Evening!
Just thought I should make a quick posting on here about everything, but it’s all pretty much business as usual. I had an absolutely manic end to 2025. I had hoped to ‘ease off’ during December, but it turned into an insane rush to get various orders out in time for the festivities. I never learn, and frankly I think I was finally suffering from ‘burn out’ just after I took the final box to the post office. The result was that I’ve actually kept the lathe turned off for most of the period between Xmas and New Year, I didn’t listen to any music at all, and… er… I started building a replica of a weird 1960s synthesizer instead. I get bored easily, you see.
So I’m slowly getting back into cutting discs. I thought I’d have a quiet start to the year, but it’s already filling up. I note that this particular bandwagon has picked up a whole load of new passengers over the past few months, probably as a result of a couple of new cutting machines coming onto the market, and some people thinking it’s an easy way to a small fortune because vinyl’s still back, back, BACK! So, that’s probably great for the consumer with more choice and stuff, but I do wonder how many average-to-awful sounding lathe cuts are going to flood the market over the next 12-18 months or so until people actually realise it’s not quite as easy as it looks. I’ve already done several ‘rescue jobs’ this year for people stung by certain other cutting outfits, and have picked up more (now regular) customers as a result. It’s nice when things work out, eventually.
Anyway, I’d like to say hello and a massive thanks to everyone I’ve made records for this year, and who’ve helped me keep the lights on and the rent paid as I enter my sixth Plastidisc year. Thanks also go to the excellent Souri over in Germany, and also to Spinner Town in the UK. If it wasn’t for these people I simply wouldn’t be doing this now, and I’d rather shut up shop than have to go ‘elsewhere’.
So, 2026. Shall we make some records? Yeah, go on…
Ben