Introducing Glasgow Analog

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Glasgow Analog! 
 
Over the past few years, Agnew Analog has been entirely overwhelmed with demand for our products and services. The demand has far exceeded all expectations and although we have kept on growing the business and significantly increasing our manufacturing capacity, it is still nowhere near enough to cover the current demand for disk recording and mastering systems. We have had to turn down a lot of work and even the work we have been taking on had very long waiting times, as many in the industry already know.
 
A couple of years ago, I came close to selling the business to a bigger corporation, hoping that they would be able to rapidly scale it up more than what I thought I would be able to do on my own steam. The sale did not go through and following that there were some discussions of setting up an additional manufacturing facility in the United States, as this is where 90% of the market is located and where 90% of our products are being exported. After long discussions of a potential new facility in Iowa, Utah, or Tennessee, these plans also fell through. In the meantime, we were constantly increasing our capacity back home. As I was beginning to lose hope of such plans ever materializing, I received a proposal from Glasgow Engineering Ltd, to license and manufacture the Agnew Analog disk recording lathes in the UK!
 
Founded by Wilson Logan in 1993, Glasgow Engineering Ltd was founded and is still located in the WWII Rolls Royce factory where the Merlin engine was produced.
 
Originally creating survey equipment for pipeline inspection, it later moved on to create CNC engraver tooling and provided precision engineering services to local businesses in Glasgow, Scotland.
 
Enquiries about embossing needles from one of their customers led to the supply of parts and services to the analog recording industry culminating in a partnership with Agnew Analog to create Glasgow Analog.
 
From now on, Glasgow Analog will be manufacturing the majority of our disk recording products in the UK and directly dealing with customers in handling sales and support. We will keep on manufacturing the Type 602 Cutter Heads in Greece for now, but this is also likely to change in the near future. We will no longer be able to directly deal with customers in the way we have done up to now. We are in discussions to appoint a distributor in the US and one in the EU who will be handling all sales of Agnew Analog products. By the end of the year, Agnew Analog will no longer be interacting with customers looking for disk recording/mastering products. We will be focusing entirely on research and development for new products and engineering solutions. Apart from analog recording technology, we are also involved in the fields of film photography, optical systems (microscopes and measurment instruments), industrial metrology, precision machine tools, off-grid energy and communication systems, and automotive technology. The overwhelming demand for disk recording and mastering equipment has made it difficult for us to keep up. This is where Glasgow Analog comes in.
 
Wilson has a degree in Chemistry, a second degree in Computer Science and as if this wasn’t enough, he also took a technical college course in machining. I happened upon his work a few years back when I saw some photos of a half-scale VMS70 lathe he had made. Having seen many attempts over the years at making lathes by professionals and hobbyists alike, this one stood out. I remember my first thought being “wait a minute, this is the work of a real machinist who seems to know what he is doing, this is very unusual”. So I contacted him to compliment him on his work and ask about his background. We stayed in contact ever since and things eventually led to where we are now. I have faith in his ability to oversee the manufacturing of our products to a very high standard of quality.
 
The Agnew Analog lathes in the photos we have recently been posting are all already sold. If you would be interested in purchasing these products, please direct all communication to Glasgow Analog. Glasgow Analog will be shipping internationally from the UK.
 
Website: https://glasgowanalog.com/
Email: info@glasgowanalog.com