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Business of Machining

John Grimsmo of Grimsmo Knives and John Saunders of NYC CNC discuss their success, struggles, goals and more as machinists, business owners and entrepreneurs.
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Mar 17, 2023

TOPICS:

  • Willemin progresses from both teams!
  • Shipping mistakes led to innovation
  • Lifestyle creep
  • Bambu 3D printer
  • dedicated tools in machines

 

Mar 10, 2023

Topics:

 

  • Origin of John and John meeting in 2015
  • Saunders gave a speech: "Ways to automate a shop without spending 6 figures"
  • Youtube content!
  • Willemin!
  • swiss machines and dual channel machines
  • DIY Spectrometer and lasers
  • visit shops and bring questions
  • can we implement automated workholding?



Mar 3, 2023

Topics:

  • Willemin updates!
  • Cutting wood in Grimsmo's router to clean endmills
  • Lasers!!!  
  • Saunders had a huge win on the Horizontal
  • Cast Iron lapping plates
  • Visit to Borne and Co
Feb 24, 2023

Topics:

  • Lapping plates
  • wood blocks in the router
  • Willemin!
  • Okuma is running deep into the night
  • expensive power bills
  • Machining Cast iron
  • Material inventory
  • Sharing responsibilities
  • breaking taps
  • sacrificial wood block in the router
  • Inspecting parts and improving processes

 

Feb 17, 2023

Topics:

Feb 10, 2023

Topics:

 

  • "the world is not perfect".  Making parts to tolerance.
  • cutting foam
  • Insurance claims
  • Lasers!
  • making small parts with vacuum
  • Lapping parts to ultimate flatness
  • Willemin install at SMW

Feb 3, 2023

Topics:

  • Team meetings
  • hiring shipping staff and leading a Team
  • feedback from listeners
  • Detent ball dropper in Grimsmo's Kern works!
  • Tool load monitoring on the Okuma
  • laser engraving!
  • Saunders has the LS3655 100w laser
  • Saunders' Willemin machine arrives tomorrow!
Jan 20, 2023

Topics:

  • Distractions and losing time
  • tool life hacks on Haas machines
  • Grimsmo's router works!  
  • Grimsmo's Willemin works too!  
  • Henry Holsters visited SMW
  • Inventory and sub assemblies
  • Detent ball dropper designs
  • CAM help for Saunders
Jan 13, 2023

Topics:

  • oil failure on Okuma horizontal
  • Grimsmo's Kern got a new tool changer dampener
  • vacuum pump for CNC Router
  • all about returning products
  • process bins!
  • drilling an angled hole
  • logging information, standardizing
Jan 6, 2023

Topics:

  • Grimsmo's CNC Router
  • Saunders got a Saga pen for Christmas
  • Machining copper tips and tricks
  • process bins
Dec 30, 2022

Topics:

  • Saunders is getting a Willemin!  
  • Purchase process, options chosen, etc.
  • Machine shop insurance
  • Saunders python script for tool setup is working!
  • ChatGPT and Dall-E
Dec 23, 2022

Topics:

  • Surface grinding blades, milling fixture plates, flatness flatness flatness!
  • ISO9001 certification
  • Implementing procedures through the shop
  • Dedicate tools for dedicated parts
  • Inventory count
  • Foam
Dec 16, 2022

Topics:

 

  • New full-time employee at SMW
  • Hiring and firing
  • Grimsmo's lathe machinist taking a month vacation
  • really tough week at SMW
  • complicatons of robots
  • sharing your vision
  • Fusion 360 video
  • Growing a team, getting them to solve problems
Dec 9, 2022

Topics:

  • Saunders went to North Carolina, shop ran well without him!
  • Autodesk event
  • Grimsmo working on improving his Kern, toured a flavor factory
  • Saunders toured an egg factory
  • Tracking process flow through the shop
  • Managing your tasks
  • Crashing machines
Dec 2, 2022

Topics:

  • I love lathes
  • Planning workflow on automated CNC machines
  • Saunders updating fixtures
  • Grimsmo's router and custom foam
  • custom oil bottles for nano oil
Nov 25, 2022

Topics:

  • Grimsmo's CNC router is coming together
  • Design review meetings
  • Custom Fusion 360 tool management script!
  • Willemin coolant or oil.  
  • IMTS tooling claim
  • PNMU insert for 4140
Nov 18, 2022

Topics:

  • year in review
  • packaging, costs
  • Continuous improvement, lean manufacturing
  • Routers, Willemin, etc.
  • GoPro and audio technology
  • Selling used CNC machines
  • "Greg" buying manufacturing companies
Nov 11, 2022

Topics:

  • Saunders got 2 new Haas machines delivered for their training classes
  • Grimsmo building their CNC router
  • printing with TPU flexible filament
  • Taco Bell and Okuma crashes
  • recording quality audio
Nov 4, 2022

Topics:

  • Grimsmo's Willemin machine
  • dealing with tough conversations
  • Creating a metrology lab
  • Mill-Turn machines, Tsugami, Willemin, Mazak
  • Long term thinking
  • Reverse osmosis water systems for coolants
  • building an enclosure for Grimsmo's CNC router
Oct 28, 2022

Topics:

  • Designing a chip conveyor
  • replacing a Blum probe
  • costs to service machinery
  • stop using e-mail for internal communication
  • duplicate SKUs, Shopify

 

Oct 21, 2022

Topics

  • Saunders running his horizontal mill 18 hours a day
  • Making custom Porsche parts
  • kids in the shop
  • Grimsmo crunched the probe tip on his Speedio with custom programming
  • Chip management on the Speedio
  • probing, manual programming

 

Oct 14, 2022

Topics

  • Grimsmo releasing a new case for their Saga printer
  • 3d printing for production
  • cardboard packaging
  • Autodesk Fusion meetup in December https://www.dsi-mfg.com/fusion-summit-2022
  • multiple computers for workflow
  • tool breakage control

 

Oct 7, 2022

Topics:

  • Machining is the coolest thing ever
  • "failing as a business leader if we don't purge our junk"
  • "what do I want in the next 6 months" 
  • how to hire and train new people quickly?
  • Variance accounting
  • SMW online training classes
Sep 30, 2022

Topics:

  • "The only constant is change"
  • Near fatal car accident for SMW employee and how it affects the company
  • Saunders' wife filling in
  • perpetual biggest failure?
  • can do great things when able to focus, but...
  • 4 new employees at SMW in the past 72 hrs
  • Tornos update from Grimsmo
  • Running machines unattended overnight
Sep 23, 2022

Topics

  • Fired up after IMTS
  • Authenticity in marketing
  • Willemin booth at IMTS, all about lathes!
  • Takeaways from the show
  • shop update video
  • Mini chip conveyor on the Speedio machine
  • Check valve on coolant nozzles
  • Opportunity cost of being an entrepreneur
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