Precision CNC machining. Ridgeway, South Carolina. info@DmMachinetool.com 803-216-5665
DM Machine and Tool LLC Get It Made Now

Our story

DM Machine and Tool formed in April 2025 and got its first machine shortly after: a DMG MORI CMX 1100 V vertical mill.

Both of our owners came up in job shops, where every week brought a different material, a different part and a different print. That is the work we know, and it is the work this shop was built for: one-offs and production runs, aluminum to tool steel, whatever lands on the bench.

The shop is in Ridgeway, South Carolina, and we serve customers across the United States. It is owned and run by the machinists who make your parts. Visits are by appointment.

Our DMG MORI CMX 1100 V coming off the truck, still half wrapped in tarps
Part-Owner, CEO

Daniel Glisson

Daniel began his military career in 2009, serving nine years as a Marine Corps machine gunner. During this time, he completed several deployments as a military advisor, competed on the Marine Corps Shooting Team, worked as an instructor at Parris Island, and was published by the U.S. Naval Institute. By the time he honorably concluded his Marine Corps service in 2018, he was serving as a weapons platoon sergeant and a training cadre staff member.

Transitioning to the civilian sector, Daniel immediately began working at a CNC machine shop to learn the machining trade. Just three months later, he resumed his military career by joining the Navy Reserve, where he served the remainder of his 18 total years of military service as a Corpsman with Bravo Company, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion. Today, he continues his work in the machining industry as a part-owner of DM Machine and Tool.

Read Sgt Glisson's essay on Leadership Marine Corps eagle, globe and anchor

A rocket launcher fired on a range, a ball of flame and smoke beside the gunner A climber on a rope halfway up a rock face under summer clouds A patrol under heavy packs walking up a mountain valley A platoon in desert uniforms lined up in front of trucks and barriers Five Marines in ghillie and plate carriers with rifles Daniel in the field beside a mountain river at first light A Marine glassing a mountain ridge through binoculars from a hide A full kit laid out on the floor: helmet, plate carrier, rifle A machine gunner walking out of the trees A Marine in full kit at night under orange lights An orange kitten climbing out of a pouch on a plate carrier A Marine holding the kitten, rifle slung A map on a rugged tablet on top of a pack Marines on a range at sunrise, long shadows across the grass Daniel in a helmet with night vision, blended into a portrait of him in Navy dress blues with the corpsman badge

Our passions beyond the spindle

And what we enjoy.

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The DonkeyCAM Six7 desktop icon

Our CAM software

We are writing our own CAD/CAM software, the programs that turn a drawing into toolpaths for our machines. Built around the way we work, it makes us more efficient, and when something needs to change we update it ourselves instead of waiting on someone else's release. It is ours to keep, so the shop's future does not hang on a vendor's license or price list. And with no outside service between your print and our spindles, the work stays more secure and the shop stays self-reliant. We call it DonkeyCAM.

It has an AI plugin for literally every single tool and its use, so you can run it with whatever AI model you want, alongside our own AI toolkit. All of it will be free on our GitHub at release.

Free download of v0.1 Available by February 2027

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Paramotoring

You trust the metal in your car's brakes every day without a second thought. We trust our own metal to hold us safely at 10,000 feet as often as the weather is nice enough… and there are significantly fewer drivers up there to rear-end us.

A thumbs up on the throttle above the clouds, sun low on the horizon A paramotor in the evening sun over lakes and clouds Daniel in helmet and glasses above the clouds Sunset over a sea of cloud from the air Boots dangling over a river valley, clouds below
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Radio, Radar, and Drone Detection Tools

We wrote a free app that shows you what is flying around you: every aircraft on a live chart with its position, altitude and speed, plus drones broadcasting Remote ID, right down to where the pilot is standing.

Plug in a software-defined radio and it hears the aircraft directly, with no internet needed. No radio? It runs on your phone's data connection instead. Next, we are linking several radios together into a passive radar that sees what is in the air without transmitting a thing.

No login, no email, no account, no subscription. It just works the second you open it.

Git it for free on our GitHub Android, Linux and Windows only

The app at night: live aircraft and an unmanned aircraft warning over a dark chart, traffic table beside it A drone picked up by the app, its track and height on the chart Traffic alerts: rings around our position and the nearest aircraft called out A flight plan drawn on a daytime chart, legs and waypoints marked The navigation log for the planned flight beside the chart The planned route over satellite imagery Airspace boundaries and grid over the chart, the route crossing them A cross-country route with checkpoints across the night chart The altitude profile of the route against the terrain and airspace Airport weather: wind, visibility and the favoured runway worked out The app on two phones: aircraft and drones on an aviation chart, and one drone's Remote ID details with the pilot's distance
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Marksmanship

It is extremely rewarding and vindicating to make something in the shop, then watch it affect targets over a mile away.

Rather than sticking to one discipline, we shoot a broad spectrum: precision gas gun matches, PRS, field-style sniper matches, EIC and Civilian Marksmanship Program matches.

We learned machining because we were interested in marksmanship and thought we would like gunsmithing. We ended up loving it all.

Standing with a service rifle on the firing line, a coach watching An electronic target monitor showing a tight ten-shot group at 200 yards A shooter seated on the firing line under a range cover, a coach standing behind A precision rifle with a suppressor and scope on a camouflaged tripod Three competitors with their precision rifles on a grass range under a blue sky A shooter on a rusted barricade, rifle braced on a bag, glassing through the scope

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