Posted by Wayne Parham [ 67.66.229.193 ] on February 14, 2004 at 18:43:58:

In Reply to: How'd they do it? posted by wunhuanglo on February 14, 2004 at 16:56:10:

I don't know what specific fabrication techniques were used, but I suspect they may have been fully hand crafted in a job shop. What is cost prohibitive and impractical today was commonplace fifty years ago.

Even a table radio from those days is incredibly labor-intensive by todays standards. Point-to-point wiring was replaced by printed circuit boards and pressed steel and injection molds replaced hand-made cabinetry. The cost of labor just makes hand assembly prohibitively expensive.

In that spirit, the work of Michael Christ is incredible, isn't it?

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