Here is a little bit about us & how NubWorks got started.

My name is Justin, people call me Nub. Ever since I was a kid I loved to tinker, build, take things apart, create something new & crazy. Fast forward to 2006 I created NubWorks, in the garage of my old rental house. After work & any chance I could get, I started creating parts for my own cars. Starting with manifolds, etc. It grew from there, anything to make my car better & faster. I always enjoyed driving to local gatherings/car shows & meeting other enthusiasts. Soon people were asking about the parts on my cars & coming to me for special custom requests. Seeing peoples eyes light up when they came to pick up their new part, always made me feel really great. I thrived on each new challenge. This fun side hobby quickly became a passion of mine, I knew I couldn’t stop there.

2012-2016: A customer, turned friend brought me some of the best parts Id ever seen to be welded. I asked where he got them, he told me he made them at work. Chris was soon invited back for some BBQ and a business meeting about how we could work together. Going way out of his way to help me out, and do what he loved he started the first batches of Nubworks Machined parts. Some bridges fell apart and left that operation stranded. I sourced out the machining to another guy I knew. LPSfab, had a small thing going at the time, and kept my parts coming in for me. In my head I knew I needed to learn a new craft. One day the phone rings a guy calls me about some welding he needs help with. Chris had given him my name. We made a meeting, and figured out the welding stuff. I noticed a big Haas VF6 sitting in the shop not running. I asked a few questions, and said I had some parts that needed to be made. Well after a few projects, I found my self going to Tango MFG after my day job. I wanted to learn the programing side of things. After a while, Brian found a class at local Clark College, just a 12 week program that was an accelerated intro into machining. Next thing I knew I was leaving for work at 4:30 AM, getting off at 2:30, driving to Tango to spend an hour or so learning programing on my parts, then it was off to Clark for a 5-10 PM Machining class. Home and in bed by 11, to do it all over again. I was worn out by the end of that!!! We made a plan for me to join Tango MFG. I put in my notice at Beall Trailers, the only job I had ever known, 16 years……. I was starting something new. I had a two year old son, and was starting a new career as a machinist.

2016-2022 Let me tell you a little something, its damn hard to learn machining almost all by yourself with no “old guy” in the shop to ask questions. Thanks to lots of YouTube, and lots of failures, and lots of patients from a cool owner, I was making parts for people on a mill. Next thing I knew we had a brand new Doosan Lynx 220lsy lathe I was working with. I figured out how to kinda run a live tool, dual spindle lathe, and even got a helper running the mill. Some business changes later, I felt a bit over my head at work. I couldn’t get my Nubworks parts, and the day time work done all by myself. I figured I had 24 hours in the day I better start using more of them. I kept seeing videos on line of a mill that might be in my price range. I checked it out as much as I could, soon the 1100mx was on its way to my home shop. I put that little machine through hell, and its made a ton of parts for people. One day with business being a bit slow at work, I have a meeting with the owner. After a few talks, and some thinking sessions, we basically have an agreement for me to buy the machines that I was using at my day job, then lease the space from him. The end of 2022 is transitioning period, moving my home shop to a “new” to Nubworks leased space, also taking on a full time employee.

November 2022 The new space is being built, also while working on stuff keeping it rooling! Big things are coming! Stay tuned.