I'm 15 learning machining. If that says anything then anyone else can do it. Our favorite aspect
of business is to help you take an idea and create a business or product. To see a 15 year
old take an idea, develop a product, and build a business around it is why we are here. So here is
Stone to tell you about Stuck Up Archery Pins. I'm Stone Henderson. I do competitive archery.
I'm starting to get into machining. I got a Tormach 440. I love competitive archery
because I get to travel the world with my team. My uncle got me into it about like four years ago,
and it's really fun because I get to see it go to like Italy and all these other places, and get to
do all these cool experiences. I make these target pins that hold the target up but so like,
all the tournaments they have these ones that are cheap and like you they're like nails and you
press them down, and they hurt your fingers. And I saw a field that people can show their brands off
and ambassadors and all that stuff they can show their brand off, and put their logo on
top of a target pin so when every time you go to an event you can see the pin and all that,
and they don't hurt your fingers and they're just customizable and all that. My design it
has chamfers and all this stuff stuff. So how do you get more surface area to press down onto. And
the ones they provide have these..they have a nail that points out that it can like like it really
hurts actually when you push on down on it. It has like these edges on it that are pretty sharp,
and it just hurts. Yeah I've always been into watching machining videos like Titans of CNC,
and how they have their Academy. So I already already took some of the classes way before,
even just to see what CAM is and stuff like that. And they have good CAD um tutorials.
So a few months back I was into making a product with knives. And I needed to figure a way to
get it without outsourcing it would be very expensive, but I also really been into like
the process of making something. So that's how I got into machining. So I always made knife
parts and our three parts on my 3d printers but i can only do plastic. So now I'm going
to start being able to make metal things of the same nature. Because who wants plastic scales?!
So a few years ago, when I got when i got interested in making knives and stuff,
I got a belt grinder and then I got a drill press that i got for like 25 off a Facebook
market group. So I've always been interested in making knives, so this is my favorite in here
with a belt sander drill press and all that stuff. Then after I got started getting really
into it I realized I want to get tighter tolerance parts. I picked Tormach because
how affordable the machines are, how much that 440 can even do. It's pretty amazing. Like roughing
all that how..it doesn't look...it's pretty small but it can do a lot. They have a broad range that
fits your needs of machines, like the 440 how small it is, it can go anywhere really.
Compared to like your multi-100 000 machines, that aren't affordable and can't really learn on
it because how big they are. Because that's why I picked Titans of CNC as well, because I can learn on
any machine. I'm committed to the Titans of CNC Academy because explains it how to do not just program and
all that, such as coolant, setting up a your vice and all this other stuff. So it's a broad range of
machining. With knife making you can't 3d print so I've been always familiar with 3d printing but I know
they set like step back if not make anything metal. So I always had a business upstairs I
used my 3d printers, but now I that I have a 440 I can do what much bigger amount of projects,
make better projects in the future. I'll be making knife parts, because that's really what i'm into.
And archery parts that I couldn't do in the past and now I can design on my Tormach 440.
I can if I can make stuff out of metal, and have a machine that's affordable to buy and stuff like that,
and why not get one? Um I was always curious about how manufacturing all that. How it basically runs
the world around and getting to know how parts are made. How anything is made I think it's, it's a big
interest of mine. So I think the big thing about Titans the CNC, how their academy works, how they explain
it all is to someone that has no idea about machining. So it they teach you from like the start
of like to the bottom to like close to the top making aerospace parts, and all those crazy cool
concepts. My plan after I graduate from a 440 is to get 1100MX because that's that can pump out a ton
of more parts than this can, at a faster rate. So then at that point, will you keep the 440 and the
1100 or you would just sell it the 440 and then? I'd keep it. You'd keep it? Yeah, because it's good.
So me getting a Tormach 440 has sent me
a ton forward to my machining world because, when I grow up I want to become like a job
shop owner that manufactures aerospace parts and with me getting a Tormach 440 it helps me get ahead.