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Authors and Contributors

About This Wiki

The Machine Shop Tutorials Wiki-Book bridges the gap between traditional machining knowledge and modern documentation practices. While machinists have passed their craft through apprenticeships and shop floor conversations for generations, this wiki captures that oral tradition in a searchable, versioned, and collaborative format.

This living document preserves decades of accumulated tricks, techniques, and hard-won insights that might otherwise be lost when experienced machinists retire. By creating a collaborative repository, we ensure that shop floor wisdom is translated into documented best practices that anyone can access, contribute to, and learn from.

Primary Author

Johanness A. Nilsson
Email: [johanness.nilsson@terraformindustries.com] (mailto:johanness.nilsson@terraformindustries.com)
GitHub: @JoNilsson

Johanness brings years of hands-on experience in metal fabrication, CNC machining, and shop management. His goal is to democratize access to machining knowledge by documenting techniques that traditionally exist only in the minds and hands of practitioners.

Contributing

This wiki grows through collective effort. Every reader can become a contributor by:

  • Correcting mistakes and clarifying explanations
  • Adding missing techniques from personal experience
  • Expanding sections with additional details
  • Contributing photographs and diagrams
  • Translating content for international audiences
  • Reporting issues and suggesting improvements

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to:

  • The open-source community for building tools like Nix, Python, MkDocs & VIM!
  • Traditional machinists who share their knowledge freely with hackers
  • Everyone who has contributed corrections, suggestions, and improvements

Philosophy

"In the old days, machining knowledge was jealously guarded. Masters would hide their techniques from apprentices, and shops would keep their methods secret. But knowledge wants to be free. By sharing what we know, we all become masters, and the world becomes a better place for all."

— Johanness A. Nilsson

License

This repository contains both software source code and textual content, each licensed separately:

  • Textual content (documentation, articles, and written works) is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License] (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
  • Software source code is licensed under the MIT License.

By contributing to this repository, you agree that textual contributions will be licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 and code contributions will be licensed under the MIT License.

See LICENSE.md in the repository root for full details.

Contact

For questions, suggestions, or collaboration opportunities: