Standridge Precision Granite Tour 

*Insurance Agent:* _"What sort of security system do you use to prevent theft of the granite plates?"_ 🤓📝 *Standridge:* _"Gravity."_ 👇😎

That's the same kid, Mike, that calibrated and recertified Tom Lipton's plates at Ox. He's super passionate about all things granite; especially the vintage optical collimator. (I think it's a Bausch + Lomb.) That's really cool to see someone that is so passionate like that; especially a young kid.

Mike D., your tour guide, led the team of three that came to my shop on one of their road trips and calibrated and certified five surface plates for Randy Richard, Razor Ray, Mike Walton, and myself. They were totally professional, made sure that our plates met AA standards even though we were paying for A grade, and they were done with all our work in about an hour and a half or less. We were able to save a large amount of money by having the collaboration at one location, compared to each of us paying the travel fee and the minimum invoice amount. It was also a hell of a lot of fun, and Mike D. is a happy and talkative guy, getting it done, delivering more than was promised...

What an impressive operation. So good to see that there is still industry like this this thrive in the US of A. Thank you Adam for sharing this.

Warms my heart to see a genuine KDK 400 series toolpost on the Victor 16x30 Lathe... good toolposts, but they are unusual in the Central and Eastern US.

Thanks to the folks at Standridge and Precision Granite for letting the guys tour and video the place. I love seeing how this sort of thing is done. I'm pretty much retired now but seeing all that cool technology and the ultra-precision work made me want to become an apprentice there!

Tutankhamun would of been very proud to have a tombstone made by them. So much precision. Thanks for the upload Adam

Must be nice to have all your "clamping" done by gravity.

Looks like a great tour, it's good to see companies open their doors and show us all how it's done and how a quality product is made and what goes into it.

Thank you very much to those who made this video. I was very curious about how granite plates are made. When I watched this video, I felt as if I had visited the factory. I was also very curious about the flat edge with the dial gages. I think there are many people wondering like me. If a video is made about it, I think it will be watched a lot.

Thats it is a pity that there are so few movies and video about granite inspection plates and instruments, especially about how they are made. So many thanks for that tour!

Amazing tour guide too from the looks of it. Believe he goes all the way up to "11" holy cow. very energetic.

man the weird fuzzy spot in the center of the picture is fuggin my eyes

Hi Adam, The tour of Standridge Granite is 5 Star... Thank you Adam+ ALL that was involved. I have enjoyed all the video of the 2015 and 2016 summer bash..That Stan is one top notch host..... And all the RU-vid creators were so awsom..And all the sponsors hats off to them.. lots of very nice folks from all around the world....... I hope one year I can attend..... Once again THANKS to everyone involves in helping Stan to create such a great RU-vid sensation. M.K.S.

Adam, It's fascinating how they make the plates. A big operation they have. Thanks for the vid.

That was IMPRESSIVE!!! Thanks Adam and thanks to Standridge for being part of it all and supporting the YT machinist creator movement!!

Adam it is an absolute amazement to see how other people work to such close tolerances when most stuff today is just made to be thrown out!

Wow what a special visit, there are very few places you could see this stuff. Thank you for sharing

That looks like a really sweet place to work, I love how they make the carts in house right there in the middle of everything.

Thanks, Adam. I wasn't able to do the tour, so it is great to see your video. Looks like a high quality place. Thanks again for sharing. Joe

Very cool! Thanks for posting this up. I've worked in stone and concrete at times in my career so it's interesting to see how other operations do their work.

I've used a few Stanridge plates, always interesting to see how things you use get made. Great tour, Adam!

Adam I enjoyed your video of the Standridge Granite facility, GREAT JOB!

Great video Adam. Mike sure can talk fast cant he. Best, Tom

This Standridge plant is so tight and clean! Perfect flat seems to evoke a larger perfection.

Adam please take this point as the most positive constructive criticism: Your camera work is excellent. The gimble has taken your videos to another level. The one thing I noticed though was the GoPro struggled when you were outside in the sun, trying to look into the work units, which were obviously darker. Now I don't know if that is a known flaw with go pros, if so fair enough. But I wonder which filter you were using on the day. I guess it was the circ polariser. As useful as that filter is, it's value for filming relies on it being adjusted correctly. Particularly when you are moving around. It's all to do with angle of the light source (sun) in relation to the camera and the subject. I think with experience you will find the polariser to be useful in the shop, cutting reflection on indicators and such, but for those vids where you're moving around a lot, the UV filter may be the best. Just some thoughts sir, all good will to ya.

Fascinating tour - thanks Adam. Lot of very desirable machinery.

I love how you don't move the camera around too fast at any given moment. That's been a deal breaker for a lot of channels, if the camera moves around too much/fast it becomes permanently unwatchable to people that can't deal with that.

WOO HOO I finally caught up with all the video's. A great tour of the Standridge facility, always wondered how they made the surface plates.

You always take us to such cool places, Thanks

The gimbal mount is awesome! It turns some great videos into even greater ones!

Great to see you guys enjoyed your tour, thanks for shooting and editing buddy.

Real neat video lot of work into something you just use and don't think of how it's made. Thanks Adam

I believe if I'm not mistaken, the guy giving the tour at Standridge is the guy that went to Lipton's shop to calibrate his plates a while back.

The man on cloud 9, his happy place! Love it.

Thanks Adam, what an amazing shop.

Pride always shows through at every level when each area is as clean and set up like this. Impressive

thanks adam for the tour, no doubt some places I will not see in person. appreciate it

Amazing stuff as always Adam. Really liked the granite cutters and all that raw granite! If you can get back there one day I'd be really interested to see the whole process of making a block for a table in more detail. The cutting; the blade, the machine, cutting the steps in the sides, the drilling. The finishing; the lapping, the lapping machine, the slurry, the polishing. The whole measurement and calibration and certification process. Being a toolmaker, I have a fair idea, but to see it and have it explained would be awesome.

Really like your channel! Its filled with all sorts of good knowledge! Keep it up man.

What is really cool is, it looked like in both the machine shops, most the machinist/operators there looked pretty young. Some people say that they worry about the machining trade not being past on to the next generation, but all the shops I've worked at or visited I see the opposite. Eager minds learning every bit they can.

They bought their granite equipment at an auction in Egypt in the year 2200BC

I always find it super awkward watching factory tours when they walk into a room or next to a machine and the operator sort of half stops what they were doing but they don't talk to him/her. Not really the fault of the guests either because what do you say? It's always nice when the operator/worker opens up and breaks the ice!

I suspect any screw ups become tombstones for machinists when their time comes .

Great experience! Thanx for sharing this

Excellent video. I have seen these plates in many machines I write software for, funny to see how they are made in a very different environment from where they are used (clean rooms, labs, etc.)

I just got a Granite Surface Plate, 36" x 48" x 5'' Grade for 80 bucks

Awesome/huge factory. Thanks for the tour! ....13

incredible, I am just a hobbyist but thanks for the ride along with the tour!

Great tour + very well video'd! Thanks for sharing.

That is one big shop . . . . . . . Thanks for the tour.

Very cool. Always wanted to see how this is done.

Really interesting tour, nice work.

Wow. cutting stones for 27 years being a stone mason that was really intresting. Great video.

I'm glad to see the employees have, and wear, some nice quality masks and hearing protection. I worked for 1 day at a granite shop in Florida that had lousy worker safety. We were given, and expected to use, cheap-o painter's masks (with elastic band, about 20 cents each). No hearing protection. Much of the work was done dry, with dust everywhere. Once I discovered that the Company was under active investigation by OSHA for safety violations (and had already payed a fine or 3) I quit at the beginning of workday number 2. And also gave the owner/manager a bit of a lecture as well. The place was staffed by Mexicans, illegals or not, I don't' know. Maybe they didn't have any choice but the work there, but I sure had a choice.

That was just amazing to see I would really love to have been there to see that great video

Thanks Adam....fascinating

Great tour! I wish I had a shop like that, lol

Nice tour. Keep on keeping on.

I saw you droolin. Makes me want one even though I have no use for one.

Wow, a Kysor Johnson band saw, havent seen one of those in a while, but they do last forever.

cool. I think Tom L had that same guy up to certify his SP and he included some more detailed info from Standridge, IIRC. great complementary video in either direction

that was really cool to see. than you for sharing adam, another great video like always. take care

Another great video Adam. I've watched all of the videos posted about the Standridge tour and spot something I had forgotten about or didn't notice during the tour in every one of them. Standridge certainly is a first class operation and a great group of people. P.S. The lens on your camera makes me look fat. (-;

Great video on the tour coverages, I really enjoyed the second tour video since we could not make it due to that traffic accident on the 210. 👍

cool tour. man they sure had alot of maching tool lathes mills etc

great place to see,very cool Adam

Got a lot of heavy pieces around there! I would love to have a big granite plate in my new shop when I get it done.

Very beautiful

Hey cool, I got a small plate for hobby stuff a couple weeks ago through McMaster, a grade B 12"*8", and it's from Standridge!

Thanks Adam for the tour. I hope most of the Granite is going to USA manufacturing Companies. Manny

Nice tour!

Very interesting companies Adam , Thanks for the share man , Thumbs up !

Nice video keeping an AA grade surface over time also requires work. I’ve seen these tables have there own foundation separated from the building(down-to bed rock).

Scrumptious

Awesome video Adam.!.!.!.

I think a lot of the people working those machines knew who you were on sight hehe. Cool vidya!

very very cool video, thanks.

Wow. Great factory, they really know what they are doing, otherwise they would never get that grade of precision out of such an rough rawmaterieal. Thanks for the nice tour! ;)

thanks man, that was cool!

Очень интересное видео... так производят контрольные плиты из гранита и другой меритель. Великолепно!

Something about granite I saw, Rolls Royce have a hermatically sealed room where temprature and humidity are controlled to keep the granite perfectly flat no disstortion of any kind, jut something you might like to know, great watch Mr Booth thanks for sharing,

Very cool. I didn't really get why they seem to have so much metal working machinery, especially lathes. I can see they make their own tooling and carts, but I didn't see a lot of round metal parts. But I guess they wouldn't have the stuff if they didn't need it. Nice clean, well organized shop too. Thanks for the tour.

very informative and interesting!

Looks like a fun place to visit and a top-notch operation. I wonder what kind of wheels they use on that surface grinder near the end?

GREAT VIDEO !!

it's impressive that they cab achieve that precision on such a massive scale.

for walking around filming , the camera mount really works, its like pro footage from the shoulder cam days, i admit i didnt like it when you demo'd it a couple of weeks back in your shop, perhaps technique also helps?

Sweet video

Adam, great video, but can you stand closer to the guide so we can hear him too? Now I want an American surface plate...

That michael deleon was in an oxtool video i watched last week. He was there to recertify a plate.

The only time I've seen forklifts that big we're at a steel mill and there were ones even bigger there. They're absolute monsters of a machine!

Great vídeo! TKS!

very cool!

Very cool video , those big drills at about 22 minutes reminded me alot of the parking attachment You made, very cool.

20:36 RIP my ears! Damn that high pitch just pierced my ears straight through.

Hey Adam, I bet you got another taste of SoCal! I dig the "Technicolor" blue sky ! I bet that you were wearing shorts the whole time! ....Got a break from that Pensecola humidity (but it has its pluses). Hey, did you ever get to try out that restraunt by Malibu/SantaMonica... GLADSTONES!!!! It's a great restaurant with the best cocktails in town (?, ha ha ). Gladstones is on the "Bucket List" ...if you are ever in SoCal. Also, Neptunes Nest, a few miles up the road on PCH. A lot of peo;le (hot chicks) hang out there on the weekend and watch the parade of Japanese motorcyclists put on a wheelie show. It's wild!!! Stan's place is kinda "inland", so you gots to shift gears on what to do. Keith Fenner knows the digs: from Manhatten beach to Chula Vista.... gobs of shizzle do, see, eat,...

nice tour, nice stuff there , could you tell me what the plastic bags on the drill presses are for ? drip water on the work I would guess instead of a pump ? very cool place .. thanks

The source of all precision and flatness.

that's the dude that fixed Tom's plates!