How Many Machines Can You Fit in a Garage? 

Tony is an example of the type of old school style characters becoming much harder to find now days, those older gents who have quite a diverse mix of experience, personality, technical knowledge, passion, and a real desire to carry it on into their older years, such a treat to be invited into his workshop. Thank you

Nice Doubleboost mug!

The answer to a question in the title is n+1 where n is the current number of machines.

Spare floor area is a No No in any home workshop, it shows dust. Very nice to see Tony in his natural habitat. Thanks for sharing.

Great tour all around, but my god that boring head trick was the worth the price of admission alone. Definitely a “why didn’t I think of that” moment. I’ll never taper turn any other way now that I’ve seen that 😄😄

Having ‘met’ some of your vic… erm, apprentices, and now Tony, it is just a reminder how much difference a good teacher makes. Love of the subject, empathy with students and a sense of humour is very useful for everyone involved. Tony comes across as a good man, as do you!

Thanks Tony for letting all of us in and giving the tour! 👍👍😎👍👍

The boring head in the tailstock was genius. Mr. Tony thinks out of the box.

What a sincere and likeable man. You were lucky to have such mentors. Best wishes, Dean.

People like this should be treasured and encouraged. This is the bedrock of all manufacturing

In answer to your question, in my case, too many 😢 A very enjoyable tour. Thank you for taking me along. I enjoyed the trip. Great packed lunch. 👏👏👍😀

That garage looks familiar. Tony taught my son at college for a while, same sort of scheme that you mentioned, and then I met him quite by chance when I was visiting the DVLR at Murton. Now we are in touch quite often. Cheers Paul

I really enjoys these little tours of your mentors shops Mr.C. It's wonderful for you to show your admiration and respect for the men who took you under their wings so to speak. Cheers.

Clearly Tony is a fellow of good taste and high craftsmanship. Thanks for showing us round. 👍

Always room for just one more.

Like it, nice tip for tapers…

Had a similar relationship with my school metalwork teacher. Years later he even came to my engagement party. And you still find yourself calling them Sir.

Thanks for taking us along with you on this workshop visit Crispin. This is one of my favourite types of video, as I enjoy seeing other machinists workshops. Tony has a great workshop, and is obviously a very skilled engineer. Must have been a great teacher. Cheers Nobby

Jo to see you together and how you Mr Crispin s enthusiasm was recognised and skills passed on as I'm sure you are to the next generation.

I would also add that a Good teacher is someone we never forget. I remember mine with the greatest fondness. They have realised that sharing their knowledge does not diminish them, it makes the world a better place.

It's always funny to hear names of places from my youth - J. Rowntree school, York 6th form college etc.. I went to Easingwold School through 6th form, but plenty of folks went off to York College. Thanks for surfacing happy memories! 👍

filing = time and real learning

Great tour and very interesting fellow, glad I made the bus.

@1:00 - Just a mere ONE minute in to this video and I know that this grizzled chap has forgotten 50-100X what I ever thought I knew. I'm guessing we're in for a schooling and a treat!

Good to see the manual machines preserved and in use. I was lucky when at school we had all the experience of metalworking forging turning and milling and the amount of injury's were few and minor. When we left school we had a lot of useful skills and knowledge before going on to an apprenticeship. New cnc machinery is good for cost effective mass production but there is something satisfying about getting the job complete and right on a manual machine. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for the tour.

Not enaugh. My Klopp shaper is still outside under the porch.

Fascinating insights, great to see the diversity of approaches - and how to deal with hiccoughs. Super workshop! Great character.

Love it! Hello from across the pond in Michigan

At 150 I spotted one of my Doubleboost Mugs . very nice shop . well edited video

Thank you for this interesting excursion!

Thank you,always nice to have a look round other people’s workshops.

Great home workshop, thanks for showing us around 🤙

Excellent tour, you can tell the old teachers by the dust coat, great!! Ray.

Lots of hard work…you guys deserve a lot of respect from us. You guys are the top of the trade! Thanks Steve

An amazing Interview from a Student interviewing a Teacher 👍 Im glad that you pushed the old fella along and got 'your' take on how interesting Machining can be .. And what wonderful machines and uses .. I will always love the appreciation of Art and the curious minds that hopefully preserve these 'Things' forever .. Nice 🇦🇺 Ps Carl Fisher is another nice Preservist, but he's 🇺🇸

How good is that Mr Crispin visit to an old teacher. Well done

A little bit of an old Mr. Bean routine there at the beginning--heheh! Love it.

It was lovely to see Tony's workshop.

to answer your question: More and in special cases much more. Video done in 30 sec. THX

Remarkably enjoyable and inspiring, wonderful video, thank you. The boring head tailstock was wonderful, never seen that before, what a clever addition!

Strong English accent and a proper cap. I like this guy. Just have a little difficulty understanding what he says sometimes, but I can manage to piece it together mostly. Best wishes my friend.

I don't know if it's just my local area or what, but it's rare to meet an engineer that can actually machine a part. I really don't think they even touch on machine theory by the way they draw prints.

On 1981 my did and I had a tool and die shop.. the main room was only 20 x 20’.. 400 sq ft. We had 3 full size Index model 55 Milling Machines, 1-9” Southbend lathe, 1- drill press, 1 vertical band saw, one 6 x 12” hand feed surface grinder, one small air compressor and three full sized oak work benches, two heat treat ovens, one small cut off saw and one set of acetylene tanks..it’s was tight but very efficient.. I served my apprenticeship there.. the best of times. Nice shop you have there

The answer is 42

Always interesting to see you Mr Crispin, good interview. Your good at interviewing, would be good to see you do more. 32.9K subscribers your doing well wont be long before you hit 40. Thats subs not years,

I love shop tours its great to see how someone sets up there shop and what projects they are working on . Thanks for taking the time to make these videos

I love these videos Crispin. This and Richard gibbons are so inspiring. Hope you find time and willing candidates to do so more. Thanks for taking the time to share. Very inspiring.

Thanks Cris for making the video, it was great to be able to talk to you about projects! The Rover is much further on now. Model engineering takes a back seat when the weather is good!

Very interesting tour, thanks. The use of the boring head to offset the tailstock is genius, what a great idea and I'll certainly be stealing that one.

Seeing Tony's Minnie, incomplete as it is, mines nearly older and more incomplete. I have the boiler shell made, the horn plates cut, the wheel rim blanks outside machined, a flywheel, cylinder and piston cast but not machined. It's now been over 44 years since my wife gave me the book and I bought a used unimat SL 1 on which I turned numerous bronze fittings for the boiler etc. Having just bought a new pm 932 mill I intend to get back to it soon. Thanks for an informative tour of someone else's emporium. 🇨🇦🍌🥋🐏🇬🇧🕊️🇺🇦🕊️🇺🇲👍

Thanks Mr C, it's good to see other Engineers workshops, plus some history regarding training. It's a pity that training seems to have taken a back seat in favour of profit.

Nice little work shop Mr Crispin, i had a 25 ft -14ft it was full but mainly wood working tools but i did have Boxford 9" swing very good lathe all handy stuff when you have wooden boats cheers enjoyed watching O i liked DB,s cup too haha

There are some craft old buggers around, great video!

I've seen some folks pack so many machines into a shop to the point where they hardly had enough room left to use them, or they couldn't turn around in the shop without banging into something. There's one crazy youtube guy that has beautiful machines packed in very tightly into a room and also has machine spilling out into his driveway which he's constantly having to fight the weather for. He gets a fair bit of rain, snow.. Entropy is slowly devouring the machines he keeps and uses outside. There are the collectors, and he's one of them, and then there are the people who really need and use the machines to make a living. He doesn't have the money or doesn't want to spend it to build a large shop, but he can always come up with some money to buy another machine from some salvage yard. I think for some it won't matter. No matter how big the shop, they'll always be getting more machines than will fit in such a way that working in the shop is no longer a pleasure.

thanks for sharing

Thanks from old New Orleans 😎

Wonderful nice post.Still working on my 1948 Wilson and D S G lathes in my garage - been with me since 1980👍❤️

I am a multiple projects person. Some go on for years. But I have a main car project currently (similarly to tony it is a car from a friend who died I need to finish as it was his dream car) and I recently got into old bikes as they are smaller and faster to do and take up less space. I also have an Enigma machine to finish. And a web site from 1995....

I wish I had that much room in my garage to get all those machines in. A great collection very envious. Nice to see the 2ins Clayton steam wagon under construction.

Thanks for taking the time to do videos like this its intresting some very nice workmanship and shows what can fit in a small workshop

Love it. Can we see "your" loco project please.

It all depends on the size of the garage, and whether you want to get in there with them!

one more!

Thank You Tony, and Thank You Crispin for the tour. The gear hobbing method I’m not familiar with, you’ve peaked my interest I’ll have to research this.

Good to see someone who appreciates a shaper. I have a 10" shaper made by the Lock Tool Company. 😀

Very enjoyable interview, well done!! Thanks to Tony for showing us his workshop. It seems a shame that these machines arent still doing service in school. I went back to my secondary school a couple of years ago, the workshops which had a small foundry, forge and machineshop had gone. In its place was something called technology!! Our metalwork teacher was Ken Wells who designed simple steam engines for learning metalwork and published a series of books on this. Well done to you for keeping in touch with Tony. Have a great weekend!!

I spotted the Hemingway double vice set up 👍 a great buy!

Fantastic interview, Mr.C. Tony has the PERFECT workshop - everything has its special place and purpose. The shaper was just the right size in my opinion. Very cool layout. Cheers and respect from Texas.

Wonderful video.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing

Thanks Tony. Great tour!

Great videos Mr Crispin. I admire your workshop and the one in the video. I did my apprenticeship with Lucas CAV Acton in the early 80's where they had their own apprentice school with good instructors and a day release at Acton tech college. Sadly it's no longer there now. I do like your loco build project and hope to see more of that soon. I've bult a few loco's in gauge 1 but my workshop machines are just too small for anything bigger.

A great video, thank you. I do love to see other people’s workshops. I find it fascinating 👍

Great to see you back. Are you going to start on the loco again soon?....

What a nice guy, and a great mentor no doubt! Love that layout ;)

very interesting shed and man!

What an awesome home shop! Thanks for sharing!

Nice to see Tony working in inches (4 decimal places on a dro is normally inches) 😊

What a well-fitted garage.

The differential gear dual reading dials on the Harrison are pretty slick. Never seen that before.

What a great interview. I love that idea of using the boring head in the tail stock. I just might have to use that. He's a very inspirational individual. I could only dream of having his abilities. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic film and an inspiring man. I have a Harrison mill too. Mine is the horizontal with vertical head. They are, as was intimated, basically an Harrison L5 lathe stood on its end. The gearbox etc uses all the same parts. Thanks for a superb film.

Good use of a garage, I’d say 👍 Thanks Crispin

Wow. Bravo

Quite enjoyable, thanks.

Thanks Crispin great video. I really enjoy your model engineer home workshop tours showing different projects and giving insight into your training, wonderful stuff.....hows that Springbok is coming along, and I can't wait to see an update.

So interesting as always thanks for sharing 🦘

What a nice field trip even without a stop for lunch, or was it a "brown Bag" special? Thanks for the tour. It's great to see true professionals at work and play. Cheers from u.s.

Mr Crispin, thank you for sharing your knowledge and inspiration. On a side note I cant help but think that you can look mid twenties or middle age all at the same time, either way keep up the good work.

Fascinating video, wonderful to get an insight into this amazing Engineering Icon and to see inside his workshop and hear anecdotes about his Models and experiences. Your questions and narrative was excellent and the video well filmed and edited. Thanks cheers Paul

I am a beginner in this trade and your video touch my interest thank you for sharing and making this kind of video.

Excellent video , what a lovely bloke too !.

Very interesting and great to see Tony in the flesh as it were. Tony has given me some great tips and advice over recent times - most notably between centre boring. I must remember the boring head in the tailstock method too. My father was an associate member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and taught at evening classes at a college near Castleford. Unfortunately he passed away when I was in my teens but I think I must have a few of his engineering genes. Cheers Andrew

This is quite British in warp and weft. From the Colonies.

Saving those trick dual reading dials for the last was… very clever! 👌

I have a grievance to express I raised my hand while attendance was being taken and you did not call my name I guess I will be counted as absent lol

I like the dial gauges that include both metric and SAE increments. For the rest of us we either multiply or divide by 25.4. Of course whenever having to do a little bit of math there is always the possibility of making a mistake. DRO of course is always a nice way to be able to work and I use them.

FEELS GOD I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE ,DO SOMTHING ELSE WHEN YOU GET STUCK.

Nice chap