PCNC Success Stories
In his home machine shop in the mountains of New Mexico, Tormach PCNC 1100 owner Mike Sherick has many projects. From custom musical instruments to personal aircraft and astro-photography, Sherick is currently building a 24” remote control (RC) telescope for his personal observatory.
Terry Mayhugh of Round Rock, Texas used his Tormach PCNC 1100 to build a Jerry Howell 4 cylinder twin cam 4-stroke engine—a project two years and approximately 3000 hours in the making.
Engineers at Desert Star Systems in California used a PCNC 1100 with ATC and 4th Axis to machine molds for the flipper tag project—a solar-powered radio tag worn on the flippers of sea otters. Flipper tags are used by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to monitor the behavior of sea otters and collect data about the animals’ behavior.
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When Steve Woods is not running his 75-employee Dallas-based catalog photography company, Steven Michael Studios, he is in the shop making his own custom knives, sold through his second business, Rock River Iron, LLC (www.rockriveriron.com).
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Steve Hulett has been making his own knives for 15 years, which he sells in his own retail craft shop Seldom Seen Knives (seldomseenknives.com), located a few blocks from Yellowstone National Park. “I only have so much time because I also have to run the store,” says Hulett. “I have been probably making 40 to 50 knives a year.”
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Randy Williams of Arlington, Washington is by no means a novice when it comes to CNC. A CNC machinist for the past thirty years, he’s worked many industrial-grade machines. Recently he turned his knife-making hobby into a fulltime job. “The way I design knives is the CNC way – I never did do this with belt sanders and drill presses. I was never a hand-craftsman. All my designs came from the computer.”
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Craig Sword founded MIL-TAC Knives and Tools (www.mil-tac.com) in Wylie, Texas in 2005. MIL-TAC focuses on manufacturing affordable knives and tools for the harsh environments that the military and law enforcement personnel face on a daily basis.
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