A&J Custom Metals Now Offers Precision Machining — Milling and Turning In-House

We've been welding, cutting, and fabricating custom metal work for years. Now we're adding a capability that our customers have been asking for  and one that makes us a stronger partner for every project we touch.

A&J Custom Metals is now a full-service precision machine shop.

That means milling and turning, in-house, under the same roof as our fabrication and welding operations. Here's what that means for you.


What Is Precision Machining?

Precision machining is the process of removing material from a metal workpiece to create parts with exact dimensions, tight tolerances, and consistent repeatability. Where fabrication builds structure — cutting, welding, bending steel into shape — machining refines and finishes it, hitting tolerances that welding alone can't achieve.

The two core processes we now offer are milling and turning


Manual Milling

Milling uses a rotating cutting tool to remove material from a stationary workpiece. It's how you produce flat surfaces, slots, holes, pockets, and precise contours all guided by a skilled machinist who understands the material and the part.

At A&J, our manual milling capabilities allow us to produce:

- Precision flat plates and flanges
- Bolt hole patterns and drilled/tapped holes to spec
- Keyways, slots, and pockets
- Custom fixtures, brackets, and tooling components
- Parts that need to interface precisely with existing assemblies

Manual milling is especially well-suited for one-off parts, repair work, and jobs where a skilled hand makes all the difference. Our machinist reads the part, adjusts on the fly, and delivers work that's built to fit  not just built to a program.



Manual Turning

Turning is used to produce cylindrical parts. The workpiece rotates while a cutting tool shapes it creating shafts, bushings, pins, sleeves, flanges with bores, and any other round or tubular component that needs precise diameters, threads, or surface finishes.

Our turning capabilities include:

- Custom shafts and axles
- Threaded components and fasteners
- Bushings, spacers, and sleeves
- Flanges with precision bores
- Adapters and custom fittings

If your project requires a round component machined to a specific diameter, thread spec, or surface finish, we can do it.



Why This Matters for Our Customers

Before adding machining, we often had to send work out. A fabricated weldment that needed a precision bore. A structural component that required a machined mating surface. A custom assembly where one piece had to be turned to size before it could be welded into place.

That's no longer the case.

Everything stays in-house. That means:

- Faster turnaround- no waiting on a third-party machine shop
- Tighter quality control- we touch every part of your project from raw material to finished piece
- Simpler coordination-  one call, one shop, one point of contact
- Cost savings- less outsourcing means less markup passed on to you

For contractors and manufacturers who need fabricated assemblies with machined components, this is a significant change. You can source the whole job from us.


What Materials Can We Machine?

Our machining services cover the most common metals used in industrial and custom fabrication work:

- Mild steel- the workhorse of most fabrication and machining projects
- Stainless steel- for food service, sanitary, and corrosion-resistant applications
- Aluminum- lightweight parts, enclosures, and components
- Brass and bronze- bushings, fittings, and specialty components
- Tool steel and alloy steel- for demanding applications

Have a different material? Ask us, we'll tell you straight if we can hold the tolerance you need on it.


Who Is This For?

Our machining services are a fit for:

- Contractors and builders who need fabricated assemblies with machined interfaces
- Equipment manufacturers who need prototype or short-run custom parts
- Maintenance and repair operations needing replacement parts machined to spec (including reverse-engineered parts for obsolete equipment)
- Industrial facilities needing fixtures, tooling, or custom hardware
- Any customer whose project previously required two vendors, a fabricator and a machinist


One Shop for the Whole Job

A&J Custom Metals has always been built around doing the work that takes real skill — one-off fabrications, complex weldments, custom structural work that the big production shops won't touch.

Adding precision machining makes us more capable, not more complicated. Same shop. Same team. Just a wider range of what we can deliver from raw material to finished part.

If you have a project that needs machining or a project that needs fabrication and machining, reach out.

📧 contactus@aandjcustommetals.com

Tell us what you need. We'll tell you exactly what we can do.


A&J Custom Metals Co. Custom Fabrication, Welding & Precision Machining. Built for the jobs that demand real craftsmanship.