This is impressive!
Our Precision Engineering company based in Weymouth were the first company in the area to buy a DMG German built 5 axis machining centre back in the late 90s, it cost us £500k which was a massive investment at the time but wow it was the best investment we ever made and took the company into the top league of our many competitors.
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Impressive piece of kit, titanium isn’t the easiest material to mill/machine.
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Wonderful engineering achievement. I dearly wish my father could have seen it. He was a skilled toolmaker at Austin aero in the 1940s and later works manager with Tubes Investment in the Black Country. Tool design and manufacture was his passion.
Dad died in 1970.
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Meh, my first job as a software engineer was for a local CAD/CAM company - they were milling stuff like this
[source https://grabcad.com/library/boristhespider]
on 5-axis machines in the (late) 1980’s - Boris is sort-of the company mascot.
In fact one of my jobs for them early on was to work on the program that generated the G-code for the mills (although the 5-axis stuff was done by a Romanian chap whose maths was about 10x better than mine).
The Lion’s head is nice though - and, as Mark says, titanium is not the easiest thing to work.
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