The Makers IP team are Makers to the core, skilled professionals, masters in multiple traditional crafts with expertise that includes but are not limited to all types of engineering, performance vehicle body & product design, refinishing, tools/ fixture fabrication, start-up facility/business, custom manufacturing and sports team funding/marketing. The Makers IP team has a history of developing collegiate curriculum models for short term equipment, product, professional development and topic specific training programs, teaching aid development, training labs with conceptual state-of-the-art training facility designs.
The Makers IP is a information portal that optimizes a 50 year personal history and notebooks of skills related knowledge. The Makers IP team will pass on thru a relevant network-accessible resource knowledge that enables Makers, Vehicle Builders, Engineers, Fabricators, Traditional Craftsman, Manufacturers, Collegiate Academia, and Assemblers to enhance their crafts with aggregate information from multiple sources. Makers IP vision includes but is not limited providing guidance in all aspects of hands-on skills, related tools, equipment, crafts and imagination. The portal guides Makers through a labyrinth of adventures without the financial burdens that are a byproduct of imagination and impatience.
Our team embraces the mindset that everything is a blessing, every bit of the knowledge you have, skills, crafts, friendships, acquaintances, and adventures, are on loan from a greater source put here to complement our direction in life.
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When I landed in LA LA Land in 1985, I quickly realized all Winston Cup teams were not created equal. My curiosity about the difference was answered shortly after I went to work at Baker Schiff Racing. Teams were in …
In 1981 my dad and Farm Bureau insurance had a brouhaha about workers comp, we owned a number of farm related business, and our Cal’s Body Shop business fleet, facilities, and liabilities all were insured with the Farm Bureau and …
As the coincidence of racing Jon Thorne adds to the story the irony of Art Reno breaking down in our front yard really adds to the direction of the next chapter. Art was an airline pilot drawn to racing for …
The 1977 season was crazy, we jumped in, with the best racing knowledge we had, stumbled across an equalizer, rotating weight is king. The fall and winter changed our approach to everything. We embraced an engineer’s direction more than ever, …
Life lessons slap you right in the kisser, some are good others not! I realized several things right off, Folks always discount your position in the game based on their incompetence, it is a way for them to equal the …
Business in our family was a priority and there is only so many hands. Understanding the plan discounts the pursuit of frivolous information when it doesn’t enhance the income. School was an afterthought in the quest of profitability, most of …
My grandfather started the fire as a heavy equipment operator in Volusia County Florida. His job included grading the famed Daytona Road course on A1A. From 1948-1959 his baby was the “Beach course”. In 1959 Big Bill started building the …
The Makers IP LLC project is a culmination of a series of life adventures that circle around the premise that if THEY can do it I can do it to. I was graced with a family of craftsman and craftswomen …
In 1987 GM started a program centered around the GM Tech center. The concept was to give racers access to engineering resources from multiple GM companies. Communication between the teams and engineers was challenged at best. After meeting with both …
The English wheel was primarily used for as a metalworking tool that enables a craftsperson to form rigid shapes and compound curves from flat sheets of various metal. The process of using an English wheel is known as wheeling. Wheeling came into its …