Beautiful workmanship Nigel. You had me guessing right to the end as to what you were working on. This is just me being curious but doesn't the path of the cutter tip trace out an elliptical profile relative to the vertical plane? I have used this method to make wide, shallow profiles in wooden mouldings using an angled fence relative to the plane of a circular saw blade. I just modelled it in CAD and the side view shows an ellipse 32mm major axis and 25.56mm minor axis. Regards, Mark
Hi Mark, yes indeed it will cut an ellipse so in that sense it's an approximation. The larger the radius and the shallower the depth of the radius (or narrower the width) then the more accurate the machined radius to the required true radius, in such a case usually no detectible deviation. I bit more investigation may make a decent video. Thanks for watching and commenting, the scriber block did turn out really nice. Cheers Nigel
It's a good old time technique to machine a large radius, I've used it to machine a 4-1/2" radius on some name plates that had to fit onto a 9" barrel. Thanks for watching.
I'm glad that brought back good memories, I've been wanting to make this tool for some time, I really like vintage style tools, this was a great opportunity to finally make one. Thanks for watching and commenting.
G'day Nigel. After warming up with the fire ... 🔥 when you first started, I thought you were going to make a fancy Anvil. I was very Impressed to see it grow into an Excellent Height Guage. Very well done
Yeah, there's something about the aesthetics of vintage tools and the extra effort they put into them that is just so nice, I tried to capture this with this tool Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated.
A thing of beauty. I never came to the realisation that a flycutter can cut any radius. As Johan Cruyff said: you see it once you know it. Brill. I also loved the spring you made form the cutting blade.
@@GoCreatehms Heh heh, I missed the #toolfest2021 deadline by four days, but posted my toolfest vid anyway. I'm permanently late these days. I'm going to try that angled head radius cutting trick with a big shell mill for an upcoming job. Thanks for the tip and the maths!
What a great looking design. Loved the angled head milling to achieve the radius never seen it used on YT before. Good tip for the spring. Superb work. Tony
Fantastic job Nigel, very nice design, manufacture, and videography. Interesting timing for publishing, I waited up all night........ Well worth the wait. Well done. Cheers, Jon
A great tool Nigel. And aside from the excellent result I like lots of things about the video, such as the working drawings and interesting techniques employed. And that I didn't know what it was until it was nearly all assembled! Many thanks for sharing and you have a new subscriber.
I have a couple of ancient commercial ones, but neither looks as good as yours! Can't even remember where they came from, but not a lot of use to me anyway, I don't even have a surface plate or a metalwork shop come to that.
Hi Adkins Thanks for your interest, it's a lovely little project to build. If you drop me an email I'll send you the drawings, you should find my email in my about page.
G’day Nigel. Great work using the fly cutter to cut your radius and I’m sure someone will benefit from your equation, not me I can’t remember trig. The project came out very nice. Cheers Peter
Excellent job, I would love to have one just like it, I am learning alot watching you guy's, got a shop full of machinery, great video, keep'um coming..
Beautiful it looks like a piece of artwork very nice. Thanks for the lesson on the fly cutter set up, going to add that to the file manager thank you. Came over via the toolfest hash tag. Hitting the subscribe and thumbs up button. Thanks for sharing…Dean
Thanks for subscribing, very much appreciated I'm glad you liked the scriber, I've been wanting to make this tool for a while now, #toolfest2021 was an opportunity to do so. Cheers
Fantastic tool, just right for smaller surface plates like I have. I am going to have to play with a fly cutter and cut some radii as I still can’t get my head around it and I hate using something without understanding how it works. Brilliant video as usual, enough explanation without the waffle. I am probably being very stupid but what is toolfest2021.
Hi Chris, thanks for watching my video and commenting. It's a good technique to play with, you'll find it in the old school machining test books. I've used it up to a 4-1/2" radius , on that occasion a long narrow name plate to fit onto a boiler barrel. Cheers Nigel
Reluctantly I have to spoil the illusion, it's a standard battery eclectic clock, for some reason the mic picks up it's tick very well, it add a little unexpected character to my videos. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Nigel, a nice piece of work, wonder if you might be able to give me a bit of info on your mill, I’ve been offered it would seem the same mill Victoria mk2 with horizontal and vertical heads, I’m told the maximum speed is around 600rpm , is yours the same and does it present any problems when using smaller end mills.
Hi Terry, thanks for watching my video and commenting. The mill you saw in the video is my Elliott Junior Mill, details can be seen at this website www.lathes.co.uk/elliott-omnimil-00/ It's top speed on the horizontal spindle is 1700 rpm. In the video I was using my double swivel vertical attachment which I think gears up the RPM a little but I don't know for sure. 600 rpm is probably OK for a horizontal spindle were you tend to use larger cutters but for a vertical spindle is a little restrictive if you intend to use very small cutters allot however, as hobbyists we tend to mater what we have, low rpm just means taking it a little slower. I hope that helps you out. Cheers Nigel
Interesting, aesthetically I liked the machine steps in the ends, but then you scalloped them away, I thought when you added the two posts on top it was going to be a level, great workmanship
Thanks for the tip. I've never felt that comfortable using the lift technique when filing, I've always preferred just a very light drag even though it may dull the file a little quicker. You may be interested in this video testing and comparing the lift and drag filing methods. ruclips.net/video/xbykic--SKA/видео.html
@@GoCreatehms There is no comparison period. A file only cuts one way base on my 47 years making chips. If you want to drag your file backwards by all means do so, it's your file but it also shows your lacking in how cutting tools work. Do that shit with a set of $150.00 Swiss files and you'll change your mind. No difference with a hacksaw, let the tool do the work.
@@patrickhennigan9689 Indeed, I probably would change my mind if I were using expensive swiss files, I've allot to learn and allot to practice, thanks for passing on the benefit of your experience.
Beautiful workmanship Nigel. You had me guessing right to the end as to what you were working on. This is just me being curious but doesn't the path of the cutter tip trace out an elliptical profile relative to the vertical plane? I have used this method to make wide, shallow profiles in wooden mouldings using an angled fence relative to the plane of a circular saw blade. I just modelled it in CAD and the side view shows an ellipse 32mm major axis and 25.56mm minor axis.
Regards,
Mark
Hi Mark, yes indeed it will cut an ellipse so in that sense it's an approximation. The larger the radius and the shallower the depth of the radius (or narrower the width) then the more accurate the machined radius to the required true radius, in such a case usually no detectible deviation. I bit more investigation may make a decent video.
Thanks for watching and commenting, the scriber block did turn out really nice.
Cheers
Nigel
Very nice tool. Great craftsmanship.
great job! I leant some great new tricks in this one.
Thats a lovely tool- build Nigel!
Nice work. Lovely little height gage.
Brilliant 👍👍😎👍👍
Hi Nigel . the head angle is epic knowledge sharing . lovely little tool . great video mate. Cheers Ade.
Very nice tool.. thanks.
I like the old school style you gave it.
That IS beautiful.
Very handy little surface gauge! Thanks for sharing!
Nicely done.
Very elegant design, Nigel. Really liked the tip on cutting a given radius with a fly-cutter!
That shaper sounds so cheerful; I’ve got to have one.
Such a beautiful design and build. An artist at work 👌👏👏😀👍
Gorgeous 😍
Beautiful work and thanks for explaining how to calculate the angle for the radius.
Hi Nigel. Beautiful result. I also loved you showing how to figure out the head angle. I'll remember that one!
Thanks Craig, it's a great technique for large radii, I've used it up to 4-1/4 " radii.
oh wow thats beautiful
Thanks Emma, it was a very pleasurable building this tool, is't great to take part in this event!
Very nice...everyone seems to be bringing there A game this year
damn nice job
It's very nice good job oh that's very cool
Lovely job, as always.
Beautiful work, clever mechanism.
Wonderful Nigel buddy, thoroughly enjoyed this mate, thanks for sharing
Excellent little project. I enjoyed that.
Great work Nigel. Looks stunning too.
Very nice job. Nigel. Yes the radius was very clever, had not seen it performed that way with a fly cutter.
It's a good old time technique to machine a large radius, I've used it to machine a 4-1/2" radius on some name plates that had to fit onto a 9" barrel.
Thanks for watching.
This was a great tutorial and a brilliant piece of workmanship.
Ditto on all the great compliments!
You have made a beautiful tool!
A work of beauty, Nigel. Love it.
Thanks Rustinox, I've wanted to make one of these for along time, this was the opportunity.
It's beautiful all right. Thank you.
Absolutely briliant! I find the design to be very elegant. Thanks for sharing and take care!!
What a very cool design. So classy, i love it.
Nigel you have just taken me back 40 years to metalwork class at school, what memories. Thank you sir and good luck a worthy gold medal winner.
I'm glad that brought back good memories, I've been wanting to make this tool for some time, I really like vintage style tools, this was a great opportunity to finally make one.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
Really nice design hand craftsmanship!
Very nice work.....Thank's for sharing
G'day Nigel. After warming up with the fire ... 🔥 when you first started, I thought you were going to make a fancy Anvil. I was very Impressed to see it grow into an Excellent Height Guage. Very well done
Very nice, I really like this tool a lot. I will have to make one for myself when I get a mill. Thank you.
Nice one . Well made .
Very cool technique!
Thanks for this
Gday Nigel, absolutely beautiful job, I must remember how to set up the radius cut, great job mate, Cheers
Thanks Matty, I've been wanting to make this tool for along time, toolfest2021 was a good opportunity to finally do it.
That was a great project, Thanks so much
Thank you for the techniques; the angle for the radius particularly.
Glad it was helpful!
Great build
Beautiful work!
Lovely tool beautifully made, thank you.
Great piece of work Nigel, nice bit of trig for the angle, lovely tool, thanks for sharing
take care
Kev
Cool Tool, and interesting process of creating it. Thanks
Thanks for that. A lovely little project for winter evenings and a very useful tool as well. Just the job for keeping yourself ticking over.
Yeah, it's a nice little project for some workshop therapy, something you can finish over a weekend.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
That is one of the most beautiful Tools here on RUclips! I want to have one......
Nice work!
Thanks Chris, that's so much appreciated coming from your good self.
A pleasure to see that vintage shape hewn from solid - nicely done!
Yeah, there's something about the aesthetics of vintage tools and the extra effort they put into them that is just so nice, I tried to capture this with this tool
Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated.
A thing of beauty. I never came to the realisation that a flycutter can cut any radius. As Johan Cruyff said: you see it once you know it. Brill. I also loved the spring you made form the cutting blade.
Yeah, it's a great old timer technique to machine a large radius, I've used it for radii up to 4-1/4". Thanks for watching and commenting.
Beautiful work. And a very nice style for such a functional tool. Thanks for the video.
Beautiful tool. That might be a winner.
IS this creator from over seas?? I set our to air at emmas request at 12:01 AM on the 24th of Nov,,,??? Whats the deal?? BEAR
Wasn't it to be 12.01 in your own time zone? I'm in Scotland.
I must have missed that part 🤐. Nearing 70,,so I miss alot more since I am over the Hill now,,. 🙄😋👍
Thanks Harold, it was a lovely tool to build, with a nice vintage style to it.
@@GoCreatehms Heh heh, I missed the #toolfest2021 deadline by four days, but posted my toolfest vid anyway. I'm permanently late these days. I'm going to try that angled head radius cutting trick with a big shell mill for an upcoming job. Thanks for the tip and the maths!
J'aime beaucoup, travail très minutieux et très utile. Merci
Also a very nice job of video, and editing.
Thanks Fred, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
beautiful work
Goodness me Nigel... that's lovely work... thanks for sharing...
Thanks Paul, it's a very pleasing project to build.
So elegant and useful! Your videos are a joy to watch.
Thanks Allen. This scriber/surface gauge is a lovely tool to make and have around the shop. I'm glad you like it.
Cheers
Nigel
I hit the subscribe button as soon as I saw you light the wood stove.
Yeah, the wood stove is my favourite piece of workshop equipment, thanks for subscribing
Beautiful work. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week :)
Awesome, thank you!
What a great looking design. Loved the angled head milling to achieve the radius never seen it used on YT before. Good tip for the spring. Superb work. Tony
Gorgeous work Nigel. What a lovely tool!
Thanks John, that's much appreciated.
Fantastic job Nigel, very nice design, manufacture, and videography. Interesting timing for publishing, I waited up all night........ Well worth the wait. Well done. Cheers, Jon
Thanks John. Your very keen waiting up till 12-01am, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I can't say anything that's not already been said, just fantastic. Subscribed!
Glad you liked it, thanks for subscribing.
Beautiful
A great tool Nigel. And aside from the excellent result I like lots of things about the video, such as the working drawings and interesting techniques employed. And that I didn't know what it was until it was nearly all assembled! Many thanks for sharing and you have a new subscriber.
Beautiful worksmanship, thanks for sharing!
Love it 👍
I have a couple of ancient commercial ones, but neither looks as good as yours! Can't even remember where they came from, but not a lot of use to me anyway, I don't even have a surface plate or a metalwork shop come to that.
As soon as I get my first milling ma hine I am gonna make one of those scribes. Cool project
Hi Adkins
Thanks for your interest, it's a lovely little project to build. If you drop me an email I'll send you the drawings, you should find my email in my about page.
G’day Nigel. Great work using the fly cutter to cut your radius and I’m sure someone will benefit from your equation, not me I can’t remember trig. The project came out very nice.
Cheers
Peter
Excellent job, I would love to have one just like it, I am learning alot watching you guy's, got a shop full of machinery, great video, keep'um coming..
Enjoy your workshop, it's great therapy!
@@GoCreatehms how much is your prints?
@@kentuckytrapper780 Just send me an email to the address given in the video and I'll send the plans to you, no charge.
Thanks, new subscriber watching you make a scriber. Good job.
Absolutely epic! Great build!
Nice work as usual Nigel. Any update on the Lion project?
Very nice. Very nice indeed! Liked and Subscribed.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks for subscribing.
Ingenious！
Beautiful it looks like a piece of artwork very nice. Thanks for the lesson on the fly cutter set up, going to add that to the file manager thank you. Came over via the toolfest hash tag. Hitting the subscribe and thumbs up button. Thanks for sharing…Dean
Thanks for subscribing, very much appreciated I'm glad you liked the scriber, I've been wanting to make this tool for a while now, #toolfest2021 was an opportunity to do so.
Cheers
Fantastic tool, just right for smaller surface plates like I have. I am going to have to play with a fly cutter and cut some radii as I still can’t get my head around it and I hate using something without understanding how it works.
Brilliant video as usual, enough explanation without the waffle.
I am probably being very stupid but what is toolfest2021.
Hi Chris, thanks for watching my video and commenting. It's a good technique to play with, you'll find it in the old school machining test books. I've used it up to a 4-1/2" radius , on that occasion a long narrow name plate to fit onto a boiler barrel.
Cheers
Nigel
As you said - beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
In your workshop you have a pendulum clock - care to share it's story in a video sometime?
Reluctantly I have to spoil the illusion, it's a standard battery eclectic clock, for some reason the mic picks up it's tick very well, it add a little unexpected character to my videos.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
Nigel, a nice piece of work, wonder if you might be able to give me a bit of info on your mill, I’ve been offered it would seem the same mill Victoria mk2 with horizontal and vertical heads, I’m told the maximum speed is around 600rpm , is yours the same and does it present any problems when using smaller end mills.
Hi Terry, thanks for watching my video and commenting.
The mill you saw in the video is my Elliott Junior Mill, details can be seen at this website www.lathes.co.uk/elliott-omnimil-00/
It's top speed on the horizontal spindle is 1700 rpm. In the video I was using my double swivel vertical attachment which I think gears up the RPM a little but I don't know for sure. 600 rpm is probably OK for a horizontal spindle were you tend to use larger cutters but for a vertical spindle is a little restrictive if you intend to use very small cutters allot however, as hobbyists we tend to mater what we have, low rpm just means taking it a little slower.
I hope that helps you out.
Cheers
Nigel
Thought we were upload on 24th Nov at 12:01 Am USA??? Why am I confused,,Bearin TX usa.
I thought it was 12-01 in your own time zone? I'm in Scotland.
Interesting, aesthetically I liked the machine steps in the ends, but then you scalloped them away, I thought when you added the two posts on top it was going to be a level, great workmanship
watching this again.. geeze thats nice. but it looks like ive already said that.
Thanks Emma, keep bringing on the praise, I can take it LOL!!
A file only cuts one way, not back and forth. Might save yourself some money on a new file using it properly.
Thanks for the tip. I've never felt that comfortable using the lift technique when filing, I've always preferred just a very light drag even though it may dull the file a little quicker. You may be interested in this video testing and comparing the lift and drag filing methods. ruclips.net/video/xbykic--SKA/видео.html
@@GoCreatehms There is no comparison period. A file only cuts one way base on my 47 years making chips. If you want to drag your file backwards by all means do so, it's your file but it also shows your lacking in how cutting tools work. Do that shit with a set of $150.00 Swiss files and you'll change your mind. No difference with a hacksaw, let the tool do the work.
@@patrickhennigan9689 Indeed, I probably would change my mind if I were using expensive swiss files, I've allot to learn and allot to practice, thanks for passing on the benefit of your experience.
Ingenious！