MANAGEMENT
Phil Nichols
Phil started his career as a toolmaker apprentice at the Richmond machine shop in Pikeville, Penn. He served as a machine
repairman on the USS Neches 047 during the Vietnam War.
After Vietman he went to work for Mack Trucks as a machinist. In 1970 he moved to California and continued in the machine
shop trade making diamond bits for concrete cutting, where he studied metallurgy.
As each diamond bit had to be test drilled, he also learned all the ins and outs of concrete cutting and started Nichols
Diamond Tool in 1975.
Hobbies and personal interests
Using the GI Bill Phil earned his Associate Arts degree from Canada College, Redwood City.
