Back in 1993, after serving six years in the US Navy working on missile and gun systems and in nuclear weapon security, I had the opportunity to help a family friend in his "backyard" machine shop. One week later I wrote my first G-code program and a year later we moved Butler Tool & Manufacturing to where it remained until his death in 2025.
During the ensuing thirty years, I've chased challenge. In some cases it was ever more difficult materials or tolerances, in others it was more difficult shapes and in others, it was all of the above. Over the years, I have served in nearly every conceivable position in too many shops to remember. From production machinist to tooling machinist, from hand writing three axis programs to five axis programming instructor and from apprentice to owner.
With TMP, it's my ultimate goal to stretch the bounds of what's possible in both production and inspection techniques. With the best people, software, inspection equipment and machine tools, we will have the ability to perform all machining operations in a single setup, physically probe critical features and inspect every nuance of every part using an optical scanner at a resolution of .0002", all while in the machine, using a zero point fixturing paradigm.