My trade background is quite varied but in 1995  i started my first apprentiship as a boilermaker/welder for a small Engineering company in Coffs Harbour. Since then I've worked as a metal fabricator in many different industries until, in 2004 I got a job as a fabricator in a Machine shop.  I’d always had an interest in machining and it wasn’t long before I was spending more time on a lathe or mill then behind the welding shield!  My new employer pretty quickly recognized my skills and offered me another apprentiship, this time in fitting and turning, which I eagerly accepted and completed in just 3 years.I went on to do further training in CNC programming, and then CAD-CAM and my current day job is a CNC Programmer/Machinist for a small specialist component manufacturer here in Brisbane. In the mean time I had always worked on and built my own rifles and it didn’t take too long before the idea of becoming a lic Gunsmith just made perfect sense.  I could combine my career with my life’s passion. It took quite a few years of putting in the ground work, buying machinery, and setting up a proper workshop, but  in 2012, TRENTECH Engineering was borne.