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There's usually 1 of 2 kinds - really sexy cuts:
And horrific crashes:
Then there's this. OP was likely doing a production run bored out of their mind, taking the likely victims of 3 crashes and wishing they had some black vinyl for a backdrop. I swear, if most of us didn't have NDA's, there'd be a constant stream of this kind of stuff. When you sit there for 10-12 hours a day making the same thing, you get creative. There's an entire drawer in my box dedicated to interesting ways I've seen an apprentice really screw it up.
Are there's still manual production runs in the first world? The one machinist I know IRL does manual stuff now, but it's all bespoke, and his colleagues sound like they might not have heard of CNC.
There very much are still manual production runs. And even with CNC you sometimes wind up changing work every 12 seconds all day.
What, you're telling me it's not all like the cool YouTube videos? /s
That's a good sign for every other job that can be automated, I guess.
That's certainly a lot of machinists. I'm not production, about half my job is maintenance. Half my job is making parts. And half my job is screwing around.
In the shop I used to work at, everything but the routers were Haas, save for the one lone Hurco. I was the only one that could and would use it, and maintenance refused to touch it. I had to crawl in there with a hammer more times than I'd care to remember. So, I feel ya.