Questions: Online Machining Service

by Scott Marckx

Originally published in American Lutherie #84, 2005 and Big Red Book of American Lutherie Volume Seven, 2015

Scott Marckx of Port Townsend, Washington offers a useful tidbit:

There’s a company on the web called emachineshop (www.emachineshop.com). People can download free CAD (computer assisted drafting) software, design whatever kind of machine part they want out of a wide variety of materials, e-mail their order to the company, and get the thing in the mail. It seems like it may be very helpful for all of us luthiers who are trying to find or make special tools and jigs.