Dave Norling Jr. is the owner and operator of Rush River Rods, a small company located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a longtime customer of ours and makes products that are seen around the globe. “My father and I make hand split bamboo fly rods which we sell all over the world. We travel with […]
Published on February 4th, 2019by Mike Downss in Articles, Case Studies
Published on January 23rd, 2019by Mike Downss in Articles, Case Studies
Albert Holt is the owner and founder of Holt Marine Systems, located in beautiful Homosassa, Florida. His shop is a double-car garage that he was able to convert to his own machine shop with lighting and air conditioning (a MUST for us Floridians). Albert tells me, “I have a single CNC 50×50 router table and […]
Published on December 31st, 2018by Mike Downss in Articles, Case Studies
On his way out the door after visiting BobCAD’s headquarters in Clearwater, Florida for an in-house training session, I caught up with Michael Gencarelli. Michael is the owner and founder of My Garage Shop; a place where BobCAD powers all the wonderful creations he can throw at it. Now, Michael is no slouch when it […]
Published on December 5th, 2018by Mike Downss in Articles, Case Studies
Lars Mommer is no stranger to BobCAD’s CAM software or the amazing things that can be made with it. His shop, R & D Machining, is located in beautiful Santa Rosa, California in his 1-acre backyard. It’s there that both Lars and his uncle live on the property and they work in the shop together […]
Published on October 25th, 2018by Mike Downss in Articles, Case Studies
James Hackley is the owner of and the driving force behind 5th Gear Sprockets for 10 years now. Located in Sedona, Arizona, James makes some high-end fishing lures but is more well known for creating sprockets that drive stunt/street bikes, as well as sprocket-themed trophies for stunt motorcycle competitions around the USA. James […]
Published on October 19th, 2018by Mike Downss in Articles, Case Studies
Chris Serio is a longtime BobCAD customer and quite the experienced machinist. His experience ranges from working at Richey Enterprises, a small oilfield job shop to working for Screening Systems International, an international provider & servicer of traveling water screens. “I mainly work with Haas, Okuma and Mazak vertical Mills & horizontal Lathes… mostly used […]
Published on October 8th, 2018by Mike Downss in Articles, Case Studies
BobCAD customers are always doing amazing things with their software and Jimmy Zukauska is living proof. He works for Machining Concepts Inc., located in Blaine, Minnesota. They are a smaller machine shop that does a lot of different prototype parts from various fields. Jobs range from medium to short-run production jobs. Jimmy says, “We […]
Published on September 14th, 2018by Mike Downss in Articles, Case Studies
Transitioning from owner & operator to retiree, Jon McCommon’s father decided to send him to Clearwater, Florida to do an In-shop training with the professionals here at BobCAD headquarters. Tasked with learning ‘modern manufacturing’, Jon came here with an open mind and a blank notebook. His shop, MAM Machining and Manufacturing resides in the town […]
Published on August 8th, 2018by Mike Downss in Articles, Case Studies
U.S. Navy Veteran and longtime customer, John Hopkins, uses BobCAD-CAM’s CNC software to make some amazing things at his home in Washington state. Like most of us, John wondered what he would do when he retired… then it hit him. He explains, “Years ago when I was still working, I thought ‘well, I gotta do […]
Published on August 7th, 2018by Mike Downss in Articles, Case Studies
Randy Brady of Southern Precision Tooling in Asheboro, North Carolina humbly refers to his shops as a ’glorified job shop, doing mainly CNC machining & some manual work’. “BobCAD is all I’ve ever used. I first started my shop in 1999 and bought BobCAD in 2000, basically just to open up DXF and DWG (files) […]
