Making Complex Knobs | Arbor Press Restoration 

Nice piece and a great machining video. would you be able to post a link on that induction heater, it looks like a nice shop addition for shrink fits and heat treating small parts. Cheers!

My Dad was a machinist, worked in small shops after WW 2 till 1964. He didn't want me to be a machinist!! Wanted me to learn to be a auto mechanic!!! WHY ? SO HE COULD HAVE A FREE MECHANIC!!! "He did pay for the schooling" just took a LONG time to pay it off... I enjoyed your video (subscribed)

When you say taking .100 are you making a .050 cut?

CNC machinist: I calculated the best rpm for this operation to be 1787. Manual machinist: The gearbox of my old Clausing Weiler Meuser is least rattly at 600 rpm, I am gonma 600 rpm everything.

videography is top flight, really value the callouts on doc, speed and feeds and when u are experimenting with different tool execution like the tool holder u had to heat up and insert endmill. keep it up!

That has come out absolutely stunning. Excellent design and execution!

When I listen to you like this, I am waiting for the comment; “Houston, we have a problem.” Luckily I haven't heard that yet. You are an astronaut in the metal world and come up with a solution almost every time. I look forward to the next one, to the stars and beyond. Kind regards from the Netherlands.

Wow, amazing work. I just shake my head when you’re hogging on the American, it’s ridiculous. Cool idea with the heat shrink tooling. Will look into that. Can’t get over how nice your Colchester runs. Need to get motivated to work on mine.

Best kind of shop project. Nice mix of precision and art and It’ll put a big smile 😊 on your face every time you touch it. 👍👍😎👍👍

I watch videos all the time like this with good solid American Iron lathes just eating up metal, later in the shop I’m shaking my head as I’m changing out one insert after another because my little Clausing Metosa can’t handle them huge cuts.. lol.. when it grows up it’s gonna be an American pacemaker! Haha That is one nice looking knob you spun up man. Nice work all around. 🍻

The cuts you made got me week in the knees 🤣 Nothing better than a hog show👍

cool cool Hey whats up with the Jakobs collection?

It's a knob with bling. 👍

Confused why you didn't do that as one piece? (Besides inside work)

I know you said the insert was bad due to the sparks coming off it. What makes a bad insert spark like that.

That was a lot of work and it turned out fantastic.

I am not sure if it is the camera angle, but it seems to me that your parting tool blade usually sticks out too much... Nice project and great proof of concept!😂! By the way I love the sound of those lathes. No gear rattling... Thank you for sharing. You are a good men.

where does it go?

NIce design, But i'd have done it differently.. You could have made the knob in one piece, by milling the groove, and then mill the slots, Heck!, you could also turn the grooves and mill then.. When making the part with the grooves, when there's an even number of grooves, you could have done them across.. would have given the same result, and always chamfer the back to make a relief for the cutter radius in the bottom of the pocket. (or make a small groove in there as well.. Apart from that.. Nice job!.. i'd blue it for sure.. prevents rust.. and it looks more factory made

I've never seen a dial like that on a tailstock, very good feature because the marking that are usually on the shaft always get covered in oil and become difficult to read.

Over the top for sure!,looks great! So snooping while watching,what are you painting magenta? you paint your stuff in cool colors. Looks like a large collection of chucks too. As usual great video.

Thumbs up from me. 👍

Wow! Subbed

Nice job! I watched it all. At around 40 min I realised i was so intently watching that I forgot what the part was for.😅

Try and talk in metric sizes so the rest of the world knows what you are talking about! *The US automotive industry is in metric.

You don't need to abuse your tools on my behalf. Use lubricant. Most people who watch these types of videos have seen chips come out of a drilled hole. Save your self some time and lube up.

Excellent voice over. Very clear

Very impressive nice

What was the point of adding the rings after the fact as opposed to just leaving that metal there when you turned down the part in the first place? Maybe I'm missing something, seems like a lot of added work for no benefit. Great work overall, really beautiful piece

Ah you know me too well. I see big, hot and juicy chips at the beginning of a video I leave a like.

i’m not sure if that’s a good idea by spinning that steel at those rpm’s, especially when the tool chuck is that close to the lathe chuck

i didn't get it why did you make 2 edge rings when you could make them from the same piece?

I love the look of that blue lathe sooooooo much! Its an amazing color and amazing shape!

Have fun cleaning that overengineered handle every time you used it

The chatter while using parting tool…. Omfg

Happy Saturday 🌴☀️👍

looks dang good my man! Will say though, from plenty-a personal experience with hot rolled goodies, you can get an even better finish! Golden rule of mild steels in general: more or less doesn't matter what brand of manual lathe you have, it's max rpm is still in the low end for the surface speed you want. Only limitting factor would be a lathe that starts vibrating wildly above 2k rpm...But if your lathe is as robust as it sounds, 2-3k should be no problem at all!

Niiiiice work!

Loved your work, you got a like and a new sub. You have such a nice finish, I'd go with shiny not blued, but it's yours, and you have to look at it more often....if its a pain to keep naked, then blu is better than rust!

parting tool is way to fast. 100 rpm

I have no idea what that was but I do know that was a great video. That sucked me in, thought I was in your workshop for a second. 😂👊

No need to drill dry for the camera.

Very nice!

That was quiet a chunky nurl.

Was that the 91D Tap Handle?

Beautiful work

That is really impressive!

Seriously under rated channel! Outstanding work! Love the Fireball vise!

Not quite sure why you switched machines... First process OD of handle, second process smaller OD and bore with tapping. Easy peasy, and you can get great runout on a 3 jaw, like under a thousandth.

VERRY Impressive !!

Dude, that’s Office Space levels of flair. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Just found your channel and subscribed. Nice work.

after watching this again and saw what u did with your handles it made me want a dividing head so i bought one!!!! can't wait to use it.

I'd do a thick plating of Nickle. Then polish it up

thanks for sharing feeds and speeds. love it!

Would be fun to see where this part goes afterwards.

What a great job! expert machining

Great design. I love it!

18:00 .. 19:00 просто рука-лицо.

Love the videos. One minor complaint: please just say, ‘RPM’, not ‘RPMs’; RPM = Revolution**s** (plural) Per Minute (singular). Cheers!

What you call as "centre drill" isn't a centre drill. But a centre/counter sink drill. You only use the thicker drill part for counter sinking and for the use of a live/dead centre. Not to start a drill hole as the cutting angle of the thicker part doesn't match the angle of most drill bits. This will make the drill bit wander. Just buy "real" centre drill bits, for this type of job 👍

Pretty impressed with how that American hogs off metal.

_"little bit of flair"_ Translation : "I decided to out-xzibit the man himself and overpimped my dial knob so much, that apple asked me to design their new security screw."