Gifts for the Saw that Cuts Everything (Photo: Ethan Andrews)
select Front Street Shipyardâs new water jet cutting machine (Photo: Front Street Shipyard) Front Street Shipyard recently acquired the largest water jet cutting machine in the state a five-axis, 3D, Suprema DX 1340 model from Waterjet USA. It cost close to $1 million and can cut just about anything.
Much of the actual cutting is done by garnet sand, which is mixed with the water and shot out of a nozzle in a high-pressure stream three times the speed of sound, according to the Waterjet website, or faster than a bullet by half.