What brings you to the shop?
Pick a door. Everything else is one click away either way.
I need a part made
Prototypes and short runs. Send a drawing and get a straight answer.
Start a quote →I'm here for the builds
Retrofits, shop-floor lessons, and the mistakes that came with them — filmed on YouTube and Instagram. Written build logs are on the way.
Who am I talking to?
Fair question before you send drawings to a stranger on the internet. Short answer: one machinist, and here's his name.
Read the short version →Dilan Pabon
Owner · Got Chips LLC
Got Chips LLC is my shop — one machinist, two machines, and a bad habit of taking things apart to find out why they don't work.
Weekdays I'm at Tool Alliance, a cutting-tool manufacturer that's been making carbide tooling since 1972, where I work on the software and CAM behind how those tools get ground. Nights and weekends I'm on my own floor: a Fanuc Robodrill running the production work, and a Hitachi Seiki lathe I'm rebuilding from the control up after its original electronics gave out.
So when you send a drawing, you're talking to the person who will actually cut the part. No sales desk, no quoting robot — and if it's not a job I should be taking, I'll tell you that instead of quoting it anyway.
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