Boring Bar for the Shaper 

Tools building tools for the shop....awesome...enjoyed

Good stuff, James. Thanks for sharing this. That has a nice final fitment which is so well done the separation between the two parts just disappears. Good job!

Nice work 👍🏻

A good little project thanks for sharing

Nicely done tool James. Square holes are always tough. Thanks for sharing.

With the number of times I saw the word USA jumping back and forth across my screen (it's stamped on your tool holder), I thought I was watching a Keith Fenner video! :)

Always interested in metal shaper projects!

Great job . One needs to win a lottery to be able to afford square broaches ! Cheers .

Nice job.

Hi James, An enjoyable video... thank you... Take care Paul,,

Great video, as always! I'm in the middle of a similar project. While I have several shaper keyway bars, I recently acquired a Tree tapered boring head...but it didn't include the original boring bars, so I'm making them. Cutting the 1/4" squares through the bar, might be the most challenging part.....

Great job. Some of my old tooling had a cap type tool bit holding with wrench Armstrong to I think. Been awhile tho. I made my own tool post mount for two or three sizes of boring bars back in the 70s.copied there round one for the lathe. I know its not the same as the shaper but essentially it is. Thank for the video

Hi James. Nice idea the different size interchangeable square tool bit holders for speed. If you'd left the larger diameter section on between the two smaller ones the shoulder would have acted as a thrust ring up against the tool holder face. Enjoyed the machining process, something else to make. Tony

Good to see another video from you.

Great job today you made me think

looks good but i think i would have milled a flat on the counterbore section of the tool holder and put a set screw in the bar to secure the tool holder.

Files are fun, still haven't gotten mine to work like Tom Lipton's but I am working on it! lol

I have been trying to score some square broaches on E-Bay for awhile now. No deals yet.They always go for big money.

I think I might call that a slotting bar rather than a boring bar ;)

I don't bother with square holes. Just take the size of the square tool bit and multiply that by the square root of 2 and drill THAT size and you're done. It is just as stable and I'd say even MORE stable than a square hole. 1/4" bit needs a .3535 min hole.

Nice bar, but aren't you worried about it unscrewing itself in a cut? With my luck, it would right on the last cut.

Sure miss the videos

Maybe I missed it but, what kind of steel did you make the boring bar from?

Hello Sir! Hey did the sawsall work to vibrate the mix for your window seals?

Let’s fix the Pacemaker !

Noice!

Boring intro - could you really not speak and think more slowly?? Try harder. Plan your script and rehearse reading it. All that stuff about 15/16" bars was uninteresting. Two out of ten for the intro.