ghz dual, nice machine though the power supply blew up after about 5 months of owning it. Reminds me I gotta get some Apple Care here shortly. I make my living on Macs and the G5 was my first foray into OSX, still my main machine for doing prepress work is an old G4 OS9 machine. There's still a ton of stuff on that machine that will never run right on OSX.

I'm typing this on a dual 2.7 GHz G5... not my own however! Can't mistake that cheese grater case! Of course it could have been a MacPro also.

I'm in prepress also. At home I have a G4/466 Digital Audio, upgraded to 1GHz. I've been running OS X since version 1.0... I stayed away from the beta. It was rough in the beginning though... no printer drivers, couldn't scan, no drivers for my M-Audio sound card. And of course I had to boot back into OS 9 to make music.

I don't even have OS 9 on my home machine any more... but I have to run the Rampage RIP client in Classic on this G5.

OS X can be a pain when it comes to fonts. I'm using Suitcase Fusion, and I remove FontBook entirely. The key is having Suitcase manage the OS X fonts, and shut most of them off except for the ones the system needs, like Lucida Grand, Helvetica (which can a real nuisance when the font caches get corrupt), etc.

My father-in-law just got a MacBook Pro... man that thing is fast!

Time for a new machine I think...

[In The Light]

Wolfe, you seem like one of the most down to earth and sincere pickup makers out there. I wish you continued success. You name dominates most guitar forums these days!

Please remember to let me know when I can watch one of your PAF builds. I'm not a pickup maker - I've never even wound a single pickup. I'm just very interested in the art as it relates to the tone I get coming out of my speakers...

Take care,

-Michael

[WolfeMacleod]

Wolfe, you seem like one of the most down to earth and sincere pickup makers out there. I wish you continued success. You name dominates most guitar forums these days!

Please remember to let me know when I can watch one of your PAF builds. I'm not a pickup maker - I've never even wound a single pickup. I'm just very interested in the art as it relates to the tone I get coming out of my speakers...

Take care,

-Michael

Mike, I think it's just because I'm just a dude with a job I love. I've known enough peopel with bighead syndrom or cranialanal-inversion syndrome, and it just doesn't suit me. I can be rather harsh at time though, but try very hard not to be. Although...I guess my head does swell a bit sometimes.
I've noticed the forums are talking an awful lot these days. Nasty rumors, I tell ya!

If you are the same guy who mentioned the websam in email, I'll let you know when it's up and running again. Gotta get a laptop to put down int he shop, and get the shop cleaned up first. It's terrible, but not as bad as the pics I posted here.

[kevinT]

....or cranialanal-inversion syndrome,

Can you be a nice guy and have cranialanal-inversion syndrome?......I think that is me .

[In The Light]

Mike, I think it's just because I'm just a dude with a job I love. I've known enough peopel with bighead syndrom or cranialanal-inversion syndrome, and it just doesn't suit me. I can be rather harsh at time though, but try very hard not to be. Although...I guess my head does swell a bit sometimes.
I've noticed the forums are talking an awful lot these days. Nasty rumors, I tell ya!

If you are the same guy who mentioned the websam in email, I'll let you know when it's up and running again. Gotta get a laptop to put down int he shop, and get the shop cleaned up first. It's terrible, but not as bad as the pics I posted here.

I know - you are so lucky! I sincerely admire your job and status in the industry. I had to close our guestbook at my website, because of Spam - Spammers are the LOWEST form of life - below slugs.

Please Please e-mail me when ready, Wolfe - inthelightband@hotmail.com

Until then, continued success...

-Michael

[Possum]

Macs...

Dave, I'm a graphic designer and have been using Macs since the Mac Plus, before that an Amiga, and of course before that the one Walmart was selling can't even remember its name. I resisted OSX until this year, I fucking hated Steve Jobs for pulling the rug out from under designers with the upgrade that would have cost me a couple thousand dollars in program upgrades if I had jumped on the bandwagon at release. OS9 was a professional OS and OSX turned the Mac more into an entertainment box, but I do love it and do a fair amount of photoshop work on it since it doesn't crash. But yes fonts on OSX are a nightmare, I have FontAgent and it can't use fonts in Flash and other problems with it. I do all my prepress work on the OS9 machine a G4, its a bit slow and crashes but no font problems and a calibrated CRT for color management. I do web work on the G5.
I have my old portfolio I archived hidden on my pickup site for yuks now and then, it dates from right when the big internet biz crash happened and we lost all our clients in the space of a couple months. Went from making $8,000 a month to almost zero :-) You can find some work here and there I did for EMG in the mix, some work is my wife's, some of it looks dated and not so great now but some stood the test of time:
http://www.sdpickups.com/web/

[Possum]

ps....

on the portfolio site there is a very tiny "next" link on the first listing of each category over on the left side of the page, this site literally was never finished due to the biz crash so there are holes that were never filled, but a ton of stuff to look at....enjoy...

[Possum]

Wolfe's friend

Wolfe might recognize this one:
http://www.sdpickups.com/web/inside/...rint_CDs5.html

[Possum]

OK I'll shut up now.....

Wolfe you might relate to my old metalworking and stone cutting skills:
http://www.sdpickups.com/web/inside/...ebsites10.html

Sorry, I haven't looked at this site in a long time, nostalgic this morning......

[David Schwab]

I have my old portfolio I archived hidden on my pickup site for yuks now and then, it dates from right when the big internet biz crash happened and we lost all our clients in the space of a couple months. Went from making $8,000 a month to almost zero :-) You can find some work here and there I did for EMG in the mix, some work is my wife's, some of it looks dated and not so great now but some stood the test of time:
http://www.sdpickups.com/web/

I had that EMG catalog! You do very nice work Dave.

[David Schwab]

Dave, I'm a graphic designer and have been using Macs since the Mac Plus...

I got started on Macs right when System 7.5 was introduced.

Here's my little brood. I only have one Mac Plus and a Mac Portable now... I got rid of the rest. I still have my PowerComputing PowerCenter clone though (not shown). Just for historical value.

(that's a 512, 2 Pluses, a PowerMac 6100, 2 Mac II CX's and 2 FX's... I only bought the 6100 new, and a friend gave me the CX's and FX's). And to think the FX was $10,000 new! "Wicked fast" at 40 MHz!

[Possum]

vintage Macs....

Wow, thats quite a stash! The only thing wife and I have left is a 9500 dual and an 8500, the first of the AV machines. Gathering dust of course.

That page on the EMG catalog I designed the graphics on that guitar, we did 8x10 transparency photo shoot, that was an education in lighting for sure. That guitar looked great in print but in real life was rather dull and the luthier did kind of a hack job on it. I got rid of it, somewhere its still out there, I never liked that guitar much, nor EMG pickups :-)