Some very good talent

Thought some of you might like to see a master at work. I am sure others will dis it but I thought he was pretty dam good.

Steve.

Mini safe

Neat work, esp as a machining exercise!

Instead of trying to rob its contents, though, just take the whole safe home to your lathe - or drill press..

Not Dissing it but ..

I always get a chuckle when they use cutting fluid with carbide tooling but not when drilling with a HSS drill which would benefit more especially on stainless .

I must be blind! I tried to find where the cutting fluid was used with the carbide tooling and could not! But I did see quite reasonable amounts of cutting/lubrication oil in all the drilling operations.

Joe

I watched this again for the 3rd time and the only time you will see him applying cutting fluid with a brush is in the first scene where he faces the stainless bolt - after that it is all dry .

I've said it before but it's very satisfying see what people can do with even the smallest of machines. From what I can see he used sherline machines and just a drill press.

Not wishing to be pedantic..Look at 1:24 thru 1:34 or so - clearly see oil running down the sides of the cylinder while drilling. Just cos we did not see the brush does mean it was not applied. - a Chap with the skills he has would do the job right, I think..

Right you are Joe !

This time i watched with me glasses on

I also noticed what could be some smoke coming off the lathe tool in the machining operations that were shown speeded up so he may have had some fluid on in those operations as well.

Looks like he has a cnc Sherline lathe and possibly a cnc mill also.

Looks a very neat bit of machining. Love the way he marked the characters on the chapter rings with a vice as a press.

Not sure I would want to spend that much time on something you could only store a tenner in lol.