Topics:

 * Blade show Collaboration knife of the year
 * White light interferometer working!
 * Robot system hiccups cutting steel
 * Overhaul compressor system
 * Wax fixturing success
 * Waterfall cashflow



#457 Blade Show Collaboration Knife of the Year

Topics:

 * Wax fixturing and carbon fiber 
 * Robot outfeed tables
 * SMW machine updates
 * White light interferometer working!?
 * Justin interning at Saunders

#456 Wax fixturing and carbon fiber 

Topics:

 * Six types of working genius
 * New intern at Saunders
 * Carbon fiber inlays
 * Fishbone diagram
 * Memory rail photo gallery

#455 New intern at Saunders

Topics:

 * ERP updates
 * Prompt engineering
 * 19 hours of footage from California
 * Brother S500 + UR robot
 * 3d surfacing vs 2d contour
 * Painters tape on toolboxes



#454 Going nuclear on changes

Topics:

 * Mammoth summit recap
 * "Do you wnat to be right, or do you want to make money?" - Jim Belosic
   "40/70 rule" - Jim Belosic
 * Raise your prices?
 * New machines at SMW
 * Grimsmo's shop tours around California
 * "Ask me whatever questions you need before starting this task"
 * "Stop starting and start finishing"

#453 Grimsmo's shop tours around California

#452 Mammoth Summit on a chairlift

Topics:

 * Mammoth ski trip
 * Shantaram book
 * Claude programming
 * Internal purchase orders
 * UR robot deburring
 * Custom step drills

#451 Claude programming

Topics:

 * SMW buys more machines - growth eats cash for breakfast
 * Oil contaminating encoders
 * Fusion sketch slowness and diffraction gratings
 * Coolant maintenance
 * ShopVR
 * Watchmaking deep dive

#450 Growth eats cash for breakfast

Topics:

 * Dollhouse of SMW
 * custom tips for dial indicators
 * bismuth, wax, thermopolymers
 * Blade fixturing
 * Ai automations
 * Don't go chasing waterfalls
 * Precision microcast podcast

#449 Don't go chasing waterfalls

Topics:

 * Shipping and tarrifs
 * Fishbone diagram
 * Clamping induced distortion
 * Managing our growth

#448 Everything in the world is triangles

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