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Announcing the CNCCookbook User's Club
An iPad Mach3 Pendant
The Fascinating World of Dry (and Near Dry) Machining
Boring Big Holes With Small Boring Heads
Increasing the Rigidity of a Small Lathe
Anything Worth Doing is Worth Overdoing: Making a Boeing 737 in the Garage
How Can I Increase My Tool Life?
Slick Tormach Toolchanger Video
BC: Before CNC at NACA/NASA
Free Local Advertising for Your Business on Google
Pre-CNC Machine Tool Automation
Handy Table Clamps from Pipe
Thoughts on Tool Rigidity and Deflection
ShopVac Parts Catcher for a CNC Lathe
Worried About Viruses on Your Computers?
Wonderful Amateur Machinist's Board
Shiny Cubes
Kenneth Maxon's Crazy Cool 'Bots
Check out the G-Wizard G-code Editor
CNCCookbook T-Shirts
Laser Fishmouthing (or Tube Scallops, if you prefer)
Mill Fine Tramming Adjustment
How Well Must I Align My DRO?
Fishmouth Templates for Welders Using CAD
CNC Fishmouths for Welders
Learning G-Code
Is Carbide Always Faster?
Limit/Home Switch Noise
Mach3 Users: Make all of your Accelerations the Same on your Axes!
50 IPM Passes on the Tapping Arm
Gang Tool a Turret
Way to Get Social, Okuma and Sandvik!
The Swing-Away Tailstock
What Are the Best Toolholders?
Rolling Into a Cut
I almost forgot: Shop Air!
Next Project: Tapping Arm
Great Small Business Book: The Referral Engine
Shopmade Jet Engines
Yaskawa Has the Mojo
Small Business Musings
Blogs for Business Matters
Optical Home/Limit Switches for the IH Mill
Machinist's Hammers
Diamond Knife Sharpener
Bodysnatcher's 5C Collet Indexer
Making a Lathe Compound from Scratch
Clever Thread Cutting Gadget
"Pro" vs "Hobby" Servos
Why Do I Have to Know a Range of SFM's and Chiploads?
Kluber's Magic Spindle Bearing Grease
More Shaper Tricks on a CNC Mill: Cutting Splines
A Chuck Hauler...
Another Use for a Dual Indicator Rig (aka Traminator)
A Couple of Very Cool 4th Axis Videos
Finally, a New G-Wizard Release
Kurt Vises for Sheet Metal Bending (aka Way Covers)
Cutting Oiling Grooves When You Don't Have a Second Mill
4th Axis Disk Brake
Machine Tuning as Preventative Maintenance
Sandvik Metal Cutting Course
Interpolated Holes Not Round!
Dave DeCaussin is Still At It
Shopmade CNC Press Brake
The Little Things Can Sure Slow You Down
Mill a Strip of Parts in a Vise
How Much Torque on a Kurt Vise?
CNC Cookbook is Gradually Coming Back to Life
Neat Little CNC Toolroom Lathe: Harrison Alpha
Did a Little Work on the Bandsaw Miter Gage Project
Nice German BF20 CNC Conversion
The World Before DRO's
Rigging: Moving the Mountain to Mohammed
New Project: A Miter Gage for the 20" Rockwell Delta Bandsaw
Tapping Tidbits: Limit for Form Taps + Peck Tapping + Thread Mill When Risk is High
Die "Traminator" and Spindle Squeegee
Better Vise Mounting Clamps
First Chips from Rockwell Delta Bandsaw
Quick, What Hole Size for a Reamer?
Fastest Way to Center a 4-Jaw, By David Lemereis
Brian Rupnow Shows How to Turn Tapers With a Boring Head in Your Tailstock
Feeds and Speeds for Micro-Machining with G-Wizard
Homann ModIO Pendant Kit for the IH CNC Mill
G-Wizard Gets a Tool Crib
Flycutters Can Give Better Finish than Face Mills, But Why?
How Much Feed is Too Little Feed?
Try a Corncob Rougher to Stop Chatter
Making Cool Fasteners
Armadillo Way Covers
Cutting Steel on a Sieg X2
Finished Making the Vise Jaws of "Doom"
Making Some New Way Covers for My IH CNC Mill
Hoss Uses Slot Pins for Big Jobs
Programming a Higbee Thread
Cool Plasma Table Work from Algeria
Parkerizing in a Small Shop
Rigid Tapping Example for G-Wizard from CNCZone
Stallion Trunnions for 4th Axis Work
A Fair Bit of G-Wizard New Functionality and a Sneak Peak at the G-Wizard G-Code Editor
Congratulations to Tormach on the New PCNC 770
Collet Rack Eye Candy
Started a New 4th Axis Page
A Vacuum Table from ZealCNC
Sweet Lil 4th Axis
Austin Barnett's Killer Car Badges
Some Neat Little Setups for a Steam Engine Project
Speeds and Feeds for HSS Reamers
Tooling Plate on a Tormach
Nice Tooling Drawer
Mini-Mill Comparison + 5-Axis CNC Tool & Cutter Grinder
Micro-Miniature Tormach Tooling System
A Drillpress Table Lift
The Ultimate Gang Lathe?
Gorgeous NEMA23 Stepper Motor Back Covers
Hoss Machine Has a Nice Rack
Scraping Video
Shopmade Motor Couplers
Vise Pallets
The 17 Cent Flood Coolant Enclosure
Swing Threading Toolholder and other Threading Aids for Manual Lathes
Jared's Cube: Baffling and Beautiful
Spectacular Tormach Flood Enclosure
Some Vibratory Polishing Tests...
Amazing Shopmade Plasma Table
A Gantry Mill From Two Column Mills?
Separating Chips from Coolant in a Shopmade Enclosure
Blast Cabinet Tweaks
The Devilmaster Redux: Gorgeous CNC Router
The Master Jaw System: Turn Your 3-Jaw Chuck Into a 5C Collet Chuck
Make It Easier Changing Pulleys for Machine Speed With a Bicycle Chain
G-Wizard Calls Those Speeds and Feeds Pretty Close!
Geof's Excellent Collet Chuck Alternative
Going to Try Some Vibratory Polishing
Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!
Additions to Toolpost Grinder Idea Notebook
What does a first-time Mill user need?
Must We Have a Burr When Drilling?
Another Shop for the Hall of Fame
Expanding Studs for Fixturing
Glacern Machine Tool: Great Tools for Less, Crash Course in Milling Videos
New Chip Thinning Cookbook
Auto-Mill: Use Mach 3 as a Power Feed
Tapping With Ye Olde Butterfly Impact Wrench
CNCCookbook Gets a New Bandsaw
Chip Thinning: Cutting Steel at 35 IPM With HSS on Bechtop Mill
Finished a New Coolant Mister Last Weekend
Mitutoyo 190: Swiss Army Knife of Calipers?
Glenn Wegman's Indicator Holder
How Accurate is Your Co-Axial Indicator?
CubeStudio's Ridiculously Cool 4th Axis/Lathe
How Many Plates, Er CNC Machines, Can You Keep Running at the Same Time?
Single-Edged Razor Blade Line Pivot
Nice Rigidity Bump Up for Small Sieg Mills
The Case for Parabolic Drills and Some New G-Wizard Functionality
More Clamping Tricks
No Trick, Here's a Treat: Bandsaw Vise Trick
New High Speed Spindle Ideas
Coolant Collar Idea Notebook
Sturz Milling and Other High Tech Milling Tricks
Star Trek in the Machine Shop: Tricorder or Phaser?
Servo Drive Reviews and a Big Drive for Your Spindle
Chuck-In-A-Vise and Other Wisdom of the Widgitmaster
Milling Quite a Compound Angle
Organize Your Lathe Tooling: New Idea Notebook
Widget Squares a Block (And Builds a Cool CNC Router)
Check Out Glacern
Clever Shopmade Bore Measuring Tools
Offset Relative to the Machine, Not the Part
I've Been Busy!
A Poor Man's QCTP Dovetails
First There Was "Mini-Me". Now, Say Hello to "Mini-Haas". Guldberg's KX-3 Enclosure and Slant Bed Lathe Projects
More Notes on Indexable Tooling
R8 Tooling Rack Completed
Turner's Cube
Tooling Rack Underway. Soon, I'll Have a "Manual-Automatic" Toolchanger!
APET is to APKT as CCGT is to CCMT: Sharp Milling Inserts for Aluminum
Crazy Trochoidal Toolpath Lets Router Cut Steel at 120 IPM
Idea Notebooks: A New Page Type for CNCCookbook
Squaring Your Mill Column
Even More Fun Stuff: Ballscrew Mapping With a DRO
Cutter Engagement: What It Is And Why It Matters
Engraver's Vise is Slick
Indi-Calipers or Dial-Test-Calipers for Measuring Bores
Videos Page: 2 New Videos Making DRO Bracket
Personalizing my Mach3 Screenset for the Mill
R8 Toolholder Repeatability and Automatic Toolchangers
Hypocycloid Reducers
Axis Faulting? Try Some Way Oil...
A Video of My IH CNC Mill Surfacing Some 6061 With a 5/8" Helimill
A Vise Tramming Aid for your Milling Machine
Mikini: Another Little CNC Mill
Sieg's "Mini-Tormach" CNC Mill: The KX-3
Nifty Chip and Splashguard I Just Ordered
CNCZone Thread on Engraving Fonts
Ray Livingston's Preloaded Ballnuts
Conventional Milling for Accuracy, Climb Milling for Surface Finish
Adventures in Vibratory Deburring
Thoughts on Preloading Ballnuts
Hossmachine's Amazing Sieg X2 Vertical Machining Center
Tumbler Media and Nice Experience with Granger's
First CNC'd Parts + Watch Out for those Out-Of-Spec Endmills!
Carld's Really Slick Carriage Stop for the Lathe
Finally, the Mill is Back Up and Running!
Handy Power Tapping Tip: Use a Little Impact Wrench
Auxilliary Router as a High Speed Spindle
You Gotta Love Solid Modelling
Sorry for the Slow Updates on CNC Mill Progress: First Chips Were Cut
Zoho: A Machined Android Figure
Calibrating My Axis Steps per Inch and Checking the Backlash on the Mill
How Do You Keep the Cylinders In Line Without the Con Rods Interfering?
Newsflash: All Three Axes Are Running on my CNC Mill!
It Lives! (Got my X and Y axes running on the mill this morning)
The Many Uses of an Indexable Spotting Drill
Lots of Fabrication, Wiring, Testing, and Diagnosing Went on This Weekend. Result? 3 Servos a-Spinning!
Axis Modules Are Done Pending 2 Cables
Planning Two More Axis Modules
Why CNC for a Home Shop?
Major Milestone: Spinning a Servo! (When Debugging, Whatever Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong)
The Eternal Servo vs Stepper Jihad Continues
Flycutting German Style With a Boring Head
Clamping German Style With a Tooling Plate
German Steam Engine: Wunderbar!
Wiring the Mill Enclosure Continues, and Powder Coat is On Order
Tormach vs IH Base Castings
Shim or No Shim for Twist on Lathes and Mills
Stabilizing a Round Column Mill Drill
Getting Parts Indicated in the Lathe Chuck
Automatic Tool Change for a Small Sieg Mill Using a Compressed Air Kwik Change
Progress: Wiring Diagram, Board Mounting, et al
Hossmachine Sharpens Endmills With a 4th Axis on a Benchtop Mill
Getting Geared Up to Wire the Box
Robot Makes a Turner's Cube
A 2-Jaw 3-Jaw Chuck: Road to an Eccentric Chuck?
An Eccentric Turning Fixture for the 3-Jaw
Very Nice Spindle Spider for a Lathe
Everyone Should Have an Air Shear!
Got Most of the Cutouts in the NEMA Enclosure
Some Progress on the Axis Modules
Soldered the Cables on the Servo Motors
Air Muscles: A Cool Robotics Power Source
Drill versus Endmills
The "Beijing Deckel": Musings on a Simple Shopmade Tool and Cutter Grinder
What CNC Can Do For You: Steam Engine and Bonelle Tool and Cutter Grinder
Evan's Tubing Bender
A Slotter for the Lathe from Canada
Ordered a 1000 Watt DC Power Supply to Run the Servos Today
Make Your Own Transfer Screws
More Mill Progress: Column is on, New Timing Pulleys Ordered
Upcoming Sieg CNC Lathe
World's Best Snap Ring Pliers?
Vertical Stop for Milling
Faceplates for Eccentric Turning
An Automatic Bar Feeder for a 4x6 Bandsaw
A Tribute to John Bogstandard
Liquid Tite Conduit
Cruel Teaser Sketch
State of the IH CNC Mill Project: One Shot Works for X-Y and X and Y are "On the Bracket"l
German Epoxy Granite Milling Machine
A CNC Punch Press
Widgitmaster Mini-Routers Are For Superheroes Too!
Gorgeous German Four Stroke Model Engine
Rigid Tapping Spindle Speed Accuracy
Mounting Ballscrews On Small Lathes
Sears Labor Day Sale Yields CNC Cabinet For the Mill
Drill Press Page Updates: Table Lift, Table Indexer, and Sensitive Drill Presses
Meanwhile, Considerable Progress on the Mill CNC Conversion Today
Check Valves, Gate Valves, Regulators and Other Useful Model Steam Fittings
Building a New Y-Ballnut Mount
Very Cool Model Boiler
4-Jaw Dial In Setup
New Cookbook Article: Turning Eccentrics on the Lathe
Prototrak 1630 CNC Toolroom Lathe
5C Lathe Hijinks: Closers and Boring Bar Holders
Got a Couple Hours Shop Time in Today to Keep Going on My CNC Mill Conversion
Finished Epoxy Granite Filling Around the Column Bolt Pipe on My IH Mill
Started Some Pages for Bobs No.1 Steam Engine
Still More Epoxy Granite Pouring, But No Pix
Some Steam Engine 3D Modeling
Preparing for the Column Pour on My CNC Mill Conversion
Indicating a 5C collet setup true
Bob's No. 1 Has a Con Rod Interference Problem
Gang Tool Your Mill as a Vertical Lathe
Use a Corner Rounding End Mill as a Form Tool
A Handy Rounding Over Fixture
Souping Up a Drill Press
Great Spindle Indexing Feedback: Thanks!
Vector Drive Magic and Indexing the Spindle of a Lathe or Mill
Royal "CNC" Live Center
Bandsaw Drip Oiler
Forster Swiv-o-ling Vise
Hockey Puck Leveling Feet on the Mill
One Good Machine Can Make Another
The Age of CNC as a Commodity
Bought a Set of Servos and Gecko Drives from HomeShopCNC
Use a 1-2-3 Block as a Small Parts Rack
A Neat RCMT Profiling Tool for the Lathe
Give Your Parting Blade a Tune-Up, Plus Turning With a Parting Blade
How Toolchangers Work
A Thimble Steam Engine
Finished My Button V-Block!
Machine Age Design
Spinner for Collet Chuck Key
Model Engineering in the Jet Age
Robodrill Capabilities
Pro Ball Turning Skillz
A DRO for the Lathe's Compound
Good Stuff from Hilmar: Stuart Triple Expansion Project
More Storage Ideas
Setting Up a Boring Head
Collet Chuck Progress
Mounting a Collet Chuck on the Lathemaster 9x30
More HSM Carbide Sightings
Machining Hockey Pucks is Fun!
A Trio of Lathe Productivity Aids
Team Build: Elmer Verburg's Reversible Open Column Steam Engine
Carbide, Blue Chips, and Taking Out the Heat
VMC Cast Iron Frame
Sieg KX1 Mini-CNC Mill In a Box
Built a Tailstock Camlock for My Lathemaster 9x30 Lathe
Rust Prevention in the Shop
Some Nice Upgrades to the HF Tool Grinder
Wiggly Flywheels from Circles
More Widgitmaster Tips: Use Your Height Gage on Mill Setups
Epoxy Granite Update
JCHannum's Chuck Key Speeder
Frank Mari Regrinds A Spindle Taper While It's On The Machine!
A Tale of Three Collet Chucks and their Runout
Time For Another Widgitmaster Installment: Big Router Tricks
How Big is Your Boring Bar?
More Positive Rake Goodness: CCGT Boring Bars
Press Tooling: Punches, Bending Brakes, et al
A Simple Rounding Fixture for the Grinders
HSS vs High Positive Rake Turning Tooling
High Positive Rake Turning Tooling: CCGT
Thoughts on Positive Rake with Indexable Tooling
Epoxy Granite Mud Pie Test Was Successful
Ongoing Experiment Filling Machine Castings With Epoxy Granite
Calibrated Tailstock
Killer Tilting Angle Table
One Shot Oiling System Grooves Complete; Epoxy Granite Fill Beginning
Bijur Mist Coolant System
Build a Rack for your Air Tools
Big News from Gecko: G540
Started Collecting Information on Press Brake Attachments
Started the One Shot Oiling Mods
IH Z-Axis Modification Completed
Hardinge CHNC Lathe Restoration
Fly Cutter Geometry
More Widgitmastering
Got A New Toy: Coaxial Indicator
An Elegant Widget is On The Way
Add a Little Positive Rake to Your Parting Tool and a Chip Catcher to Your Chop Saw
Wedge vs Piston Quick Change Toolposts for the Lathe
IH Mill Y-Axis Lapping Completed: Before and Afters
Conversion of My IH Mill to CNC Has Begun!
Restoring the Usefulness of My Mini-Bandsaw With a New Table
First Time With a Drill Doctor
On the Business of Deburring
Cool Little Pratt & Whitney Instrument Maker's Lathe
Work Stop Ideas for the Lathe
Some Marv Klotz Inventions
GRexs Fit in the Tiniest Places
The Disc Sander is Done!
More Disc Sander Progress
Mic Stands and Universal Vise from 800Watt
Tramming the Mill More Quickly With Your Quill DRO
Hardinge Ballscrew Coverst
SPI Gage Block Set
QCTP Lathe Tooling
What's Your New Tool "Check-In" Procedure?
GOLmatic Mill
Ultimate High End Workstations and Cabinets
Lasers + Video: Multimedia Machine Tool Experience!
A Bit More Disc Sander Progress
Kurt Vise Tricks
Fridge Magnet Way Scrapers
Mill Tooling Plate
More Flycutter Hijinx
The Lucky Setup
A Bigger Greener Tool Grinder
Small Bridgeport VMC's
Disc Sander Progress
ATale of Two Flycutters
I Need to Make a Micrometer Stand
Handy eBay Parting-Off Tool
More Belt Grinder Notes
LTD Stirling Runs on a Cup of Coffee
Shopmade Air-Powered 5C Collet Chuck for a Haas TL1
Cutting a 45 Degree Angle on a Plate
Super EZ Clamps
Workshop Storage Ideas
Useful and Commonly Used Tools
4-Jaw Lathe Chuck Cheater Key
12" Disc Sander Started
Hillbilly Hot Tank
Nice 7x14 Lathe
Haas TL-1 Gang Tooling
Wonderful Video on Making a Triode Tube From Scratch: Think Glass for Stirlings
More Than You Wanted to Know About Harmonic Drives
Didja Know About the Reference Info Here?
Ever Wonder How VMC's Work and What's Inside One?
Stirling Model Engine Page
CNC Drag Engraving with a Spring-Loaded Graver
Peering Under the (Mazak Way) Covers...
Solar-Powered Stirling Generators
Formula One Racing Car Parts
First Project of the New Year: A Quick and Easy Welding Table
The Spinning Tool Caddy of Doom
Disc Sanders
Mill Enclosures
Not Machine Tool Oriented, But I Want One! (Pegboard Wall Wort Organizer)
Slow Times at the CNC Cookbook!
Great Idea for a Vibratory Polisher
Mach 3 Controller Limitations
Lathe Touch Off w/ Edgefinder
CNC'ing the "Hula Hula" Steam Engine
Tubing Bender and "Unbender"
Making Square Holes With Round Pegs
Schaublin Rear Cutoff Tool
Another Gantry Crane
An Insanely Nice Southbend Lathe Restoration
Museum Quality Rivett Lathe
Super Titanium Penlight
Obsessed With Precision? (Moore Angle Plate)
Shopmade Follow Rest and Box Cutters
Sine Jaws for the Kurt Vise
Headstock Adjustment Bolt
Nifty Soft Jaw Tricks
Awesome V-Twin Desktop Engine
Posted Some New Workshop Pix
QCTP Indicator Holders
Someone is Finally Putting Linear Rails on an Asian Mill
Need More Lathe Precision? Add Some Indicators to the Axes
Door Hinge Thingey
Stunning Paintball Pistol
Things People Like To Make
Hardware Failure
Super Precision Machine Accuracy Checking: Ballbars and Circle Diamond Tests
How About a Really Nice Monarch 10EE?
On The Matter of Cheap vs Expensive Angular Contact Bearings for Ballscrews and Spindles
Computer Upgrade Time
Nifty Shop Photos: Truing a Lathe Chuck, Steady Rest, 4th Axis Gear Cutting
A Fellow GRex Rack Mounter!
Network Connectivity to the Shop
Debugging the Lathe Electronics
Dropping Out Parts in CNC
Proper Installation of Precision Dowel Pins
Unusual Edge Finding Accessories: Toolmaker's Chairs
A Few New Goodies Arrive on My Doorstep
Interesting Lathe Modification: Headstock Tramming Screws
Lathe Progress Continues
Cutting T-Sltos in Cast Iron for Machine Tables
Lifting Heavy Fixtures and Tooling
Handy Digital Bevel and Angle Gage
When the Wrong Bearings May Work for a Spindle or Ballscrew or, How You Can Make a Mill From a Drillpress
Diagnosing and Curing Noise Problems in CNC Machinery
Quit Drilling With Your Tailstock in the Lathe
Handy Pre-Ground Parting Off Tools from eBay
Making a Timing Pulley
Ballscrew AC Bearing Blocks
EZClamps
Model Turbines
Clever Lathe Slotting Attachment
Just Try Making a Wankel Engine Without CNC!
Tubing Straightener
Ordered Some Metal Today!
Real Machinists Can Fix Machines
Universal Indicator Clamp
4-Axis Mill Beats Lathe on Round Bars?!??
Widgitmaster Gives an Excuse for Another Purchase
An Epoxy-Granite to Stiffen an Existing RF45 Mill
An Epoxy-Granite Milling Machine Design Sketch
More of the Fidgiting Widgitmaster's Machine Work Wisdom
Widgitmaster Marks his Cross Slide Travel
Widgitmaster Machines All Surfaces Flat and Square First!
Widgitmaster Uses the Mill DRO as an Accurate CMM to Measure Features
Widgitmaster Builds Setups for Rigidity
Rotating Ballnut
Vector Drives vs Ordinary VFDs
Belleville Washers and Retention Studs: How the Other Half Does Drawbars
Dust Guard for the Widgitmaster Mini-Router
Cool Shopbuit Rotary Air Indexer
Face Gear Rotary Tables
Tramming Tricks
Great Ballscrew Bearing Block Diagram
Nice Indicator Sweeper
Staking Ball Detents
Cecil Walker's Spectacular 1/2 Scale Ma Deuce
Dually Pickup Hauls 2 Lathes
New Mini-Router Project: EZ Clamps
Fitting CNC into a Smaller Case
Tracking Down a Parallel Printer Ribbon Cable
Manual Digitizing for Reverse Engineering
First CNC Chips Cut
Etching Glass with CNC
The Widgitmaster's Travelling CNC Medicine Show: Up and Running
The Widgitmaster's Travelling CNC Medicine Show
Drill Press Cam Lock Clamp
LED Ring Light for the Mill
A Tale of 4 Taps, Some Polyboard, and the Mystery Steel!
Cafe Lahti?
Building a Manufacturing Business from the Ground Up
Custom Aluminum Extrusions
How Many Machines Per Employee?
Keys to Machine Productivity
Bearing Preload to Reduce Backlash
Royal Taper Attachment
The Lathe Parting Off Tool Can Be Fixed on a CNC Machine
More Gang Tool Tricks
Tailstock Sensitive Feed Attachment
Cutting Small Gears
Being Slightly Less Egyptian: Machinery Dollies
Neat Fly Cutter Tip for Milling in Lathe
CNC Rifle Stock
New Concepts in Milling Handbook
Widgitmaster Finds His Limits
Sieg Factory Tour
Scissor Knurlers
Key for Tramming a Vise on the Milling Machine
Mega Santec
My CNC Lathe Enclosure Project is Out of Control!
Rol-A-Lift
Buy More Than You Need On Little Things
4-Wheel Disc Brakes for CNC
Countersinking Flat Head Cap Screws
CNC Lathe Progress
Label Your Wiring!
Concrete CNC Machines?!??
Rotary Table Accessories and Tips
Fish Tape Cable Guides
Fancy Brass Steam Engine
Semi-Enclosures
Need an Electromagnet?
Jib-style CNC Plasma Cutter
Kudos and Hero Worship for the Fidgiting Widgitmaster
Widgit Engineering for a CNC Router
Widgitmaster's Plexiglass Cutting Secret
Widgitmaster's Mondo Vise Jaws
Widgitmaster Machines A Big Chuck O' Aluminum
Widgitmaster's Homemade "Really Big" Fly Cutter
Widgitmaster Production Line Technique
Widgitmaster on Accurate Boring
Widgitmaster Internal Grooving Tool
Widgitmaster's Sneaky Way to Check Your Feeds and Speeds
Widgitmaster's Methods of Centering On Holes and Other Features in the Mill
Thanks for all the Help, Widgitmaster!
Nicely Made!
3 Double Vises: No Waiting!
Managing the Chips in Your Flood Coolant System...
Mysterious Vibration in My Lathe, Better Finishes, and Fenner Belts...
Portable CNC Plasma Table
Rhino Cage Editing...
And Now For The Really Fancy Stuff!
Home Shop CNC Parts
Starting Up a CNC Business
Don't Underestimate the Pipe and MDF Router Crowd
When a Toolpost Grinder is Just a Grinder
Aluminum Composite Materials: Interesting New Panel Material
Increasing Height Gage Accuracy
Hones are the Way to Go Rather than Toolpost Grinders for Tenths Work
Forget Seeing My Etchings, Would You Like To See My Laps?
World's Best Way to Set Up a 4-Jaw Lathe Chuck
Accurate Lathe Work On a 3-Jaw Chuck
Computer Wheel Balancer?!??
Making Fan Covers with an Industrial Hobbies CNC Mill
Machinery Rigger's Delight: Lift Platform Trailers
Accurate Z-Axis Adjustment on the Mill (aka I love it when a gadget actually works!)
Turner's Cube Dimensions
New Blog Index
Tip: Holding a Big Plate in the Kurt Vise
Slick Lathe Carriage Stop
Spindle Bearing Lubrication
CNC Lathe Progress
Tapered Drawbar Spacer
Take Time Out to Experiment
Are 2 Mills Better Than 1?
30 Taper ER 32 Collet Chuck
I Blew Up My Power Feed
Shop Air System
Fabricated the X-Axis Home/Limit Switches for the CNC Lathe Conversion...
Final Push for CNC Lathe
Drill Press Speeder
Gravity Operated Center Punch
Another Home Shop Hall of Famer!
Even Faster R8 Toolchanges?
I'm a Paid-Up Alibre User...
Got Started Organizing CNC Mill Conversion Pages
The Powered Drawbar is Done!!! How Did I Live Without It???
#30 Taper Belt Driven Mill Head Sketch
Alibre Notebook
New #30 Taper Mill Spindle Came Today!
A Centering Scope from a Webcam
How Much Torque on the Drawbar?
Some New Books of Interest
CNC Cookies
Turner's Cubes as Christmas Tree Ornaments
Antikythera Zodiac Sketches
NMTB 30 Spindle for the IH Mill!
R8 Quick Change Tooling Systems
Outstanding CNC Site
Handmade Hacksaw
Think CNC Mill!
Design & Manufacturing Techniques
Some Antikythera "Antics"
The Antikythera Mechanism
CNC Soccer Ball?
More EFI Manifolds...
Still Trying Out CAD/CAM Software
Mill Centering Device
Industrial Hobbies is Closing its Doors
Hardinge DV-59 for CNC Conversion?
Clever Idea: Gear Indexing Jig
A Paintball Minigun?!??
Light At The End Of The GRex Tunnel
Polygon Turning???
Ford 351 Cleveland Electronic Fuel Injection
Playing With Blocks (2-4-6 Blocks, That Is)
A High Tech Pen
A Clever Way to Make Small Pulleys and Grooves
A Backyard Monorail!?!!
The Tech Shop: A Health Club for Machinery Geeks
Build a Powered Drawbar
A Bigger Lathe
Aluminum Extrusion CNC Enclosure
A Good All-Round Steam Engine
Hurco VM-1 Upgrade
Machining Thin Parts on the Lathe
CNC'ing a Hardinge Lathe?
CNC'ing a 9x20 Lathe
Worm-Driven Ball Turning Attachment
South Bend Drill Press Restoration
I Want CNC Without The CNC
CNC Master Checklist
Damascus Steel
Where Does All This Stuff Come From?
Delay On Make Timer Relay for E-Stop Circuit
Fixture for Machining Intake Manifolds
Another Brilliant John Stevenson Idea: Tailstock DRO
Power Drawbars
Ring Rolling On A Mill
CNC'd Clausing 13" x 24" Lathe (Air-driven shop made collet closer)
High Speed Spindle Page
First G-Code
The Great Breakout Board I/O Mystery: Where's the Cheap USB Alternatives?
Worm Gears
5-Axis Machines at Home!
Machinist Utility Software
ME Pro and High Speed Spindles
Up Your Organization
Bar Pullers
Tandem High Speed Spindle
Engine Turning
Turned File Handles
Eliminating Backlash
Gecko Drive Mounting Bracket for CNC Lathe
Tapping Arms
Nice Rail Design for Plasma and Router Tables
Big Doings for the Site
Cool 5-axis Milling Head
Finished the DC Power Supply for my CNC Lathe project this weekend!
Options for entry level CNC
Precision Linear Rail Support With Moglice for Gantry Machines
What's this then? (5-Axis Tool & Cutter Grinder Sketch)
Tool Height Touchsetting/Presetting
Moglice and Sliding Bearings
It's alive! Finally got the PC for my CNC lathe project assembled
Machine Table Covers
Bridgeport CNC Conversion with Single Shot Oiling
Ever hear of a "Maximator"? <Hint: Think Waterjets>
Thomas Powell has done some fantastic work on his IH Mill
A Smithy mill-lathe converted for linear slides
CNC Dictionary
Inexpensive DRO for the Mill
Converting a Bridgeport Power Feed for the Industrial Hobbies Mill
I Want to Build a Pan and Box Brake
Centering Scope
Ongoing CNC Lathe Conversion
Odds & Ends
Tool & Cutter Grinders
High Speed Machining at Home
Servos on the Cheap!
Leveling Screws for Squaring Mill Columns
A Row O' Fixtures
A big box arrived in the mail--eBay again
A Quick Checkup on the Health of a Milling Machine
Spring-Loaded Parallels Separator
Extremely Small CNC Machines
CNC Lathe Conversion Status
Odds & Ends
Z-Axis for a Router
Yuasa R8 Quick Change System
A New Asian CNC Mini-Lathe (and Traveling Chip Gaurd)
JerryFlyGuy's Flat Rail Installation for a Gantry Machine
Precision Fly Cutter
Motor Electronics Safety Switch
Roh'lix?
Making Connecting Rods for a Model Engine
Pot Chucks for 5C Collet Systems
I Want a Centering Scope!
"Printing" 3D Objects in Steel
Cross Drilling Jig
Make a Dodecahedron on Your Lathe and Turner's Cubes
Digitizing a Quarter
PC Chassis for CNC Lathe Conversion
Phase II Rotary Table Tips
Holy Spinning Tombstones, Batman! (Shopmade 4th axis tombstone)
Miscellaneous Milling Activity
SPI Table Stops
Big Brass Knobs for My Mill
Designing an Optical Limit Switch
Augment Google with Clusty
Tramming Jack
A Chip Compactor for the Shop
Dovetail Cutter for Making QCTP Holders
Asian CNC Mini-Lathe
Heat Treating Oven
Interesting Shop Made Tools: Tubing Bender, Graver Sharpener, Ball Turner
Finished the Mill Stand!
Micro-Machining
Apply Your Own Ceramic Coatings to Headers
Garage CNC Business
Machinist's Mate: A Handy Software Utility
Mill Vise Caddy
Shop Made CNC Hydraulic Tubing Bender
Mirror Fixtures for Small Production Runs
Mill Tramming Bar
Awesome Shop Made 5C Collet Chuck
Servo for Lathe Spindle
Cooling Box for Air Hardening Steel
More CNC Lathe Progress: Control Panel Cabling
The GRex is in the House!
Lathe Coolant and Spindle Control Wiring
Make Your Own Flex Couplers
Fabricating the PC Enclosure for the CNC Lathe
Electrolytic Weld Cleaning
QCTP Holder Rack
Notes on Tapping Heads
What Is A Left-Handed Veeblefetzer?
Flood Coolant Musings and Tips
Thing of Beauty: Tree 325 Milling Machine
High Speed Machining With An Air Spindle
Laser Measurement and Metrology
Rail Mounting Precision for CNC Plasma and Router Tables
Build a Fighter Jet With Your CNC Router
The Ultimate Yo Yo
Acoustic Chatter Recognition
Adjustable Welding Table
Machinery Lifting and Moving Dollies
Veritas Optical Center Punch
Cross Slide Drive for CNC Lathe Conversion & Circle Machine Boring Bar
An Air Operated Shaper Attachment for the Lathe
Converting a Rotary Table to a 4th Axis for CNC
eBay Linear Slides
ESAB Plasma Cutter
Put a Welding Shop on a Car Lift
Broken Boring Bar
Lost Wax Casting Steam Engine Parts
Lathe cross slide motor mount sketches
Splash guard enclosure for the IH mill sketches
Z-axis stepper mount
Lathe control panel controls mounted
Converting large manual lathe tools to fit small lathe QCTP's
Lathe chuck backplate in Rhino
Using kilns for heat treatingAjax CNC rectifier boards
Aluminum gantry cranes
Automatically referencing a lathe tool via an electric circuit back to the chuck
Setting lathe tool heights for manual lathes
Rhino, OneCNC, and CNC'd NEMA 23 motor mounts
Polishing aluminum, LaserTrac laser crosshairs, and Shopmade 5-axis CNC
Check way accuracy and leadscrew parallelism
3D scanner from a laser level: ScanZ
Shear Hog
Mill VFD
Robotic penguins
IGUS chain for cable management
CAD/CAM program research
ModBus and IPac to gain additional I/O for the Campbell breakout board
Lathe motor mount sketches
Ballscrew alternatives
PMDX breakout boards
Discussion of MPG's for CNC including how to make an MPG from an encoder.