Imagine. Innovate. Revolutionize.
Ray Rigaud.
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He’s Noëlle’s Dad and Frank’s Father-In-Law. Aside from being an excellent machinist, a WWII military buff and a fine individual, he can make damn-near anything work.
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He’s part of the team, so if you need machining services, he’s your man.
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Born and raised in Bolléne, France, Ray started trade school for machining at age 14. He immigrated to New York at age 18, and has been working his magic as a machinist ever since.
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His favorite hobby is tinkering. He loves rebuilding heavy machinery, and WWII is a personal favorite. He’s extremely knowledgeable and loves talking equipment specs and operations.
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He’s created machined prototypes for research and engineering projects nationally, globally and even for space exploration. He can make a single part, a handful, or short-run production. He works both plastics and metals with equal skill and precision. He talks about retiring one day, but we both know that won’t happen.
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This is the kind of thing he does for fun.

Ray on the cover of Equipment Echoes: Airborne Division 2005.
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That’s the Clark CA1 Airborne Bulldozer and Laplant-Choate CAB1 Scraper that he had just finished restoring.
He was more than happy to take some time out to rearrange some of that pesky terrain with it.

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When not machining metals and plastics, Ray can also injection mold with the best.
