Most of the time I use the 4 jaw chuck on the lathe, I also use some makeshift soft jaws to protect the part finish. But my shoddily thrown together jaw covers look like an afterthought and don't necessarily give me the warm fuzzies that I like to have when using my tools. So today I’m spending way more time than necessary making something that will look a whole lot better. I guess they will work better too… but mostly they will look nicer.
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1:04 Gelatin
3:21 Square Dancing
6:26 This Part Is Boring
8:32 Consumables
11:56 Stress Concentrations Galore
13:31 Abracadabra is Matrix Algebra
15:25 Rounds?
16:50 How 'Bout Rounded Rounds?!
19:45 Lathe Lovin'
21:15 Was It Worth It?
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Thank you so much for showing me how to be better at my job. My trainer has noticed an improvement in workmanship and gave me an 'atta-boy' I pass it on to you. Thank you my man.
thumbs up from me 😁👍
Great work man
An atta boy instead of a raise 🤦♂️ Should have told your boss you atta pay me more 😂
@@Dirkadewwhen you're being educated, you don't need to look for money from your educators too... the money will come in due time... lets not be greedy when we're only "half-baked"... Congrats to the OP for going out there to learn...the process can be the reward... 😉 😎👍☘🍺
As much as the amazing examples of craftsmanship in these videos are inspiring and educational, no improvement would be possible without your own effort! Hats off to you for putting in the work to improve your skill!
“remember kids, the best type of kill is overkill”
if you come for the King you better don't miss and you have to go all the way
Absolutely love the journey of making a part in order to make the next part and the culmination of using all the parts to make yet another part.
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Side quests 😛😛😍
It's the true meaning of the channel name, the machines are for whoever inherits the workshop :b
That self-made rounding form tool on the mill was seriously impressive (and something I hadn't even considered). And it also worked amazingly well.
Thanks! I have no idea where that idea came from but not it's part of the arsenal!
@@InheritanceMachining - typo spotted: I think “not” should be “now”
@@InheritanceMachining - feel free to fix the typo if it is one; and then you can delete my comments.
It's a pretty old school make do method, but it's definitely valid
This workmanship is really the best I have seen, what a man!
at ~18:20 that is amazingly impressive. Seeing a corner round follow a path like that is amazing, but seeing it done on a manual mill is something else. Your work is a joy!
clever guy. would have never thought of that
Even a blind pig finds an acorn every once in a while 😁 Thank you so much!
Those are gorgeous! As a cnc guy myself it is very impressive to see how you can turn out parts like these completely manually.
Thanks, man! As impressive as CNC is, I'm more impressed by the stuff they used to make on old manual machines like these.
It’s insane that u can accurately mill complex pockets on the manual. Ur skills are impressive
@mattholley9134 the pockets are... pretty basic lol the impressive part is the corner eounding honestly, or more specifically the fixture table made to make them.
They would cost $2000 to make the set at a manual job shop.
@@dickmick5517still impressive, because for a while this was the only way to get these parts.
Really refreshing to see someone design their part the classic way
This channel is the reason I plan on learning to manually draft. I enjoy the elegance of paper drawings
I love my onshape and fusion, but god these hand-drafted drawings just look phenomenal.
Agreed. I’m not much of a drafter but I did learn to draft using paper and pencil while in an engineering program. Though slower, hand drafting produces nicer dwgs, IMO.
Seeing that swivel fixture in action was unexpectedly super satisfying! With these beautiful tools you keep making, who wouldn't want to work in the shop every day?
14:30 As a math teacher, this made me so happy to see! Also, you don't necessarily need a graphing calculator for the matrix multiplication. You could use something like Wolfram Alpha for example!
I didn't have either in high school. Had to do matrices on a regular scientific calculator.
You don't need anything of these. You only have to know one number. 1.414. 1.413 × 1 414 = 2 In Germany it is called Wurzel 2. And my mobile can't show the sign. When you have a 45° angle and you need to know the kathete, you divide the hypothenuse with 1.414. If you want to know the length of the hypothenuse, then take the length of the kathete an multiplicate with 1.414. Easy. It's only the sentence of Pythagoras.
Note the two line display TI30xs also can do matrix math, works the same as the TI83 but just a bit harder to see. Super useful as its an approved calculator for the FE/PE exams where graphing calculators are not.
@@Dirk-Ulowetzin English we say "square root of 2", often abbreviated to "root 2". In programming many languages have a library function sqrt(2). My (android) mobile has √2! I can't work out kathete though... Also, in an attempt to be helpful, we use "by" instead of "with": multiply by 1.414, divide by 1.414.
@@georgescott6967 Kathete is from the greek Cathetus, which doesn't really get called that in lower maths. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathetus
19:10 The way the mill speed and the camera frame rate interact here makes this hypnotizing to watch. Also very cool to see previous builds make an appearance and do exactly what they were made to!
😁 One of my favorite shots! Thanks, Matt!
It's almost as he's been planning this for a long time. I am sure there's going to be more tools that will be needed to make more tools until we get to a "final" project he's been planning ever since he started the channel. After that project is done, it's off to the next project. Almost every video so far is just a side project to that main project methinks.
@@RealCaddeit‘s been side projects all along!!
My dad was a machinist and still has a bunch of old tools but no machines. I'd love to get into this someday. Thank you for bringing this world back to me.
Do it. It'd trade that pays the more you learn and grow. One of the few that does nowadays that's only limitation is your imagination.
Just find a good tech school. There are some awful programs. Find one that's more hands-on and less book learning. The real learning in this trade is by communication and doing.
Your videos are engaging, beautiful, wonderfully shot and narrated. And best of all, the content is super interesting (for the non-machinist like me). Quickly becoming one of my absolute favorite channels on YT. Can't wait for the next one.
That really means so much. Thank you!!
Thank you for the hours of entertainment! I'm appreciative that I found your channel. It's reignited my desire to improve on my machining skills. My grandfather was a master tool and die maker for 50+ years and I've always wanted to follow his skills. My name is also Brandon and I'll be inheriting his lathe as soon as I can get down to California. Thank you for sharing your skills and journey!
Thank you and so sorry for your loss if he has passed. I hope you got to (or still can) learn some of his skills firsthand. 50 years of experience is better than what you could learn from any KZheadr
Excellent design. Fantastic machining. Flawless editing........You are definitely one of the best machining content channels on YT- Thanks for taking us along!
Yes, definitely, thanks for the ride!
That is very nice of you! Thank you!
Congratulations to Eric in providing those gorgeous reference pins!
Those copper jaws look absolutely fantastic. Industrial art, right there!
The added humor is fun and adds to the video. Enjoyed!
When you slapped the part on the rotary fixture table with your fancy clamps and dove tail centers it looked SOOO nice
I get so much joy watching this. It's like finding out that your philosophy professor has a machine shop, writes for SNL and sometimes plays backup lead guitar for Pink Floyd. Genuinely entertaining yet instructional. Knowledge, art and humor. HA!
What I appreciate about your work is your precision, perfectionism and that you make your tools beautiful by themselves. It is just gorgeous.
Thank you! I put way more emphasis on appearance than I care to admit 😂
I'm a Chef and will never own a lathe or a mill, yet I find your videos incredibly fascinating and quite cathartic. They appeal to my "inner geek" I guess. The quality of your vids are next level - matched by the quality of your craftsmanship. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Your Grandfather would have been proud to see what you have achieved with his equipment. Truly inspirational stuff mate.
Craig is the man, a buddy comes in with the save. Would love to see more of him
He's been helpful more than people know!
Man those things are SO pleasing to the eye! Crafting lvl 99 for sure. 18:02 That turn you made transitioning from one corner to the next while leaving the already smooth radius in between them untouched was so satisfying.
Ah you too suffer from RS?
You did an absolutely killer job with this project! That home made corner rounding tool in a boring head worked so much better than I thought it would! You really put us CNC guys to shame with your fixture design skill; that radius fixture is performing beautifully! A couple of things to keep in mind when doing big deep pockets like that: Sometimes, just grabbing a big drill to hog out the center can be way more time efficient, and then you can come back and mill out the rest of the material. in addition to being faster, the chips already have somewhere to go when roughing with an endmill now so you are less likely to recut them and break a tool. Also, it is definitely worth roughing first with a larger endmill and coming back with a smaller one to pick out the corners and finish. Of course this is coming from a guy who runs CNC, so doing a tool change is nothing, but with the amount of material to be removed at those depths you'd definitely still make your time back.
By far the best 20 minutes of my week. Thanks!
No, thank you!
I love your attention to tiny details to get the thing you want just the way you want it
Thanks man! BTW, on your username, I'm reading The Halfling's Gem right now!
@@InheritanceMachining such a great series! I hope youre enjoying
OMG! You did it! You used a Matrix calculation outside of school for a practical purpose! It's been 15 years since I last did one of those calculations in University and I still haven't been bothered to use it even once! Well done to you :)
😂 Probably one of the 5 times in the rest of my life I will have a use for that!
I’m sure everyone as said as much already but it can’t hurt to voice it again: FANTASTIC JOB! I absolutely enjoy the drafting shots as it reminds me of the hours my dad would spend hand drawing Architectural plans for his house. The nostalgia of hand drafted designs really is captivating and then seeing them brought to life through manual milling must be incredibly rewarding. While everyone may praise your drafting or machining, what really stands out is Your Filming and Editing talent. They are top class among youtube and even stand out compared to cable tv shows (that have camera men, lighting specialist, directors, microphone guys, support staff and a plethora of crew to compile/edit/produce and YOU DO IT ALL AS A 1 MAN SHOW 🍻 Cheers!
Good lord - those must be the most elegant soft jaws on earth! I was absolutely blown away by seeing how your new rotary fixture allows you to put a radius on a radiused corner. Fantastic job, Brandon!
Thanks so much, Ron! That one operations ended up making that whole build worth it by itself 😂
Long reach endmills have no business being as satisfying as they are
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I don't know why this video was even suggested to me by YT, but I don't regret spending 22 minutes to watch it. Thank you for this almost magical experience.
I remember when my lathe instructor asked me "How was the first Lathe made? Without a Lathe to cut the threads or cut the gears?" Now I know..... *with the ingenuity of Brandon!!!!* 😁👍
Funny, That is exactly the question I pestered my teacher with "You need a lathe to make a lathe so how did they make the first lathe?" He had no answer but after 50 years in the business and never forgetting that question, I know it now. The answer is in the history.
@@billshiff2060a 3d printer 3d printed a 3d printer
Clickspring made a video where he creates a working lathe, that the Ancient Greeks could and probably did make and use, all with hand tools like files and drills he made my hand from materials we know the Greeks could make. The man's a genius. kzhead.info/sun/Z9SEY7Nsanyal58/bejne.htmlsi=NxKs7tHrAmXibu6d
Seeing the custom tooling you made for the round-over pass along the part, then sweep that corner...WOW!! That was incredibly pleasing to watch.
Thanks! Definitely my favorite op in this build!
As always, it's super helpful to see the mistakes and learn from you. I'm just about at my 90 day review on a new job of running a 4 axis mill, and you've definitely been a huge help in learning all the things to watch out for
Hey, man that's awesome! Glad some of my shop musings could be helpful. Thanks!
That was very kind way of saying "by avoiding all the screw ups you made" LOL
French here 🇲🇫, in some school: machining and drawing and cleaning the workshop, encounter some motivate loss and bad mood for student, but ! YOU find the solution! Not due to young age or young stupidity, these student just need to see your video ! All of yours ! It's more than enough to give them new energy and motivational mind to succeed any doubt and problem! That's the way to mind, the spirit of mécanique is here They will WANT to take in their hands those beauty, useful beauty you've cut from this huge scrap useless metal that rust in the school workshop I want all student in world see that to be remotivate for ever ! Well done 👍 this is probably the final best item you ever machined ! ❤
13:47 if you dial in off of the moving jaw without it tightened onto a part you risk your angle being off slightly from the slop in that jaw. Not super important here but it is something to keep in mind for tighter tolerance angles. Btw awesome work, you make this look easy.
Good call! I didn't even consider that. Thanks!
I’m usually a jawjacking jabberjaw, but seeing those soft jaws dropped my jaw and left me positively lockjawed.
Well sir, it's not Tetanus, it's not TMJ, it seems to be a terrible case of Toolmaker's Trance.
@@barcodenosebleed5485 I definitely could definitively be diagnosed as dumbfounded.
i love to watch you work. the attention to detail, precision work, and the problem solving are just pure pleasure for me 🙂
Thank you!
I literally got giddy excited to see a new video out. This guy does such an amazing job
You’ve convinced me that pieces of copper or aluminium sheet bent to shape are just fine. Certainly enjoyed watching you make those protectors though. Cheers mate, Stuart 🇦🇺
Just drill holes in your chuck jaws and use a single bent piece of copper or aluminium or a 3d printed sleeve (if you don't have a 3d printer, you can get the part made online and shipped to you).
@@aserta Thanks 👍👍
Another gloriously overkill but amazingly satisfying project Brandon! As a CNC guy I use carbide constantly and do recomend it to people doing 'home shop manual' stuff if they have solid enough machines and can stomach the cost, the benefits are worth it. Also 10/10 use of the awesome rounding fixture and the idea to make a lathe tool for the boring head, I feel no shame in admitting I let out an audible 'oof' of satisfaction seeing the 2 in action rounding that first corner. Keep up the good work my dude, your an inspiration!
It becomes fun when you take your time and pay attention to every detail. Nice work, great blueprints, really enjoyed watching your procedures.
spectacular work, spectacular workmanship!
I love the joy on his face while biting into the jello :)
Oh man those compound rounded corners are just slick as heck. Those things look like you grew them! Killer job. Thanks for sharing this project. 😃
Those ended up being way more satisfying than I was prepared for 😆thanks!
Yeah they do. They make chamfers look like a crummy substitute... and I love chamfers!
Currently my favorite machining channel. Drawings, setups, procedures, mistakes, home shop style, beautiful results. Smart, clever dude, too. Thanks for sharing.
I love how many parallels there are between machine work like this and data analysis in GIS Pro that I use. You have an ultimate objective but along the way you create tools, and toolkits and toolboxes, you learn new methods, learn and work together with others and break a few things along the way. Side projects increase as the complexity of the project increases. Some tools are more useful than others but the experience and joy you get while building something is so much more valuable. Thanks for helping me relax after hours and hours of GIS work.
Absolutely gorgeous, and so makes me want to cry, realizing just how far I am from this in my hobbyist workshop. Utterly inspiring to do better!
Thanks man! We all start somewhere, the key is to just keep going and improving.
You are a recent discovery and subscription on youtube, with me previously considering ABOM79 to be a representation of a serious machine shop, CuttingEdgeEngineering to do some huge projects in Australia (where i'm from ;-), and ThisOldTony to be the court jester of hobbyist machinists. Now you define a new classification of the "fine artist" machinist/machinist pornographer, lol, as everything I've seen you make is beautiful and or sexy beyond belief....well to a wannabe machinist anyway. Can't wait to see what you make next.@@InheritanceMachining
@@ozmaniac33 😁honestly it's an honor to be named amongst those guys. Really, thank you so much
Those soft jaws look beautiful! i admire your efforts in making it look aesthetic and functional too
Thanks man!
Great build. Nice work. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful done. Thanks for sharing.
It's like a work of art!! I can't imagine the number of hours
The Dad jokes are strong with this one! Love it!
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Use to hear that a lot in Southern WV, eastern KY and southwest VA(coal fields).
I can’t express how much I have truly appreciated and fallen in love with your videos! As someone who doesn’t do machining your videos are very soothing and inspiring. And it took me two videos but your channels name is amazing! Can’t wait to see the rest of your journey and look forward to the next one!
i run a cnc machine for work im about year and a half in now but man do i love and respect the old way of doing things i also learn alot from every video
Just waiting for the episodes where you just make your own mill and lathe haha
Wow, one might end up thinking that you would eventually run out of cool projects and then you come up with this. Useful, clean and a great looking design. I loved seeing how you use your previously made tools to keep the cascade of projects on trajectory. BTW, getting the bore straight and parallel was what I referred to in my last comment in regards to testing dimensions to ASME drawing standards. Off course the set of gauge pins/dowels makes it easy. 😃
Thanks, Richard! My favorite projects are ones I get to use the most of my tools on! Honestly I think I could have gotten away with ISO's lax requirements for the bores on these 😉
Beautiful, I love the contrast of the steel and copper.
Great video as usual, you certainly own the swankiest set of soft jaws I ever did see. And don’t forget to fed the broken end mills to the BOS, it’s all metal, he won’t taste the difference😉
The BOS actually has quite a refined palate. It can differentiate many types of alloys, lol. 😃
Idk how but you always have something come up with, like you can make anything!
😁 thank you!
I almost cry , what a video ❤
Your channel honestly makes my soul happy!! Watching you achieve such flawless beauty in your work is something that always makes my day. Thank you for the incredible content
😊 I love to hear that! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing as always. Was feeling pretty shitty, and seeing the amount of pride you take in your work, and the care you put into things always makes me feel a bit better haha.
Absolutely! I'm glad I could brighten your day a little 😊
I literally cheered and whooped out loud when you used your rounding table around the corners. What an absolute thrill
You sounds as excited as me! 😁
An impressive solution. Thank you for posting this.
You're welcome! Thank for watching
Beautiful job. Its amazing how good machining just leads to more good machining and innovations. Beautiful process.
Could use some quick polishing on the rounds, but those look super nice! It'd be interesting to measure how repeatable they are vs the normal hard jaws and how much slack, if any, they give. And yes you also need some for the 3 jaw 😄 oh and plastic and jello pins, but that corner rounding fixture is pretty sweet!
Thanks, Josh! Repeatability would be interesting to measure though I have the advantage with the 4 jaw. Time will tell if i actually go through the torture of making a set for the 3 jaw 😂
I absolutely love this! Sure, this is kind of overkill, the "bent aluminium sheet" method works well enough. But these parts turned out gorgeous. And as a side product, excellent entertainment!
I started regretting it a little after the 3rd endmill 😆 thanks!!
I love that you include all the hand drafting.
Not only to I envy the work you do but the time make for yourself to complete the work is also quite enviable!
Thanks! It does help that this is my full time job now 😉
thanks Brandon😊 that was great to see! see you next time
Whenever I see one of your videos pop up, my life goes on hold for me to watch it, and they never cease to amaze me! Your ingenuity and intention to détail is something to behold! Thank you for another incredible video!
😁 Well thank you so much for making the time!
Absolutely incredible work on those jaws.
gorgeous work as always!
Incredible craftsmanship and inspiring out of the box thinking.
How is it that everything you make comes out looking absolutely gorgeous? Those rounded and rounded corners makes someone like me, who doesn't to any craftmanship at all, still warm and fuzzy inside from just imagining running my hand over those pieces. So satisfying!
Man, your shop made tools are like jewelry, it's a joy the watch them. And the filming and relaxed storytelling is at the same high level. Thank you for sharing!
These guys on KZhead that spend their time making nothing but improvements to their tools is ironic. But i do like being able to watch them able to work without worrying about being productive.
It's worth remembering the videos are just the interesting projects, I'm sure he's using these machines and upgrades *all* the time when the camera isn't running
@@eragonawesome you're right. This dude's super productive and skilled
In the future when milling deep pockets use the largest endmill that will fit into the area and use it to drill out the bulk of the waste material. Then just make sure you have endmills with long enough flutes. Carbide endmills will also help since they will have the least amount of deflection lessening your chances of breaking them when milling at maximum depth.
This was a positively brilliant, artistic project. Super!
Vision, skill, craftsmanship, filming, editing, humour. What more could I say? Did I mention skill? Excellent work Brandon.
Thanks, Matt!
That's pure beauty! love the attention to detail in your videos, as an Art Director I recommend your videos to my team to understand concepts of hard surface modelling. Love your videos!
Thank you so much!
thats some good drawing skills, respect for not just using a cad software. and i love the look of how these turned out, they look very professional, well thought out, and very user friendly, Good work 👍
You learned something new adding to your skillset, you had fun, and the end result was artistic and it made you happy. It was worthwhile.
You Sir, have an amazing skill. Well done.
I found this video to be absolutely mesmerizing! The precision, the math, the smoothness of the finished product…wow!
I just love this project so much the way you brought together some of your other toolmaking projects! I always used copper Jaw covers like your aluminum ones after while they get tarnished and work hard but I anneal with a propane torch, and put them back in service.
Thanks a lot! That annealing step is pretty clever. I never would have thought of that!
Those are gorgeous!
Sweeping that handground roundover "mill" around the corner and continuing down the other side is easily the best shot you've taken on this channel. Man that was smooth.
Love your videos. I like machining so much I'm trying to build my own shop to eventually get into manufacturing. I just feel like I'm so slow but it's reassuring hearing a person that's obviously skilled admit the parts can take a long time to make start to finish.
Love your work mate!
I really love you minuscule attention to detail it is really the trait of an excellent craftsman. When I’m done with university and able to earn some money I will start my own off time workshop it helps me to calm down. For the mean time you’re vids will do as relaxation! Every subscriber is really earned keep it up.
Spectacular. These are beautifully essential pieces...
awesome work as always very inspiring 👏 👍
thank you so much! ....what a nice project! Whatching your work since day one....pls keep on going. 👍👍👍
Thank you for being here!
Totally worth it, thanks for the video
this is incredible. just so cool and gorgeous.
Those turned out amazing!! Congrats!!
Thank you!! 😊
they're amazing!
Excellent job turned out Perfect👏👏👏