CNC MACHINING

I have no formal training in CNC machining.

If you need some titanium turned, I will refer you to a machine shop.

However, I have spent nearly two decades using a variety of CNC equipment, from desktop mills to 4-axis panel routers, from plasma cutters to hotwire cutters.

As a technician in Industrial Design at the University of Alberta, where students and staff alike were encouraged to experiment and push boundaries, I milled nearly every substrate you can name (including a pumpkin one Halloween.)

As a technician at CNC equipment manufacturer Streamline Automation, I worked proving their equipment to prospective clients, assembling systems, prototyping new machines and writing User Manuals for the system.

Now I head up the CAD / CAM division at Architectural Cast Stone, an architectural furnishings manufacturer.

I think of myself as a problem solver. CNC machining is about solving problems: accomplishing a manufacturing task as safely and efficiently as possible. Sometimes just accomplishing the task at all is the goal. I like the challenge of machining geometry that is very difficult to machine.

Here is a sampling of the literally thousands of machining projects I have undertaken.