5 Star Machine Shop, Pine Bluff Arkansas 

I like walking through job shops. When other people see "junk piles" on the floor, i see all of the clever solutions to problems and jobs that i have never done. I could root through that shop all day.

The "true" strength and backbone of America, the little job shops with a can do attitude.

I really dig these shop tours Adam! It's amazing what is out there still in operation that so many folks don't see or even know about. It is so nice to see good folks like these and yourself that do this work every day and keep America on the move because without them, we have nothing. Just having the ability to repair things here on the farm is what compelled myself to put together my own machine shop and it was something I always wanted to do anyhow. Now I have people walking through my shop door with a " hey man" on a regular basis. It is very satisfying work as well as enjoyable for me because I always need a new challenge to build my knowledge and abilities because we never stop learning. RU-vid is a wonderful place for me because the information I gather here is precious to me. Just think of all the combined years of experience from all the YT creators and associates on here that otherwise would not be available to draw from for folks like myself. I have to say I have learned so much over the years from your channel and others like it Adam, but yours is my favorite hands down. Your production quality and content just gets better all the time, and your way of explaining things just clicks with me. You're a great teacher Adam, and your dad and grandad must have been something else! Once again I say a sincere thank you Adam for all you do and share with us on here! Keep the shop tours coming and anything else you decide to put on here. Maybe a nationwide " Abom Tours America's Shops" series could happen someday?

What an amazing shop,he's got some really heavy and beautiful iron ;-)

That Rockwell lathe is pretty neat. Thanks again for introduction to another cool machinist. What an awesome shop. It's amazing how many specialty tools you machinists fab together to do these unique jobs and carve out a niche in the market - filling a need - like using the lathe as a rotary "table" for welding butt-ends on pipes for cylinders. SWEET! Necessity IS the mother of invention.

I like the folks in his shop :) America at work! God bless them with happy, long and healthy life!

Pleasure watching this video.

Great editing, Adam. I liked the collage of stills at the end. Nice way to finish off. Watching from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺

Great video Adam, thanks. I was thinking that white Peg Board behind the Rockwell lathe could be used as a speed indicator, just put graduations up along the Oil Fling Stains ;-)

I love that drive on I-49 in NE Arkansas. We make that trip a good bit. Beautiful country up there. Nice shop.

adam.. @10:50 when the lady pulls the wobble drive fixture out and you notice flats.. if you have not finished the keyway cutter bar for the shaper.. when you go to drill the tool slot.. you might want to put a small flat several inches out from the threaded section so you can balance a level across it to verify the angle of the tool.. or make up a square to round toolpiece to slip thru the square broached tool with a machined flat disc welded on.. so you can level the tool that way too.. without needing to put a flat in the side of the shaft.

Adam sorry I missed this episode earlier. It was amazing to see this guys shop. It was awesome to see. A family owned business which was operating is priceless. Thanks for your video. Doug Edwards

From one Arkanasan to another ,Really enjoyed this shop Tour !Great Shop with Great People!

Very cool. I'm really liking these shop tours.

This was a great tour,,thx Adam for sharing,,Bear

What a nice space to come to every day. Makes that getting up to the day worth it eh !Great visit today my friend !

What a neat setup and not a CNC machine in sight. Thought I had died and gone to machinist heaven. Makes a guy wonder if Freud did any work on "tool envy" as it sure gave me a case! Very interesting video. I couldn't help giving a guess in my mind as to how much they have invested in just tooling alone not even counting the machines. Mind boggling. Nice job Adam. Take care. Doug

I know this is old but really enjoy seeing theses shops. Too many people to day think that shops have to be brand new, with all CNC equipment. Not true. Old equipment from WWII and before can be rebuilt and used forever, unlike new equipment. Love the friendly people you come across too in these shops. Reminds me of my home town. As a kid back in the 60's I use to spend time at the local job shop and gun smiths shop when they would allow. Learned so much as a kid of how to make things with ingenuity and not the perfect store bought tool. Have carried and used that knowledge throughout my life.

Super cool I live 30 mins from there! Been watching since before the rotary table and can’t believe you were that close lol. Love the show and hope you enjoyed a little bit of Arkansas!

Damn nice shop. Pretty much everything u need. 👌🇨🇦

Love seeing the big tools....

Job shops Always find a Way to turn something into something 🤘

Nice "Local" kind of folk. Thanks.

Nice video thanks for sharing.

Having the cutting edge closer to the center line of force, to reduce chatter on the shaper, makes a lot of sense.

All I gotta say is that looked like "America" in a nutshell - wow talk about salt of the earth hard woking people - they all seemed so like would not be fazed by anything - they need a succession plan - I hope the younger lady is the one that will keep the shop running when the older guys retire - but what fantastic folks - gives you great optimism about the future.

Very nice fully equipped shop! I really appreciated the G&L good luck to him finding the accessories I will keep my eye out anyway. It is a 3" spindle right?

thank you.

Nice video Adam.

Cool shop! Ultima machines are made in Spain, I know where and I have one in my shop. Cheers.

I would have liked to see more of that hex broaching attachment in the mill I've never seen one. Adam....I really appreciate seeing all the shops you have visited. Been following you for a long time. It never, never gets old. Thank YOU!!!!!!!

Very nice machine shop. I like it.

Lady machinists..... I worked with a few at the Boeing Co. and they can make chips with the best of em. Easy to train too cause they will listen to what you are trying to teach them. Typical down home do it all machine shop. Not many of them left.

5 star video for a 5 star machine shop... as usual, you captured a sample of true America.

How old is the Kearney and Trecker milling machine ??? Nice tour Adam too.!

very cool..

another good video thanks abom

I have over 35 years in job shop experience ( so far ). That shop is exactly what makes the USA great, this is what I have and I will make it work. Very nice tour and they look like good folks too. Jeff

Adam, could you elaborate some on the hex cutting tool you showed? Very cool.

Hard working people doing jobs they love. I really enjoyed this video. Thx!

Good video

very good I'm from Brazil 😉

Enjoyed Adam! That Rockwell lathe is the same one I made all my helicopter parts on when I was about 20. ATB, Robin

Cool bunch of guys, places like that getting harder to find these days.

I have the same Rockwell lathe at 5:53! It's waiting on me to restore it. It's 11" swing and the model number on mine is 25-084-784 "Special". If Rockwell thought enough of it to call it special it must be a good one! I have found nothing about it online. I think the special is really just because it has a 1 3/8" spindle bore but I don't know for sure. If anybody out there knows about it or has any manuals/documentation please let me know! Liked the floating chuck and the jeep engine block.

I have a 14" Steptoe about the same vintage.. Yours has pressure lubrication as does mine.. They were available either way...Mike in Louisiana

Sweet shop, cool people and a KILLER "Outro" . It doesn't get any better than this!

As an owner of an old Giddings and Lewis horizontal boring machine it is my duty to comment about how nice that G&L is.

great shop tour. when i was a teen my buddy worked at watts tool in our small hometown of wilmerding pa.he told me of a drill that made square holes and i told him no drill bit could make a square hole. he took me into the shop and i lost five bucks that day. (a lot of money then).

The Country isn't going anywhere without Machine Shops and People like this to operate them..

Thank you and nice of them to let you make video.

I have really enjoyed your shop tours. Thanks Adam.

Super nice shop, thanks for the tour! I drive I-49 (the scene at the tunnel) every two months to visit my daughter and grandkids, beautiful country in the Boston Mtns. of Arkansas! ....13

What a Great Shop. This is the Back Bone of America. A little Shop putting out Quality work day after day and keeping business running. Bill is a Smart guy to stay in business year after year. Congratulations.

I have a pair of Rockwells and they are a great machine. The variable speed is handy. No belt changes.

Another good tour Adam. Also good job with the weight, I'm down 35 pounds myself and feel much better.

One big thing I remember about a older job shop is that very destinct smell you get when you walk in. It's one you either love or hate.

shaper built since 1845. I would love to see one that old. smart people, what a time saver so long ago. very nice shop. thanks

That Rockwell lathe looks like it might be related to/same/similar to the Sheldon lathes that were installed in Army mobile machine shop trucks.

enjoyed Adam...nice video ....great shop and people

Adam you should build a knife grinder! Would make a nice shop project, I've built a couple with less equipment than you have.

Good video Adam, thanks for sharing your shop folks, enjoyed seeing 5 Stars! Fred

Fantastic shop! And great tour and descriptions of all the gear, Adam! Thank you all very much!

I just bought a Rockwell lathe looks like the same one here in this video it’s my first one and I can’t wait to finish getting my shop together so I can start using it, I can’t get enough of your videos and I’m learning a lot thanks for your attention to detail your a great teacher Adam

Adam, very cool seeing another’s shop I could see ya working in there.!.!.!.

Nice video budy , love the small shop ambiance. Grtzz from the Netherlands Johny geerts

I really enjoyed the video with all of the comfortable interesting conversation.

Man I wish I woulda known you were in crime bluff, I woulda came up and bought ya a beer.

Known Mr Bill for many years. I worked at that paper mill about 10 years. Mr Bills shop was about 3 miles from my parents house.

Thanks Adam it’s great to see other people’s shops

Just wonder full. Thanks for the trip !

I love to watch OG’S that have been in a trade for their entire life the wealth of knowledge they have I wish I could soak it all up

The shop tours are wonderful, this is a keeper theme.

His Cincinnati radial arm drill is what I thought I was buying. When I picked mine up, I realized it was bigger than what I thought. Awesome shop. Thanks for the tour.

I worked at a shop called rocky mountain machine shop for 10 years they have a G&L about the same size as that one they have the tail stock back in the paint booth it was never on the machine as long as I worked there

I'd love to have enough of a hobby shop built up that I could retire to running a job shop similar to this.

Thank you for sharing, I would never get a chance to see this great shop!

I would like to work at such shop!

Love that Rockwell nice machine

What happened to the footage from the floating chuck device?

That's a serious shop with al.ost one of everything.

Hey "Big Boy" Vid is great............opening music is COOL........Dave from "Down-Under"

He has your sticker on his toolbox @ 1:46

Well equipped shop. Seem like good people too. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Adam like that job shop and oh the g&l HBM lovve it haven't been to pinebluffs in 2 two and a half years would have love to see his shop in person

How in the world did that attachment drill a hex hole? Does an end mill just "float" in the attachment then track around a pattern? Even then your tool size would dictate your min corner radius (and the allowable depth of hole)

Nice video and shop, I like their style. And yours Adam! Thanks for the vid.

What a cool shop .

I grew up just about 40 miles southeast of there and know plenty of Ashcrafts. Enjoyed the video tour

Adam - Thanks for showing this. It does a 70-year-old man's heart good to see these shops still in America. It brings back a lot of fond memories.

Really nice shop tour👍 nice machines nice guys thanks

Cool keep the road trips coming

Nice machine shop....cool tools. Thanks Adam.

Cool video, thanks for sharing 🇬🇧

Interesting place and people, good video.

Good Stuff.

That is an amazing shop! That press is fricking crazy! Lol! Thanks for the tour Adam and Bill!

Good day Adam , great tour A very progressive shop owner buying new machines , and having 50% of his work force being woman . very Impressive, thank you for taking the time to make these videos Pete M .

Oh wow........... very very nice

Adam thanks for another wonderful shop tour it gives us home shop guys ideas on how to set up our own shops it's really great keep them coming