Show us your home made tools
This is a great thread! I love to see the ingenious ideas people come up with. Very talented folks. I must admit that I’ll be stealing a few deigns!!
I make a lot of tools not ‘cause I’m coming up with a bitchin’ idea that nobody has thought of, but rather ‘cause I hate spending money on stuff I can put together myself. Most of the tools I make are nothing new. I’m just too darn cheap to buy them. Hahaha
Here’s a few of my home made tools…
Dimple Dies for recessed hardware…
Dimple dies for an actual dimple…
Wheel truing stand…
Planishing hammer…
English Wheel…
Tube Notcher attachment for the lathe. I love this one. When I was shopping for a tube notcher I realized that the machines I was interested in were nothing more than a mini lathe with one purpose. So I found a 360 degree Palmgren swivel vise and made a V-Block on the clamp surface at center of the lathe spindle, self centering the tube to be notched. Then made provisions to attach it to the cross-slide. The result: a fast way to perfectly notch tubing at any angle. I use roughing end mills and hole saws for cutters.
This is a great thread! I love to see the ingenious ideas people come up with. Very talented folks. I must admit that I’ll be stealing a few deigns!!
I make a lot of tools not ‘cause I’m coming up with a bitchin’ idea that nobody has thought of, but rather ‘cause I hate spending money on stuff I can put together myself. Most of the tools I make are nothing new. I’m just too darn cheap to buy them. Hahaha
Here’s a few of my home made tools…
Dimple Dies for recessed hardware…
Dimple dies for an actual dimple…
Wheel truing stand…
Planishing hammer…
English Wheel…
Tube Notcher attachment for the lathe. I love this one. When I was shopping for a tube notcher I realized that the machines I was interested in were nothing more than a mini lathe with one purpose. So I found a 360 degree Palmgren swivel vise and made a V-Block on the clamp surface at center of the lathe spindle, self centering the tube to be notched. Then made provisions to attach it to the cross-slide. The result: a fast way to perfectly notch tubing at any angle. I use roughing end mills and hole saws for cutters.