John Grimsmo of Grimsmo Knives and John Saunders of Saunders Machine Works discuss their success, struggles, goals and more as machinists, business owners and entrepreneurs.
TOPICS: Grimsmo's new knife has a blade! Saunders yard sale! Sat April 13, 2024 inverse of the Rule Of Pi Programming on the Horizontal Having a hard time selling 2 Haas machines carbon fiber double tape method
TOPICS: Gridfinity bins and inserted tooling 75 Hard Grimsmo's new Employee What's more accurate, axial or radial cuts? diamond burnishing on swiss LTL freight stress Labeling fixtures with paint Speedio tool touchoffs Saunders sorting chips
TOPICS: override process sheets and process bins Kids and work Days Off In The Shop is a failure Gridfinity! Grimsmo's erowa and Speedio update Automation and pallet changing Hardmilling
TOPICS Knifemaking Tuesdays are back! Multi color 3d printing Breaking drill bits Fusion Trim toolpath Days Off In The Shop is difficult, but wonderful Grimsmo's Speedio and Erowa are hooked up! Heat treating pullstuds
TOPICS: Grimsmo's plans for the year Naming products Days off in the shop - Best business decision EVER New employee at Grimsmo Knives Releasing new products Tom Lipton mentor Saving time and money
TOPICS: Days Off In The Shop ("Doits") Taking Purchasing off my plate Tracking and quantifying order issues Magnetic chip separator Variation between fixtures
TOPICS: Coming in hot for 2024. Reflecting and planning. Buckling down for a tough year. Grimsmo Buyer's Choice, new knife model Grimsmo's Eumach machines Selling CNC machines How do we buy cleaning supplies Dual color 3d printing for text
TOPICS: · Wen_mir_langwilig_isch How is lights out affecting cost benefit with the side eye on the time spent for process reliability? · Burnandturnfabrication Name one thing that you didn’t think would change the business but made the company. · Benji_fost thoughts on haas pulling the UMC 350 from commercial sales? Do you feel left high and dry? · Felixwin2710 “Hey, I’m currently 19, and I’m in the process of building a small 5-axis cnc, any tips to get to where you are? · A_knights_life Swiss ...
TOPICS: Business existentialism FOCUS Facemill blew up Horizontal deburring
Topics: Defining the vision of your company Dedicating time to organize the shop Post processors scrap metal company designing a new knife
TOPICS: Distributing tasks among the team SmarterEveryDay Nasa video - watch it! End-of-year goals DSI video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQ1LLYvaaU 4th-grade class lecture DLC coatings on pens and knives Costing mistakes
TOPICS: Grimsmo's CMM is producing interesting results! Bad fixtures are bad! Probing too much isn't always a good thing Personal goal failures "The Machine That Changed the World" book The era of lean manufacturing Mailcall request - [email protected] Mentors and advisors
TOPICS Haas power usage correction Erik is getting married We did not crash the Okuma... hiring Okamoto surface grinding Puck Chuks in stock!
TOPICS: Grimsmo's Kern had toolchanger errors Procedures and process bins Power consumption on CNC machines - $0.05/hr for Haas to be on. Air compressor maintenance selling machines DNS settings to make sure e-mails get to customers, thanks Joe F DKIM add freshdesks to SPF records custom endmills from deboer Nakamura lathe issues Oil skimmers Critical projects DONE LINKS: https://saundersmachineworks.com/pages/equipment-for-sale...
TOPICS: SMW stopping through coolant drill bits Utility bills Pierre being deported Speedio high accuracy mode Grinding wheel technology Detent ball dropper Gen3 mod vises Super secret sauce
TOPICS: SMW Willemin is fixed! Replacement Fanuc motor worked. Haas UMC350 Office Phones "Lean Built" podcast with Jay and Andrew "Sooner, not faster" "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast" "Speed is fine, but accuracy is final" Blinders in business Wera tooling SMW is selling Proven Cut
TOPICS: Grimsmo visited Kern Precision in Chicago! Four Areas that will put you out of business What I need and want out of the company by the end of the year Tour of Lapmaster Saunders made a splash guard for his Okuma grinder "we have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one" Confucius
TOPICS: Maintaining CNC machines Process bins! Carbon Fiber tips and tricks Sandvik drills ERP systems managing lead times Freshdesk for customer service
TOPICS: Work/Life balance Okuma Horizontal machining valve covers 3d printing parts for the shop Fusion 360 frustrations Grimsmo vising Kern Precision in Chicago Shipping computers 3d printed metal parts craftcloud3d.com
TOPICS: CMTS tradeshow "Tool Aquisition Syndrome" Tool life and Sandvik tooling reps Polishing small parts Saunders designed a door for his surface grinder Machine maintenance, Kern and Willemin Carbon fiber Saga
TOPICS: Grimsmo crashed the Speedio Saunders is surface grinding! My dream job Willemin U axis errors at SMW How do you manage all the tasks and projects?
TOPICS: Lots of problems Building custom computers for CAD/CAM Willemin is sorta broken Bambu 3d printers! Calibrating printed parts Machining carbon fiber in the Speedio SMW puckchuck to market
TOPICS: Resin 3D printing with Grimsmo's daughter how we first learned about CNC machining Willemin lathe parts Saunders' Okamoto surface grinder runs! Coolant foaming Process improvements
TOPICS: Autodesk Fusion Summit recap Spoiled with new equipment, reinvesting in the company Willemin updates Swiss lathes Grimsmo's 1968 Volvo Amazon wagon runs!
TOPICS: Grimsmo's heat treat improvements SMW puck chuck anodizing Scrap metal Okamoto surface grinder and UMC350 delivered! Bambu 3d Printers
TOPICS Saunders lost power Grimsmo to sell his old Eumach machines How to re-work parts or call them scrap videos of shotgun barrel manufacturing heat treating puck chucks Setup sheet tool tracker Question to the audience
TOPICS: Grimsmo grinding blades on the Speedio! Growing your company metal 3d printing, costs? Downcut endmills AI image creation and how it relates to machining Heat treating SMW Puck Chuck parts SMW bought the Okamoto grinder!
TOPICS: Fusion 360 across a team DSI Fusion Summit Aug. 22, 2023 in California SMW video on coolest unknown trick. Cutting through the heat affected zone Speedio sub micron option works! SMW bought a HAAS UMC350! Financing options Reverse Osmosis water
TOPICS: Coolant management, foaming, etc Milwaukee Hermle tour! - https://www.hermleusa.net/en/info_center_en/5axis-summit-usa (Hermle tour) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Dygi8uGvA (Machining the James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors) Speedio Sub Micron option for Grimsmo Surface grinding deep dive
TOPICS The balance of leadership SMW Puck Chuck pallet system! Erowa update with Grimsmo Selling older machines and fully utilizing what you have
