A designer for The North Face saw hat blocks I made a few months ago and asked if one could be done for a hood. The hood block will be machined in two halves, glued together and finished.  The piece begins as a stack of wood glued together. What will be the inside of one half is faced and...

Steel strikes for magnetic...

I’ve been spending most of my time on a project covered by non-disclosure agreement. Here is an old picture of some laser cut wood to keep something fresh on the...

I bought this Spyderco Mule Knife blank with the intention of making some custom scales for it. I probed the entire perimeter of the knife in case I want to make a machined sheath or a positive for forming a Kydex sheath. I wrote a fairly crude probing routine and let it run while I did some...

7075 aluminum.

Triple clamps for Frank Giannini (http://www.gianniniracing.com/). I like the contrast of the mill finish and the machined...

I bought this probe head and fitted it to the machine a couple months ago. I finally had a chance to get it dialed in and start using it. The probe tip is set on to the spindle centerline. The small divisions on the indicator are 0.0005″. This is acceptable for now. I may try to get it...

360 Brass.

Machined aluminum plate for FDNY Radio Console. A variety of switches, knobs, speakrs, phone handsets, and LEDs get mounted to this...

Some custom machined brass hardware to attach the legs of a table. The rounded face matches the rounded wood surface of the...

3D Milling of a form for felt hat making. These nine hats are the forms for one style in nine...

We were asked to mount the provided DC gear motor onto the shaft that would normally carry the handle that opens the coffee maker. After measuring we machined a steel part to adapt the shaft of the gear motor to the fiber reinforced plastic knob on the coffee maker shaft. A simple aluminum...

We made these planters almost a year ago. The copper material was left untreated and this nice patina is the result. There are a variety of other options including protecting the bright copper finish and chemically altering and / or accelerating the aging...

Rush foundry pattern for a repeat client. .025″ final step down with a square end cutter. We didn’t have any appropriate ball end cutters on hand and the client was in a rush so this will be hand finished by the...

I wanted to add the capability to probe to our CNC milling machine. I looked at the 3D taster style indicator which I have used on a manual machine but for less money I thought I could set up an electronic probe that would find edges and surfaces but could also easily locate hole centers and...

We just finished up these 3 pairs of rear sets for a race team. I made one test piece that turned out to be extra. I put it back on the mill and pocketed it out to see what kind of weight I could take off. 121 vs 196 grams. Solidworks is fairly accurate predicting the weight of these parts...

Laser cut steel...

A few pictures of some machine work. The first two are parts for a shop built CNC lathe I completed a couple years ago. The last is a ball turned using the CNC...

This is a couple years old but I found these pictures on my computer and thought people might be...

I came across some photos of the Ducati tank in...