About Chatham CNC

Chatham CNC is a small-shop machining and welding company in Pittsboro, North Carolina with a microshop near Bryson City in Western North Carolina. I'm Mike Gordeev and I launched my shop to meet the growing machining needs in the greater Raleigh area, and also to satisfy my urge to work with metal. ​I eat, breathe, and sleep machining. Seriously, I keeps machined parts on my nightstand.

Today I fabricate automotive manifolds, brackets, and other parts on my CNC mill, which I designed and built myself. It does just about everything except make doughnuts.

I'm a member of Triangle Miata Roadsters. You'll see me almost every month at Cars and Coffee in Morrisville, and every summer at Miatas at the Gap at Fontana Village in Western North Carolina.

I have a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Stony Brook University where I was the Suspension Subsystem Leader on the Stony Brook Motorsports Team (Society of Automotive Engineers Mini Baja). Before running my shop full time, I worked for more than a decade in aerospace engineering, specializing in active vibration control systems for helicopters.
Fun facts:
  • I own 3 Miatas
  • I've worked on parts in the particle collider at CERN in Switzerland
  • You'll find some of my parts in Egypt helping to preserve ancient scrolls

Engineering experience

I have more than a decade of machine shop experience. I'm well-versed in precision lathe, milling work, and exotic manufacturing processes. Outside of machining, I originally started my career as a test engineer on automotive, defense, and aerospace projects. I have a firsthand understanding of environmental and structural testing and use that experience when designing prototypes, parts, and fixtures.

CNC mill

I designed a custom CNC milling platform with a 14” x 11.5” x 7” (XYZ) work volume and 0.001” tolerance and repeatability. I fabricated all components, performed NC integration, and assembled the mill myself.

The mill has created parts for cars, motorcycles, remote control cars, jet skis, boats, and more.