New member from Germany

[Trumpf]

Hi Guys,

My name is Cedric (blame my parents ) and I do all sort of technical work for living. I'm a one man business (self-employed for the last 17 years) and specialise in Prototyping, 3D CAD/CAM/Graphics and Software Development. That may sound like a huge variety of services but they are all somehow connected together. My "side project" is always looking for new(old) machines and tools to play with - I have all machining tools (both manual and CNC), Trumpf Laser Cutter (here comes my username) , a variety of sheet metal machines etc. Mostly anything is possible to produce, the limitation is me and the imagination At the moment I'm moving to new premises, so this month the biggest task is breaking a 10' x 10' hole in thick concrete wall to get all those machines and stuff in and then the actual transport of everything. I hope Santa comes to help.

Early 90's I did Coachbuilding in England as a secondary job, as my passion is restoring/customising old cars and trucks. In practice I could still fabricate parts for customers, but I'm limited in space (can't store many cars inside). I have several of my own project cars (American of course!) and a truck (25ton 6x4)... did I tell I'm a single

I'm located at the South West corner, ie. border of Germany, Switzerland and France. However, I'm not German - I'm Scandinavian but been living here about 4 years now. I always envy you guys in USA where you have wide variety of legendary tools/machines available, just to get a big box of Cleco's here was a major expense.

Ok, hope to get my account soon activated so I can start browsing this great forum

Cheers,
Cedric

[Kerry Pinkerton]

Welcome Cedric. When you get settled show us some of your stuff.

[Ben]

Hi Cedric,

welcome we love pictures....

Ben

[Trumpf]

Thanks guys, the biggest problem always is - the shop is never finished I could make a long list of things I would like to own

But sure, as soon as everything is installed in the new premises I could publish some photos - although they certainly won't be as impressive as the best shops I've seen here

[mariod]

Welcome Trumpf.

I'm from West Germany as well but a bit more north than you.
Cologne is were i am.

Good to hear you have a cnc laser let me know when it's set up i may have work for you....

Mario


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[David Gardiner]

Welcome to the site. Where in England did you do coachbuilding?

David