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Now this is a cool little knick knack...

A few years back we were visiting some friends in Washington state.  We ended up staying with a guy who worked at [OMAX|http://www.omax.com].  This small company in Kent, WA manufactures abrasive water jet machines.  These devices use a tiny jet of water pressurized to 40,000 PSI and mixed with garnet dust to cut through almost anything.

I actually got to go play with one of the machines at their shop.  You just input a drawing into the computer attached to the table, and it does the rest.  This little piece (about 4" long) was cut from .5 inch aluminum in about 13 minutes.

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I should point out that the scratches on the surface are due to problems with the prototype machine we were using.  A production machine wouldn't touch the surface at all.

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