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A machined aluminum bracket clamped on parallels inside the machine, coolant still on the table.

Prototype & R&D · Grand Rapids, MI

One part is a real job here.

Five-axis · Hard materials · Finishing in-house

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  • No form — nothing sends until you send it
  • No price list — the print sets the price
  • Need it sooner? Expedite costs more

What are we making?

Where the part is in its life tells me how to plan the cut.

Before you send anything

The four things you're actually asking.

01

WILL YOU TAKE ONE PART?

One is a real job here. First articles, revisions and one-offs are the work — not the exception squeezed in between production runs.

02

Can you hold it?

Thin walls, tight profiles, fine finishes — inspected, approved and held to print, feature by feature.

03

Who actually touches it?

You talk to the people who machine your part. Every time. Nothing routes through a desk that has never held the work.

04

What happens on part two?

Part two is the real deliverable, so part one's setup is planned so the next one doesn't start over. And if a part already failed, send it — what failed tells us more than the drawing does.

A stepped shaft turning in the lathe chuck, the insert engaged in the cut and a bright chip curling away above it, coolant mist hanging in the machine light.◆ TURNED — IN THE CUT

◆Capability

What the lathes and mills are built to cut.

The cut, the stock and the finish all happen in this building. That is why the part that comes back is the part that was planned — nobody hands it to a stranger halfway through.

A turned round bar and a rough-sawn aluminum billet block in the foreground on a granite bench, with a bronze-toned forged link, a machined aluminum housing block and a dark forged arm standing behind them.

The stock

Bar, block and billet — the print names the alloy

The same machined casting shown twice in identical framing: above, as it came off the machine with cutter witness across the web and the threaded boss; below, after blasting, the same faces and the same threads carrying an even matte.

As machined → blasted

One part, both states

◆Stock to measured

How a part runs, start to finish.

Five panels in sequence: a round billet on the machine table; a dial indicator set on its face to find the datum; an end mill opening a pocket with coolant running and chips clearing; the finished swept relief standing proud of the stock in its step-block clamps; and a touch probe returned to the machined face to measure it.
  1. 01

    STOCK

    The billet on the table, before anything is decided.

  2. 02

    INDICATED

    The datum found and trusted before a single cut is taken.

  3. 03

    CUT

    The pocket opened, coolant on the tool, chips clearing.

  4. 04

    FINISHED

    The finished geometry, machined from solid in the same fixture.

  5. 05

    MEASURED

    The probe back on the face — the number, not an opinion of it.

Send the drawing.
We'll read it.

A print, a model, or the part itself. Job control reads feasibility and comes back with a real path — including the parts of it we would do differently. From another state, the part comes by mail and the drawing by upload. Signing an NDA first is normal here; attach yours as a PDF with the drawing.

Send the DrawingOr call job control