Again, thank you ALL so much for the support, kind words, and just generally following along with the builds and the channel. This community has been not only welcoming and encouraging, but also extremely knowledgeable. I've learned so much already and it's honestly a pleasure to be here! Tune in again on December 23rd for an extra special build. This one is a throwback to a past life, and has been in the works for months. So I can't wait to dive in... AGAIN! ;) See you then!
It's a pleasure to have your videos to watch, you've great style. Plus, this is the community that keeps on giving. And you already are giving. Someone's for sure already following your journey, thinking: "one day, when i'm old enough...". ;)
Just a tip from a fellow machinist, those Kurt vises usually have the ability to mount the movable jaw to the rear of the slide, giving you 5-ish more inches of travel.
I was thinking the same thing. Both jaws (movable and fixed) can be mounted on the back side if needed. In regards to jaw lift, I’ve never had an issue there, but I wasn’t doing super precision work either. Kurt vises (and the good clones) are designed to pull the moveable jaw down with tightening and don’t have as much issue there as the previous generations of machinist’s vises.
I'm a woodworker and I feel the same about mitres - the difference between a good set and a bad set shows the mettle of the person that did them and the care they have in thier work.
Congratulations to a well deserved wall plaque. There are many wonderful metalworking, machine tool, mechanic sites on RU-vid. Yours is truly unique because you share with us your learning process at a very high level. Your voice-over discussions are of very great value to many people. You are humble without being self-deprecating, you have a delightful sense of humour and you are an uncompromising artisan craftsman. Thanks for all of your efforts. We appreciate them.
@@HannyDart Here are some of my favourites: Abom79 Basementshopguy Blondihacks Bruce Whitham Chris Maj Cutting Edge Engineering Australia Dragonfly Engineering Dudley Toolwright Edge Precision esd373ify Fireball Tool James T. Killroy Jr. JamesPark_85 Machining TV Keith Fenner Matty's Workshop Max Grant MrCrispin my mechanics Nik Colyer Machine Works Old Iron Machine Works oxtoolco Randy Richard in the Shop ROBRENZ shop and math Steve Summers This Old Tony Topper Machine LLC Winky's Workshop
Each video I watch leaves me with " I know your Grandfather would be so proud " He would be proud of the care you have taken to get and keep these machines in proper working order. He would be proud of the saved materials being used to make tooling. Most of all I think he is proud of you sharing your knowledge with the next generation. I am a machinist by hobby and do job shop stuff as a side gig. You have found the correct balance in content, you neither over or under describe. Meaning you don't bore the ones who have the know how but don't lose the ones who are learning. I look forward to the content of this channel more than any other.
for the slotted fixturing options, i'd recommend looking into how fireball tool dealt with possible slippage of that (downward clamp vs sideways force isnt perfect) using a second non-slotted serrated piece to engage with serrations under the slotted part. great work on the project, always excited to see one of your vids in the sub box! EDIT: also, the clickspring video has been a patron exclusive for years, hes just generous enough to give it to us mortals now
You deserve the gold button. You came out of the gate swinging for the fences and you smashed a walk of grand slam in game 7. Here's to many more years of sharing your Inheritance
Some channels on RU-vid, have millions of subscribers, and deserve it half as much as yours. Your attention to detail, dry humor, unruffled narration and clear talent, and skill with your craft are what keep me coming back, despite as I've said, not really ever doing metalwork myself. Congratulations on 100k, here's to hoping it just keeps climbing! Also, 2024 aluminum, sure does clean up nicely! Even with the minor issues and variances, those parts look sharp and beautifully done! We usually use alclad when we use 2024, because the cladding corroded quickly, and protects the heat treated aluminum underneath, from corrosion, because it's not open to the environment. It's nice to see the potential for beauty buried under an oxidized surface from time to time 🙂
I wish I had half the skills and talents you have. I went to college for machine tool and die back in the day, however they didn’t teach very much, mostly how to read instruments, metallurgical characters, READING prints, and just overall basics. I went for two years, afterwords landed a job in a tool room with some of the most advanced shockingly talented, no more like gifted individuals who quickly reminded me that I knew absolutely nothing. I got so discouraged I took another position out on the production floor. That decision still haunts me to this day. I missed such an amazing opportunity if I only could have swallowed my pride and listened to those gifted men. They were willing to educate me, in fact I think they took too much enjoyment from it at times. But my young mind and ego simply couldn’t comprehend or appreciate being the most ignorant person in the room on a daily basis. Now much,much older I can see it so clearly. Those men were at the very top of their game, and they were testing me. And I failed. But watching you and seeing the level of detail, the methodological approach to every step, the skills and tactics applied. Brings me back to that tool room but this time it’s different, now I know exactly what I need to do. And that is shut up and listen,watch, and appreciate the gifts you are bestowing upon us. I’ve worked along side of fellas such as your grandfather, and I can see he has ignited that passion in you and it shows in you content. You guys are amazing. I truly appreciate your content. I hope that it inspires many more younger viewers to embark on a journey into machine manufacturing in some form or another. 😁🍻
One of my quickly blossoming skills is finding alternative things to do while waiting for ordered parts to arrive... When your capacitor blew and you moved to the Lathe... Yeah I felt that. Such a real DIY shop experience.
Thank you for sharing the journey! Your videos act as evidence that hard work and consistent effort are required to make the most of any inheritance. You've done your family proud.
Honestly, we have to thank you for the passion you put into those videos, not the other way around. You skyrocketed to my favourite machining channel, even surpassing juggernauts like ToT and Clickspring. Thank you for regularly making my day!
Every time I watch one of your videos I am left wondering when the next one will come out. Great work, both the machining and the clean, simple video editing. I have to say this is my #1 favorite channel. Thank you for bringing it to life.
For only being around for such a short period of time its astounding how many subscribers you already have! I am privilege to have been here since you only had a few thousand and now at 149K!!! I will say it time and time again that you are an inspiration. If anything you give everyone who sees your work an understanding of what it takes to achieve precision, including me. And for that I couldn't be more grateful, so from the bottom of my heart..... Thank you
It's always a pleasure to see your comment, Charl. Thank you so much for your nice words and for following along all this time. I can't tell you how much that means!
Congratulations! I stumbled upon your channel a few months ago and I have been mesmerized by it ever since. I can't wait to see all the videos to come! As an engineering student I love watching your videos and learning so much. It has inspired me to get into the machine shop more at school, and even given me some ideas for projects of my own. As a more digital engineer, it intrigues me to watch you do all these things in an analog fashion, from your drafting to your machining.
I can’t believe how this great channel came out of nowhere. It’s gone from 0 to 155,000 subscribers in just a few months, and deserves every one of them and more.
CONGRATS ON 100K. The snowball has began. Only found the channel because of another youtubers recommendation and over the last 2 weeks have binged the lot. I love the technical drawings, was my favourite part of metal work at school in the early 90's before computers where mainstream.
Thanks! The drafting is a bit time consuming but it's a little less soul sucking than staring at a screen more than I already do. Also, do you remember what channel you heard about mine from? I'd like to thank them
Been with ya from the 1st video, and really happy with where you are and where you are going to journey forward and the side projects you will meet along the way! Thanks to your wife too for shooting all this footage. Everything that is clear about your channel - mechanical engineering basics, research, narration, your manual drafting, workshop organization, machine setups and cleanliness, openness to take inputs from all the commentators, videography, the way you carry forward your legacy - everything is noticed. While we may not even have seen a proper first commercial product, Im am sure they'll turn out amazing with all the tools you make to make more tools! Keep it up, all the best and we are all joyful for having inherited your machining channel and we also know your grandpa is so proud of his legacy! Congratulations for the Silver. Thanks again! 👍
I don't know if anyone said anything yet but having a mirror on a stick is a life saver when sweeping in the head. Much less walking back and fourth. Awesome videos!
Congratulations, I'm sure your Grandfather would be proud. That plate looks beautiful. Like ToT says, when it comes to chamfers, it pays not to cut corners.
Love this channel, been a follower for about a year now, also HI to all the Engineers out there, i`m not an Engineer myself sadly but my Father was so i inherited some of his love for precision and quality, i`m a 53 year old Kitchen Installer from the UK with almost 40 years experience who takes great pride in the quality and accuracy of my jobs, i`m also heavily into ancient engineering techniques, specifically how the so called Dynastic Egyptians cut and polished igneous stone like Granite and Diorite which has a Mohs scale hardness of 6 - 8, there are a good few Engineers out there now who believe, as i do, that these highly accurate monuments and statues were cut on machines similar to lathes and mills, the precision on some of these artefacts is to within 100th of a millimeter yet were are told by the mainstream archaeological community that they were done using copper tools, chisels and dolorite pounders BY HAND, anyone who knows Quartz, as i do as we use it for countertops, knows it can not be cut or shaped using copper or bronze tools to this precision, also under a microscope these objects don`t show impact marks which you would associate with chiselling and hammering, they are perfectly smooth, perfectly square and they even pass the light test with an engineers light test you can`t get that accuracy by hand, many of these artefacts show evidence of tube drills cut at a rate that we can`t replicate even with today`s highly advanced CNC machines, there`s evidence that huge 1200 tonne blocks and single columns were cut using a huge overhead circular saw and Live Centre holes in the bases of 200 - 300 tonne single piece granite pillars, there is an English Aerospace Engineer who moved to the States called Christopher Dunn, his qualifications are second to none in the field of Engineering, he`s travelled to Egypt and other locations around the globe and conducted tests on many of these artefacts and he`s concluded they had to have been cut and created using ancient engineering machines, something we are told never existed in pre history yet the evidence discounts that, there is a channel on RU-vid called UnchartedX presented by an aussie guy called Ben, his channel is dedicated to exposing these incredible highly accurate artefacts and calls for academia to acknowledge that there was once a long lost forgotten ancient highly advanced civilisation that existed before 12.500 years ago and was erased from human history by what`s known as The Younger Dryas Impact, a theory that has since been proven correct and it`s been peer reviewed, my big ask in all this to all you Engineers out there is to have a look at Chris Dunns work and Ben`s over at UnchartedX, see the evidence for yourselves when you get time and if at all possible lend your expertise and engineering knowledge to their work, the more skilled engineers who get on board the quicker science and archaeology will take it seriously, the theory is that in pre history there was a highly advanced global civilisation that had the knowledge and technical ability to build these ancient monuments and that the Dynastic Egyptians only uncovered, inherited and repurposed these sites thousands of years later once Earth`s climate settled down and human population and society was rebuilt, a big ask i know but i know these guys would appreciate your time and skilled knowledge to either agree with their hypothesis or point out errors in their theories, thanks for reading all this, i appreciate it cheers. Glen, West Midlands UK.
"A lathe is basically just a mill that tipped over." I don't remember which youtube machinist said something similar (I think it was Quinn from Blondihacks, but not sure), but they said basically the opposite of that. That a mill is just a lathe that tipped over. They said something along the lines of "every operation you can do in a machine shop can be done on a lathe, just not as efficiently. The ability to do operations on a mill is just a refinement of efficiency, sometimes by a little, sometimes a lot."
A good tip for fitting oversize pieces in your vise is unscrew the jaws from the inside surface and mount them to the outer surface. I think with your particular vise you could have fit the aluminum fixture plate stock, and they are made for this so your workmanship would not have suffered
Congratulations on reaching 100k! Beautiful design for the fixture plate, I'm definitely going to have to make a vise mount sub-plate for mine, and the large cylinder for angle mounting is very clever. Quicker than swapping to my tilting vise. I did design a wallet that I will get around to machining at some point, but I will probably 3D print a few prototypes first to perfect the design.
Thanks Keith! I don't know what kind of vise you have but a couple people mentioned the ability to flip the jaws on Kurt vises like mine. Could save you from having to make the sub plate. I'd love to see your wallet when you finish it up!
I know it’s a pointless comment but I love this channel. I don’t care what your video’s are about, I open it knowing I’m going to love it. Inspirational, I want to machine stuff 😃
Oi man are you going to participate in the makers Christmas. I know your fairly new to RU-vid but if you don’t know what this is maybe ask This Old Tony, tbh I really don’t know how the makers Christmas thing works but I feel like you would be a good fit. Never hurts to ask, Damm this is long, anyways love the content!!!
As one that has been watching from pretty early on, let me say thank you for the more realistic view of projects, few steps forward, one back. I might suggest that you start planning you project for your million sub plaque now…it won’t be long.
The RU-vid plaque box is pretty distinctive, which had me thinking, "What's he going to do with that?" Then, when you started blue-taping off the play triangle, I was like, "Is he gonna---??" Realizing that yes, you were going to chamfer the triangle was very much a moment for a joyous shout. Congrats, Brandon, you glorious SOB. 😁
13:16 "What is a Mathe?" I have some old British model making books. There were model makers that did ALL of their machining on a lathe as they didn't have a mill in their small shops. Some of the fixtures they came up with to do what would be a snap in a mill were things to behold. Adversity is the mother of invention!
Got into this trade for the opportunity and money. But truly fell in love with it. Work like yours and videos like yours helped me fall in love with machining. Years back I would laugh at myself for getting excited about blocks of steel with holes in it! Great work as always.
So happy to have found and joined your site, I started off as a Tool and Die apprentice, then Tool and Diemaker in the UK at British Leyland, then moved to the US and several jobs later my Pinnacle was to become an InstrumentMaker for a scientific institute, through all this I was strictly a manual machinist and it sadly lacking now with CNC everywhere. Your skills, drawing brilliant, machining brilliant!!!!
“ A lathe is a mill that fell over”. What a brilliant description 👏👏👍😀 Oh my, I so want to make a mini version of this pallet. Fantastic build as always. Thank you for sharing. And as for the ending, you so deserve the plaque from RU-vid. No need to thank your viewers, we thank you. 👏👏👍😀
I’m not a machinist, nor am I a metal worker. Just a humble telecom technician. Your content is captivating, educating and all around entertaining. Been here since the beginning, my 13yo son and I watch this regularly. It’s a nice way to introduce him to different trades and a realistic expectation of what the field involves (math, calculus, trigonometry…). Thank you for putting this out there for us to find.
CONGRATULATIONS! I work in a precision manufacturing shop, I used to do manual and CNC machining. I found your channel a few weeks ago and subscribed immediately. I love the need for perfection, I'm the same way. I love the content, keep it up. I know you grandfather would be proud.❤️
Congradts on the 100K Tubers we appreciate the authentic perspective and high value content your are sharing with us. It's because of you I purchased a drafting machine for my antique drawing board.
congrats on hitting 150K! As a sign guy that uses flexi pro and photoshop everyday, I always look forward to sitting down with a goo old fashioned drafting table and a pencil. So it warms my heart when I watch you do it. thanks a bunch
As someone who was trained in hand drafting, and more using CAD everyday, I am impressed with you drawing each and every one of those holes in your plan diagram.
Truly inspiring, i am a mechanical engineering student and a machinist hobbyist, I love getting inspired by your videos! They help me see what is possible for anybody who puts their mind to it! Thank you for making videos, they add so much to the community.
@7:14, Watching that thing emerge from the left side of the cutter as a mirror was possibly the most satisfying thing I am going to see all day Edit to add: Nope. @16:34. *That* is the most satisfying thing I will see today.
@@InheritanceMachining I'm doing well and I'm glad to hear that you're looking forward to my next video. I'll do my best to make it worth the wait, it always takes twice as long as expected. PS: congrats on the 100k 👌👌
So many concepts I have learned in undergrad have been brought up in this video. Such as V = omega across r, Young's modulus (modulus of elasticity), three phase, the list goes on. The 30 year old cap was bound to fail sooner than later. Congrats on the play button!
I stumbled on this channel, I think on an RU-vid suggestion and I have to say it is fantastic. So far every video I have watched has given me something new learned. Thank you.
Time to finally see the fly cutter in action, and that ridiculous lathe setup, too. Also I gotta say the silver plaque is well deserved. Here's to a quick journey to 1 million!
I was just saying at work today that i would like to make a plate like this, then i log into youtube and here pops this video, exactly the thing i want lol.
Your attention to detail is infectious. Thank you for explaining things and making it known that everybody makes mistakes. Thanks again for providing us with some outstanding content. Now I gotta get out in my shop and make something.
Every time I see you on the board it takes me back in time and I remember all the guys I worked with, the long hours on projects and all the fun we had at work. love the machining too, great work. Thoroughly enjoy your channel.
Hi Brandon, I'm from Georgetown ky. My dad was a tool and die maker, however he passed away last September. I've decided to follow his tool and die footsteps though! I'm 1 semester in through school, and I've been working at die Manufacturing at Toyota. I love every minute of the field, and I love your videos too! Keep up the great work!
As someone who has never worked in this or any related field, but loves craftmanship, I am so glad I found this channel. Seeing you get your play button made me smile! Congrats!
i have been addicted to this channel. its been like a week straight watching videos whenever i can to get caught up. Love the dedication here and your skills are commendable.
Yet another great video. I watch quite a few homeshop videos on RU-vid. You are a breath of fresh air. You do everything from the design to the complete job. We'll done
That round bar to adjust the plate angle was mind blowingly awesome lol. I'm still somewhat new to machining been teaching myself for a few years from a home shop and just recently started teaching myself cnc machining by taking over the small shop at work. Unfortunately I'm the only one in the entire place that knows anything about machining. But I am learning alot from your videos as well as others, thanks for the content!
I love your channel. It is simply a joy to watch. Your voice is so calm and listening to your thinking out loud as you problem solve in your pursuiu for incrementally more accurate reference edges.
The craftsmanship and detail of your work is absolutely incredible. I honestly love the production quality of your videos. I can't wait to see where this ends up going. Your Grandfather would be proud.
The only RU-vid channel without a single dud video, amazing to see! Perfect timing too as TOT has had to take a break for most of this past year. Totally different style and I love it!
It's just so much fun to see you work your way through the challenges you set yourself, and your style of editing somehow makes every episode like a little fairy tale.
