Making equipment for ground-breaking research is dandy, but to get a true measure of how important the Instrument Shop is to the Pullman campus, visit the WSU Creamery.

“Ferdinand’s would close without us,” says George Henry with a laugh. “They’ll call up, ‘I’ve got this emergency, I gotta do it right now!’ John and I will say, ‘OK, get it over here, we’ll get it done for you.’”

One time, a whole shipment of cheese cans turned out to be a tad too large. Rather than having rounds of Cougar Gold shifting inside the cans—which might make customers think the cheese had been downsized—the creamery hired the shop to make a new cheese cutter that would produce larger-diameter rounds.

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