This article originally appeared in CNC West, June-July 2016 issue,
"Driven to Perform: Odenthal Manufacturing" written by Sean Burr

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. 

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!"

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!

​Many of our competitors data tables don't provide information on slotting so we've always found it's always a bit of a conundrum for a machinist of CNC operator to compare one end mill manufacturer to another from just the speed/feed data.  That's why we chose to use slotting for our chart. It's the true test of a end mills performance!

So, getting back to that secret we told you we would tell you. As we noted, and according to the chart above, a 1/2" Viper REQUIRES minimum of .006" CLPT.  THAT is truly the MINIMUM.  If you run under our MIN Chip Loads the tool WILL burn up from you rubbing it to death!

Truth be told, we actually don't know the max CLPT for our Vipers, Diamondbacks of Raptors for every diameter.  That's one of the reasons we've got a test tool policy that encourages you to fill out a test report.  Back in the old pre-CNC days the machinists had a method of finding the best chip load for a tool: 'Feed it 'til it breaks and back it down 10%"  Here at Destiny Tool we're a bit old school.  If you get a test tool from us by using our test tool GUARANTEED TRIAL PROGRAM and the tool breaks because you exceeded the MAX CLPT we'll replace the tool for FREE (as long as you give us the TEST TOOL report because we really really want to know where the top end is on quite a number of our tools!)

Ok, Since we're giving away secrets you might as well know that the marketing team also made another change to the chart data because they got "worried about this whole 'scaring people' thing."  Where it's states "1X Diameter" in the the catalog it originally said "2X diameter" in the draft.  The marketing folks claimed that their logic was that at some point some competitor is going to start to get closer to our performance numbers and it's just going to be easier to reprint a new catalog with the "2X diameter" and let them play catch up again. (1 dia RDC = 2 dia ADC).

​Hope we didn't scare you too much! :-)

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Located in the heart of Southern California, Zodiac Engineering is a small-scale machine shop focusing on prototypes to low volume production. Specializing in knives, firearms and automotive components.  Here's some of Ken Spaulding's instagram posts via @ZodiacEng on a special form tool we made for them to profile the tooth area of a 7075 sprocket.

Here's a video from Calvin Witt, one of our customers....