Metal Shaper / Cutter grinder Weekly Random ;-) 

You're a lucky man Mr. Summers. Gorgeous land, tools and wife. What more could you ask for.

Steve, when my wife walks in the shop dressed like that, it translates out to 'Take me out to dinner!" or something like that.... don't forget the wife needs maintenance, too!

Now that is one shapely shaper oiler. Just Sayin' Gary 75-Year-Old-Home-Shop-Machinist in North West Arkansas

Steve, you're a blessed man - sounds like you have a wife who cares for you dearly, kids to pass your wisdom to, a nice patch of land to grow things on, and a well-set-up shop to tinker and build things with. I appreciate my wife, son and shop too. No worries about the "simple" stuff like brushes in a grinder or making a special cutting tool, it's all part of the shop life as Adam calls it. We need to make/maintain parts and equipment, and sometimes it helps to get ideas from others in the community. Thanks for sharing what you do.

WOW. I used to work with machines like these in the 70's. One of the best jobs I ever had.

Watching the shaper internal workings, bull gear, crank, and link is mesmerizing. Even practical machinery can be beautiful.

Beautiful family you have, great equipment, and incredible land. Count your blessings, your a lucky man!

Thanks for the up-date. Always enjoy your videos.

Grate job. Thanks for putting out good stuff I learn new things all the time. What you take for granted someone needs so keep up the good work

a nice mix of content! A very pleasant surprise to see such a lovely lady in a shop environment. Thank You!

great video, I really enjoyed you showing us how to grind a parting cutter. it was nice to get the angles that you cut into them, thanks.

Thanks for the brush information - need to change mine. Nice to learn how.

Shapers are one of my favorite machines nice shop good to see young guys staying at the old ways I'm an old machinist/tool and die/mill right grew up with a dad the learned to be a mechanic by helping the town black smith put together model Ts that farmers had ordered from Sears and roebuck. So I learned from him to run, build, and fix pretty much anything mechanical. Keep it up.

Nice to see the cutter grinder work.

Love the eerie sound the shaper makes at full stroke, where the big cast iron parts are ringing :-)

Sir, you are blessed with a beautiful family. My wife helps me all the time, you are correct we wouldn't be where we are without them (even though they are distracting lol) great video thanks for sharing, God bless!

Hi Steve. Loved the 5 angle grinders humour!

The repairs are interesting too. It would make one attempt a fix after seeing your demo. Thanks for the videos.

It's always fun to see the insides of things...

ENJOYED , Thanks Steve !

It's wonderful that you have a wife who shares your passion for the machines.

Quality video. Keep up the good work.

Steve, we used to buy 4 inch diamond cutters for masonry. I know they are not precision but if they are too out of round you could still use them in a 4 inch grinder. Our tomato's were late but were loaded! They are dying out now due to late blight. Great video and it is great to have the family involved. Even as a bricklayer, I had my wife and two kids, a girl and boy, out there mixing mortar and carrying material. My daughter recently thanked me for teaching them good work ethics. My son was working on becoming a bricklayer, too! He went on to college to become a culinary artist and runs his own bakery business. I am retired but very interested in machine trades...never too old to learn new things, Greg in Southern Ohio.

Great camera work. Great wife.

What a difference in the creek you do some fantastic work always wanted to do machining never got the chance so I appreciate people who do .

Nice video man. I know when I was a kid I used to love to oil the machines as well. I know small things like that helped me pursue being a machinist. Your lucky your kids like them too it is getting harder for newer generations to appreciate some of the old generation tools. I really do appreciate you really work with your tools you can tell by the way you had your hand on the ram of your shaper to feel for vibrations. Great video if I didn't say it before.

Great video great content not a AVE grinder tear down and repair but it does work lol thanks for the video i do enjoy them

Another great video, I like the way you break up the shop footage with the personal shots of the garden, etc. That grinder is more fun everyday. You have a talent for finding the good tooling deals so I am sure it won't be long until you have a monster grinder yourself.

Another great video Steve! Sometimes, the hodge podge type videos are the best ones IMO. It's good to show simpler things like changing brushes, or any other maintenance that might come along. You never know who's watching. Could be some young man who has never changed brushes on a power tool before, but now he has an idea of how to do it. Great video as always! Have a great rest of the weekend fella!

Thanks Steve, love the cutter grinder. Crappy tomatoes at my place this summer as well here in washington. Take care.

I have a de-focusing wife as well... 36 yrs now! Great vid!

Just an observation on the parting tool grind,the knowledge of which was passed on to me by a cutter grinding toolmaker many year's ago. When you ground the 2 degrees side clearance,it is not necessary to incline the 1 degree as well. The reason for this is that when you apply the 3 degrees top rake,the back part, looking down on the top of the blade will automatically dovetail inwards because you are further down the inclines on the side where the thickness is less.

Morning Steve love that cutter grinder it gives you uniformity, I'd like to see Abom send you the big spiral cutter he has now, that would be a project but once it's set up it's just a repeat. Date time is where you get it right. I'm waiting on her to inform you y'all have dinner date that you wasn't aware of. What is it about oilers I'm sure we all did that I know I did, heck yesterday I had a oil can in hand at the shop and a lady asked what's that, the next thing I know she has it in hand finding things to oil, great content have a great day as I'm running late been extremely busy at the shop

man that thing cut like butter

For sure you got it right using the bench or pedestal grinder for roughing a HSS cutter. The most useful is a large pedestal grinder with 2-3 hp. Those allow you to lean on the cutter to speed up roughing it. Make sure you have a bucket of water nearby to cool the cutter so you dont burn your fingers. A solid table that can be angled up and down in front of the grinding wheel also helps to have more control when roughing. By the way if the front cutting lip is not exactly parallel but tilted 2-3 degrees with the right corner sticking out a little you get a clean face on your work while the remaining burrs stay with the stump in the chuck.

Nice video, good variety. Our blackwidows have the hour glass on the belly, rather than the back, and just as prolific here.

Good video. Nice job on the parting tool, clean cut, nice finish. I've got a collection of grinders also, at least once a year I clean and grease the heads and check the brushes, keeps them alive a long time even the Harbor Freight ones.

great video,, thanks ..

Your a pretty cool guy there young man. And easy to watch. I wish I could find someone to help me get my tool cutter grinder rewired so I can fire it up! Nice job on grinding the parting tool, looks like you nailed it! The shaper is very cool too. That is one tool I can't see in my arsenal, but there cool to watch. Take care, Razor!

enjoyed the video....nice tool build for the cutoff.....atb

You are blessed to have such a pretty young wife, she looks like she should be in high school! Having a wife that likes to spend time with you is a wonderful thing.Its great to have that companionship.

I agree with the comment suggesting better draining soil for the tomatoes. Perhaps some sand ammendment might help. That and a fence to keep out the deer. They just destroy tomato and potato plants, among other things. Love the shaper work, it is oddly soothing, almost hypnotic.

Most shapers I've seen including the small Acme shaper I have run scary quiet! Kind of like old steam engines with a lot of mass, they always amaze me how the mechanical workings glide silently along.

If you angle the front relief 1 deg to the left, that last chip won't stick to the part coming off. It might mess up that neat stack of chips piling up on the blade though :)

I’m a new subscriber and probably live less than an hour from you by the looks of landscape. I really enjoy your channel

good geometry lesson on grinding the parting tool, not really a gardener but another channel I watch 'Living Traditions Homestead' had a bumper year as far a tomatoes and peppers. Everybody likes a pretty country girl.

You mean you only have 5 grinders? Ohh my friend I feel your pain ;) Thanks for the video. One day I'll get a cutter grinder but it will be a while.

Steve, enjoyed the video. Also great to see your lovely wife. Have a great weekend!

Good job fixing that angle grinder. So many people just chuck them - madness.

Great video Steve. Much faster and more accurate with your grinder. I’m still doing them by hand. Like your coolant setup. Could I do the roughing on my surface grinder? Might need a narrow stone though. Nice parting. Need a shaper over here.

Thanks to Abom79! Adam's visit turned me on to your channel. I really enjoy (much like Adam) your laid back style, but great attention to detail. I am not a machinist, but have always been fascinated with machine work. It's really nice to see someone get a job done, and really well, by simply being resourceful, as opposed to having every machine, bell, and whistle the industry has to offer!! I can actually take a lot of your ideas and apply them to my wood shop! Also, I enjoy the beautiful piece of land that your shop sits on, and the garden, etc. Finally, I have to mention that you are blessed with one of the prettiest shop assistants that I have ever seen! Is the way she dresses a part of your shop dress code, or is she just that conscientious about how she dresses for work?? ;-) Either way, great channel and I'm really enjoying your videos! Thanks! :-)

I caught a scorpion running through my shop a few weeks ago. Just part of life in Arizona I guess... that and the 107 degree temp in my shop!

At last, I have heard it all. "My angle grinder didn't work because a black widow ate it :)" . Understand, by the way, your tomatoes. Fickle things. Mine are doing well but we are now in fall mode. Lack heat. I really was impressed by the finish on the shaper-ed part. That is why shapers survived as long as they did.

20:15 mesmerizing!

Man! you got me with that "piece of stool" hahahahaha, brilliant!

What book is it that you pulled those parting tool dimensions/angles from?

You a lucky man, any girl that oils your shaper is a keeper..

I could hear how that blank was grinding. It sounded like pretty tuff stuff likely high in cobalt . Great cutting stuff but very hard to grind. Cobalt gives hi abrasion resistance .

I do electronic design and fabrication, and use a low-power zoom [3.5~17x] stereo microscope to see what I'm doing when hand-soldering tiny parts onto circuit boards. My basement office/shop is home to several kinds of spiders, and I can sometimes persuade one to stay on a business card so I can slide him/her under the 'scope. Of their eight eyes, spiders have a pair of eyes on their back, so they look up at you as you watch from above!

HOLY CRAP!!! Seeing Arachnophobia as a kid forever ruined spiders for me. I went from catching black widows in spice jars to "is that a wolf spider 12 feet across the room? No time to pack, burning the house down immediately. Insurance will understand - Act Of God and all"

Hi! I really like watching your shaper work, and it’s not a machine many have in their shop. I sort of understand why they are so accurate, it’s a lot of metal, not easily warped. You probably know more or less how it wears as well. An interesting fact, many people around the world have heard of “black widows” before, because of their venome, even in countries with no poisenous spiders :)

Great video! what is the title of the reference book you are using in this video?

Now what if you attached a little grinding spindle to a shaper for the sake of having an ersatz surface grinder...?

So you needed to use the cutter grinder to make a tool for the lathe so you could make a part for the cutter grinder 😁

Sure like to have dimensions of the tool clamp you have for your ko lee fixture

10:17 What brand of coffee and where did you get it? There are days I could use some of that!

Thanks for showing the brush and holder replacement on the Dewalt grinder. I have one in my shop that probably needs the same repair. Where do you get the parts?

Nice video Steve Looks like Adam's comments go to you in the shop tour, you're now showing machines from behind (Not going to lie the workings of the shaper are mesmerising!!)

Hey Steve With the tomatoes next year put them on the other of the corn long ways 2-3 rows or so. We’re they were was to much shade , the more sun the better . I enjoy your videos

"If I break this thing first time using it after spending and hour working on it I'll be pretty upset" Yeah up until you turn around and see your trophy wife standing there with a smile then how could you stay upset. :-) On top of that she oils your machines when shes bored. I'd be showing her off every chance I got also. You have a great family and a cool shop. Keep up the good work.

try a cutoff wheel in the cutter grinder with a nice wide arbor to cut HSS bits off ........

Hey steve, which would you prefer for a coolant system, siphon based or pressurized ones and what do you think the benefits of each are? I was looking at making one myself for an upcoming project, so wasnt sure which would be best and effecient for air usage.

The shaper is back!!! Did the oil assistant come with the machine from the factory, or did you find her elsewhere?

Another thing. Widow spiders generally live close to the ground and can often be found under houses, old machinery and dark semi enclosed spaces. Usually they stay within three feet of the ground. Their webs are usually pretty small and messy with no apparent design to them.

Steve, a friable grinding wheel would work better for that tool blank. I have Latrobe blanks like yours and it works fast for roughing blanks out.

Always interesting and enjoyable content Steve. Keep doing what you do! Great to see that Eagle oiler is serving you well too.

Steve, the book youre using looks real useful - whats the name of it please?

I noticed you have some Anchorlube. My small bottle dries out and turns into a thick paste, even though I keep the bottle capped. Do you have the same issue?

well done, well-chosen content, the only thing i am wondering about --> why is my wife not oiling/cleaning my machines :(, darn. perhaps i should stick some pony stickers on to my grinder :) .. Thanks for sharing atb to you and your family

Good to know that Dewalt offers replacement parts. I have had the same grinder for probably 7 years and never needed to replace any parts or brushes. I thought I was tough on it but I guess you’re more rough on them then I. Was it easy to get parts for it? Sucks you have to watch out for those spiders. Dont have that issue here in Pennsylvania but I guess you get used to it.

Too much rain is it. Up here in the anti-constitution state my tomatoes are still mostly green, and my first squash just started growing. It's been dropping flowers up until now. Anyways nice video. Keep up the good work. And in the words of the CCDL: Carry On!

what handbook are you using?

Steve, what book is it? Could you give me a title of it?

Hey how did you get shuch a nice shop helper lucky man

Hi Steve, What material do you use for the grit collection hose on your tool & cutter grinder? I've got a surface grinder whose previous owner used aluminum hose for its grit collection, and I'm rather unsatisfied with that: tears much too easily & doesn't flex well. I've considered plastic & silicone hoses, but I've been a little concerned about the risk of fire, with all those sparks getting sucked into a non-metal hose. Have you ever had any issues with such things? Thanks

Your grinders clearly aren't seeing enough action if the spiders think they are a good home. lol

Hell if your going that far, turn the commutator in your lathe. I would find that interesting.

Hey Steve, I've been busy too but I finally sat down to catch up with this weekend videos. Nice assortment of projects man, I really enjoyed it. What you plan to do with that much corn?

From my experience Metabo makes the best grinders. They seem to take abuse much better then any thing else I have used.

how many new machines will be still working let alone holding .001 in 100years?

What's the title of the book you have there Steve? I might have missed it as it's like 6 am where I am now

Hey Steve, any time you change your brushes. Take the time to clean the commutator. Just use a pencil with eraser and rub it clean. You'll be surprised how much it will help.

skookum vjo!!!

When you ground the end of your cut off blade you feed across from the heel side then entered work from the heel side with the table towards the cutting edge. As the wheel moves toward the cutting edge steel gets hotter and is likely to burn edge by the time it reaches the cutting edge. Wheel should enter from the cutting edge side and move toward the heel. It should burn less. I don't if you know what I mean. Another way to say it is to grind against the cutting edge.

They don't make shapers like that one anymore. That's a beautiful old girl.

We have Black Widow spiders here in Australia but we call them 'Red Backs. Got bitten by one three times a couple of years ago... Or maybe I got bitten once by three of the little buggers. Anyway, I didn't feel the bites but a couple of hours later I noticed a dull ache on my arm where I got bitten. About midnight that night the arm felt like someone had been whacking it with a steel pipe. Ached like hell. Here's a hint if you ever get spider bit and you think it might be a widow bite. The envenomation site might turn slightly pink and might be slightly swollen but the dead give away is that the envenomation site will sweat.(perspire) Generally speaking and unless the temperature is pretty high, only the site where the bite occurred will perspire. (Hyper hydrosis) If you happen to be near a medical facility and for a bloke about your size, treatment is usually one ampoule of anti widow antivenin administered with a bag of Hartmann's solution, a bit of phenergan for the pain and maybe a bit of cortisone. Otherwise you night try rubbing the bite with a bag of frozen peas or maybe some of that corn you have growing down the back if you've shucked and frozen it. Never tried it but supposedly, the cold denatures the venom a bit... Cheers.

Nice job on the parting tool. Great help in the shop, lucky guy. But you should ask what does she want?

High speed stool, hahaha

Stål is Danish for steel!

Great grind job. You make it look easy. Of course you have a great cutter grinder. Love your video's. How long have you been doing metal work. I know that you said that you are self thought.