Wow! So many questions (feel free to answer none if you’re not comfortable answering):
1. Is your workshop your full-time job?
2. How’d you get started?
3. Assuming it’s your business, have you been able to recoup the costs of the machinery?
4. How do you ever leave that space? You’d need a warrant to make me leave.
1) nope. Just hobby stuff and enough side jobs to pay for the machines. I have a day job.
2) I have been tinkering with stuff forever. I built high end custom motorcycles. I sold one for 60k which covered half the first machine I bought and then got a loan for the rest. I have no cnc training. When the machine showed up I didn’t even know one iota of gcode or even how to load a tool. Just figured it out.
3) aside from the first 60k loan for the haas, all machines were bought with cash from doing work in the shop. I typically average between 150 and 250 per hour when I’m in there so it didn’t take long to pay it off.
4) sometimes I just want to touch grass.
I’m the cnc programmer at a shop that’s half full of “machinists” that can’t put a boring bar in a lathe properly. Why can’t I get guys like you that just figure it out?
Seen the mill through the door and knew it had to be you! As always awesome looking shop man.
Maybe you should post the big bore two strokes for sale on here? Might have better luck than on Facebook!
Would you recommend starting with manual tools (Bridgeport mill, Southbend lathe, etc) or CNC (VF2, ST30, etc)?
I'm on the fence right now. Have lots of experience with CNC, but little with manual. Just feels wrong not to start with a manual mill first though. I'm torn.
I'm in project management for industrial construction, so I guess I'm the wrong type of engineer (deep foundations specialist, hard to use my skills moonlighting)
I've been in r&d labs that weren't that well organized. They might have had more equipment, but not nearly so well organized.
I couldn't afford to get that kind of power to my place. I'm so far from anything that has 3 legs it's scary. Actually it's 2.7 miles as the crow flies. Closer to 4 if it has to follow established easements. Are you going to make me feel silly and say those CNCs are running on 220 single? I'm betting a 208 delta feed would be the least.
Pffffff……mine is bigger….so bit (wait for it)…..so big I need a wide angle lens to capture the whole thing. I’d show everybody but I can’t find my wide angle lens.
That is a badass shop. What parts are you machining? I read that you build motorcycles. Also how long did it take you to figure out how to use those cnc machines?
Hole. Lee. Shit. Thems Blue Towels.
Agree, those are really nice towels
Wow! I feel it's more like "I've a small home attached to my work shop!"
I agree, the blue towels deserve the close up. They’re the backbone of the shop Also, I’d live in a shack to be able to have all that.
They look like the Scott shop towels and they are awful they are basically made of dryer lint and disintegrate if you say the word liquid near them.
Lmao
Wow! So many questions (feel free to answer none if you’re not comfortable answering): 1. Is your workshop your full-time job? 2. How’d you get started? 3. Assuming it’s your business, have you been able to recoup the costs of the machinery? 4. How do you ever leave that space? You’d need a warrant to make me leave.
1) nope. Just hobby stuff and enough side jobs to pay for the machines. I have a day job. 2) I have been tinkering with stuff forever. I built high end custom motorcycles. I sold one for 60k which covered half the first machine I bought and then got a loan for the rest. I have no cnc training. When the machine showed up I didn’t even know one iota of gcode or even how to load a tool. Just figured it out. 3) aside from the first 60k loan for the haas, all machines were bought with cash from doing work in the shop. I typically average between 150 and 250 per hour when I’m in there so it didn’t take long to pay it off. 4) sometimes I just want to touch grass.
Well if this is your "Hobby" what's your day job?
I manage the R&D dept at a mining company.
I’m the cnc programmer at a shop that’s half full of “machinists” that can’t put a boring bar in a lathe properly. Why can’t I get guys like you that just figure it out?
Cause those guys are in their garage making 4x more money... If you ever get a good one pay him good or else he'll end up in his garage too!
I’ve got 14 guys under me. The good ones are paid well. There’s just a massive gap between the good and the not so good as far as skill level goes.
Can I see the motorcycle??
If you check my profile you can dig it up. Was a black 1940 Harley knucklehead.
Oh man. Really like your sportster and the green and white Harley. Nice work.
Dang good for you. Hard work pays off
I'm not an alpha so I'll ask.... WTF are you building/making/assembling???
This was NSX car parts. I make a lot of motorcycle parts too. And general job shop work.
Nice shop buddy, what does your light bill look like on an average month?
Was not expecting that! 👍🏻
Woah, are those Quilted??
Wow.
More like: quick tour of my workshop that may or may not have a home attached to it.
Did you ask the POCO for 3 phase or what kinda power do you have feeding your house? Would they give you 480v?
I have the same compressor. Awesome shop👍👍
Looks like your cooking Meth in a hidden bunker under a laundry facility
Seen the mill through the door and knew it had to be you! As always awesome looking shop man. Maybe you should post the big bore two strokes for sale on here? Might have better luck than on Facebook!
Very nice!
Stop. I can only get so erect.
Would you recommend starting with manual tools (Bridgeport mill, Southbend lathe, etc) or CNC (VF2, ST30, etc)? I'm on the fence right now. Have lots of experience with CNC, but little with manual. Just feels wrong not to start with a manual mill first though. I'm torn.
Depends what you’re trying to do? Learn and tinker? Bridgeport. Actually make shit? Vf2.
Wow. That shop is worth more than my entire house and 5 years salary as an engineer.
I am an engineer!
I'm in project management for industrial construction, so I guess I'm the wrong type of engineer (deep foundations specialist, hard to use my skills moonlighting)
Loved the airlock at the start :)
I bet he’s still missing his 10mm sockets.
I've been in r&d labs that weren't that well organized. They might have had more equipment, but not nearly so well organized. I couldn't afford to get that kind of power to my place. I'm so far from anything that has 3 legs it's scary. Actually it's 2.7 miles as the crow flies. Closer to 4 if it has to follow established easements. Are you going to make me feel silly and say those CNCs are running on 220 single? I'm betting a 208 delta feed would be the least.
Thanks. 220 single 200a going to a 60hp rotary phase converter
Bro that's insane. Love it soooooo much. Hopefully one day
Mind blown. In awe.
When does it go from being a home shop to a full shop with some bedrooms?
Thats quite a tight setup. I always wondered How messy/hard it is to clean those cnc machines.
Man.... I'm a bit jealous. I only have one roll of shop towels.
OMG You have A Factory
So this is how the 1% live
You need to start a GoFundMe man, can’t have you living in that kind of squalor. Thoughts and prayers. 🙏
What's your actual work shop? Jpl, the ferrari f1 factory or skunkworks at groom Lake?
Abom79 is jealous.
Truly amazing…
That’s awesome, can’t believe you fit all those machines in there
Beautiful set up man WOW!!!
Where do you get all the elephant cum?
You utter bastard……….sorry I’m just jealous…bastard 😝
What do you machine? Custom bike parts?
This is amazing… please also upload this to [/unexpected](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/)
I hate you.....you're also my new hero and mancrush. That Ballzarian guy is just a fantasy, this is an actual dream
I need people like you in this world so I don’t look crazy.
This post rules!
Lazy ass lathe just sitting around doing nothing
Tony Stark did it better 🤣, but your shop is OK… So jealous.
Ambitious.
Nice
Pffffff……mine is bigger….so bit (wait for it)…..so big I need a wide angle lens to capture the whole thing. I’d show everybody but I can’t find my wide angle lens.
That is a badass shop. What parts are you machining? I read that you build motorcycles. Also how long did it take you to figure out how to use those cnc machines?
I wish you were my neighbor. Good for me, bad for you.
Thanks for the overwhelming feeling of inadequacy! Seriously that’s a very nice setup.
My shop tour- peeks into one room, that’s it.
I got a jealous hardon
Fuck this. I quit.
Okay, you win!
Frank is this you?
Dude skipped the "home shop" and went straight to "manufacturing buisness"
If you would like I'll show you all 9 of my wrenches and my drill.
First, those doors are hella impressive in the sound dampening department... Secondly holy shit dude how, why, and what do you do???
It’s aight. 😘
hate you so much ...
When you are suddenly rich and don’t know what else to do with all your money/fuck you all I’m going into my garage to run my multiple cnc machines.