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4 CNC WEST October/November 2016
VOL. XXXV NO. 1
October/November 2016
The oldest regional industrial publica-
tion serving the Western States man-
ufacturing managers, owners and
engineers from 1 employee to those
larger plants of 5,000 or more. Its
editorials feature numerical control
applications in all size machine
shops, tooling, programming, robot-
ics and shop operations, training
personnel, financing of new equip-
ment, cutting tools and all related
manufacturing requirements.
Coverage extends to all of Arizona,
California, Oregon, Washington,
Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, New
Mexico and Texas.
Founder:
Thomas F. Arnold (1927 - 2009)
PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER:
Shawn Arnold
EDITOR: Sean Buur
CIRC. MNGR: Charlene Strawbridge
PROD. MNGR: Linda Arnold
PROD. ASST: Jennifer Hallman
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Dream Big
It was 1976 and Tom Arnold was in a quandary. He was 50 years
old and he had just quit his job as sales manager at Industrial News the
largest regional newspaper in the metalworking industry. Health is-
sues forced him to take off work for 3 months and when he came back
to work his title changed from sales manager to salesman in the worst
territory. He stayed for a while but quit with an idea and a dream. The
dream was to start a regional metalworking magazine that rivaled the
national metalworking magazines. In 1977 he started a magazine called
Machine Tools West. This was and still is a regional metalworking
magazine with mostly advertisements. It put the hurt right away to the
Industrial News which closed down in the mid 80’s and a lot of adver-
tisers came to Machine Tools West.
Most felt he had done a good job building a rival to his old com-
pany. That was nice but that was not the dream. The dream was the
regional magazine to rival the national metalworking magazines. A
publication chalk full of articles on western region machine shops only.
He hired a well known at the time editor in Nat Wood, a photographer
named Walt Black and myself for sales and gopher work and in Octo-
ber 1981 the first issue of CNC WEST was printed. There was a lot of
blood, sweat and tears in the early years. That was 35 years ago and I
may be biased but I think we more than exceeded the dream my dad
envisioned 40 years ago.
Things are a little bit more simple now days. My wife Linda Arnold
puts the magazine together in a quarter of the time that 5 people did
back then with advances in technology. Nat, Walt and Tom have since
passed away but I think that Sean Buur and myself do an OK job of
presenting readers an interesting well read publication. Knock on wood
we will both be around for a few more years to keep the magazine go-
ing strong. And in between Nat and Sean as editors Chuck Bush did a
great job writing feature articles for us.
One of the great things I have seen over the years in this magazine
are the articles we have done about people that dreamed big. People
that worked for a company but bought a mill on the side and put it in a
garage, worked over the weekends and late at night and built up a clien-
tele and started their own company. People who dreamed like Tom did
when he started CNC WEST 35 years ago. You know what they say, if
you are going to dream you might as well dream big.
Sincerely
Shawn Arnold
Shawn Arnold
Publisher