{"id":127,"date":"2015-10-29T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2015-10-29T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:54:28","slug":"what-is-a-real-machinist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/what-is-a-real-machinist\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a REAL Machinist ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0read posts in other blogs and this question gets kicked around <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>A LOT<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. I guess each has his \/ her own opinion. Mine has been formed from being a 3rd generation machinist &#8230; having\u00a0grown up around and having worked in many machine shops &#8230; machining with everything from manual machines to the highest of tech CNC.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a REAL MACHINIST &#8230; aspire to be one &#8230; or are just an admirer of the skills and of the trade &#8230; this post is for you.<\/p>\n<p>I recently came across this channel on YouTube and I have become a real fan &#8230; and a real admirer. Although I grew up and was trained on a lot of the machines\u00a0illustrated on this channel ( of course with electricity &#8230; come on I&#8217;m not THAT OLD !! ) the steam power aspect adds a whole new dimension of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Below is just a sample video of Dave Richards videos. I highly recommend you take a peek. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WARNING : If you&#8217;re a REAL MACHINIST &#8230; you&#8217;ll be hooked !!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"OLD TIME STEAM POWERED MACHINE SHOP 6\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WztXI8zG5mw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Dave !!<br \/>\nFor the memories of these two guys !!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>My Grandad<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/New_Twitter_Background.gif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129\" src=\"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/New_Twitter_Background.gif\" alt=\"New_Twitter_Background\" width=\"1000\" height=\"732\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>My Dad<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dad_Machinist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128\" src=\"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dad_Machinist.jpg\" alt=\"Dad_Machinist\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dad_Machinist.jpg 5312w, https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dad_Machinist-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dad_Machinist-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5312px) 100vw, 5312px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kenney Skonieczny &#8211; President<br \/>\nKentech Inc.<br \/>\n3rd Generation Class &#8220;A&#8221; Machinist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0read posts in other blogs and this question gets kicked around A LOT. I guess each has his \/ her own opinion. Mine has been formed from being a 3rd generation machinist &#8230; having\u00a0grown up around and having worked in many machine shops &#8230; machining with everything from manual machines to the highest of tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,57,55,56],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kipware_blog_general_posts","tag-cnc","tag-machining-trade","tag-machinist","tag-real-machinist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}