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Our Interview with Andrew Henry at Henry Holsters

6/30/2017

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A former music teacher, Andrew started Henry Holsters in Indiana in 2008, Henry Holsters are thermoformed plastic holsters that combine careful design work with robust materials and painstaking attention to detail.

They make their holster out of Boltaron 4332 sheet material for all their holsters, as they prefer the workability and feel of Boltaron over Kydex.

Most importantly, they use Destiny Tool end mills to make their top-of-the-line holsters!  Andrew started following us with his instagram account a few years ago and we've been following his progress right back. 

Their shop uses state of the art Brother CNC milling machines and vacuum forming machines to produce holster shells which are then hand finished and assembled.

​We visited Andrew at his shop earlier this month and got to spend some time with this fully self taught machinist and manufacturing innovator. Give Andrew a follow on instagram! He posts some rather nice instructive videos there: @henryholsters
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IMTS 2016 Harry Moser explaining Reshoring for Small Contract Manufacturers

11/2/2016

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PictureHarry Moser, Founder, Reshoring Initiative
Harry Moser from the Reshoring Initiative stopped by our IMTS 2016 booth to talk about the progress of reshoring manufacturing to North American shores.  
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Reshoring is the practice of bringing manufacturing and services back to the U.S. from overseas. It’s a fast and efficient way to strengthen the U.S. economy because it helps balance the trade and budget deficits, reduces unemployment by creating good, well-paying manufacturing jobs, and fosters a skilled workforce. Reshoring also benefits manufacturing companies by reducing the total cost of their products, improving balance sheets, and making product innovations more effective. 

The Reshoring Initiative is focused on helping companies shift collective thinking from “offshoring is cheaper” to “local reduces the total cost of ownership.”

Harry explained how small contract manufacturing shops can use his Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator, for free, to convince their customers to keep the existing machining on our shores. He suggested asking your customers:
"Is there anything you are thinking about moving off shore, or better yet, is there anything you are getting from off-shore where you are having delivery issues, quality issues, intellectual property issues, travel, too much late night telephone calls, anything that is causing you pain,... and how can we take away the pain?"
We also talked about how small machine shops can innovate more as more machining business reshores. At Destiny Tool we believe that reshoring stimulates even more new innovation and, candidly, helps us innovate new products and solutions because of our customers feedback about machining.

Here's the video below. We hope you find it helpful in growing your business.

Harry Moser & The Reshoring Initiative

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Harry Moser founded the Reshoring Initiative in 2010 to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Prior to the starting the Initiative, he held leadership positions at GF Machining Solutions, formerly known as GF AgieCharmilles, where he began in 1985 as the company’s president and retired in 2010 as Chairman Emeritus.

Harry's reshoring efforts have been widely recognized. In 2010, he was inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame and was named Quality Magazine’s Quality Professional of the year in 2012. 

Harry has actively participated in President Obama’s Insourcing Forum at the White House in January 2012. He also won The Economist debate in January 2013 on outsourcing and offshoring, and received the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Industry Advocacy Award in 2014.

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Driven to Perform: Odenthal Manufacturing

8/24/2016

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This article originally appeared in CNC West, June-July 2016 issue,
"Driven to Perform: Odenthal Manufacturing" written by Sean Burr
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Left to right- David Odenthal, Alex Odenthal, Carl Shibler, Gabe Nelson, Mark Pasquali, Tim Gisel
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho is not really on anyone’s radar as being a hotbed of manufacturing, but it should be. This lakeside resort community is a jewel in the Idaho panhandle with skiing and boating the main attractions. In a city of 60,000 people Forbes lists it inside their top twenty plac- es for small business and careers. It’s also where David Oden- thal grew up, started racing, and built his machining business.

Odenthal Manufacturing came about through David’s love of racing go karts and his dad’s automotive machining back- ground. “Growing up my brother and I raced karts,” explains David. “Dad had an automotive machining business in the local area and spent every penny he made putting my brother and I through racing. He wasn’t married so it was what we did together. We traveled all over the country on what was considered to be a small racing budget.”

​After graduating high school in 1986 David attended Northern Idaho College’s two year vocational machine tech program. After graduating in 1988 he got a job with MSM Design making various types of film equipment including IMAX cameras. That is where he got his first shot at designing. “Marty Mueller was my mentor and gave me a shot at designing a brand new film magazine” said David. He had a skill and love for both racing and making things, so in 1992 Keith Odenthal sold his automotive machine shop, teamed up with David, and Odenthal Manufacturing was born. Their first product was the Odenthal Racing Products engine mount for go karts. 

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Destiny 5-3's by 7-1 Promo: 5 Viper End Mills 3 Fluters $119

4/4/2016

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In the history of Destiny Tool we have not had a tool promotion.  This is the first.  

Here's how it started.
We've had such a wonderful following on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube of customers posting their success stories with our Viper End Mills in 6061, 7075, Brass, Bronze and Copper, making Aerospace  Defense, Racing components and medical products that we wanted to thank them ALL for their support with a special offer...

But then we started talking about it here at the factory...  

Then we talked to with several of our regional manager's and distributors and to some machine shops...  

Frankly, it just didn't seem fair to only offer some special pricing just to our loyal followers, 

"We should offer it to EVERYONE and EVERYONE should thank all of our loyal followers for making this promotion happen!"
So here's the deal.  Between now and June 30 2016, you can purchase 5 Destiny Viper 3 Flute End MIlls as a SET
  • 1 each V33220 - 1/2" diameter, 3 flute, 1-1/4" LOC, 3" OAL
  • 1 each V32416 - 3/8" diameter, 3 flute, 1" LOC, 2-1/2" OAL
  • 1 each V31608 - 1/4" diameter, 3 flute, 1/2" LOC, 2" OAL
  • 1 each V31210 - 3/16" diameter, 3 Flute 5/8" LOC, 2" OAL
  • 1 each V30805 - 1/8" diameter, 3 flute, 5/16" LOC, 1-1/2" OAL
You must use ORDER CODE: V3KIT5 for these items.

It's only $119 for the entire kit.  This promotion ends at midnight June 30, or at 12:01am on July depending on whom you talk to.
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All we ask is one thing from you. Say Thank You to the people that made this promotion happen by picking one of the following:
  1. Follow the #DestinyTool hashtag on Instagram and thank some of the people who have posted video's and pictures of their Destiny Viper experiences, or
  2. Check out our Facebook page and the folks who have shared their Destiny Viper experiences and thank or LIKE their page!. A Lot of small business that can always use your support with a LIKE.
  3. Or you can visit our YouTube Channel; We've favorited many of our customer's video's so you can find them and give them some LIKE!

Give them a big thank you to each of them for making this special pricing promotion happen because we can't ever thank them enough for their continued loyalty and support!

the fine print:
  • THIS PROMOTION MUST BE ORDERED THROUGH YOUR LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR.  
  • NO DIRECT ORDERS WILL BE ACCEPTED AT DESTINY TOOL
  • LIMIT TWO KITS PER MACHINE SHOP

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Small Machine Shops Make US Make Better Tools

2/25/2016

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Jon Addis is the owner of Area 419 Firearms near Toledo, OH.  John has been sharing and posting his videos of Destiny end mills on Facebook Page and more recently on his YouTube channel. The video below is his most recent video using a 5/8" Viper end mill in 6061-T6 Aluminum. The video below is HSM adaptive roughing with a Destiny Viper DVH 5/8 x 2" LOC. 0.250" step over, 0.500" DOC, 6,000 RPM, 90IPM.  According to John
"All the horsepower she's got, tool could take a lot more!"
​Take a look and then feel free to jump over to his Facebook or Youtube channel and ask him for more details.  

Destiny Tool Customer Profile: John Addis
John graduated from the University of Toledo with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology.  He also attended Wyotech, and received a certification in Automotive Technology and Chassis Fabrication.  Along with that he's taken TIG welding classes at Owens Community college, and "perfected that art at home with my own machine."

According to John, "I have been building and modifying things pretty much my entire life.  The past five or so years though has been dedicated mainly to Precision Rifles.  I love working on guns, and my work shows it, this is more than just a job for me its also a hobby."

Area 419 is a relatively small operation right now running out of a 1500 sq.ft shop. It's just the kind of aggressive entrepreneur that we here at Destiny Tool really admire.  Some of our very best customers are small shops.  They're the ones who watch their dollars and take a deep dive analysis into cycle times and efficiency. They do their research and they optimize their tools. 

Small machine shops make up over 80% of the metalcutting machining industry.  They are some of the most innovative people we meet. They think out of the box. They always preface a conversation about speeds & feeds with "I'm just a small shop, I don't want to take up a lot of your time" but they almost always have done their research and are the people with their sleeves rolled up, mopping the floor up from coolant, talking to a customer on the phone and watching our end mills rough out material.  We love small shops! 

Small Shops are what makes us strong. Small shops are what makes us innovate. If you get a be sure to check out John's website and what he does. Support a small machine shop near you!
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#Instamachinist Video: Pumpin' Coolant Munchin' Steel

12/15/2015

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Ti2 Design, based in Pearl City, HI., is a family owned and operated business.  The materials they cut are predominately Titanium Grade 2 hence the company name. They have also begun producing some of their cool gadgets in other matertials such as Copper, Brass and Zirconium.

All of their products are manufactured in a machine shop in Pearl City, fulfilled daily by Mike Bond, the owner, and his wife. Their products are made in the USA and their goal is to create products that last a lifetime transcending generations.  They initially launched their products on Kickstarter which helped them determine which  items gets placed on their website.  Click here to see their website: Ti2 Design

Munching steel this afternoon! The 1/2" @destinytool raptor 3/6 is as good as it gets for milling steel, stainless and Titanium.

Munching steel this afternoon! The 1/2" @destinytool raptor 3/6 is as good as it gets for milling steel, stainless and Titanium. #instamachinist #destinytool #raptor #carbide #machineshop #stillplayswithtoys #bigboytoys #madeinhawaii #madeinusa #madeinamerica #pearlcity #americanmachineshop #madeinoahu #cncporn

A video posted by Ti2Design (@ti2design) on Dec 10, 2015 at 4:59pm PST

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Tactical G-Code demonstrates TRUEmill pocketing with a Destiny 1/2" 3 Flute Viper Endmill

7/15/2015

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TACTICAL G-CODE  is a great YouTube resource channel with 17,403 subscribers  and over  1,521,000 views.  If you haven't checked it out their channel you go on over and subscribe!

According to their YouTube profile, TACTICAL G-CODE
"With my channel I want to show how I make my custom rounds and my testing with them. When asked, why I do make these rounds, my answers are WHY NOT, OR BECAUSE I CAN. In addition to the stuff I make. I want to bring the firearms and other related items, that are off the beaten path guns, ammo, and products/company that you may have never heard of before. And the stuff you have heard of you won't find alot of videos about it on other youtube channels."
The below video was uploaded on  November 24, 2010 to demosntrate Truemill software.
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​According to Tactical G-Code: "More testing with a Haas SMM and Viper endmill. This time we concentrated on a pocket workpiece instead of a contoured outside.  LIke many of our other videos, the spindle load was set to 101%, but it never reached that point. The truemill cycle reached a max of 91% toward the end when it got really fast."

End Mill:  
Destiny Tool Viper 3 Flute, 0.500" dia, 1.00" flute length, stealth coated (V33216S)
  • 0.950" Depth of Cut
  • Radial depth of cut 0.040"
  • Surfcam Truemill programmed at 400-IPM max for the pocket cycle. The actual feedrates are automatically ramped up depending on the tool's angle of engagement.

Ashtray....or miniature hottub?
The Pocketing starts around the 3 minute mark!

What is TRUEMill?
​TRUEMill is quantum leap in CAM toolpath technology. A TRUEMill toolpath controls the tool’s engagement in the material being cut to maximize the material removal rate (MRR). TRUEMill allows a cut that is both faster and deeper than any other 2 & 3 axis roughing toolpath on the market today. TRUEMill’s effectiveness and speed is especially evident in difficult or exotic materials such as titanium, inconel and hard steels.

TRUEMill’s superior toolpath is not dependant on the geometry to be milled, so no guesswork is required to see which pocketing routine is best. TRUEMill toolpaths have proven to increase material removal rates by up to 10X and increase tool life anywhere from 30% to 100% while at the same time decreasing cycle times and reducing the stress on CNC machines.
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Welcome to the NEW Destiny Tool Website!

1/18/2015

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Welcome!

We've spent a lot of time putting together our new website together just for you! We've tried to make it as interactive and as helpful as possible to machinist who need information at their fingertips right at their CNC Machine.  
  1. The first thing you should look at is our HOMEPAGE <<< You'll notice that we've loaded it with links to our social media so you can contribute your stories, questions and insights into how-to get the most production increases and reduce cycle time in your shop!
  2. The second thing you should check out is our QUICK LINKS mobile landing page. The entire website is designed for using it on a mobile phone! We've tried to make it easy for you to literally put your fingertips right on the answers to all of your questions as fast as possible!
  3. In case you haven't noticed already, we've made everything hotlinked! We figured that since you're visiting us on a mobile device we shouldn't have to ask "where do I find out what they're talking about" so any time you see  something in bold type and highlighted, like "Tell me about ABOUT your company" you can just click on the bold colored link!
One of the biggest complaints we've heard in the past about cutting tool websites is that they all assume that everyone has the same level of technical knowledge.  We realize that some people know more than others just because they've got more experience. We've tried to put together a TECHNICAL section that answers many of the frequently-asked-questions as well as some of the more advanced application issues WE hear about on a weekly basis. Be sure to take  a look at the drop down menu's of technical information.  You may just be surprised what we've hidden on some of those pages!

If this is your first time hearing about Destiny Tool, then you should know what  we are NOT like everyone else who makes end mills.  We understand the details and we hope our new website depicts our attention to detail. We provide a niche solution for very specific materials and in-depth technical support.  You'll notice that we've used the ISO 513 standard for coding all of our tools and speed and feed charts. We where the FIRST manufacturer of end mills in the world to adopt this color coding schema when we introduced our 2012 catalog.

Materials we machine at a high performance level

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NonFerrous - We LOVE  aluminum! We've been roughing and finishing in non-ferrous materials for over 25 years! Our Viper and Diamondback are MADE for these materials!

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Cast Iron- With the tremendous advances in CNC milling machines, software and controlled TIR in Toolholders companies can now really take advantage of our Python series end mills

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Stainless Steel - We love Stainless Steel machining!  Yes, we love non ferrous, but Stainless Steel alloys are neck and neck as our favorite material to cut.  We've spent a great deal of time engineering our Raptor DVH and Raptor 3/6 just for this material

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Steel - Just as with Cast Iron our Python series end mills have quickly become a top performer.  We've had some great feed back on these tools in many types of Steel. Our Raptor and Raptor 3/6 are also proving to be exceptional performers in this material group.  

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High Temp Alloys - Have you noticed a trend? We like soft gummy hard-to-machine materials. We specialize in it! 
Our Raptor DVH and Raptor 3/6 tools are THE performance tool in the market. We don't say that lightly. We feel that we can outrun and outperform just about every competitor out there. Give us a try and you tell us!

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Hard Materials - Our Raptor series end mills have started to quickly become a top performer in hard milling.  The Raptor 3/6, with it's unique geometry is starting to really make an impact in hard milling applications.  We've also been developing some more advanced edge preparations for longer run production jobs so be sure to give us a call and ask about them!


When End Mill Performance Matters

We offer a high performance product line for those companies that want to reduce cycle time and improve finishes first and foremost.  That's our goal.  Our SUBSTRATE, GEOMETRY, TOLERANCES and COATINGS are developed with specific materials groups in mind. As a result we provide solutions to the aerospace, defense, medical device, firearms, wafer manufacturing, auto racing, and cutting edge new product innovations. 

In closing, welcome YOU to our new website.  YOU are on the news feed.  The news tab is going to be ALL about YOU. We want YOUR feedback, We want YOUR input!  If you do nothing else please check out our TEST TOOL POLICY.  We WANT you to test our tools.  If you run them and fill out a TEST TOOL REPORT we'll give you the tools for free AND we'll post the result right here on our NEWS feed and help promote YOUR company. We want to share YOUR success stories and your experiences!  REQUEST A CONSULTATION today! Isn't it time to let everyone know how good you are?
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Viper, The ONLY Tool to use for Aluminum Machining

5/30/2012

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"The Viper, by Destiny Tool. These were recommended to me by @kalpay a while back and they are all I use now for aluminum milling."  

Ken Spaulding,  Purveyor of pocket-sized products.
Machinist in Old Towne Orange, California.
Zodiac Engineering

The Viper, by Destiny Tool from JEM Tool Supply. These were recommended to me by @kalpay a while back and they are all I use now for aluminum milling. Check out www.DestinyTool.com for tech specs and for pricing and order info head over to www.JEMToolSupply.com Awesome endmills, solid people and great prices.

A photo posted by Ken Spaulding (@zodiaceng) on Jan 28, 2014 at 10:47am PST

Some pretty cool parts coming from Echo Arms for the Remington 870.

A photo posted by Ken Spaulding (@zodiaceng) on Jan 30, 2014 at 10:39am PST

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