Linda in the office doing some data entry, keeping up on records, and customer list information. Click on photo to see what Linda is currently working on.

Jim, plasma cutting knife blanks from an old saw blade. All knife blanks are cut from the raw materials, either L-6 steel (old saw blades) or 440-C stainless steel. Like most of the equipment at Siggma, the panograph plasma cutting set up is home made by Jim.

After plasma cutting, the L-6 knife blanks are annealed (softened) in the furnace, allowed to cool. William Yazzie is grinding the final profile down to the scribe lines. All 440-C stainless steel is ordered in the annealed state from the steel supplier in Illinois. The entire knife grinding operation is done on a belt sander built by Jim over 20 years ago.