Chrissie, newest addition
to the staff, who arrived at age 5 at St. Patrick's Day time 2010. |
Bethy's upstairs loft bag and
bellows assembly station. |
Bethy's bag sewing and shipment
packing stations. |
Leather for hide bags, belts,
bellows and elbow pads; decorative flannel bag cover material; and simulated
leather vinyl for making the budget pipe bags. |
Chrissie's doggie bone
workshop in the head. |
The new, bigger metal lathe
freshly unpacked, intended for somewhat faster prodution and for making tooling
and wood chanters. |
The drill press and metal lathe
station in the basement heavy workshop. White trays under the lathe bench
hold reamers for making drones and the prototype wood chanters. |
Where Penny-Chanters are born
in the heavy workshop. The bandsaw and belt sander do much of the forming,
while the white pigeon hole shelves behind them store cut tube and plastic
segments for different parts of chanters and drones awaiting assembly.
Tool grinder and bellows wood saw are in the foreground right, while raw
plastic and brass tube stock are against the gray wall to the right and
the tan wall at the far left. |
Varnish and gluing/clamping tables
in the heavy shop for bellows, elbow pads and both types of bags. Chanters
and drones are glued together here as well. |
Queue boards holding work orders
for sets, kits, drones and chanters. |
Finished drone parts awaiting
assembly.
Finished chanters parts ready
to ship.
|
Starting a drone part bore. |
The reed desk in need of recovery
after a busy day of finishing and shipping several chanters and sets. |
Bethy's computer desk for emails
and work order processing. |
The sailing vessel Uill Wind
plying Puget Sound. |
