Here at Tormach, we love to tell your stories, so here's David Stanavich from
Wax Raxs who's doing some really cool things for vinyl record collectors. Wax
Raxs boutique manufacturers storage and accessories for vinyl record collectors.
We make the world's finest vinyl storage, or should I say access units, because I
think of storage is something we're like out of sight out of mind, and records are
meant to be enjoyed, and played. So we have vinyl record access units. A full
line of carts, consoles, and shelving. We produce these parts 100% in-house
using the Tormach. The material choice is either brass, or 303 stainless. So this is
one of the now playing album stands. While you're playing your record, you can
set the album cover in your stand. And so we start off with a blank, and then
machine out the base, and then we fabricate the brass hardware, the rail,
the little inserts, and such. And then hand finish each piece with a Danish oil
finish. So all these a little hardware parts
were done on the Tormach. So this hardware
it's all anodized aluminum, and that's that's really one of my materials of
choice. And I make all that hardware in-house we also rely heavily on the
Tormach to engrave our logo. It just adds something special, and also brands our
product to make it clear in the marketplace that yeah, that patented 45
adapter that you know jumps right out at you when you see it, looks really unique.
Oh yeah, there it, it's Wax Rax. I relied heavily on the Tormach PCNC to
prototype and proof out different parts in the design process. So I used the mill
as almost like rapid prototyping. I'm able to go from the CAD...the SolidWorks
CAD design, straight to making chips and in a real short linear fashion. So it's
been an invaluable tool in production of my furniture. We're also in the
development of my patented design. I believe I heard about Tormach right
around May 2006...trying to think what magazine, but I saw the ad in the
magazine, and I said, "this is amazing" Because CNC milling, I wanted it
desperately, but was just out of reach. I would go to auctions I would seem
equipment that no one would even bid on. because really you didn't know whether or
not it was gonna even gonna run, and the controller software was unknown at best,
you know, so it was gonna be like a complete restoration project of a
machine that probably had out, you know, had lived its useful life as a piece of
equipment. So I was discouraged. I really wanted to get into the thing. When I
heard about Tormach, I said okay. So I planned and saved and
a year later I got one of their first series PCNC 1100 mills, and it's
been running in the shop ever since, so 10 years now, I've been
using it, and I've been using it extensively to develop products to do
you know, unique one-of-a-kind pieces for clients, and customers, and also to do
short, you know, boutique runs of my own product line the Wax Raxs furniture.
line is dedicated to the vinyl record collector, you know, to preserve access
and, you know, enjoy the the music library. The vinyl record library so if I need 24
or 32 pieces of hardware, we go to the PCNC we set it up we do a mini production
run, and we make it ourselves. And it's working out really nicely, because we're
offering a very unique striking piece of hardware that's gonna last you know
thousand years, and we're doing it right here in-house. Thanks for watching. Check
out all of our latest videos here, and for more metalworking tips, tricks, and
stories, subscribe to our YouTube channel.