New things around the shop!

Having new stuff is always fun. We have gotten a lot of new things as of late.

A shipment of stylish hats has arrived! 

New tools, new shop dogs, new shop cat, new social media, and even a few new faces. So now I will present the new folk!

I couldn't get a welding picture without burning my retina 

ELY: This young welder walked in off the streets about two weeks ago looking for work, so we gave him a tryout. His welds were great and he meshed right in with the crazy people we employ on a regular basis.

He learned his craft in the 9th grade when he took a metal shop class that lit a desire for fusing steel at high temps for hours on end.

Anthony: A level 8 rogue with a natural 20 charisma is now the shipping department. He got a job here due to his previous employment at the liquor store where the office staff made their twice weekly stockups. Anthony (or Tony as I call him) is a problem solving machine! Just the other day he showed me how to open a box with a scimitar.

That bandsaw was floating away

Charles, Chuck, Skippy, or simply "The Kid":  Skippy is the shop's version of the "Best boy," happy to sand, drill holes, go on supply runs, make product, or his favorite duty, "Lean on things." Chuckles loves working with metal and brings a levity to the shop floor that makes the days go by faster and even, dare I say, more fun. If you have ordered from us recently I bet "The Kid" probably leaned against it before it got shipped out to you.

What Cody looks like when you bust into the kiln and yell "POLICE!"

Cody:  This one-time international award winning skateboarder (that's what I imagine) is our shop helpie-helperton! You have a job that is going to take hours of standing in the sun doing the same thing over and over while your brain melts slowly out of your ears and nose? Cody would be happy to do it! It seems as though he's never had a bad day and no matter how hard we try we can't give him one.

uuuummm the picture says it all.

Chelsea: A former member of the "Foot Clan" and a "twerking instructor" showed up one day and started running the glass cutting department. If your order has glass incorporated into it then this lady cut, ground and mounted it with the extreme focus and dedication that only an enemy of the Ninja Turtles could muster. Although she has retired from her former life of daily ninja assassinations she still stalks and takes down any challenge we throw her way.

Reach for the sky

Greg: This Cal Poly grad recently joined our co-op pirate-ninja staff and took to it like a [insert good metaphor here.] After an achilles injury sustained while on an undercover mission with the CIA that he's not allowed to talk about, he took over the wiring department (the only job in the shop with a chair) and rocked out the sockets, shedding new light on otherwise dim projects.

Meow

Ric "The office nerd": This raging hipster came to us by way of the fabric industry; after working in textiles for 12 years he wanted to move to somewhere with sparks flying and bandsaws roaring! So he now works in our quiet office. This D&D playing Brony is the sexiest one in the office! He is in charge of social media, website integration, and writing the blog posts ;-)

This is Chuck Norris

And Arnold