I'd been meaning to go up and visit Doc and check out his new office/shop for a while. A winter Headfi meet that was being held there gave me just the right incentive so I packed up the car and headed north.
Here's the "impressions thread" from the meet. It includes a couple of pictures of where our tapes get engraved, put together and packed for shipping.
Oh yeah, and few tape decks including Doc's beautiful Nagra, my RS1500 and a new addition to Doc's collection, a Studer A80 1" (not a Sony as the caption implies!).
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/543000/seattle-meet-at-bottlehead-audio