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Curt and Jamie dive into business and manufacturing as one-man shops.

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This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt discover that making great machining videos is almost as difficult as making great parts.

After another week of production, Jamie is finally looking at upgrading the workshop camera setup. The ... more

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This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt dive into one of the less glamorous sides of making products: the internet. Between first-come, first-served launches, Reddit outrage, and the inevitable flood of "you should have made more" mes... more

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This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt are joined by Al Whatmough, whose career has taken him from apprentice machinist to educator, software leader, and one of the driving forces behind modern CAM. It's a conversation that's less ab... more

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This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie discovers that running a machine shop while fighting off a brutal cough is a lot like running production with a worn-out end mill—you'll get there eventually, but it's going to make some unpleasant noise... more

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This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie is fighting on two fronts: a mystery illness that's trying to end the episode early, and a CNC controller that's decided now is the perfect time to develop an attitude. Somehow, despite the coughing, mon... more

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This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie returns from the chaos of moving an entire machine shop, only to discover that the universe rewards hard work with paperwork, broken internet, and even more work. The new shop is running, production is b... more

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This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt discover that modern machining is really just thousands of lines of code standing between you and catastrophic stupidity. After a mysterious edge case causes a surprise Z-crash, Jamie finds hims... more

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This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie drags Ben from Black Fox Machining into an emergency guest appearance after recent developments sent the machining community into full rumor mode. Running on almost no sleep and questionable amounts of e... more

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Al Whatmough
Guest from g28.io, speaker on community and education in manufacturing
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Episode: Ep. 81: Teaching Engineers to Talk with Al Whatmough
Trevor Hershey
Founder/ designer at Titan Ring Designs
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Episode: Ep. 70: How to Build a Business by Accident with Titan Ring Designs
Joshua Firman
Owner of Firmworks Ltd. and maker of the Firm Vice
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Episode: Ep. 20: My Heart in a Vice with Joshua Firman

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Jamie
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Ep. 81: Teaching Engineers to Talk with Al Whatmough
Q: How do you see the machining education world changing in the coming years?
Education will increasingly blend hands-on practice with accessible, scalable content—teachers using facilitated, problem-based learning and industry partners providing real-world context to keep students engaged and industry ready.
Ep. 70: How to Build a Business by Accident with Titan Ring Designs
Q: How did Titan Ring Designs get started and grow from a side project to a full-fledged business?
It began as a personal interest and a few prototype pieces, then scaled through small, iterative sales and a willingness to experiment. Persistence, leveraging existing machining skills, and sharing work publicly helped build a customer base; over time, the business formalized with licensing and ecommerce channels as momentum grew.
Ep. 64: Sausage Polishers & Shop Logic
Q: How would you verify if an electric motor is faulty and how would you repair it?
We'd start by measuring windings and resistance between all three phases to detect imbalances or shorts, then verify insulation to ground. If windings are suspected, we'd check by testing with a different drive or re-wiring to isolate the drive vs motor, and consider rewinding or replacement. If the drive or controller is the fault, swapping components can confirm the culprit; otherwise, motor windings or encoders may need rewinding or replacement. A practical approach is to disconnect the drive, test windings individually, and use a table of phase-to-phase and ground measurements to identify anomalies.
Ep. 58: The Seizure-Inducing Delivery Sensor
Q: Am I still planning on a bigger workshop?
Yes, I am planning to build a workshop that could be around 60 square meters, but it's constrained by a building line.
Ep. 28: Grindzilla
Q: Curt, what are your thoughts on keeping track of design versions and CAD files?
Curt trusts the cloud service Fusion 360 for storing his designs and uses it as his single source of truth, but manually breaks out major revisions to avoid confusion.

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Two hosts run a candid, hands-on conversation about small-manufacturing realities, focusing on turning one- and two-person shops into sustainable businesses. Across episodes, they share battle-tested tactics for tooling, automation, shop layout, and workflow optimization, sprinkled with personal stories, family life, and gritty behind-the-scenes anecdotes from running micro‑shops. Guests range from fellow makers to industry peers, and conversations often pivot between practical how-tos (pricing, project management, ERP-like tracking, and onboarding new help) and bigger-picture questions about growth, resilience, and community. Noteworthy traits include blunt honesty, a unapologetic focus on repeatable processes, and a culture of collaborati... more

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