On 12/19/2019 12:47 PM, Clare Snyder wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2019
07:23:02 -0700, Bob La Londe
wrote:

On 12/19/2019 12:30 AM, wrote:
On Friday, June 11, 1999 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Ostcroix wrote:
Hello :


I've been working at the same place for the past
12 years and I've mastered every thing at my shop
execpt the C N C machines. We have a old 5T
Fanuc control but we only run one part on there.
I would say that I have good fundmental skills on
the conventional machines. However, I would like
to get better. Does anyone have Tips or questions
a machinist should ask themselves to determine
if they are a capable machinst ? Does 12 years
of making the same type parts make me a solid
machinist? How Can I furthur hone my skills where
I am at ? I am really wondering if I am a good machinist


A 20 year old thread... and yet still a good question.
A "good machinist" should be able to take a drawing of something he's
never made before and figure out how to make it accurately without
making too much scrap - and after figuring it out, repeat it.


How about those of us who work from pencil scrawlings on a scrap of
paper and often have questions for clarification met with "like that
other thing I didn't send you an image of" and "you know what I mean"
instead of actual answers. Or worse, "I just want it ultra realistic
and it has to be 'exactly' perfect." If its in a verbal conversation
their pitch almost always changes when they say the word exactly.

LOL.

Often my response to customers is, "I have no way of seeing the pretty
picture in your head. Please draw a picture. Even if its not very
good." Some are amazingly bad. The ones that kill me are the guys who
struggle to draw a marginally circular image who then proceed to tackle
a detailed perspective drawing. I have to applaud the effort. I would
love to own some of those images. I'd frame them and put on a modern
art exhibit. Picasso would be bewildered. Sometimes I really wish I
could see it the same way they do. That's the market I picked though.