Hi, I’m Dave. I’m a machinist at Paragon Machine Works and a bike nerd. I ride bikes and have since childhood. I don’t build frames myself, but love the custom and am engulfed in the industry. I may have some questions from time to time, but I am mostly interested in bringing a shop floor/manual machining/CNC manufacturing perspective to the forum. I have been Machining since 2006. PMW is the 4th shop I have worked in and I have been here since 2017. I spent the first decade of my career as a manual machinist. The other shops I’ve worked in were a pump/compressor/fab shop, a food industry production shop, and an electric motor/fab shop. I hope to be able to field hobby machining questions and shed insight on what it takes to manufacture parts.