How I Made My Other Face Mill 

Hey guys. Been a bit under the weather this week and couldn't make it to the workshop to film anything. Thankfully I have a few spare videos which I could edit up. This video is a bit out of order as I have used this tool in the few videos already, but I thought it would be interesting to see how I made it. Hopefully I don't sound too out of out of it in the voice over parts. Hope you still enjoy it. Cheers

It seems like a big part of being a machinist is just making tools that let you make more complex tools, that let you make EVEN MORE complex and specialized tools. Looks like a rabbit hole my wallet won't agree with but I hope to able to do one day. Love the content!

Nice video! I like the "no bullshitt" approach toward this tool. I'd love to see it perform, compared to the cheap ali express endmill heads. Those are cheap as chips nowadays, reaching $50 and below.

Fantastic project, thanks for sharing.

Great work as usual. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

You never cease to amaze me.

Nice work, looks like a keeper, cheers!

New lathe sounds great!

Great work once again! Now I'm waiting for this video: dovetail cutter with inserts. I'm still amazed you have gone so far without it, to be honest the dovetail mill you use holds up great!

Great work! Good thinking with the boring head.

Hope you're feeling better soon 👍

That turned out great!

Nice job Bruce!💪💪💪

I'm in the process of making one for my bridgeport. I was milling the 3/4 shank and had a bird nest of swarf building up so I did what I always do and grabbed it with my hand. HO LEE SHYT it was like grabbing a razor blade and pulling my hand away. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have a scar a cross my finger print from now on.

Very nice project!

Great metal chucker number 2 👍

Mint work my guy

Excellent video. I am so surprised that it only took half a day. Thank you for sharing your work and knowledge!

Belo trabalho. Parabéns 👏👏

Love it.

Nice work!

Love giving the bottom some relief.

I‘d suggest making a little endstopnfor your lathe should be as easy as a little switch that turns some relay off. I‘d probably also make a little slope to the center so that stuff can’t rub there.

Good stuff

Much more interesting is how to do end mill yourself with standard inserts.

Nice build and some really nice shots there too! The inserts you are using on that thing are not really made for steel, they kinda work but you instantly gonna shave the corners off em. They work really well tho in all sorts of aluminium and copper and give extremely good surface finnish on those materials usually. Also the faces where the inserts are seated against should be at the same angle as the inserts, kinda a hassle to setup tho and if it twerks it twerks. Peace and keep it up!

I was surprised to see you were able to cut steel with these inserts. The CCGT’s you have there are for aluminium. Usually CCMT is used for steel …

Hey you're obviously a very capable machinist but i just wanted to share this cool tip i learned from Curtis on Cutting Edge Engineering Australia. The copper you use with the 3 jaw chuck is U shaped pieces that are just slid over the jaws. He has a video where he shows how you can use a carbide endmill to mill down through the surface hardness of the front face of the jaws, which will then allow you to use normal tooling to tap a hole. You can then make some L shaped copper pieces that bolt in place. It's a lot less work in terms of setup and they dont fall in the floor. 😊

Was wondering if your er Collet chuck fits the new lath or will you make a new one? Excellent project, thanks for the video. Hope you feel better soon.

Honestly I actually get excited when this channel drops videos.quickly becoming one of my favorite machining channels

Anyone else base their refernce of time on Artisan Makes projects? Like when he said "about 6 months ago" i was like oh that was 6 months ago? lol But your projects are always super inspiring! I can't wait to get my lathe working so I can start working on similar projects. I don't have a mill yet though

I’d definitely harden those face mills if possible, it will greatly increase the longevity of those tools

We need to come together n get this man a Bridgeport or a heavy duty Clausing.

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I got a bit of suggestion for you, I think you could use a more precise soft jaw copper plate because I kinda see it in the videos that the part had a little bit of run out just by looking at it. I hope this channel grow bigger and better!

Now you just need to make a 3rd cutter and you can use the other 2 edges of those ccgt inserts.

Next project make another face mill to use the other two corners on the insert.

you should try making spring style collets for your mt3, in the style of a r8 spring collet, these small mills need minimal stick out to increase rigidity id imagine, they dont exist to my knowledge

if i ever won powerball your getting a schaublin 13 and a hlv-h and a building to put em in.. pinky swear 😊

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The only thing that I could say about your face mill, it’s not held with a arbor. That means you have to hold it with a collet or in a side lock. Depending on the level of precision you need to maintain, the side lock will have some runout. The collet might not be ridged enough. I see you’ve loaded it with soft metal inserts, so the stresses will be less, per your material. Anyway, good on ya, solid machining skills.

Your carbide insert moves in its holder at 4:45. A loose insert is soon a broken insert with a bad part bonus. Unfortunately, just tightening the screw will not fix it because the cutting forces will twist the insert back loose. Either never cut in that direction with that holder or modify the holder for a tighter hold. The screw should push the insert into a side wall (while still keeping the insert sitting flat). There's the 'proper' fix of welding/brazing (caution warping) plus remachining. Then there's the dark arts of fixing fits with peening (caution hack). Joe Pie vid for inspiration ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S9Ozjc90GmQ.html but note that all those 'solutions' except straight knurl will not hold against side loads.

Great video as always, your lathe sounds like hell tho, why? And the work seems to wobble under load.

Why you dont use ccmt for mill the steel? ccgt great for non ferro materials

What's with the flaming chip(?) at 10:49 (t=649.39 to 649.47)? It was quite disconcerting!

4:24 there is a reddish tone close to the business end of the jaws. Are those the soft jaws you made with the copper inserts?

Hey man! How do you hold tools in the mill? I supose er collets but what tipe? Your mil has a mt3 morse taper right? I'm looking to buy one of these mills but I just don't realy know how to hold tooling! hope you have time to respond and have a nice day!

RPM=constant surface footage per minute X 3.82 divided by cutter diameter.

Love your videos and ideas. I'm just getting started in this hobby. Do you have plans that you can sell?

Enjoying the new lathe, ey? 😊

why you use aluminium inserts to steel?

Early gang

There is something I never understood about machining. Why couldn't you use your 20 mm cutter? If you take very shallow passes (which you did with the fly cutter)? I understand why a machine that isn't rigid or powerful could not take big passes but if you're patient, what issue remains?

Is it me or does your lathe have a wobble in the chuck? I know it can look weird in a camera.....

Do anybody know other creators from australia who makes contens like Artisan Makes, i know CEE is there any others?

Why would you design a face mill head to accept turning inserts when it’s just the same amount of work to design it with milling inserts? Also you’ll find it a lot more rigid if the sides of your pockets are at the same angles is the inserts, and finally try using the same inserts but steel versions, your edges will last longer

Flycutters are known for hogging out massive amounts of material in a hurry. The only reason you'd need something like a facemill is to impress your friends 😂

Isn't it then called a shoulder mill? You didn't make the first face mill for nothing it's the proper tool for facing, the shoulder mill should just be used if you have to mill to a shoulder. Many people use shoulder mills for face milling but it's actually the wrong tool and it gets frowned upon by mill operators because it doesn't work as well as a dedicated face mill.

i hate saying it, but at 4:00, everything afterwards is a waste of time.... you just lost the concentricity to the shank you turned. can see the run-out on the final test cuts with the taper and OD. popping it on the rotary and indicating... still not to the shank, but to the now eccentric diameter you just turned... the best bet would have been do it on centres, then you just have to give it a final pass to clean it up and not worry about soft jaws, runout, blah blah. next time, huh? lol.

Always nice to give the bottom some relief..always..😂