Fantastic Toolmaker Tools

welcome back ox tools on time so I get a kind of a neat story for you guys today I just want to say you meet some really neat people on the internet you meet some some other types too but for the most part folks that I've met on the Internet are pretty amazing and these are people that I probably never would have met without the internet and you know there are hundreds of miles away or thousands of miles away and with the internet and that that powerful collaborative tool I met all kinds of really neat people so this story starts out a Heuer reached out to me and it said hey I would love to send something into the show and you know feel free to show it a camera you know pass them along to somebody else that you want et cetera and I did that so he mailed a little package and you guys saw this recently this is a guy named chip banks and he sent the Keller cutter down and a few other items only way a chip actually visited the shop and we hit it off immediately we were running around the shop here and telling stories and looking at all kinds of stuff anyway he sent me a just kind of out of the blue he sent me a link to a Craigslist ad and it was a retired tool maker in actually about an hour and a half from here selling off his his tool boxes didn't want the stuff anymore he likes them he likes to fish and play with cars so anyway I contacted this fellow and made arrangements to go look at his stuff and I went out and I ended up buying some things from him which you guys can see here in a minute sand just amazing stuff anyway we immediately hit it off it was like we had worked in the same shop together and we had been rubbing elbows there was a shop camaraderie that that you having to work with folks or you work in the same trade as folks and you know I I was looking at his some of his pieces and you know and doing the you know checking clearances and doing all of that stuff and he noticed all that and anyway we just we had a good laugh and and probably have some of his stuff that he made and the best part is that I got to meet the man and made it okay so instead of somebody that had passed away and and have the opportunity to meet them I met this gentleman so let's quit talking and let's go look at some really cool tools and I'll show you some of Steve Edwards fantastic work okay let's go check it out okay guys this is the stuff that I bought from the tool maker Steve Edwards and he's got all this stuff mark in a very very cool way he did he made an electrode and he burned a little star with his initials in it SC there which is pretty neat and we'll zoom in on these and look at them because there's some really some really unique features here I have to say that the some of the design elements of these are just I haven't seen stuff like this before it's kind of its kind of unique in this in this in I mean sure he has a V block it's a signed dress or things like that but there's some design elements here that are that are worth noting so we'll kind of dig into those and take a look at them so look let's go through it real quick here we got just some random parallels here this is some of Steve's early work here which kind of appealed to me and you know he was generous enough you kind of this through that stuff in these are some three sided blocks here that's a very accurately matched pair for blocking things in on the grinder or on the mill or whatever this is a sign dresser and it's got two diamonds on it here and you can dress surface grinding wheels off in an angle this is a very unique v block here and we'll we'll dig into the details on that we've got a square this comparator /hi it's a two-sided squareness comparator okay with a flexure between it here with a little tense indicator on it will take look at that and we've got this piece here which is a dual sided two-sided sign fixture with sliding vblocks oops I didn't loosen that one I'll loosen that one up so it's got a slotted v block for doing like the heads of pins and things like that and then just a moving be block here so we'll take a look at that we've got some some wee blocks here these are called Wii blocks they're itty-bitty teeny tiny little V blocks for holding small small stuff and then a this is a small granite stone for lapping gauge blocks and then just a india polishing stone so i'm going to bring the camera in closer and you know i probably won't go through the parallels they're pretty the pretty standard stuff but the rest of this stuff is pretty unique and we'll go through the details on it okay okay so the first one here are these three sided blocks here and you know you can use these four for blocking in parts on the surface grinder you can use them like little angle plates and different attitudes this pair you know it's not going to match up real nice on carpet here but what Steve was saying was these are matched up really nice on on height and length and and with real well and in fact there's a secret a secret mark on it here depending on how you're using them so he's get a little star and a little star he says that they're matched up really well in this direction here and the less than 1/10 I guess is what he was saying so he's got one little one little nick in it from a surface grinder there but they're kind of nice they're small and low and they're nice and thick here so let's get some some dimensions on there three and a half inches or ninety millimeters okay and we got a one-in-seven a sore you know 47 millimeters that way and then what are they like that that's okay same way one in seven ace that direction as well and there's a there's his little logo there can't see it that well in this particular one here but he he burned that in with the EDM okay so those are pretty cool so let's move on to the next thing here let's let's take a look at this guy here this is this is pretty this is pretty cool here okay you know what I gotta I gotta get an Allen wrench here and I will open this thing up properly slide that off you know it was raining today so I went out to his place and you know as we were hauling this stuff out to the car some of it got wet and so I had to get back in here and dry them off and Lube them up so so the way this works okay the way this guy works here this slides on a little dovetail here okay and you can it's got a it's a sign set up with a three and a half inches you have three and a half inches okay so you put some gauge blocks in there and lock it down and it has one of the neat things I thought maybe pull it out here is the little retaining pin here you can move it up can you get it back out yeah I can get it back out you can move it up depending on where you're set so if your said it a real high angle like that you can put it in there and a low angle down here right let's give a little socket head to pull it down and snug it against your blocks there now the other neat thing about this is it's got a big white base on it so you can actually use it this way too okay and use it in that attitude as well okay which is kind of nice so you can use it like this and tip it up and then dress your wheel zip zip zip okay or you can stand it up this way and undress your wheel vertically - which is kind of a kind of a unique feature you know I first saw it it was kind of big and blocky and and I caught my attention and because of that and then I started looking at and I go yeah that's some nice some nice features there you know I hit that right the first time and this so this is one of the things you know I was talking to them and I picked this up and then I gave this a little the little wiggle test right and there there's absolutely no perceptible wiggle but it just moves perfectly freely okay so just really nice work there okay all right let's let's look at the next thing here oops I should I forget to put that back in there I'll put that back in there off-camera so all right so what we got here is this is a squareness comparator / height okay and it's got this nice heavy base on it so it's nice and stable and then on this end it's got the curved feeler and this is a nice feature too it's adjustable for height for height and so sometimes you want to you want to bring this down and get it lower because there's a step or feature on the on the part or bring it up a little bit so this has the ability to go up and down and then on the other end it's built into it it has a little one which is kind of nice that's very very close to the very close to the bottom okay and then it's got two two indicator arms there are two indicator mounts and this one is a quarter inch here and this came with it this is a little alina tense indicator and this is they call this right angle style a jig bore style i think and so let's put that back in and then this one here fits the little interrupted stems you know and it's just attention to detail here you know you can put the stamp two ways and this one here okay and then this one has a you can put a stem and in that way as well too so you know it's just the nice details now one of my favorite parts to this whole thing is look at this end is that cool he spent the time and and faceted that end and polished it that pretty cool that's pretty cool I just I just love that kind of stuff you know where it's this artistic flourish right that that he put into into his work okay and that's what's different than mine I put the flexure out on the end okay so that made me had to do this in a different way but he's kind of installed the flexure in between here which is a kind of a neat way of doing that and then you can adjust and that tips the tips the column there okay and it's got three points on the bottom all right that are that are nice and lapped and everything so pretty neat all right so let's let's move on here let's take a look at some of the let's take a look at the next thing here all right so this is this is one of the first things I noticed when I walked in there and we started talking was this gigantic Vblock and this thing's a monster okay it probably weighs 20 pounds something like that but it's got it's got some really neat design elements on it so let's uh let's take the clamp off first okay and you know he even put his little logo in the clamp there it's kind of neat right so hell of a clamp geez one of the really neat features is its well let's just go through it here so it's got a step here this allows you to grind the heads of pins things like that or things that have a little a little step on them okay now that one of the neat things is this the sliding end here okay and you can see that that slides in relation to the main to be block okay so you can now create eight a step there this is very unique I've never seen one like this before okay it's kind of cool and very nicely executed let's let's pull that off yeah as you can see underneath there okay of course if you know it's got the toolmaker fit there so all right let's pop that off all right you can see underneath there it's all you know and okay so here's lay this so he did you know what this means here kind of thing weighs a ton here let's look at some of this see this corner in here that's mere mortals would probably put a grinding relief in there okay and what he's done is he's dispensed with the grinding of the leaf okay and so he probably rough ground that and then came back with a very hard hard wheel maybe a hundred hundred grit wheel or something like that that will maintain a pretty sharp corner and he went back in there and and and sharpened that corner up okay you know it takes a lot of patience to do that and to get this nice and flat across here right up into that right up into that edge okay now sure it's relieved on this corner here but you know like I said most of us would go back go in and put a big grinding relief like that in there to do something like that so then okay so let's let's look at this so when you pop this end off now we've got some counterbored holes so you can bolt this down to the table or down to the mill table or whatever and and use it to vertically okay and if we flip it over he's put a five ace slot in here that you can bolt the key in okay that you can bolt the key in that drops in the table of the mill so you can index this right on to the right on to the mill table and same thing on the bottom okay and it's got a couple counterbored holes there too so you can you can attach this down this way or you can attach it down this way and key it right to the key right to the machine okay just it's just cool it's just very cool all right let's put that back in there and this you know there's no wiggle okay and I got to believe that that he ground these together you know with it all index together so they're going to be they're going to going to be matched really well this is the only hard part here that I found is the is when you take the screws out get them back you know what I'm just going to do that off camera later okay so that's a pretty spectacular V block and just to give it my tape measure get an idea on size at the top of the V here we are we're three and a half inches there were 90 millimeters and then the length here is a hundred and thirty five millimeters or five and 3/8 inches and you know it's it's 100 millimeters tall four inches pretty cool I mean I saw that and I was like oh that is a neat V block and then once again he's get is his little logo in there that I just really enjoy that logo so all right so let's look at the let's look at the next thing here all right here's the next really interesting piece here - and this one jumped out at me - as being extremely unique I've never seen anything like this so got a set of V blocks here basically that are sliding on a on a rail okay you can put them together you can separate them create a space in between them you can take one off you can take the other off so there's some versatility there okay two clamps and now what's neat about this thing here is it's take that one I'm going to take this one off - and it's got a t slot there you can aim on everything so what I found interesting too is this little team out here has got somebody else's name on it so so Steve if your watch this Phil Amata is looking for his tea nut and he's pissed man you got his tea not okay anyway I got to make another tea nut or something for this one so I don't have to trade them back and forth but you know and you can just use these like regular vblocks too if you want it to they're good sighs so what's interesting here let's take a look at some of the details on this thing here this it's quite large okay but you can bolt this down in a number of ways okay so we're flat on this side and it's got a hole so we can we can attach it down like that and that means we can have our V blocks this way just get vertical and you see how much height we have here that's really nice because sometimes you run into you're dealing with a kind of a long cylindrical part and you need some height to your Vblock which is oh you know they're always stubby like that right okay so you can bolt it down there now the next cool thing is we can bolt it down on this side as well okay but on this side we have sign rules okay and this is his boss here check this out this one in this one either in this there's three of them right so at least two are one sign set up and then this one in this one so they're sharing a sign rules okay this one's a three inch and this one's five probably yep fine okay so here's the next cool thing check this out you know you just don't see this okay you see you see what he's done here you see that radius there this is really hard to do guys okay and I know a bunch of you guys are going uh you just wire EDM that that's not what Steve did here these were jig ground okay you know and I was talking to him and we talked about it and Steve ran a more jig grinder which is a very very interesting machine real old-school it's basically a jig bore that has a 30,000 rpm grinder on it that can that can grind stuff like this and it grinds it kind of like a boring bar okay so it orbits right it orbits the the grinding abrasive wheel and and then you can feed down with it and it has super hyper accurate positioning ability okay so now I haven't checked any of this stuff yet and which might be fun to do to check the centers on this and see see how you know if I can if I can even measure them okay so you just don't see that kind of stuff the you normally this would be just a rectangular slot that somebody put them in but what Steve did was so you got to get two things you got to get two things right on this right is you have to get the center distance right and you got to get the depth really right - okay so that means the center of that radius has to be right where you right where you you want it right where you think you want it okay so anyway this this one here you can do a sine thing like this or you can do a sine thing like this and it's got the bolts bolt holes so you can tie it down to the table and put it in any diem angle that you want it's just it's a spectacular okay I have never seen anything like this before and you know I'm just really proud to have spotted that and recognize it for what it you know a unique piece like that and Steve once again if you're watching this this is a really cool piece and I'm honored to to have purchases from you man this is uh this is really cool okay so let's put that put it back together and then I got a couple of books that I got from them and then we'll just close out and and I call it call it the end there okay all right so this is kind of the last the last thing here actually I probably show one more thing over here some books I got from them and you know I'm a book collector I just love old technical books this is a series of books from the International textbook company and they had literally there's this is volume 206 C they had hundreds and hundreds of different cup you know subjects and they were in little books like this and they have this characteristic cover or a liner like this and this one's about tempering and heat treating steel and there's kind of some interesting old old-school stuff in here that's kind of neat wonderful drawings just a neat old book I have it really perused this to to thoroughly yet and yeah this is pretty typical of them they have these big they have foldouts you know but a lot of these have these just wonderful plates in here with these halftone shadings and or lithographs or whatever they are right they talk about packing stuff and leather in here to carburized it then just kind of neat so if you see these in an old used book stores check them out because there are many many many different subjects steam engines drafting sketching metallurgy all kinds of stuff so pretty pre mean modern shop practice let's see who's this one by here oh well there you go that's a great statement there the theoretical man knows why the practical man knows how the men who let's let's see what does it say the man who would lead must know why and how so okay that's that's cool probably Henry Ford or somebody said that see who did this one here Eric I'm technical Society 1931 a little bit of everything in this so you know shop stuff there was some things on lapping and tool grinding in here which were kind of neat once again just kind of an old machine shop book and then this guy this is pretty cool here this is a catalog from this company you know they used to send out these hardbound catalogs and it's just a bunch of tools different flavors of tools and chucks and fixtures and kind of commercial parts so they had stellite bits in here there's a cool Morse taper knocker router thing there which is kind of neat there's an old name that you don't you don't see very often that's Scully Jones I think is what it is yeah yeah Scully Jones they used to make a lot of Morse taper sleeves and fixtures and things like that and I know that there were bought up by somebody there chucks and they're okay let's see if I can go and be able to go back of course there's the they had a oh yeah heavy-duty Chuck keys now there's that's kind of neat this is their this is the kind you see now pretty much across the board I don't think I've ever seen one like that but that's that would be nice right you know this gives you a broader contact surface and might be a nice project to modify your Chuck keys to add some some you know proper ergonomic kind of grippy handles to so you can't buy those that I know of so anyway just some cool books and one more little thing I'll show you guys and and then we'll wrap this up okay so this is a something that I've been wanting for a while and this is called a wee-wee block like w ee okay and there you can probably see it super we block and this is made by the faith Tool Company and basically this is a tiny little V block okay and the idea is that you can put this this is a sub V block that you can put into a bigger V block well it does then stop there it's got two two flavors this is the large version here okay and let's find the tiniest one here it's probably the tiniest one so there's a tiniest one and I can plop that in there like so okay so basically I can hold a wire in there if I wanted to okay and and hold it on center and hold it very nicely okay so and this does come up you know you want to hold a hypodermic needle and you want to grind it off at an angle or something like that I've had to do that kind of stuff but sometimes holding those parts can be can be a little bit challenging there so this is a super we block set and and then let's go ahead and show let's go ahead and show these I you know Steve's when he was an apprentice or when he was very young these are some of his first shop projects that he made okay and you can see the you can see how this gentleman progressed as a as a tool maker right let's see let's bring something in that to this head was logo on it and if I wanted to find something ahead of the logo on it here okay so this is 1974 let's see what was I doing in 1974 I was just that was a little that was a punk kid running around Berkeley causing trouble and and Steve was was learning his trade and steel stamping his work at the time right and so this is some of the first pieces that he made okay which you know for me this is nice too because it's it shows the progression of this gentleman's work you know from early career to later career where he's really he's really got the stones going there okay so the guy knows he knows what he's doing he can do the work and it's pretty neat to see that kind of that progression so Steve thanks very much pleasure doing business with you and I really I hope you come out to the shop one day and the the viewers can meet you and you can so show me some tricks of the trade talk to you later my friend

Channel: oxtoolco

Views: 689,909

Rating: 4.6819916 out of 5

Keywords: Machinist, Adam Booth, Keith Fenner, Turnwright Machine works, Mr Pete, Abom79, Diresta, Make, Welding Tips and tricks, Bridgeport milling machine, Lathe, Instructables, Autodesk, Solidworks, Keith Rucker, Lathe threading, CNC, Five Axis, Steady Rest, Broken Tap Removal, Albrecht, Jacobs, Cincinnati, Kearney Trecker, Hardinge, Monarch 10EE, Starrett, Morse Taper, McMaster Carr, Mori Seiki, Tormach, Wilton, Whats in your box, Jig Grind

Id: NEKnQBGjHtE

Length: 29min 27sec (1767 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 26 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/Hazzert]

I really like the sine dresser, that guy was a craftsman.

[u/FlyingSteel]

Very cool, thanks for posting

[u/yyyoke]

Isn't this guy Tom Lipton? The dude who wrote Sink or Swim?

[u/mistercupojoe101]

I watched this a while back when he uploaded it, and the thing that stuck with me was the v blocks. My god were those things awesome. I don't even have to watch the video again to remind myself how cool those things were

[u/[deleted]]

Arrite? uhhhh, mmmkay?