Been working on more part drawings for the cnc lathe. This drawing will be made into real steel parts soon. It is the toolholding table for the new cnc lathe that we are setting up for so called “gang tooling. Steps in the right direction!

Last week we decided to replace the old trusty drill press with a newer model. Still 45 years old but this new machine will allow using a sturdy crosstable. It runs like it has never seen any use. All the machine upgrades of the last few month have a positive impact om the workflow and quality of the products. The next machine to be replaced is the milling machine.

Purchased a beautiful vintage tablesaw that needs a bit of work mechanically and more work aestetically, but I it’ll be worth it. Looking forward to work on it.

Finally found a good table for the most used lathe tools. The only problem with it was that it was blue. Not anymore!

Finally got a suitable cnc machine! A big investment but also a dream come true. It will need quite a lot of work to get it to turn mouthpieces and it will be a steep learning curve from here but we are very excited to let that happen!

Moving lots of heavy machines to create a path to get the new machine into a corner of the workshop. It’s a mess with things out of place and having ADD doesn’t help this at all..

The trusty Schaublin 102 lathe will go to a new home in Berlin. We sold it to my colleague Jake Kline from the “Berliner Tuba”. But sold it for a good reason. See next post!

Tuning slide making for a brand new project! Traditional rotary trumpets in C for orchestral playing. Got to test new tooling for this. The result is flawless.

In preperation of the move in the end of the year I am making new collet organizers after work hours. I have quite some different machines with different style collets so I have some work to do.

I’ve been working on this “twugelhorn” design for a while and today I am taking some big decisions about the proportions and design to balance this instrument out perfectly.