One Man CNC Machine Shop Tour..................

Average day in the shop..............mostly myself, but I have a few part timers for help. Last two years have been the best ever in my 22 years of running the shop...................
My story can be found on Practical Machinist............................
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[@oknean]

I made this vid for a customer just to get a feel for my shop...................I threw it up on the You Tube for the heck of it and now it has hit 100K views? How the????? Thanks for watchin'..............

[@alexkern9134]

It'd awesome man!

[@Michael-gq9we]

Crazy how that machine was just spitting out parts.. I get too nervous to leave my machine to trust tools or inserts not to break

[@Michael-gq9we]

Nice setup, get that mulah. Love to see American made and guys throwing chips. Only been in this field 3 years but seems cutting metal will be my career

[@ocxb]

I’ve been teaching CNC programming and how to do basic set-up and operation including setting offsets. Also inspection and GD&T, We teach while running actual jobs so the students get on the job training. I would love to have a small shop like yours but here in California it is virtually impossible. Keep up the quality work and post more videos!

[@coreyroberts7083]

The algorithm picks em I just watch em brother. Nice shop!

[@Vohtwomax]

It’s funny. You say: Shop is nothing special....but it’s actually nicer, better laid out, and better equipped than the place I work. You should be proud of what you are accomplishing!

[@richiejbhoy1888]

Totally agree. I work in a company that's just been bought over and given a new building, custom made and its a complete shit hole.

[@stoxic74]

@@richiejbhoy1888 What the hell, do we work at the same company ?

[@richiejbhoy1888]

@@stoxic74 possibly. 👀

[@richiejbhoy1888]

What country do you work? 👀

[@Michael-gq9we]

Exactly like 8 expensive machines

[@MetálicasFerdySAS]

The house, the fields, the view, the workshop, the machines....dude, you´re blessed, congrats!! You´re living the dream of most men. Congrats

[@justinbroderick4126]

The chip output per person is incredible.

[@dylandemnard1736]

it's called COPP, a known measure of output lol

[@joepie221]

Impressive setup you have there. Its good to see a small shop that not afraid to invest in itself. Good luck to you.

[@stansienicki392]

Keep that head on your shoulders, you are doing wonders in utilizing the space and functionality. I love to see someone that is keeping this trade alive especially in this day and age of just passing it offshore which doesn’t help our economy. Your hard work is shining through, I wish you all the best.

[@americanstriper8666]

Yep. Bring those jobs back to the USA.

[@sgtsqueaky]

This is way nicer than the 4 man family shop I work for. Just goes to show what can happen when someone invests in their company and cares about the work they do.

[@AdamEarl2]

Great shop, love the entrepreneurialism. I run a shop with 220 employees, we do cool stuff but get limited on administration when scaled up. We have a dozen small shop suppliers like yours, but yours is clean, nice lighting, machines taken care of. Keep it up 👍

[@DdgeluvinHic]

Holy cow man!!! For being a one man operation, you're doing an incredible job. Thanks for sharing some awesome motivational material man, this is dream material for me.

[@803mastiff9]

Impressive shop and impressive commute time to work. The way man is intended to live.

[@25vrd48]

Really nice well equipped clean shop . Just enough room for what you need and cleanliness is awesome . Very hard to keep a CNC shop clean . Great video .

[@nikolaiownz]

One man shop checking in here. Thats a beutiful shop, beutiful parts and awesome machines. 👌👌

[@Thorhian]

"Nothing special" dude, your shop is awesome! I'm just a young guy trying to make a small CNC Mill to make some money on the side while I'm in college but I'd love to have a shop with half the machines you have, just maybe different ones lol (I really want a Mazak 5-Axis machine with a pallet pool down the line for one-man operations).

[@pinocolada4254]

Hats of to you sir. Running those machines by yourself is multitasking, running your butt of, answering the phone, ordering materials, take in materials... Oh man! I quit machining because i wanted to be my own boss. Starting an cnc shop is expensive, so i started as an fabricator/welder. I do have an manual mill and lathe, didn't really need them, but you can't do without after you have worked with them. It's in the blood, machinist are a different breed;)

[@oknean]

So I added a link up in the description. It's a thread of the history of my shop on Practical Machinist

[@chrisrokz9005]

Pin your comment to the top so people can see it. I assume you get a decent amount of help form the part timers. All those parts in buckets, super impressive output. Keep up the good work. Small owner operator " real machinist " run machine shops are the future.

[@nfcorrie9713]

Are you the practical machinist member from MN that built the house and shop about 10 years ago? Loved following that build if it is you.

[@oknean]

@@nfcorrie9713 That’s me

[@nfcorrie9713]

@@oknean Glad to see everything is still going well!

[@forrestgumpv9049]

Not enough - minutes in a day, sleep at night, or days off. Priceless to be you though. You are living my dream. I'm green.

[@daffyf6829]

Yeah God blessed you for sure. I'm particularly amazed at the volume of parts you're making without bar feeders or mill- turn. I'm kind of shocked you would want to reduce your cycle time by 2 minutes considering how many machines you need to operate

[@jimfitzgibbon5492]

Oknean can't say enough about what you built. You can't have time for anything else is the only draw back I can see. But you love what you do & that makes it work. I,m a retired machinist at 76 years of age. I have a small shop at my house but only manual machines. I do not contract out, just make things for my hobby's & such. But I,m so impressed with your set up. Thank you for sharing.

[@rayp.454]

Sweet little shop. You can never have too many vises and soft jaws!

[@wheelieking71]

Thanks for the tour Dave!

[@madaxe79]

Man, I’m a one man machine shop and your setup makes me embarrassed... you’ve inspired me beyond belief. I’ve got one cnc mill and one cnc turning centre and the rest of my machines are manual. I’m constantly looking for good cnc machines in the used market to replace the manual machines so I can run more jobs at once. That is sooo awesome. Maybe one day, I can achieve something similar

[@sethwatson8952]

This seems to be the way to do it. Small but neat space, only a few employees, very streamlined and efficient. I bet it makes MONEY!

[@randomrouting]

Nice! That place is humming! Thanks for sharing.

[@oryanastrophotography3450]

20 year old machinist, been working in machine shops since my sophmore year of tradeschooll. This is my dream

[@KCOLBURN_8]

Incredible shop AND music choice! I love it

[@RiseOfSky]

For one man shop this is insane man.. nice arsenal of machines you got there, wish you good luck!

[@ChrisB-ms3cw]

Well done! You had those spindles hummin! Thats impressive, how does one man (even plus a couple hands haha) have the time for the setup?! I'm impressed.

[@wllycious2000]

I am beyond impressed, this is awesome.

[@anotherguy9402]

You are living my dream... I'm rebuilding a fadal vmc10 and a CNC router table I recently got and assembling a CNC plasma table i sourced all the parts myself and fabricating all the brackets.... Quite the learning experience.

[@HuskyMachining]

Nice shop. I am a 1 man shop too but only 2 years and 2 machines in so far. I hope to have 5-7 machines like this one day too

[@rennsimulator]

Hi from Argentina, I'm an IT professional but I have a electromechanical background and I'm slowly filling up my cnc workshop mostly for hobby. I watched the video taking mental note about every machine and tool at display, finding if I have an equivalent one and daydreaming about my next purchase. Anyway thanks a lot for the shop tour its truly nice.

[@phingly2151]

That's what I'm talking about! Hopefully one day I get to your status. Keep up the good work!

[@robdavy4468]

Super cool! If you film this again, consider pointing the camera up a little more (less floor) and possibly telling us (if you can) what those parts are going to be used for/in

[@RJMachine62]

It may be intentional to not show much detail of the parts he's making. Lots of parts being made that's for sure!

[@robdavy4468]

@@RJMachine62 maybe! But still could be vague, like "this goes inside an industrial machine used in a factory"

[@oilconsultant9138]

1st rule of machine shop products. Don’t ask about the products.

[@stansienicki392]

@RJMachine Machining is a cutthroat business, anyone with that name RJMachine should understand that, and it sounds like your fishing to cut him out of his income.

[@RJMachine62]

@@stansienicki392 What??? I'm the one said not to pry. It's kind of stuff you keep close to your chest. Why would you even think I was asking him to divulge information?

[@465maltbie]

thanks for sharing, I remember seeing photos of when you were building the shop. Charles

[@overdalimit]

WELL DAMN!!!! you walk into this small door... like a cubby hole... and then he walks you into the other door and VIOLA!!!!!! LMAO!!! DAMN!!!! #AWESOME

[@curtiscascarino9627]

BTW. A clean shop is important, great job making your life easier by doing that. Organized clean shop makes more money.

[@OlRed.]

Awesome shop, and that line at 5:03 ... right on man!

[@atvheads]

@2:30 And a Colt percussion revolver, the most important. :)

[@ironworkerfxr7105]

I saw that. .

[@OnlyPositiveVibes96]

😅

[@Thewaldo12345]

Dang man that is very good for a one man shop. You have made some great connections apparently. I’m lucky to have one job a day.

[@Fale222]

Amazing!! Keep up with the good work! Good luck

[@capnthepeafarmer]

Thank you for letting us into your shop! Looking back on your shop and how you've grown what would you say was the best improvement you've made in your shop?

[@bobcarlson7729]

stumbled across this. Be very proud of what you got going on there. very impressive

[@tunnel7]

Wow you live in a safe place that rack of bars would soon be gone where i live ha ha ha that's some shop for a one man band hats off to ya.

[@fryer05maverick31]

Impressed with your layout and amount of machines in that space. Shop has to be in the country with material rack outside. Were my shop is, that material and scrap bin would be stolen every night. Miss the days of working solo, now I have to come in on Saturday or Sunday to work alone.

[@MoralRichMedia]

All smiles here...thanks for the tour...

[@easttexasengineering3489]

Omg brother, we use those same grey bins in our machine shop. They come from Seville Classic. Way cheaper than buying them from McMaster or stupid uline. Very nice shop., you and I have a lot in common. Stay small and respectable, never sell out your business to the corporations.. amazing how you got all that in a shop that size..

[@pamanthanos9742]

that was impressive set up for one man shop

[@SteveN-bh3wv]

Neat shop and thank you for the motion sickness, Scorsese.

[@paulkraus4799]

Your shop is absolutely awesome

[@oilconsultant9138]

Cool shop, low overhead, should be a success!!

[@RJMachine62]

Thanks for the tour. A tad quick but it shows some of the capabilities. That metal on the racks might be worth more unmachined right now :)

[@dennisginser9746]

That shop is awesome! I would love to have a little operation like that and it be successful. Congratulations man

[@ivanadiego6067]

I'd love to build a shop like that one day!

[@3JS2001]

Damm, that’s a nice shop! And love that brother machine!

[@Stihl4life]

Awesome Congrats and may God continue to bless you

[@ajfreeze215]

Found it on PM- 40 x 60 shop with 12’6” sidewalls. Thanks for posting the link!

[@wald3mar]

Wow. Lovely set-up.! 💪👍

[@mihailfelixdumitresc]

Oh man, would you please give me a good reason not to hate you ? Congrats ! It's really inspiring !

[@badrzandr3351]

Nice,keep going , Journey thousand miles begins with one step

[@MarekTabi]

Realy Nice shop 👍😊

[@hallinanderssoncnc-teknika2413]

SO nice, I am not alone, to be alone!

[@jbrownson]

awesome setup you have there, thanks for sharing

[@roggill6599]

From the look of things this guy works his butt off.

[@samuelortiz1988]

Real clean and neatly organized too impressive.

[@flynifty3951]

Wow, that's great man 👍

[@fatihderking051]

Looks like a Dream man !

[@gordonsmit3396]

Wow... Awesome... 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@funone8716]

I think you're on practical machinist. Nice video, nice shop

[@Innovaspeed]

I have vice envy. If you decide to sell a couple of those, I'd be interested for sure. Pretty amazing how much you have as a one man show. Reminds me to quit focusing on how much I want help and to make better use of my own time and effort.

[@lawerencecohen8287]

Outstanding shop!

[@jfcustomfab]

Very nice shop!!

[@adam-xl9ft]

You must work 100 hours a week. Dude you are SENDING IT!

[@zadabjlil2281]

Waw waw its wonderful machine good good i m marocain i like this machine

[@rogerwhiting9310]

Thats a fortune to equip. Great shop and tour.

[@jpaul1030]

You must be hopping more then a one armed Newfie keeping two woodstoves fed running all those machines as a one man shop.

[@guygfm4243]

wow very good hope to see more videos from you thanks for sharing

[@davidmays3333]

Very impressive for a one man shop! Looks like you have been very successful.

[@AirGunnerrr]

Very.... Impressive shop... Great Video... 😎

[@grant625]

A twin spindle mill-turn machine would work wonders with these parts.

[@justinm4323]

THIS just got a doosan lynx 2600 SY with bar feeder. you could save yourself a bunch of time and handling.

[@roguecnc788]

Fricken awsome set up!

[@juanrodriguez6753]

Impressive shop man 👍

[@LeaderOfMaGiC]

Awsome man you got a nice operation going on, all power to you

[@fall22123]

Nice shop! 1st thing I saw surprised me, the material being stored outside. It wouldn't be there long before it was stolen where I live.

[@marshallwages5035]

Love to see more of the parts you make

[@mannycalavera121]

Love the shop, looks awesome, well done man, an Inspiration for us aspiring self employed

[@adsqat]

I would love to see what it looks like today!

[@batmantrades1974]

This is a nice looking setup right here!

[@ogaugeclockwork4407]

Nice setup!

[@MaxStax88]

Hey man just wanted to say that you have what i dream about. You give me inspiration that i can do this one day. I would love to see more content about you and your shop. Thanks and god bless

[@jacobfalk4827]

That's my dream come true. Awesome to see that many machines packed in a shop. Can you please keep sharing videos on machining and business? John Grimsmo style?

[@roybdavid]

wow.... amazing shop... im impressed

[@a-fl-man640]

that's a lot of chips. nice to have the shop next to the house. 3rd bedroom houses my lathe and TIG.

[@martinkscott]

Very impressive buddy 👍🏻👍🏻

[@bonyobondov4364]

LoL I am way of you. Just dream to have shope like yours. Even with half of the machines 😂

[@WaltonFA]

Well done.

[@technicod1ng]

awesome to see how it can work out if you just moving on and follow your passion... So inspiring! Thank you for sharing! and I hope my shop will soon look the same like yours!

[@andrzejmichalczuk7662]

Amazing One Man shop ! Congrats

[@gundysgarage6664]

Pretty sweet setup! And digging the Amada bandsaw

[@adamolmedo6411]

Nice work

[@dmitryserov5595]

👍 I can only dream of this. Even one machine is impossible for me...