pipemakermike
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My Name is Mike Nelson and I have just joined. I make musical instruments, Model aeroplanes and a lot of model engineering things - mostly tools so far. I served a Scientific Instrument making apprenticeship at the Cambridge Scientific Instrument company and have spent most of the last 40+ years as a Design Engineer working for a number of the local design consultancies. I have a well equipped workshop with a vertical milling machine and 3 lathes (a Myford ML7 and a Chester Cub 630) as well as the usual bandsaw, pillar drill etc.
I gave up full time employment with Cambridges major design consultancy, Cambridge Consultants, at the end of 2005 and have been very busy ever since as a contract designeer for a lot of the smaller consultancies around Cambridge. Having just passed the magic retirement date I am taking on less work and trying to get back to the making that I love.
I will be doing one more project - Helping the recreation of a Baldwin narrow gauge locomotive for the Lynton and Barnstable railway. This is really a labour of love and I am viewing it as a retirement project.
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I gave up full time employment with Cambridges major design consultancy, Cambridge Consultants, at the end of 2005 and have been very busy ever since as a contract designeer for a lot of the smaller consultancies around Cambridge. Having just passed the magic retirement date I am taking on less work and trying to get back to the making that I love.
I will be doing one more project - Helping the recreation of a Baldwin narrow gauge locomotive for the Lynton and Barnstable railway. This is really a labour of love and I am viewing it as a retirement project.
http://762club.com/images/gallery1/2.jpg
