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Jem records from a van battling massive audio lag while engineers occupy his shop floor. He celebrates winning Business of the Year and permits for the new home shed. Justin is drowning in rush jobs, finding a surprise in the YCM sale, and daycare lice. Plus, they discuss buying fiber lasers, upgrading the Fusion Bulk importer, and fancy 5-axis calibration tools.

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• Rush the rush
• Elephant Robotics - Nestworks CNC
• .0003,.0006,.0006 (.0076, .0015, .0015mm)
• Focused Training
• Updated Fusion Bulk Importer to v.2 Add-in
• Local awards
• Building workshops for other people
• Planning permit
• Justin buying this 30w Fiber laser
• Jem's laserpecker

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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem's been grumpy after a slow studio sale, while Justin's juggling rush jobs solo. They chat about robot vacuums saving thousands in labor costs, Justin's new task app that harasses you into productivity, coolant mixers, and why reflection time keeps slipping away. Plus hacked Unitree robots spreading viruses like worms. Both feeling the squeeze between email and actual work.

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• Solo humpin
• Glue ups
• Creative Woodworking mini tour
• Slave to email ⠄
• Unicorn Sales and Support hires?
• Luddite floor cleaning ꘎
• Grumpy boss ꘎
• I need your app ꘎
• Shopify MCP coming ST
• No reflection makes Jem a dull boy ꘎
• More grumpy ꘎
• Spray booth build ꘎
• Two new robots at PDX CNC
• Boss capacity limiting
• Unitree robots hacked

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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem and Justin geek out over Jon Klassen. Jem’s selling equipment. They chat UMC updates, marketing consultant wisdom, and why email rules sales plus thoughts on pneumatic air line strategy.

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• Jon Klassen books are good
• Where is my hat
• So many jobs
• UMC update, closer
• Jem sells his Multicam Router
• May sell YCM?
• Unhook, dismantle room
• Talked to a consultant
• Email is best method for sales, don't worry about unsub
• Website conversion
• AI management
• Uses social media to confirm
• Finalist business awards in AU
• Pneumatic air lines workshop optimisation
• Maxline
• Camaster Out of Business?

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Our biggest Profit First review yet. Jem and Justin break down why the system saved their businesses, how Mercury Bank automation beats manual tracking, and why you don't need to be perfect with it. Plus the psychology of fake scarcity, stealing from the right accounts, and what happens when sales are better than you hoped.

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• UMC 🤘
• Phil's AU 2024 Fusion Workflow Template Talk
• Hot, stressed, sunburnt feeling but great sales
• Baby pants obsession
• Dian Jin Vise DJ-1217

• Profit First Resources Page
• Eric Larson start PF (10%)
• 2sec lean it
• Justin's bank - Mercury
• ST Assistant
• Restructure - Split Lease and Payroll
• New Debt account
• New Mercury Distro Days (Fridays)
• Weekly vs Fortnight
• 91% elusive - broke it finally
• KittaParts 50%
• Trust the system

Starting Accounts

• Income
• Profit
• OpEx
• Materials & Freight
• Payroll
• Lease
• Tax

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Jem and Justin catch up after Justin's anniversary trip, discussing his new Haas UMC 5-axis mill installation and Jem's late-night robot programming sessions. They explore the Lang workholding system, debate the death of traditional rendering with AI tools like Nano Banana, and share skepticism about Sora video generation. Justin turns down a massive aluminum router job due to equipment limitations while Jem perfects his ABB dual-robot sanding setup.

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• UMC landed, Ep 1 on Youtube
• Jem's Robot Workholding
• Lang QP 45963
• $20k parts no quote
• Rendering is dead. ꘎
• Nano Banana Daddy
• Sora 2
• Casey Neistat on AI
• Fang shipped!
• HTX new video

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Jem and Justin welcome their first-ever planned guest, Matt Swaidan of Simple Wood Goods. The Ohio-based maker discusses his decade-long journey building a modular vinyl storage business, custom CAM software called Beaver, and automated UR robot finishing lines. They explore surviving the 2022 Baltic birch crisis, intentional downsizing, digital marketing strategies, and maintaining boundaries with four kids under six while running a focused manufacturing operation.

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• We have our first planned guest, Matthew Swaidan of Simple Wood Goods
• Your business, GO
• Your background?
• So many boxes, did you set out to be a box lord?
• Assembly line with UR robot
• Software dev experience
• https://speckle.systems/
• Explain Beaver - Production CAM
• Anderson Stratros Nest CNC router
• Edge sealing experiments
• Odoo
• The edge bander retrofit?
• How dig out of baltic birch?
• Change your design or practices?
• New products in mind? How much does the production line limit that?
• Online marketing experience
• Ad spends 10% of revenue
• Epoxy floors?

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Jem fights corrupted robot flash disks while Justin battles predatory bank loans for his new mill. They discuss 5-axis machining mindset shifts, announce the Fang workholding clamps, geek out over Nano Banana's rendering magic, and debate Notebook LM vs custom AI agents. Plus: PS2 updates and Fusion's new text parameters.

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• I bricked the robot ꘎
• Brother 100 tool machine
• Notebook LM (again) ꘎
• Probing lust
• Singularity graphs ꘎
• Lieing Loaners
• Fang Workholding Clamps
• Lang Technik

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Jem achieves lights-out ABB robot sanding with 3D printed horns and Grasshopper programming. Justin loses one CNC machine deal, finds another, signs the paperwork live on air. They explore Twig and Bot's robot probing, Jem's latest guesting on the Shop Stool Podcast, therapy for humans, and negotiation philosophy.

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• High and lows
• Hook em horns
• Jem on Shop Stool Podcast
• 💰 UMC?
• Twig and Bot Robot Probing
• Buy the YCM - reach out, lets make a deal
• Always negotiate - lease, machines, jobs
• Matthew - Simple Wood Goods
• 12 inch duct print
• Mr Freon AND Leaded gasoline

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem gets deep into Grasshopper software building custom robot CAM while Justin keeps drilling thousands of holes on his ShopSabre. They chat about wild HTX Studio YouTube automation, scary tool changer malfunctions, and the eternal struggle of buying used vs new CNC machines. Plus Justin upgrades to a bigger 3D printer and teases his AirShop inventory & quoting software. Plus koala vaccines, and 8020 extrusion workholding in the future?

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• Koala Vaccine
• Jem in love with Grasshopper
• Grasshopper Tutorial Video
• HTX Studio! ꘎
• Justin is still drilling thousands of holes
• Multicam Trident CNC Tool Changer issue
• Shopping for mills, how can you tell if a secondhand machine is any good!?
• Plywood tombstones no so much good ꘎
• Should I use 8020 extrusion for fixtures!?
• Robot work holding!? ꘎
• Extrusion
• J moves are sketchy as in Robot programming
• Pierson video
• H2S on the way
• AirShop update Kanban cards done, testers signup here
• Eric Trine like wine

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem and Justin chew over 100,000 holes for breakfast and why you can’t rush them. They tackle janky probing and a carbon reporting prototype that’s greener than your inbox peach emoji. From Wera distribution deals to David’s Robot Factory, plus a wild mill shopping spree and AI tools that might just save the day. Oh, and an MCP mess you don’t want to miss.

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• 100,000 holes for breakfast
• Condition the hold vac?
• Janky probing
• Carbon Reporting prototype
• PDX CNC is a Wera distributor
• 8020 extrusion configurations
• David's Robot Factory
• People with conscious
• Eric's call for help
• The peach of inbox 20something 🍑
• Shopping for mills with Justin
• Maybe best use of AI tools ever ꘎ !
• ST MCP Big Fuck up

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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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