BilletSPIN Blog – 4/28/2020
“The Inaugural Blog”
Welcome to my first blog, EVER! I’m not an overly social person (which works great for blogging) and I’m not a grammar or spelling or sentence structure scholar so please forgive me from here on out if I don’t have anything perfect.
I’ll start out by saying – It is an amazing community we have in the Top World! I have seen such kindness and helpfulness and it helps restore faith in humanity. Yes, there are some issues and perhaps some bad eggs, but overall, it is a family of people from different cultures, different places and different mindsets that put their differences aside when in the community to help each other in so many ways.
I’ll give you a little insight into our BilletSPIN Family:
• We have 4 main characters in this story:
o Rich – Big Boss Man with the brain of an engineer and the smile of a saint (ha,ha)
o Jim – Main Machine Man that gets the job done and never complains when there is a change in plans (I may be a little untruthful in that one)
o Evyn – Daughter extraordinaire who has yet to run a machine for us but I’m assured it will happen sooner or later
o Myself, Sue, the humble servant of all in the family and the one who screws up on a normal basis
• We have 4 main machines which I won’t even pretend to be able to explain – Rich has some pretty good videos about them on YouTube you can watch to learn more bout them
• We have many smaller, less often used tools such as the polishing wheels, grinder, tumblers and blasting machines
We are part of the bigger family business, J Stadler Machine, which manufactures many parts for various companies. Rich, his sister Lindsey, and their brother David are the owners of a company their parents started back in the 80’s.
BilletSPIN was born out the brain of Rich in Spring 2015 when he started making dice as a side project. He quickly moved on to tops, much to the chagrin of myself and his brother and sister. We had no idea back then that it would become the affair that it is today! Eventually it was brought into the main company and now it sits, happily and safely inside the bowels of J Stadler Machine in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Through the years, Rich has come up with more ideas than I can even count and has been very good at seeing many of them come alive. I joke a lot about having to work for my husband but, honestly, it is amazing to see his mind working through all the concepts he comes up with.
I, myself, have had many jobs and very few of the that I hated enough to say I’d never do that job again. Perhaps, sometime, I’ll go through some of them here and compare them to working at BilletSPIN.
I would love to hear your ideas on what you would like to hear about in the blogs. Sometimes it may seem like rambling but I’m told (by great bloggers everywhere) that that is part of the process.
These are difficult times for so many of us and I pray that you all are well and staying safe and healthy. Please, I know some are truly hurting from many different things right now, please reach out if you need someone to talk to and know there is no judgment from others on how you are managing and making it through. Unless you are being a truly bad human by eating other humans – then there might be a little judgement.
Anyway, have a fantastic day and go find something fantastic and wonderful