A new house with space for a workshop allowed Dward Design to become a reality. Alongside building custom steel bicycle frames, Ed slowly started to progress through buying manual, and then basic CNC mills. Sadly the machines in the startup budget left too much to be desire. Unreliable electronics and control software were really limiting.
As Bath is only a few miles from our UK base in Bristol, we paid Ed a quick visit to show Ed some tips and tricks on the LNC and since then he has been a very happy customer.
That was about a year ago (and only a couple of months before lockdown!) and since then the V5 has run most evenings and weekends, with very little stress. Given the need for efficient use of his time and the small travels of the machine, fairly early on Ed made a bespoke zero-point pallet system which has hugely increased productivity and throughout.
Most of the products produced by Dward Design are in 6-4 titanium, both printed and bar stock as well as the occasional stainless and aluminum for fixturing too.
“The V5 has been solid and dependable in all three materials.”
Ed trusts his machine to be able to accurately and repeatably put the final touches on components whose cost would make any machinist sweat
For more information on the products and services supplied by Ed Mason visit his Dward Design website.