Wiardgroup

> What are the chances that Grant will be showing off some of 
his
> beautiful blue boxes in Anaheim next week?

Wiard does not need any more attention. What Wiard needs is 
customers who will pay a lot of cash in advance and wait as long 
as it takes to get their modules. You will not find that at NAMM, so 
a trip there is a waste of corporate funds.

That may seem like an assinine comment, but it is literally true. 
Our culture is based on such rapid gratification of every impulse, 
that the number of persons with the patience for handcrafted 
items dwindles every day.

It is only very recently that such rapid access to every type of item 
has become the norm. And now it is expected and any delay is 
bitterly resented. I am the same way, I pay for expedited shipping 
from Amazon because I want it NOW!!!!!

It takes all my courage to tell people "You have to wait while it is 
built". Most people just say "foget it" at that point, but lucky for 
Wiard, there still are those with the patience of maturity.

No one in the electronics industry remembers how to do these 
processes or even what analog electronics looks like. If you 
showed them a Wiard module and asked them to mass produce 
them, they would just roll on the floor and laugh! You would get 
quotes of $1000 per module, IF they would even try.

So the handcrafted thing is not A choice but the only choice. I 
hate making people wait for their orders, but there is simply no 
other possible method. Things like NAMM are irrelevent when 
demand will always exceed the time available for production. Not 
by choice, but because the electronics industry itself has 
forgotten it former methods.