Hi Perseas. I have always been curious...Is GP a Greek or Bulgarian company? On your site it lists Sophia as the company address, but it states that GP products are designed in Athens and produced in both Athens and Sophia.
I recall you saying that you often travel between Sophia and Athens. Isn't that like a 10 hour drive or do you fly?
So, is the company Greek or Bulgarian?
Are GP products a Greek or Bulgarian product?
And personally, are you Greek or Bulgarian?
Ever since the break up of so many countries in Europe during the late nineties and beyond, receiving their independance, I've been so very curious and interested in the historical origins of ethnicity and country identification.
I would love to hear some of your thoughts of the geopolitical differences and diversities, and the similarities between the two countries that share a border.
Hello my friend
We started in Athens back in 2011 in the basement of George's apartment with a $500 lathe. Actually the prototype Spheroid has been made on this very lathe!
As the demand from the Greek and the German forums increased we took our designs to be made by a bigger lathe, still manual, no automation yet and we did the PAPS v1 and v2. After that we made all of our creations with CNC machining starting with the Spheroid v1 and Piccolo in our main CNC facility in Athens. Projects like the X were made in the other three facilities (two CNC facilities and a polishing/electropolishing one) in Bulgaria. This started during April 2012 due to the scarce supplies of good stainless steel, the lack of good polishers and mostly the bad quality of the imported steel (because of recession, the importers cut corners in quality), forced us to research for alternatives abroad.
As Stan said above, shipping and production cost for the quality we asked for was from very expensive to impossible.Nobody knew how to work on 316 SS or Titanium in such small size, there wasn't any past tradition. At the same time the first signs about a dark future for any business in Hellas appeared through the increasing political fiascos. We wanted to produce reasonably priced mods of very high quality with fast delivery, that was the dream. So, we moved north creating our company in Sofia, we design our products in Athens, we test the majority of them in Athens where our main CNC facility is located and we travel frequently by car to Sofia for the rest. Yeah, it 9 hours travel by car
GP Series products are Hellenic products in design and specs and partially in production. Most difficult and minuscule parts as the switches, GPin, etc, are manufactured in Hellas while engraving, polishing, shipping and some other products are manufactured in Bulgaria. All of our creations are made under our supervising in limited quantities with continuous improvements.
I am Hellene and this is the factual term, the Greece-Greek ( the old people) is a metaphoric term like the Hebrew (the people of the passage), which describes a transitory state of existence at a certain period of the historical time and usually denotes a happening or property of a certain event in time or space. After the last great cataclysm, new names were given to the native survivors, by the descendants of the newly formed tribes who had migrated at safer places and returned afterwards.
Bulgaria has a slavic alphabet based on the Hellenic one, imposed by the ecclesiastical authorities during 9th century upon all the Slavs in order to erase their collective cultural memories and the prior 49 Proto-Linear syllabographic scripts of their ancient forms of writing coming from the antediluvian common language during the Pagan Era and even earlier from the Vedic Era. I have observed a universal attempt/idiocy to convince the world population that we have no past on this planet and we came here yesterday, directly from the monkeys and everything is developed during the last 10.000 years and if it can be sold or measured by machines is valid, otherwise we
must forget about it.
As people Bulgarians are Northerners of course, and they have very few obesity problems in their population in contrast to what happens in my country and the rest of the world.
Balkans in general are passionate and inventive people with a volcanic idiosyncrasy regarding their relationships with any kind of authority and this doesn't stand well with the TPTW.
All Balkans have common roots in their traditional music. This place is a war field for centuries by man made borders. Basically, if you hear a Balkan traditional song, you recognise instantly this ancient collective soul no matter, if it comes from Albania, Yugoslavia (defunct name ...), Bulgaria, Hellas (forgotten name ... ), etc.
Three songs by 3 great female singers
Underground is a 1995 comedy-drama film about Yugoslavia directed by Emir Kusturica:
(English subtitles)
The Orphic Hymn to Dionysos (Χαίρε Νύμφη)
(English subtitles)
