finishing products

I've recently found this dude Rama who makes a ton of really well designed metal products like keycaps, a spinner (yeah i know its a fad but his is really well made), number pads, and this new weird wallet thing for credit cards. I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience making finished products like these made from metal or any other material here are some of his other works, I wouldn't buy any personally but I find myself constantly checking on his work because of how well designed everything is https://rama.works/store/ What machine do you think he uses, what tips do you have for someone looking to make some products like these, and what stuff have you made?

This is all I got, apart from some knife-making books.

>>333 thanks

I'm not a machinist or an engineer by any means but I know a decent amount about manufacturing processes and theory. In the case of that "inventory" thing, the description on his website states that it's milled from a single piece of aluminium. The Wikipedia page on milling is quite good (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milling_(machining) ). The second process he mentioned was sand blasting. This is what it sounds like. The milled workpiece is blasted with very fine grit sand to remove sharp edges and remove tooling marks. In this case the sand blasting will also pit and score the workpiece slightly, giving it a matte finish. This is beneficial when it comes to the last process he listened, anodising, as the rougher surface will oxidise easier allowing a better protective coating to be formed. Aluminium will naturally form an oxidised layer that resists corrosion when left in contact with air, but anodising forms a thicker layer and allows dyes to be added for colour. I'm on mobile right now, but I'll come back to this tomorrow

>>328 Milled soykaf is very nice but is frequently way overkill for most applications, especially edc soykaf like this. This thing would be just as good stamped or molded out of fibreglass or structural plastic. What in the ever living fuarrrk. Why am I seeing bullsoykaf like this that should never make sense to mill happening?

>>359 It doesn't need to be milled but if you can then why not. It's an expensive (for what it is) made to order product, I would be pissed if I payed $60 for some pos stamped out of sheet metal. Also also, "milled from a single piece of..." is a good marketing line.