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Travis Walters

Aluminum boatbuilder and tool maker. Colville, WA.

Day job: production Rhino and Grasshopper work at Raider Boats in Colville, Washington, building custom welded aluminum fishing boats. The tools listed here are the same ones I use on the shop floor. They ship when they survive a week of real fabrication without me reaching for the source code.

The thread across everything I make: human configuration errors are expensive and preventable with constraint logic. Whether that is a sheet-metal unfolder that picks the right side of the bend, an identity stamp that survives explode-and-rejoin, or a fit-checker that catches a part collision before steel is cut, the work is shaped by the same idea – small shops deserve serious tools that do not lock them into recurring rent or proprietary file formats.

Perpetual licenses where possible. File-portable formats. Local-first software. No phone-home, no telemetry, no logins.

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