Business of Machining
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.
Episodes
TOPICS:
- UPS knives to Blade Show still stuck in Atlanta
- 465 Custom stainless steel
- Firechrome material
- Reinvest or take out money?
- Was there a point where you wanted to throw in the towel?
TOPICS:
- Crazy adventures at Blade Show 2025
- Saunders crashed the Okuma
- Moduleworks visited SMW
TOPICS:
- Kern runs great now!
- Normal days vs rework days
- High, Low, Buffalo
- Blade Show 2025
- 465 custom material
- Helicoil stories
TOPICS:
- Coolant maintenance
- Kern is fixed! We realigned B axis ourselves
- Johnny Five AI audio
- Setup sheets
- Automating bevel grinding
TOPICS:
- Kern crashed
- VM3 coolant actually went bad
- Surface grinding with Robin Renzetti
TOPICS:
- Toolpath team visited SMW
- Mechanical pencil deep dive
- Measuring grinding wheels
- Wogaurd coolant sucker upper https://www.wogaard.com/coolant_saver.html
- Surface grinding on the Tormach PSG
- Topper machine auction video WATCH THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcPDZB11A9w
- 3d printing big parts
TOPICS:
- Speedio looping the program over and over
- Saunders programmed a part in Toolpath
- Waterjet profile is wrong
- Johnny Five is under control!
- Smelly coolant
TOPICS:
- Toronto knife show
- Grindmilling
- Toolpath mistake
- Arda and ERP systems
- Renzetti 1-2-3 blocks
- Johnny 5 turned on for the first time!
TOPICS:
- Superglue fixtures
- Toolpath.com
- Passion for machines and projects
- Cycle time evaluations
- Grindmilling
TOPICS:
- Prussian blue is amazing.
- Bambu H2D 3d printer
- Calibrating a 5 axis machine
- Hand scraping deep dive
- Tormach 1500 MX
TOPICS:
- Mentality around tariffs
- Button lock geometry
- Buy prussian blue
- Hardmill all the things
TOPICS:
- Robots
- Demagnetizing 4140 bars
- Rolex
- Johnny 5 track drives
- Probing for accuracy
TOPICS:
- Fusion PSA on heights tab
- Measuring ultra precision
- Heat treating improvements
- Tormach 1500mx updates
TOPICS:
- Business insurance
- Thermal compensation on Speedio
- Surface grinding deep dive
- Shop improvements
TOPICS:
- Gorilla Stand indicator holder!
- Why are lathe parts not round?
- Thermal growth on the Speedio
- Okuma fake CMM
- Heat treating 440c and carbide clumping
- Dishwashing parts at home
TOPICS:
- Making ultra flat precision washers
- Fjell knives are starting to selling
- Custom ultra precision indicator stands
- Tarrifs
- Post heat treat hard turning
- Hardmilling success
TOPICS:
- Make decisions on your own, as long as you're willing to deal with the consequences.
- CHATTER machine monitoring
- Robots!
- Mastering youtube
- Dial test indicator stand
- Surface grinding and lapping
- Tormach 1500mx
TOPICS:
- "My Willy is doing great" - Grimsmo
- Kern was purchased by Ametek.
- "Delegating is sometimes just as simple as delegating".
- Auto serial numbers on Okuma
- Vapor degreaser
- Diamond lapping
- Bad 3d printing
TOPICS:
- Heat treated A2 dimensions
- Grimsmo Fjell update
- Robot loading solutions
- Endmill consistency
- Intern or full time machinist?
- DOITS
- 100 Fjell knives
- Hardmilling and tool life
- Chatter machine monitoring installed at SMW
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