Projects
North Lake Outdoors
North Lake Outdoors is a brand that we created in late 2023. This brand is for products that we develop for the outdoors space. We are avid outdoorsmen ourselves and have a lot of ideas for that market.
North Lake Outdoors requires us to run a full supply chain as we manage everything in house from sourcing material to manufacturing. We also run our entire advertising and marketing campaigns, as well as customer and client support.
Check it out at: www.northlakeoutdoors.com
The TackleHandle
Developed in early 2023 as a personal ice fishing project, the Tackle Handle is rod mounted tackle storage device that required complex 3d design and creative solutions to solve a multitude of problems that came up in the design process.
The Tackle Handle is currently on hiatus while we focus on other internal projects, but we expect to re-attack this project very soon!
Large Cutting Boards
While simple in concept, the large cutting board internal project is more of a manufacturing solution rather than design or engineering. We do everything ourselves for the boards, from manufacturing to marketing and promoting.
These are a current North Lake Outdoors product, expect to see these popping up on retail store shelves soon!
Composites and Composite Molds
We have extensive experience with composite work, and have designed and fabricated numerous molds and parts for various different composite projects, from aerospace to race cars we can do it all.
When we work with composites for a project we take into account if composites truly are the right way to do something. Often times in industry engineers will use composites as a "Black Aluminum" and not utilize composite materials for their unique directional properties.
Aluminum Boat Transom Riser
This project was for raising the transom height on a Mud-Boat. Mud-boats with Surface drive motors require a specific transom height.
This boat was getting re-engined with a different motor and we machined fabricated and welded a new addition to the rear of the boat in order to raise the new engine, as welll as be strong enough to take the abuse of a Mud-motor.
This boat has been heavily used and abused for the past year, being bounced off logs and arocks, and ran in the toughest conditions. The transom has easily held up to this abuse, and continues to be used to this day.
Shooting Competition pistol-round holders
This project was a machining project for a client who wanted an aluminum solution to traditional wood pistol rounds.
This part was designed by the client and then adapted for aluminum fabrication on our CNC Mill. The part required drilling contouring boring and tapping, as well as a few iterations to prove the concept.
Pro-Drive Trim Switch Upgrade
Older Mud Motors are still valuable today, as new mud motors are often back ordered due to demand. The only downside to this is that often times the power trim systems on these motors are worn down and prone to breaking.
For this project, we designed a new trim switch system that is more robust and easier to maintain compared to the older systems. This is also used year-round and stands up to the abuse of various seasons of work.