What's going on in your shop? Show us whats going on, and talk a bit about your work!

TheTourist said:
My guess is that the OP is a younger man and not married. If he has a "shop" it means that he can work anytime, anywhere--and get away with it.

I speak for the married man! My shop (and that goes back 20 years) is at the end of our kitchen counter! If you have a knife with a perfectly polished edge from "Bada Bing Cutlery Emporium," I can honestly say it was done right there in this photograph--and most times with dishwasher running!

Shop? Are there really guys that have those?!!!
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YES....Mine houses 180K worth of Machinery...BTW I'm retired machinist and my wife ran off with a Truck Driver and every time I hear one of those Air Horns I think he' bringing her back...You don't have to be Young and Unmarried to have a Nice Shop you just have to BUY CHEAP BEER and CHEAP CIGARS!!!
 
Scaniaman said:
180 K huh? Thanks man, I was a little hesitant as to buy some new stuff for the shop recently.. Now I feel much better spending some more money :)
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It's easy to roll up thousands of dollars in machinery if you have a way to pay for it. Knife making is my Hobby, and I've made a lot of knives, but the machine shop contract work pays for the tooling. Last year I replaced a nice old Bridgeport mill with a Lagun MVM-4 mill it's the price of a Lexus.
 
I knew there was a catch, I need to change my day job :)

Busto said:
It's easy to roll up thousands of dollars in machinery if you have a way to pay for it. Knife making is my Hobby, and I've made a lot of knives, but the machine shop contract work pays for the tooling. Last year I replaced a nice old Bridgeport mill with a Lagun MVM-4 mill it's the price of a Lexus.
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A couple of recent knives.
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allenkey said:
I would but I don't have any CAD software at the moment. My AutoCad student license ran out in the summer... so I literally just drew this one out by eye lol. I made a wooden template by tracing the blank... I could send you pictures of my template I guess?
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Apologies - I missed this response. I think even a photo of the template with a ruler (or other length marker) next to it would work great. If you are a gold member, you can send it to me via PM .... or if you want my email is rchamlen@pobox.com. Thank you!!!!!!
 
Very nice grinder. Sheave speed control. I like. I've built 6: 2 tiltable, 1 horizontal, 2 vertical, and 1 double wheeled hollow grinder.
I got rid of my horizontal and I miss it terribly.
I can tilt a vertical, but there's something very handy about a fixed horizontal with 3 different sized wheels, each with their own tiltable rests plus a long flat platten.So, I'm gonna build another. All my grinders,including the double wheel hollow grinder use 2x72 belts. So I'm gearing up to do another machine.
 
I feel like my first attempt at a swedge came out pretty good.
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working on my plunge lines. This is probably the slowest area of progress I’ve seen so far.
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working on my grinds.
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Pocket puukko
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a piece for my art exhibit ;)
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this is THE most frustrating thing that I have encountered. Flared tubes are going to make me crazy. If anyone knows of a write up or a how to or has any tips I’d appreciate it cause this is making me crazy
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Technically didn't get to work IN my shop, but I did hit a couple of licks at my new shop construction. I got to the point of painting the walls and floor. It's all about light and cleanliness ya know? The current shop fails miserably in both areas. Anyway, I pulled out my Graco Airless and it wouldn't pump so back across the farm to the current shop to pull the sprayer apart. That's typical of what goes on in my shop. I also hit a lick at my K. O. Lee surface grinder rehab project. That's still in the clean and study phase. I do have it solid on a special built pallet so I can move it without tipping over. (On the same vein, I also fixed the steering linkage on the Bobcat so it doesn't jerk around while moving things like the surface grinder.) I'm going to move it temporarily up to the Front Barn were I have 3 phase power for its first operational tests. Not a bad weekend but I'm always left wanting more completion.
 
FredyCro said:
Looking good. Any details on the dust collection?
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Nothing fancy, just a harbor freight 1hp collector vented outside. The funnel drops down to a y connection with 4 inch pvc filled with water. I only run the collector when grinding wood and use it as just a spark bucket when grinding steel.
 
AVigil said:
That is why it is cracking.
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I've read every page of everything I could find about this process, and not one mention of annealing the copper tubes first. I'll give it a try, eventually.

The SS I've tried is also splitting. So the copper isn't the only problem.

I'm just gonna start a new thread on this
 
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