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This video covers a ton of material on setting up your clock or watch-making bench and shop, and how to use your new shop. The best part is that it talks about shortcuts and tricks for those - like most of us - who are making do with a hobbyist's limited tooling. Topics include basic turning (on either a big lathe, or a desktop Sherline), dozens and dozens of hints and tricks, including modifications and improvements to Sherlines. Other topics include cutting gears and pinions, vertical and horizontal milling, creating and using dividing plates, drilling, creating your own drills, drilling pinions, making fly-cutters, and forming, hardening, and tempering tool steel, making a metal cutting table saw and a filing device, metal spinning.
(about 120 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on November 01, 2004 in Clocks, Metalworking::Basic Skills, Metalworking::Sherline, and Metalworking::Small Metalshop.
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Many good ideas for setting up your lathe. I got three good ideas from this video and for $9.99 that isn't bad.
Stright foward and informative. Gives many examples of different tools. I would recommend renting if you are interested in this subject.
Very good DVD. Lots of great information in an hour that it would have taken me years to figure out on my own. Highly recommended.
Interesting ideas, and a few neat tricks...definitely worth renting.
I believe the video was good, and it had a lot of good tips in it. However, I don't believe that most clockmakers have the big lathes that he was demonstrating his work on. So, about half the DVD did not apply to me.
Full of great ideas and shop methods. I would recommend this to clock and home shop machinists who do not have a strong background in machine shop methods or access to the experience and knowledge of other machinists.
It's hard to beat an instructional video by W.R. Smith. He's a clockmaker of the first order, but the tool making tips and ideas he shares in this video are easily adapted to uses for the home shop machinist. Some of the setups shown in this video are done on the Myford, some on the Sherline. Either way, useful info for anyone in the clock making or home machinist game. The video quality is quite good, and though Smith is a soft spoken gentleman, everything is plain and clear. He shows things as basic as simple cutter making to setting up for gear cutting and using an auxiliary spindle for indexing on the lathe. Very good all around.
I found this video educational and a good value.
Content: Excellent. Very good from a graphic standpoint as well as audio.
It is an excellent DVD. Having purchased many of Mr. Smith's books, this DVD is an excellent addendum. There are some ideas on the DVD that are not presented in the accompanying book and vice versa.
Very informative with lots of tips and tricks. A great DVD to get a jump ahead of the learning curve. Would have taken me years to learn some of Mr. W.R.Smith's techniques. My hats off to him.
