Welp... my mom watched the video and knew all about the table's origins. Apparently it wasn't for my grandfather at all, but for my mom, aunts and uncles. Most of them took drafting in high school so needed it to finish out their homework. Must have been helpful since 2 of the 6 ended up becoming engineers. How I made it my whole life without knowing this is beyond me 😂
Well, assuming it was your grandfather's seemed obvious. This backstory makes it even more interesting. And as an (electrical) engineer I can only dream of having a drafting table here. Sadly lacking the space to have one. Keep it safe, keep it close! Manual drafting yields so much better results, at least in my experience.
I do love the pizza break in the intro. Well said video as usual. I love drawing prints and also have to deal with making parts using hundreds of poorly drawn blueprints so the appreciation for this video is several layers deep. 😁
That's amazing, thank you for sharing that tidbit. I can only imagine what schooling was like in those days but hearing that your relatives had a drafting class sure is interesting. Then again time changes everything, when I was in middle school I had home ec elective and these days my children have some fancy computer elective, which explains how they burn water and kill Mac n Cheese. Thanks for sharing the drawing process, I really enjoy these type of videos.
I took drafting in high school as well, and I've been kicking myself for years for not exploring it further. I've retained as much as I could from those days 20+ years ago by finding any excuse to use the techniques i learned, but I've forgotten much more. Your videos, and especially the drafting portions, have been re-teaching me better than when I was in school, and of course, they're very satisfying to watch in action, so thank you! I will say that I was taught different style arrowheads, but I like yours better 😁
Worked as a draftsman in college. When it came time to do my senior project, I gave the school machinist a set of dimensioned, toleranced drawings. He almost hugged me. Guess the other students were ... less precise in their requests for assistance.
As a longtime draftsman (now retired) I can really appreciate this video. My career spanned the transition from the board to 3D modeling. Actually even before the board. As well as being a draftsman I was also formerly a journeyman sheet metal mechanic, a fabricator, and a millwright. My first drafting methods were 2 types of CAD - concrete aided drafting and cardboard aided drafting. I am convinced that starting out my drafting career on the board made a huge difference on the quality of my work when I moved to drafting on a computer. I first learned VersaCAD, then Accugraph, then AutoCAD version 10. Progressed to Inventor and I have done some Solidworks since retiring. Thanks for the excellent video. You always seem to come through for your audience.
Wow, you've seen it all, then! I 100% agree starting at the board helps make for a better designer/engineer. Thanks for sharing and for the support as always, Mike!
Hi Mike. I'm just a simple electrician. I understand and have done cardboard aided design but I've never heard of Concrete aided. You've got me intrigued. How did you use concrete?
I started pretty much the same..Automotive body design on Mylar with aluminum..Then CGS,PDGS,SDRC Ideas,Catia,IcemSurf lately,for fun,Fusion 360 and Solid Works.. Designing on the board was a great craft.. Also retiring in a few.. along with cad we picked up running workstations and servers in UNIX,LINUX,everything MS, VMWare, Cisco..My home lab is pretty amazing as well.. In automotive design,the day you stop studying is the day you need to quit..
I was kinda surprised when Adam Savage mentioned you in his recent "Good Shop Drawers" video (timestamp 37:57) as inspiration, though now I'm not sure why that surprised me. I just love how the "makers" often tend to watch each others videos as well.
Same here, but I find it gratifying when one of the people who's videos I subscribe to reference another person who's videos I subscribe to. The Lock Picking Lawyer frequently comes up this way.
I think at the root of it a lot of RUclips makers just enjoy maker-type youtube content. Whether for entertainment, inspiration or both. But it is also bananas when Mythbusters Adam Savage knows who I am 😂
My dad and his dad were engineers, we have an absolutely beautiful leather bound book full of mechanical drawings and drafts which every once in a while I love to flip through. I really admire hand drawn work.
I'm a woodworker, and I find so many mistakes or failures come from not thinking/planning ahead or from not having a good visualization of what I'm trying to do. The fact that you care enough about your projects to put the time into planning them is so fun to watch. And as a hobbyist, it's also great to see someone who has to think about materials differently than a professional shop. The professional gets to build time and materials into the final cost of the project and can absorb mistakes and waste across many projects. If the hobbyist is even getting paid for the work (i.e., selling it), the charge is often nowhere near the actual cost, especially in terms of getting paid for time. Consequently, the hobbyist has to think of materials in terms of what is currently on hand, where scraps and offcuts can be utilized, what's available, and what measures have to be taken to avoid mistakes. When I work with exotic wood, it's in very limited quantities, so I sometimes have to take extraordinary measures to avoid mistakes because I don't have excess material to work with. Not to mention, it's a 45-minute trip to the nearest hardwood dealer. I've seen you deal with similar issues in your projects. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to plan your projects so thoroughly, and for bringing us along on the ride.
It takes a whole new level of intelligence to do so gracefully and precise. Its definitely a true testament to the level of talent he possesses. Your wood working is no different, just a softer material. Some folks are just so talented and creative, it's so satisfying to watch.
Oh I can’t wait to watch this later. I’ve always appreciated the precision & clarity of your schematics! I used to work in a print center about 6 years ago, and hands down my favorite customer was the older gentleman who came in to get revisions to his hand drawn engineering schematics printed. He was working on a revision to reflectors that get embedded into asphalt roads, so they’d be less likely to come out of the road during the our harsh winters, especially with plows scraping over them. It was fascinating to talk to him about the process, and I miss those interactions
I am an engineering student from Germany and we had projects to learn manual drafting (though I did mine without a machine as those are expensive). It was tedious but fun... though I still feel like the metric scale makes it way easier than having to calculate difficult fractions etc. Also, that picture for geometric tolerances in the video looked really close to one of our CAD assignments regarding the topic :) Great content, keep it up!
Dude, thumbnail game is on point, the music, the shot selection, the voiceover.....I swear, people have no idea that you've got an equally great talent at making videos as you do with drafting and machining
This, he's been killing it since he started this channel honestly, even his first video already set the bar high, there's not much people that possess all that knowledge so well, the attention to detail is just👌
There is only about four channels that demand my immediate attention, his is the top of that list. Your spot on. Couldn't have said it better myself. 🍻
Back in high school, our drafting tables were slanted at an angle, roughly 15-20, so that you didn't have to hunch over when drawing. Also, you could still stand and use the tables comfortably. Great video. It brings back lots of good memories.
My old man is a 40+ year engineer and I took a year after school in basics school. My college and his company both had mechanically adjustable tables. Standing desks before standing desk. They had a winder to take it up and down and a seperate winder to tilt the table from flat to angled up to 20 some degrees. I used to love going into the drawing room to see 4 guys with 4 completely different drafting configs all to personal preference.
I'm an architectural drafter, I graduated in 2018 and I'm glad that they still teach you how to do manual hand drafting at that time, my uncle had one of those drafting table too, although not as fancy as yours, it is still miles better than drafting on a regular desk, it's honestly a soothing process, well at least until you get real tired of it and/or have deadline to catch😂
To protect the paper when laying down a compass point, a bit of drafting tape (or dots) can be laid down where the point is to be placed. Drafting tape looks like common masking tape (often lighter in color) but with a weaker adhesive that won't tear the paper when removed. It's between the stickiness of drafting tape and post-it notes.
Fresh air. I’m 67 and still conceive, design, detail on a board every day. There are head shakers where I work but I’m the only one that do all this and build whatever I draw with my own two hands on manual machining equipment. I’m Blessed to be one of the last of many generations of Journeyman Tool and Die makers. That has machine tool design background. They call me “non degreed” engineer .. we got to the moon without cad..nothing I do is rocket science
i work with cad in my day job as a civil drafter and started when they had stopped teaching hand drafting in college. after hours i fabricate parts and ever since watching your vids i have been hand drawing any of my machine parts.
Absolutely brilliant, hand drawing is a lost art in most companies today but it is alive in your workshop. I fondly recall most of the techniques from my student days and a short time in a drawing office. Please do not stop doing these great drawings. Best wishes from the UK.
I’ve decided that, thanks to your videos, my present to myself for finishing my engineering degree will be a drafting machine. Thanks for inspiring me to get into a side of making things that I might not have otherwise.
I took a drafting class in high school in the mid-2000s. I still remember the manual drafting very fondly. There's something very pleasing about drawing something so precise by hand.
In today's world where everything is done in rush and haste your video brings to me a sanity and calm. l design products using Cad software and everything is dictated by deadlines. I envy you. I really appreciate your insights. This episode brought back to me so good memories of my late father drafting with same pencil and the same sense of pride in his work. Thank you
@@markus-us1bg oftentimes in my drawings I find that the part is just barely too big for all of the dimensions I need and in that case 3/4 is incredibly useful since 1/2 would at that point be much smaller than I really need, and I've always appreciated being able to see all the features well
@@markus-us1bg I have a small metric triangular ruler that includes a 1:75 scale which basically is the same as 3/4. So technically I could use it to draw something at 0.75 scale
Been working in construction for almost 20y now and I can really appreciate a good drawing, makes your job a whole lot easier. Really enjoyed watching this, things done in old school way.
My father was a architecture draftsmen and I was going into mechanical but then stopped. I really wish I stayed with it. Its really nice to watch you draft.
I too started drafting in high school which led to my 35 year career (so far) as an architect. I second a lot of comments here and definitely recommend you use that electric eraser! Its a game changer with the shield. Also that ridge on the edge of your triangle is for using ink tech pens, it keeps the ink from bleeding under the triangle. Ink on mylar is the way to go, give it a try, i think you might like it. You can control line weight to really make your drawings pop. Object lines, cut lines, dimension lines, all have their own weight (thickness) that you control with the different pens. Drafting like that is truly an art and you would likely enjoy it very much. I miss those days on my drafting board.
I remember growing up looking at my dad's set of drafting instruments with wonder and awe at how these could be used to produce the Lamborghini Countach engine cutaway drawing I had pinned to my bedroom wall (promotional material for a drafting film manufacturer). When I got to my very first technical drawing at university (a cross-cut chisel made from hex bar) I spent hours pouring over the details, lining up views, dimensioning and using my neatest handwriting to fill in the title block. I took it to show my dad and he soon knocked my over-confidence down: missing dimensions, incorrect representations, smudges from badly erased detail.... I use commercial CAD packages most days and having first learned hand drawing I appreciate the benefits of such software. It makes good commercial sense. Any changes or corrections are made in minutes. Your video shows exactly what commercial software can never bring to a drawing - the heart & soul of the drafter on every sheet. I still have my A3 drawing board from my uni days and you have reminded me why I kept it all these years. Thank you.
I did Technical Drawing to O level back in the late 70's before computers entered the classroom, with the goal of becoming a draftsman when I left school. Whilst CAD drawings are OK there is nothing like handling and seeing a hand drawn engineering drawing. Whilst my employment plans changed the skills I learnt from the TD teacher have helped me in my adult life. It's nice to see you are keeping this skill alive with your videos being a tutorial as well as functional. I have to agree with some of the other comments, in that your video skills and overall production is extremely good
This is so nice to watch. Back in my apprenticeship days i had to draw by hand too! So challenging but relaxing. Now I work with CAD but I always try my best to create meaningful and good looking drawings
It's always great if machinists know how to draw and vice versa. Also I learned that for every purpose you will need different drawings, dimensions, tolerances,... for the same part. Like for design purpose you might do it in one way, but for manufacturing, QC, assembly,... you might do it in a completely different way.
I studied architecture in 2005 and we still had to draw by hand the first 4 semesters (NO CAD at all for 2 years...) we literally had to draw entire buildings brick by brick.. so I personally am completely over ever using a drawing table ever again.. architectural drawings are much bigger and more detailed than mechanical drawings though and most annoyingly have a lot more dimensional chains and writing... but it did teach us the importance of line weight- which architects that grew up on 3D software have no concept about..
Back when I studied (in my 40's), Geometric Development was a weed out coarse to knock the class size down. The entire first year was done on the board. The next weed out class was VersaCAD which was the only CAD around at that time in my tech school. Nowadays, that school doesn't even teach board drafting. They no longer even have any drafting tables or gear around there. Most of the kids coming out of high school now already know some 3D modeling. It's a shame really because some very good drafting practice can be learned on a board. Our host here is an excellent example of that. If a person can draft on a board and use a pencil, that person can always learn CAD. Not so much the other way around.
Man , this was a work of art , i was one of the last guys to have 3 semesters of drafting at my college, i belive that if you are good doing a draft you are going to be good at CAD
My Dad had a drafting machine setup in our basement. I remember using it to draw all kinds of things when I was in Jr. High taking Industrial Arts classes (Drafting, Woodworking and Metalworking) in the late 70s. Then once in the workforce, I started using CAD in the 90s (AutoCAD running on DOS based computer with 13 colors). CAD didn't speed up the initial drawing, but it made modifications easier than having to ink new vellum to use as a Master for either Blue-Lines or Blue-Prints. Understanding the manual process helped in the 'auto' work.
Wonderful to see this! That's how I learned it in technical school in the 1960s. I remember the teacher saying, English and Americans will go from inches to millimeters in a few years, mainly because we found it difficult to convert from inches to mm. Nothing has changed yet haha! The movie is very well made.
A pleasure to watch as always. Actually took my lunch break when I got notified that this came out so I could watch it immediately lmao I’ve been loving the diversions in recent installments (the whole pizza thing and visual gag with the wood fired oven) - really hope you continue adding those. Feels colloquial and relatable in a way that is difficult to replicate even by creators who devote substantial time and effort to doing so Hope you’re doing well, B - thanks for making these!!
@@InheritanceMachining Of course, my dude! Lol - and here I’d thought you’d carefully crafted that analogy on a drafting table to a .001 tolerance You ever consider some sort of Q&A thing? I think a lot of your community has taken to watching for the creator as well as the content.
@@snake525 not everything is as precisely planned as I lead on. A lot is, but not everything 😂 I did actually do a Q&A for Patreon a few weeks ago. I'll probably release it down the road though on a rainy day.
What I find brilliant about this channel, and I hope that this isn't lost on you either, is that whilst you are getting all this enjoyment from what you inherited from your grandfather, you are also keeping that alive for your own descendants to enjoy. But also adding to that as well with your own parts, tools and drawings. Heck even that sketchbook will be looked on one day in wonder by someone, in the same way you must look at drawings/parts etc. of your grandfathers. And thank you for sharing that with us as well, it's a joy to watch you create those drawings, a true talent.
There is a small part of me that considers this in every project I do. Is this something I would be proud to pass on to my children and grandchildren? My hope is to inspire then to do work they are proud of themselves. in the shop or otherwise. Thanks!
Awesome! I don't know if you remember me asking for a video like this, but this is exactly what I wanted! I have since been sucked into the drafting arm sector of ebay
Did I just watch a vid which basically was a replication of a several hour lecture I had in my first year of university? Yes. Did I enjoy every second? Yes.
Ahhh, reminds me of being an apprentice! The grouchy old sod used to make me do loads of these! Its quite satisfying though, especially if youve got visitors and you pull out an old school print! They never need to know it was about 10x longer to do by hand 😂
I've been gaining a big interest in hand-made drawings lately, I've always enjoyed clear communication, old tools and machinery and this style of creating things, and you left me with the feeling you're the man I'd marry, even tho I'm a straight guy.
I have this Japanese mechanical pencil called “uni Kuru Toga”. There is an internal mechanism that rolls the lead as you lift and place the tip back on paper, so the tip is always worn evenly
My dad, who is an architect from the old days (so he made his whole career drafting by hand, only a couple years ago he got more into AutoCAD but he only uses the basics and well, he is half retired so who cares), told me to rotate my pencils while I threw a line, so as to keep the line width and color even. I did it, even when using a mechanical pencil, and well... my drawings were the best in the class :)
This hit home, and was a real treat!. I'd never seen a drafting machine before. I had the extremely rare privilege of learning drafting in the mid 90s by hand on a similar table, though it used a cable system to emulate a t-square. All angles had to be compounded by triangles. We drew up small parts at 1:1 that were crafted for us in the wood shop. Took measurements, then transferred to paper. Clean hand drawings are SOOOOO satisfying when done! Thanks again for sharing your work :)
I've never had the opportunity to try a cable machine since by the time I tool high school courses on drafting, the arm types were pretty standard. Thanks for watching!
very cool. I love the drawing sequences in the videos. for some reason I'm most surprised you draw the title block and border by hand, I would have assumed that would be preprinted.
Thanks! I've contemplated it since writing out the fancy name is a little time consuming (and inconsistent 😂) but something just feels wrong about starting with printed lines
When I first started with broadcast engineering in Canada (1979) my boss was a Polish/German gentleman who did all our electronic and mechanical drawings on velum. He would sketch out in pencil using the very same engine that you have and then switch to ink. He rarely had to erase but when he did he had a similar eraser machine and the little shield you use. (As an aside I suspect the eraser in your machine is for ink and way too hard for pencil on paper. It'll dig a hole faster than you can blink.) He would then label and annotate in ink using a special pen and letter/number pattern that could be scaled to suit. The drawings would then be printed at a local print shop with black on white rather than blue prints. Three copies were produced. One for the shop, one for the drawing office and a working copy. If we techs found an error it was circled in yellow pencil and changes that we made were in red on the shop copy. The "shop" copy was left on his draughting table and he would update as soon as possible. All other copies were destroyed after the new copies were printed. We had drawings of every conceivable circuit in the station and transmitter sites so when, at two o'clock in the morning, something broke, the appropriate drawing led you down the correct rabbit hole to find the problem. When I became engineer of my own stations I started doing the same except with an early dos version of Autocad on a DOS based laptop. I eventually progressed to autocad LT student version and when I was retired in 2010 I spent my last six weeks or so making sure as many of my drawings were as up to date as possible. Thanks for the trip back down memory lane. 🤞🇨🇦🍌🥋👍
I almost never comment on RUclips videos but this one definitely stirred some memories. I am in my 70s now and learned proper manual drafting as part of the engineering curriculum at college. So while I have some distant fondness for it, I had the opportunity to learn CAD in the early 1980s (and a bit later, solid modeling) I jumped at it and used the technology for the remainder of my mechanical engineering career. To a degree I did lose some ability to do conventional sketching there but the speed and convenience of making changes and the inherent accuracy made me an instant convert. Moreover, constraints and parametric modeling were super hard to apply on paper. I guess I see computer design as somewhat analogous to digital photography. As you might suspect I ditched the wet darkroom and never looked back. As a practical matter though my decimal equivalents chart in my home shop IS on a stone tablet. . . Great video.
For the first 15 years of my life I used those horrible pink erasers that smear the pencil mark and abrade the paper. Then I used a Staedtler white plastic eraser for the first time. It was a religious experience. The pencil marks vanished without a trace and the paper looked almost untouched. I've never looked back.
I took two years of Mechanical drafting in HS, 1985-1986. But other than a few hand sketches over the years I have always used the computer. Still have most of my drafting equipment, I just dont use it. Thanks for sharing, I am glad you are enjoying the process. Charles
Started my career as a Draftsman in 1980. Progressed to Designer levels over 30 years. Day in and day out design and drafting. 1987 brought change. CAD. It was either convert or find a new career. On the board we would produce “layout drawings” of assemblies at 10:1 to confirm tolerances and avoid interference issues. Then individual drawings for each part of the assembly. CAD eliminated that step as everything was drawn actual size to four decimals. Geo tolerancing clarified the parts drawings. Then of course CNC became ubiquitous and design to finished part usually was faster on complicated parts. Anyway, there’s no better way to think than through drawing, regardless of the tools and methods. To truly know and understand anything, draw it. Thanks for the blast from the past!👍 BTW vellum and Mylar were the only materials translucent enough to create a blueprint reproduction back in the day . No laser printers or plotters. Diazo Reproduction was the primary reason they were used. Mylar because it wouldn’t stretch and was much more durable than vellum. Layout drawings and PCB’s were done on Mylar due to that stability. PCB’s were designed 10:1 and photographically reduced to 1:1 for the artwork negatives and positives. Fun stuff!
Mechanical drawing, metal- and auto shops were my favorite classes in high school back when dinosaurs walked the Earth. Those classes made me more interested in science, math and running a manufacturing operation than I probably would have been otherwise. I'm a T-square-and-triangle kind of guy and proud of it. LOL.
I don't go to you're levels of beautiful drawings, but I never start a job without a piece of paper that outlines the the project and the materials needed.
My dad was a draftsman and this video is like nostalgia central. The table and machine and wow that power eraser really brings me back. He always had a very distinct penmanship that I ended up copying…little did I know until watching one of your videos that it was taught and drafting specific. Love this channel
I enjoy your videos and channel as I could draw parallels (pun not intended) hailing back to my childhood and brings back some very fond memories. My late maternal grandfather was a self-taught general repairman working in factories and would do lots of hand work (mostly simple tasks as he wasn't a machinist) for repairs or making custom stuff that wasn't available to us at the time (cutting & bending metal strips into replacement pot & cover handles, making kitchen "scissors" for my grandma to be able to cut through bones in meat etc.). At work, he would 'design' and create parts for repairs of the machines they used at the factory as well though it was mostly using very simple tools (drill press, hacksaws, hand files, simple welding etc). My dad was also a draughtsman in the early 70s (his first full time employment) and had a small collection of similar tools for drafting - Staedtler 780C, nice set of set squares, parallel rolling rulers, scale rules, slide rules etc. He eventually moved to an IT career at the government agency for urban planning around the time I was born and was put in charge of digitalizing maps as he was the only IT guy who had a background as a draughtsman and hence would understand what the requirements are for the technological adoption. As a kid I really wanted the Staedtler but he refused to let me have it as it was the first drafting pencil he had bought for himself after starting work. I did eventually buy one of my own when I was much older but it was difficult to find it on the shelves locally (before e-commerce was common). I now mainly use the Rotring 800 2mm lead holder but still have the Staedtler. I do find it more appealing to actually hand draft designs as well despite being in the IT industry and having had learnt to use basic CAD software (Solidworks). I very much appreciate the mechanics that go into products rather than the digital automated stuff that's commonplace these days. Just something about the very analog feeling that calls out to me - mechanical watches, mechanical cameras, fountain pens etc.
I love hand drawing. I find it soothing, calming and even meditational. I learned it as a apprentice at Trade school for becoming a mechanical engineer. Later as a student at the university of applied mechanics. Later, I became a master engineer and a certified CAD user, but I still enjoy hand drawing very much. And off course, we have drawing boards at home!!!!
I dig the deep dive into the layout part of it. Ive always played at it on jobsites and stuff for sheet metal layouts and complex fitment. Id be lying if I didnt say I was envious of your drafting table and machine. Thank you for sharing it and your knowledge with us.
The redlines oh god the redlines. I cant imagine the pain some young draftsman on his second day of work, getting told to redo his drawing, and then told to redo it again, and again, and again. Cheers for a really great video. Also GD&T is insane.
Boy, it's a good thing you found out early about that being an architectural scale! Imagine if you'd done the whole drawing with that and only discovered when the material arrived that the piece of metal you'd intended to cut down in your milling machine was eight feet across!
Great! Took me back in time 40 years to my Mechanical Engineering drawing intro class in college. Most fun class I ever took! No cool arm, just T-squares. Please do more like this.
German draftswoman here, I learned it 2017-2020 and we also have still been taught how to draw by hand :) I do guess though that we either have different styles of how to draw a screw or how to show a cut through material (45° lines) or that you learned it a bit different - still enjoyed the video very much, very well explained and I love your voice and your way of talking!
Because of you, I purchased a vintage drafting machine. I've been doing working drawings with parallel and two-plastic angles for many years. I enjoyed getting to know this wonderful tool for the first time but quickly realized I only have one drafting table and could not devote all of its real estate to the drafting machine. I also do other non-mechanical drawings, so I had to return to my original setup. However, I am pleased to see this video pay homage to a lost craft. I hope this wonderful video will inspire some to give it a go. Drawing on paper, with a pencil or pen, is good for the soul.
This is a lost art. I'm thankful I still got to draw in high school and one semester in college. It teaches you a perspective you otherwise wouldn't have with CAD.
Go to your local college night school. They probably have an introduction to CAD course to teach the basics of pencil/paper drawings so that when you do the computer course you can relate to the basic norms required . At least that's how I got into mine.
Dude! This video brought so many memories from school flooding back too me. I had a teacher that insisted we draw the screw threads in detail (No Shortcuts he would say) I’m looking for a mechanical drafting scale right now! 😂
You brought back high school memories for me! I took mechanical drawing from 1956 to 1960. I had great instruction with a teacher with a penchant for getting though my thick skull. After high school I used my drawing abilities to design plumbing systems and after retirement on wood working projects. Thanks for the memories!
Incredible video. My father is a drafter of 50+ years, still pumping out hand drawn maps for communication systems. This video reminded me of my days in high school, when he'd teach me what he could. Id love another one of these!
i am almost finishing my degree in mechanical engineering. And, this video brought some memories of the, not so, good old days, when i spend many nights awake finishing the drawings. Watching this made me so nostalgic, i wish i could give more than just a like.
Your sketch reminds me of my work as a draftsman at a very well know recreactional vehicle manufacture in 1972/73. Detroit job shop engineers were hired to begin an advanced chassis department for a newly designed chassis for the motor homes. I had been working as a detail draftsman but was moved to this department and WOW, what a difference. They would bring me sketches on scraps of paper and scribbled notes and I would transform them into drawings that were conceptional only as this engineering project was working from scratch. I learned so much with this job, I miss it terribly. It was all hand work, no arm or parallel rule, we worked on flat tables with straight edges and triangles. Loved this video, it took me back to a day long since past.
This video made me go dig out a book I have titled “ The Elements of Marine Engineering, Vol. 3. ‘Mechanical Drawing’”. It’s dated 1900 and is part of one of those International Correspondence Schools (ICS) courses that seemed to be popular at the turn of the 20th century. This thing goes into everything from basic tools (homemade not bought) to geometry fonts, line styles etc. The book also features a hand drawn electrical schmatic for a 1918 Saxon 6 model 4 and some briggs and stratton gaskets…. Weird yes but it came out of a salvage yard.
Thank you for another wonderful video! As someone who occasionally does basic CAD drawing, it's really nice to see how the analog approach works and it actually helps to understand why software works the way it does.
I actually bought two K&E machines about a year ago after discovering your channel. I still don’t have them set up but soon. You’re incredibly inspirational
That was a trip down Memory Lane. I was headed towards a career in Architecture as I entered high school in the late '60's. I took drafting all 4 yrs, w/ a 2hr class my Sr yr. The previous version of your drafting machine, (no replaceable rules), was the newest thing in '69. My freshman year, we used a T-square & a pair of triangles. By Sr year, I was designing things for the teacher & the school dist. By the time I got to college 2 yrs after graduation, CAD was the newest thing, & 90% of my skills became obsolete... You have a good grasp of the skills. Someone took some time to teach you.
Boy did this bring back memories. Back in high school (early '80's) I took 3 years of Mechanical Drafting. It really helped when CAD came along. I'm wasn't in the trades that needed as I did aviation electronics and then IT before retirement but have spent my off time building things from large and small. We're currently building our 3rd house so I sold my mill and lathe as we moved half way across the country. I really miss them and can't wait to get replacements. Your videos help fill the void, thanks.
The Lost art of hand drawing's. I started out doing hand machinery drawings and moved over to hand drawing architectural drawings back in the mid 90's when we moved over to CADD . I miss the personalization of doing it all by hand. I have just recently found a drafting machine and table, and have been dusting off all my old equipment to get back to practicing this dying art form. Thank You for bring back old memories, and the desire to get back to the table.
I am currently a second year mechanical engineer and having done GD&T for 6 months already I can tell you that it can really boggle the mind. All the different available tolerances, bilateral, unilateral, symmetrical, basic etc there is so much to know! Its really nice to see it in action in context of the home shop and under the graphite of such a skillful person like yourself, its bound to produce the coolest parts we've ever seen. As you have have proven time and time again. Thank you for the wonderful in depth video of your process for designing and drawing these ideas, it was a joy to watch
@@InheritanceMachining Nobody on this planet actually understands all the nuances of GD&T.😂😂🤣🤣It is an arcane subject and will remain controversial until the end of time. That being said, it is a great way to ensure consistency within a closed system; although you can produce the same results with drawing notes. It's when you send your drawings out to an outside vendor that the trouble begins...😎😎
This brought back memories of teaching 2D drafting in the early 80's before being introduced to CAD in 85'. After using 2D then 3D I still go back to the drafting table for some work.
Ah, the joy of facing A0 size paper, 3 joints ruler, masking tape for holding the paper, spare pencil lead and yourself. There is something soothing drawing in paper comparing using CAD. Miss those old days, its slower but an art for me
I started with wooden T-Squares and triangles. Progressed to parallel movements, followed by Zucor Bieffe draughting machines. Ultimately went to 2D Autocad and 3D Solidworks. I don't think that the younger generation has any idea the satisfaction I got producing hand-drawn designs on which I was PROUD to put my name.
I'm an engineer that prepares engineering drawings regularly and this triggered me. Sometimes I work off old hand drawn blueprints and I spend most of my time looking at all the details and work that someone out into those. And I'm just GLAD that CAD exists.
Lord, that drafting table and machine bring back memories. Spent a year in mechanical drawing in 9th grade...but we had boards and t-squares. Then did a year of architecture in 10th. I think if I'd stayed in the mechanical side I might have stayed with it. Staring at the same house for a school year killed it for me. Back in '83 AutoCAD was just getting started, I think the instructors were learning it as fast as they could teach it to the students... Your drawings are as much a work of art as the products you make from them.
Hand drawing like this is so beautiful and relaxing to do... and I'm not even a draftsman, just an occasional hobbyist. Yes, CAD is Bigger, Better, Faster, but also clinically cold.
I started out my design engineer career on the board and eventually switched to CAD. I can appreciate everything that goes into board work and I actually miss it at times. I still have my inherited board, machine, tools and pencils. After watching this, so many lost memories have come back. This is where it all started for me.
I learnt my technical drawing whilst at school. We used to draw everything to the BS 308 drawing standards used in the UK. I think when I sketch out stuff now I still use the standards from my head even though its well over 50 years since I started to use them. They were the worlds first documented drawing standards dating back to the mid 1920's.
I very much enjoy the quality of your shows. I am a retired 49+ years manual machinist. What you are doing is exactly how I have lived & made my living. I find my interest now is to explore a simple fun idea in my home shop, perhaps making some mistakes along the way? If in fact I machine myself into a corner, I also enjoy the adventure of machining myself out. The end result of just "winging it" is usually far more fun than the possession of the finished product. Making repairs for neighbors & helping folks out with some broken device is by far the most rewarding. Walking into my shop can be extremally rewarding when the focus is so intense that time does fly by. TM
I like your drafting video(s). I took a course in engineering graphics at Ohio University and we had to draft mechanical parts and cast items with all the radius features and machining details. It turned out I worked in construction and had to read blue prints with some detail drawings included. You never can learn too much and even though I'm retired I still enjoy learning new skills or at least how to identify what is supposed to happen when completed. Thanks, Greg.
Here in middle school italy we have a class to hand draw like this. Sure no fancy tables, we would bring tools from home, a compass, 2 triangle thingies (90-60-30 and 90-45-45) and maybe 1 long ruler, the same paper you using, first thing we learned is how to make the borders manually and precisely, most kids switched to pre printed borders but i got so fast at doing them i could afford the time to make it on my own. I remember the 2.0mm mechanical pencils. Still remember the teacher saying "HB IS FOR DRAWING, 2H IS FOR FINE LINES AND SUPPORT LINES" miss those times. Most of the times we would be given some complex shape and we needed to draw it out from the 3 perspectives. Felt really good to do and i miss those times a lot
Reminds me of my high-school mechanical drafting days. And my dad had a huge tilting drafting table in the basement with a large drafting machine and all the accoutrements. He developed the old Tandy 150 in 1 electronics kits. He drafted the schematics on vellum paper using technical ink pens. He also wrote two books for Tandy where i did the B&W darkroom work and helped him do some of the drafting as well. I wish I knew what happened to the table and machine. I'd give anything to have those back! Our drafting class was mostly architectural students and only 6 of us as mechanical. The teacher was biased to the arch students. We had the last laugh when 5 of us mechanical students won high awards in the Illinois Institute of Technology drafting competition. Only one of his arch students won an award... a student he didn't like. Hahahaha! I still love the lines made by an HB or F pencil. Aaaah.
Love your videos and I myself have a drafting table at home that I’ve had for 35 years. Just in case you didn’t know, the little hole in top of the cap in your clutch pencil is a pencil lead sharpener. Just remove it and rotate it on the lead, just remember to tap it upside down to remove the removed graphite before replacing it back on the pencil body 👍🏼
I enrolled at engineering last year and hand drawing was one of the first things they taught me. I suck at free hand drawings, but designing a piece by hand brought me so much relief and joy that I could do it through a whole day. There was even this time I began designing a piece at eight at night and finished 5AM, and I was happy, and tired of course. But I said out loud that I would do it all over again, all the nine hours.
Thanks for another informative and beautifully-produced video. I've never seen pizza used as a reference for a machining video, but it actually worked pretty well. And, I'm getting hungry!
Welp... my mom watched the video and knew all about the table's origins. Apparently it wasn't for my grandfather at all, but for my mom, aunts and uncles. Most of them took drafting in high school so needed it to finish out their homework. Must have been helpful since 2 of the 6 ended up becoming engineers. How I made it my whole life without knowing this is beyond me 😂
Well, assuming it was your grandfather's seemed obvious. This backstory makes it even more interesting.
And as an (electrical) engineer I can only dream of having a drafting table here. Sadly lacking the space to have one.
Keep it safe, keep it close! Manual drafting yields so much better results, at least in my experience.
I do love the pizza break in the intro. Well said video as usual. I love drawing prints and also have to deal with making parts using hundreds of poorly drawn blueprints so the appreciation for this video is several layers deep. 😁
That's amazing, thank you for sharing that tidbit. I can only imagine what schooling was like in those days but hearing that your relatives had a drafting class sure is interesting. Then again time changes everything, when I was in middle school I had home ec elective and these days my children have some fancy computer elective, which explains how they burn water and kill Mac n Cheese.
Thanks for sharing the drawing process, I really enjoy these type of videos.
I took drafting in high school as well, and I've been kicking myself for years for not exploring it further. I've retained as much as I could from those days 20+ years ago by finding any excuse to use the techniques i learned, but I've forgotten much more. Your videos, and especially the drafting portions, have been re-teaching me better than when I was in school, and of course, they're very satisfying to watch in action, so thank you!
I will say that I was taught different style arrowheads, but I like yours better 😁
Worked as a draftsman in college. When it came time to do my senior project, I gave the school machinist a set of dimensioned, toleranced drawings. He almost hugged me. Guess the other students were ... less precise in their requests for assistance.
As a longtime draftsman (now retired) I can really appreciate this video. My career spanned the transition from the board to 3D modeling. Actually even before the board. As well as being a draftsman I was also formerly a journeyman sheet metal mechanic, a fabricator, and a millwright. My first drafting methods were 2 types of CAD - concrete aided drafting and cardboard aided drafting. I am convinced that starting out my drafting career on the board made a huge difference on the quality of my work when I moved to drafting on a computer. I first learned VersaCAD, then Accugraph, then AutoCAD version 10. Progressed to Inventor and I have done some Solidworks since retiring. Thanks for the excellent video. You always seem to come through for your audience.
Wow, you've seen it all, then! I 100% agree starting at the board helps make for a better designer/engineer. Thanks for sharing and for the support as always, Mike!
Hi Mike. I'm just a simple electrician. I understand and have done cardboard aided design but I've never heard of Concrete aided. You've got me intrigued. How did you use concrete?
@@antokomsic3571 Drawing or sketching with soapstone on a concrete surface like a shop floor or your driveway. Very handy! 😁
I started pretty much the same..Automotive body design on Mylar with aluminum..Then CGS,PDGS,SDRC Ideas,Catia,IcemSurf lately,for fun,Fusion 360 and Solid Works.. Designing on the board was a great craft.. Also retiring in a few..
along with cad we picked up running workstations and servers in UNIX,LINUX,everything MS, VMWare, Cisco..My home lab is pretty amazing as well.. In automotive design,the day you stop studying is the day you need to quit..
I used Windows paint and called it ghetto cad
I was kinda surprised when Adam Savage mentioned you in his recent "Good Shop Drawers" video (timestamp 37:57) as inspiration, though now I'm not sure why that surprised me. I just love how the "makers" often tend to watch each others videos as well.
Same here, but I find it gratifying when one of the people who's videos I subscribe to reference another person who's videos I subscribe to. The Lock Picking Lawyer frequently comes up this way.
I see we all run in the same circles lol
Absolutely true, watching the other makers videos is quite inspirational ;)
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I think at the root of it a lot of RUclips makers just enjoy maker-type youtube content. Whether for entertainment, inspiration or both. But it is also bananas when Mythbusters Adam Savage knows who I am 😂
My dad and his dad were engineers, we have an absolutely beautiful leather bound book full of mechanical drawings and drafts which every once in a while I love to flip through. I really admire hand drawn work.
I'm a woodworker, and I find so many mistakes or failures come from not thinking/planning ahead or from not having a good visualization of what I'm trying to do. The fact that you care enough about your projects to put the time into planning them is so fun to watch. And as a hobbyist, it's also great to see someone who has to think about materials differently than a professional shop. The professional gets to build time and materials into the final cost of the project and can absorb mistakes and waste across many projects. If the hobbyist is even getting paid for the work (i.e., selling it), the charge is often nowhere near the actual cost, especially in terms of getting paid for time. Consequently, the hobbyist has to think of materials in terms of what is currently on hand, where scraps and offcuts can be utilized, what's available, and what measures have to be taken to avoid mistakes. When I work with exotic wood, it's in very limited quantities, so I sometimes have to take extraordinary measures to avoid mistakes because I don't have excess material to work with. Not to mention, it's a 45-minute trip to the nearest hardwood dealer. I've seen you deal with similar issues in your projects.
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to plan your projects so thoroughly, and for bringing us along on the ride.
Very true! That's why its good to hang onto all those offcuts (and mistakes). They may save my butt at some point. Thanks, Vince!
It takes a whole new level of intelligence to do so gracefully and precise. Its definitely a true testament to the level of talent he possesses. Your wood working is no different, just a softer material. Some folks are just so talented and creative, it's so satisfying to watch.
paper is cheap. Metal and wood are expensive. Even the time to make a simple sketch can save so much pain and waste.
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Oh I can’t wait to watch this later. I’ve always appreciated the precision & clarity of your schematics! I used to work in a print center about 6 years ago, and hands down my favorite customer was the older gentleman who came in to get revisions to his hand drawn engineering schematics printed. He was working on a revision to reflectors that get embedded into asphalt roads, so they’d be less likely to come out of the road during the our harsh winters, especially with plows scraping over them. It was fascinating to talk to him about the process, and I miss those interactions
I want to spoil it for you🤪 it was awesome, almost futuristic, thrilling, theatrical vid. 20 hours.!!🤭
@@anthonyrivers8395 hahaha, your a terrible person! Lol
But only if you actually enjoyed ruining it for him.. 🤣👍
I am an engineering student from Germany and we had projects to learn manual drafting (though I did mine without a machine as those are expensive). It was tedious but fun... though I still feel like the metric scale makes it way easier than having to calculate difficult fractions etc.
Also, that picture for geometric tolerances in the video looked really close to one of our CAD assignments regarding the topic :)
Great content, keep it up!
Wo und was studierst du wenn ich fragen darf?^^
Dude, thumbnail game is on point, the music, the shot selection, the voiceover.....I swear, people have no idea that you've got an equally great talent at making videos as you do with drafting and machining
That really means a lot. Thank you so much! I also have to give credit to my wife. She's a big part of this channel, and in the editing most of all!
This, he's been killing it since he started this channel honestly, even his first video already set the bar high, there's not much people that possess all that knowledge so well, the attention to detail is just👌
Yeah, this channel is in the absolute top league of RUclips IMHO!
@@InheritanceMachining well both of you a very, very talented people. Seriously, you make it look easy sir. And it is very much NOT. 🤷♂️
There is only about four channels that demand my immediate attention, his is the top of that list. Your spot on. Couldn't have said it better myself. 🍻
Back in high school, our drafting tables were slanted at an angle, roughly 15-20, so that you didn't have to hunch over when drawing. Also, you could still stand and use the tables comfortably. Great video. It brings back lots of good memories.
My old man is a 40+ year engineer and I took a year after school in basics school. My college and his company both had mechanically adjustable tables. Standing desks before standing desk. They had a winder to take it up and down and a seperate winder to tilt the table from flat to angled up to 20 some degrees. I used to love going into the drawing room to see 4 guys with 4 completely different drafting configs all to personal preference.
I'm an architectural drafter, I graduated in 2018 and I'm glad that they still teach you how to do manual hand drafting at that time, my uncle had one of those drafting table too, although not as fancy as yours, it is still miles better than drafting on a regular desk, it's honestly a soothing process, well at least until you get real tired of it and/or have deadline to catch😂
Amen to that last point 😂
To protect the paper when laying down a compass point, a bit of drafting tape (or dots) can be laid down where the point is to be placed. Drafting tape looks like common masking tape (often lighter in color) but with a weaker adhesive that won't tear the paper when removed. It's between the stickiness of drafting tape and post-it notes.
Fresh air. I’m 67 and still conceive, design, detail on a board every day. There are head shakers where I work but I’m the only one that do all this and build whatever I draw with my own two hands on manual machining equipment. I’m Blessed to be one of the last of many generations of Journeyman Tool and Die makers. That has machine tool design background. They call me “non degreed” engineer .. we got to the moon without cad..nothing I do is rocket science
i work with cad in my day job as a civil drafter and started when they had stopped teaching hand drafting in college. after hours i fabricate parts and ever since watching your vids i have been hand drawing any of my machine parts.
I love hearing that!
Absolutely brilliant, hand drawing is a lost art in most companies today but it is alive in your workshop. I fondly recall most of the techniques from my student days and a short time in a drawing office. Please do not stop doing these great drawings. Best wishes from the UK.
Thanks a lot, Paul!
I’ve decided that, thanks to your videos, my present to myself for finishing my engineering degree will be a drafting machine. Thanks for inspiring me to get into a side of making things that I might not have otherwise.
That's awesome!! My pleasure, man
I took a drafting class in high school in the mid-2000s. I still remember the manual drafting very fondly. There's something very pleasing about drawing something so precise by hand.
In today's world where everything is done in rush and haste your video brings to me a sanity and calm. l design products using Cad software and everything is dictated by deadlines. I envy you. I really appreciate your insights. This episode brought back to me so good memories of my late father drafting with same pencil and the same sense of pride in his work. Thank you
My pleasure. And thank you as well!
Its fascinating to see how you guys do drafting over in the USA, with so many little details that are done completely differently.
You mean wrong, just wrong. Best example is a 3/4 scale. Who had that idea? The only factors that should be used are 2, 5 and 10.
@@markus-us1bg oftentimes in my drawings I find that the part is just barely too big for all of the dimensions I need and in that case 3/4 is incredibly useful since 1/2 would at that point be much smaller than I really need, and I've always appreciated being able to see all the features well
I wouldn't necessarily say my approaches are normal. I don't really follow many standards 😂
@@liamsmith8518 same! one of the few advantages of imperial over metric. Fractional scales like 3/4 are easy to convert.
@@markus-us1bg I have a small metric triangular ruler that includes a 1:75 scale which basically is the same as 3/4. So technically I could use it to draw something at 0.75 scale
I always love this manual work, I’m very jealous of your skills and knowledge 🤩
Just a lot of time and patience 😊 But seriously, thank you!
@@InheritanceMachining no problem, I can never wait to watch your newest uploads, so keep it up
Been working in construction for almost 20y now and I can really appreciate a good drawing, makes your job a whole lot easier. Really enjoyed watching this, things done in old school way.
Amen! Thanks
Mechanical drafting was my favorite course hands down in college. There's something very meditative about it when you're in the zone.
My father was a architecture draftsmen and I was going into mechanical but then stopped. I really wish I stayed with it. Its really nice to watch you draft.
I too started drafting in high school which led to my 35 year career (so far) as an architect. I second a lot of comments here and definitely recommend you use that electric eraser! Its a game changer with the shield. Also that ridge on the edge of your triangle is for using ink tech pens, it keeps the ink from bleeding under the triangle. Ink on mylar is the way to go, give it a try, i think you might like it. You can control line weight to really make your drawings pop. Object lines, cut lines, dimension lines, all have their own weight (thickness) that you control with the different pens. Drafting like that is truly an art and you would likely enjoy it very much. I miss those days on my drafting board.
I remember growing up looking at my dad's set of drafting instruments with wonder and awe at how these could be used to produce the Lamborghini Countach engine cutaway drawing I had pinned to my bedroom wall (promotional material for a drafting film manufacturer). When I got to my very first technical drawing at university (a cross-cut chisel made from hex bar) I spent hours pouring over the details, lining up views, dimensioning and using my neatest handwriting to fill in the title block. I took it to show my dad and he soon knocked my over-confidence down: missing dimensions, incorrect representations, smudges from badly erased detail....
I use commercial CAD packages most days and having first learned hand drawing I appreciate the benefits of such software. It makes good commercial sense. Any changes or corrections are made in minutes.
Your video shows exactly what commercial software can never bring to a drawing - the heart & soul of the drafter on every sheet. I still have my A3 drawing board from my uni days and you have reminded me why I kept it all these years. Thank you.
I'm glad I usually watch these videos during my lunch break, because this one would have killed me otherwise...
West German pencil leads, very fancy
Nothing but the best 😂
I did Technical Drawing to O level back in the late 70's before computers entered the classroom, with the goal of becoming a draftsman when I left school. Whilst CAD drawings are OK there is nothing like handling and seeing a hand drawn engineering drawing. Whilst my employment plans changed the skills I learnt from the TD teacher have helped me in my adult life. It's nice to see you are keeping this skill alive with your videos being a tutorial as well as functional. I have to agree with some of the other comments, in that your video skills and overall production is extremely good
This is so nice to watch. Back in my apprenticeship days i had to draw by hand too! So challenging but relaxing.
Now I work with CAD but I always try my best to create meaningful and good looking drawings
That's the important part! I've often found you can tell the difference between engineers who started on the board or on a computer.
It's always great if machinists know how to draw and vice versa. Also I learned that for every purpose you will need different drawings, dimensions, tolerances,... for the same part. Like for design purpose you might do it in one way, but for manufacturing, QC, assembly,... you might do it in a completely different way.
im glad i learned "technical drawing" growing up!, it makes you see how the world works...on paper!
So amazing! I'm taking a mechanical drawing class at my uni and im glad you included the truth that it took about 20 hours lol
Gotta give a comparison for those that only know the CAD game 😆 Thanks!
I studied architecture in 2005 and we still had to draw by hand the first 4 semesters (NO CAD at all for 2 years...) we literally had to draw entire buildings brick by brick.. so I personally am completely over ever using a drawing table ever again.. architectural drawings are much bigger and more detailed than mechanical drawings though and most annoyingly have a lot more dimensional chains and writing... but it did teach us the importance of line weight- which architects that grew up on 3D software have no concept about..
Back when I studied (in my 40's), Geometric Development was a weed out coarse to knock the class size down. The entire first year was done on the board. The next weed out class was VersaCAD which was the only CAD around at that time in my tech school. Nowadays, that school doesn't even teach board drafting. They no longer even have any drafting tables or gear around there. Most of the kids coming out of high school now already know some 3D modeling. It's a shame really because some very good drafting practice can be learned on a board. Our host here is an excellent example of that. If a person can draft on a board and use a pencil, that person can always learn CAD. Not so much the other way around.
As someone from the 'wrong way' countries i find your drawings both amazing and outrageous.
Man , this was a work of art , i was one of the last guys to have 3 semesters of drafting at my college, i belive that if you are good doing a draft you are going to be good at CAD
My Dad had a drafting machine setup in our basement. I remember using it to draw all kinds of things when I was in Jr. High taking Industrial Arts classes (Drafting, Woodworking and Metalworking) in the late 70s. Then once in the workforce, I started using CAD in the 90s (AutoCAD running on DOS based computer with 13 colors). CAD didn't speed up the initial drawing, but it made modifications easier than having to ink new vellum to use as a Master for either Blue-Lines or Blue-Prints. Understanding the manual process helped in the 'auto' work.
Officially watching in math class! Not in trouble yet
😂 a man of your word!
Wonderful to see this!
That's how I learned it in technical school in the 1960s.
I remember the teacher saying, English and Americans will go from inches to millimeters in a few years, mainly because we found it difficult to convert from inches to mm.
Nothing has changed yet haha!
The movie is very well made.
A pleasure to watch as always. Actually took my lunch break when I got notified that this came out so I could watch it immediately lmao
I’ve been loving the diversions in recent installments (the whole pizza thing and visual gag with the wood fired oven) - really hope you continue adding those. Feels colloquial and relatable in a way that is difficult to replicate even by creators who devote substantial time and effort to doing so
Hope you’re doing well, B - thanks for making these!!
Thanks, man! And I appreciate the feedback. Sometimes I (or my wife) comes up with some hair brained idea and cant resist not trying it 😂
@@InheritanceMachining Of course, my dude!
Lol - and here I’d thought you’d carefully crafted that analogy on a drafting table to a .001 tolerance
You ever consider some sort of Q&A thing? I think a lot of your community has taken to watching for the creator as well as the content.
Went to the same off kilter humour school as TOT.
@@snake525 not everything is as precisely planned as I lead on. A lot is, but not everything 😂 I did actually do a Q&A for Patreon a few weeks ago. I'll probably release it down the road though on a rainy day.
What I find brilliant about this channel, and I hope that this isn't lost on you either, is that whilst you are getting all this enjoyment from what you inherited from your grandfather, you are also keeping that alive for your own descendants to enjoy. But also adding to that as well with your own parts, tools and drawings. Heck even that sketchbook will be looked on one day in wonder by someone, in the same way you must look at drawings/parts etc. of your grandfathers. And thank you for sharing that with us as well, it's a joy to watch you create those drawings, a true talent.
There is a small part of me that considers this in every project I do. Is this something I would be proud to pass on to my children and grandchildren? My hope is to inspire then to do work they are proud of themselves. in the shop or otherwise. Thanks!
Awesome! I don't know if you remember me asking for a video like this, but this is exactly what I wanted! I have since been sucked into the drafting arm sector of ebay
I may single-handedly be responsible for the depletion of drafting machines on there 😂 Thanks!
Did I just watch a vid which basically was a replication of a several hour lecture I had in my first year of university? Yes. Did I enjoy every second? Yes.
Ahhh, reminds me of being an apprentice! The grouchy old sod used to make me do loads of these! Its quite satisfying though, especially if youve got visitors and you pull out an old school print! They never need to know it was about 10x longer to do by hand 😂
That's what makes it even cooler!
I've been gaining a big interest in hand-made drawings lately, I've always enjoyed clear communication, old tools and machinery and this style of creating things, and you left me with the feeling you're the man I'd marry, even tho I'm a straight guy.
I have this Japanese mechanical pencil called “uni Kuru Toga”. There is an internal mechanism that rolls the lead as you lift and place the tip back on paper, so the tip is always worn evenly
My dad, who is an architect from the old days (so he made his whole career drafting by hand, only a couple years ago he got more into AutoCAD but he only uses the basics and well, he is half retired so who cares), told me to rotate my pencils while I threw a line, so as to keep the line width and color even. I did it, even when using a mechanical pencil, and well... my drawings were the best in the class :)
The Kuru Toga only rotates when you lift and place the lead back onto the paper, not when you moving it.
@@kaievans9991 you're right!
This hit home, and was a real treat!. I'd never seen a drafting machine before. I had the extremely rare privilege of learning drafting in the mid 90s by hand on a similar table, though it used a cable system to emulate a t-square. All angles had to be compounded by triangles. We drew up small parts at 1:1 that were crafted for us in the wood shop. Took measurements, then transferred to paper. Clean hand drawings are SOOOOO satisfying when done! Thanks again for sharing your work :)
I've never had the opportunity to try a cable machine since by the time I tool high school courses on drafting, the arm types were pretty standard. Thanks for watching!
very cool. I love the drawing sequences in the videos. for some reason I'm most surprised you draw the title block and border by hand, I would have assumed that would be preprinted.
Thanks! I've contemplated it since writing out the fancy name is a little time consuming (and inconsistent 😂) but something just feels wrong about starting with printed lines
When I first started with broadcast engineering in Canada (1979) my boss was a Polish/German gentleman who did all our electronic and mechanical drawings on velum. He would sketch out in pencil using the very same engine that you have and then switch to ink. He rarely had to erase but when he did he had a similar eraser machine and the little shield you use. (As an aside I suspect the eraser in your machine is for ink and way too hard for pencil on paper. It'll dig a hole faster than you can blink.) He would then label and annotate in ink using a special pen and letter/number pattern that could be scaled to suit. The drawings would then be printed at a local print shop with black on white rather than blue prints. Three copies were produced. One for the shop, one for the drawing office and a working copy. If we techs found an error it was circled in yellow pencil and changes that we made were in red on the shop copy. The "shop" copy was left on his draughting table and he would update as soon as possible. All other copies were destroyed after the new copies were printed. We had drawings of every conceivable circuit in the station and transmitter sites so when, at two
o'clock in the morning, something broke, the appropriate drawing led you down the correct rabbit hole to find the problem. When I became engineer of my own stations I started doing the same except with an early dos version of Autocad on a DOS based laptop. I eventually progressed to autocad LT student version and when I was retired in 2010 I spent my last six weeks or so making sure as many of my drawings were as up to date as possible. Thanks for the trip back down memory lane. 🤞🇨🇦🍌🥋👍
I almost never comment on RUclips videos but this one definitely stirred some memories. I am in my 70s now and learned proper manual drafting as part of the engineering curriculum at college. So while I have some distant fondness for it, I had the opportunity to learn CAD in the early 1980s (and a bit later, solid modeling) I jumped at it and used the technology for the remainder of my mechanical engineering career. To a degree I did lose some ability to do conventional sketching there but the speed and convenience of making changes and the inherent accuracy made me an instant convert. Moreover, constraints and parametric modeling were super hard to apply on paper. I guess I see computer design as somewhat analogous to digital photography. As you might suspect I ditched the wet darkroom and never looked back. As a practical matter though my decimal equivalents chart in my home shop IS on a stone tablet. . . Great video.
😂 The photography analogy is a great one that I always use! Thanks
For the first 15 years of my life I used those horrible pink erasers that smear the pencil mark and abrade the paper. Then I used a Staedtler white plastic eraser for the first time. It was a religious experience. The pencil marks vanished without a trace and the paper looked almost untouched. I've never looked back.
I took two years of Mechanical drafting in HS, 1985-1986. But other than a few hand sketches over the years I have always used the computer. Still have most of my drafting equipment, I just dont use it. Thanks for sharing, I am glad you are enjoying the process. Charles
Started my career as a Draftsman in 1980. Progressed to Designer levels over 30 years. Day in and day out design and drafting. 1987 brought change. CAD. It was either convert or find a new career.
On the board we would produce “layout drawings” of assemblies at 10:1 to confirm tolerances and avoid interference issues. Then individual drawings for each part of the assembly. CAD eliminated that step as everything was drawn actual size to four decimals. Geo tolerancing clarified the parts drawings. Then of course CNC became ubiquitous and design to finished part usually was faster on complicated parts.
Anyway, there’s no better way to think than through drawing, regardless of the tools and methods. To truly know and understand anything, draw it.
Thanks for the blast from the past!👍
BTW vellum and Mylar were the only materials translucent enough to create a blueprint reproduction back in the day . No laser printers or plotters. Diazo Reproduction was the primary reason they were used. Mylar because it wouldn’t stretch and was much more durable than vellum. Layout drawings and PCB’s were done on Mylar due to that stability. PCB’s were designed 10:1 and photographically reduced to 1:1 for the artwork negatives and positives. Fun stuff!
Mechanical drawing, metal- and auto shops were my favorite classes in high school back when dinosaurs walked the Earth. Those classes made me more interested in science, math and running a manufacturing operation than I probably would have been otherwise. I'm a T-square-and-triangle kind of guy and proud of it. LOL.
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I don't go to you're levels of beautiful drawings, but I never start a job without a piece of paper that outlines the the project and the materials needed.
My dad was a draftsman and this video is like nostalgia central. The table and machine and wow that power eraser really brings me back. He always had a very distinct penmanship that I ended up copying…little did I know until watching one of your videos that it was taught and drafting specific. Love this channel
I enjoy your videos and channel as I could draw parallels (pun not intended) hailing back to my childhood and brings back some very fond memories.
My late maternal grandfather was a self-taught general repairman working in factories and would do lots of hand work (mostly simple tasks as he wasn't a machinist) for repairs or making custom stuff that wasn't available to us at the time (cutting & bending metal strips into replacement pot & cover handles, making kitchen "scissors" for my grandma to be able to cut through bones in meat etc.). At work, he would 'design' and create parts for repairs of the machines they used at the factory as well though it was mostly using very simple tools (drill press, hacksaws, hand files, simple welding etc).
My dad was also a draughtsman in the early 70s (his first full time employment) and had a small collection of similar tools for drafting - Staedtler 780C, nice set of set squares, parallel rolling rulers, scale rules, slide rules etc. He eventually moved to an IT career at the government agency for urban planning around the time I was born and was put in charge of digitalizing maps as he was the only IT guy who had a background as a draughtsman and hence would understand what the requirements are for the technological adoption.
As a kid I really wanted the Staedtler but he refused to let me have it as it was the first drafting pencil he had bought for himself after starting work.
I did eventually buy one of my own when I was much older but it was difficult to find it on the shelves locally (before e-commerce was common). I now mainly use the Rotring 800 2mm lead holder but still have the Staedtler.
I do find it more appealing to actually hand draft designs as well despite being in the IT industry and having had learnt to use basic CAD software (Solidworks). I very much appreciate the mechanics that go into products rather than the digital automated stuff that's commonplace these days. Just something about the very analog feeling that calls out to me - mechanical watches, mechanical cameras, fountain pens etc.
I've been on the hunt for the "right" vintage drafting table. This search has been an on and off again project for the better part of five years...
I love hand drawing. I find it soothing, calming and even meditational. I learned it as a apprentice at Trade school for becoming a mechanical engineer. Later as a student at the university of applied mechanics. Later, I became a master engineer and a certified CAD user, but I still enjoy hand drawing very much.
And off course, we have drawing boards at home!!!!
I dig the deep dive into the layout part of it. Ive always played at it on jobsites and stuff for sheet metal layouts and complex fitment. Id be lying if I didnt say I was envious of your drafting table and machine. Thank you for sharing it and your knowledge with us.
My pleasure, man. It's a good skill to have, especially knowing how to do it the hard way (i.e. without a machine) haha
The redlines oh god the redlines. I cant imagine the pain some young draftsman on his second day of work, getting told to redo his drawing, and then told to redo it again, and again, and again. Cheers for a really great video. Also GD&T is insane.
This is by far my favorite channel on RUclips
I’ve learned more about drafting in this video than I did in two semesters in high school
Boy, it's a good thing you found out early about that being an architectural scale! Imagine if you'd done the whole drawing with that and only discovered when the material arrived that the piece of metal you'd intended to cut down in your milling machine was eight feet across!
Great! Took me back in time 40 years to my Mechanical Engineering drawing intro class in college. Most fun class I ever took! No cool arm, just T-squares. Please do more like this.
German draftswoman here, I learned it 2017-2020 and we also have still been taught how to draw by hand :) I do guess though that we either have different styles of how to draw a screw or how to show a cut through material (45° lines) or that you learned it a bit different - still enjoyed the video very much, very well explained and I love your voice and your way of talking!
Because of you, I purchased a vintage drafting machine. I've been doing working drawings with parallel and two-plastic angles for many years. I enjoyed getting to know this wonderful tool for the first time but quickly realized I only have one drafting table and could not devote all of its real estate to the drafting machine. I also do other non-mechanical drawings, so I had to return to my original setup. However, I am pleased to see this video pay homage to a lost craft. I hope this wonderful video will inspire some to give it a go. Drawing on paper, with a pencil or pen, is good for the soul.
It's definitely a space hog but at least you have it and can set it up when you do need it 😊Thanks as always!
This is a lost art.
I'm thankful I still got to draw in high school and one semester in college.
It teaches you a perspective you otherwise wouldn't have with CAD.
I’ve been CAD drafting for several years and didn’t “learn” anything new, but I feel like a better drafter after hearing your explanations.
Go to your local college night school. They probably have an introduction to CAD course to teach the basics of pencil/paper drawings so that when you do the computer course you can relate to the basic norms required . At least that's how I got into mine.
Dude! This video brought so many memories from school flooding back too me. I had a teacher that insisted we draw the screw threads in detail (No Shortcuts he would say) I’m looking for a mechanical drafting scale right now! 😂
You brought back high school memories for me! I took mechanical drawing from 1956 to 1960. I had great instruction with a teacher with a penchant for getting though my thick skull. After high school I used my drawing abilities to design plumbing systems and after retirement on wood working projects. Thanks for the memories!
Incredible video. My father is a drafter of 50+ years, still pumping out hand drawn maps for communication systems. This video reminded me of my days in high school, when he'd teach me what he could. Id love another one of these!
i am almost finishing my degree in mechanical engineering. And, this video brought some memories of the, not so, good old days, when i spend many nights awake finishing the drawings. Watching this made me so nostalgic, i wish i could give more than just a like.
Struggles are usually where the best memories are made 😁 Thanks man!
Your sketch reminds me of my work as a draftsman at a very well know recreactional vehicle manufacture in 1972/73. Detroit job shop engineers were hired to begin an advanced chassis department for a newly designed chassis for the motor homes. I had been working as a detail draftsman but was moved to this department and WOW, what a difference. They would bring me sketches on scraps of paper and scribbled notes and I would transform them into drawings that were conceptional only as this engineering project was working from scratch. I learned so much with this job, I miss it terribly. It was all hand work, no arm or parallel rule, we worked on flat tables with straight edges and triangles. Loved this video, it took me back to a day long since past.
This video made me go dig out a book I have titled “ The Elements of Marine Engineering, Vol. 3. ‘Mechanical Drawing’”.
It’s dated 1900 and is part of one of those International Correspondence Schools (ICS) courses that seemed to be popular at the turn of the 20th century. This thing goes into everything from basic tools (homemade not bought) to geometry fonts, line styles etc. The book also features a hand drawn electrical schmatic for a 1918 Saxon 6 model 4 and some briggs and stratton gaskets…. Weird yes but it came out of a salvage yard.
Thank you for another wonderful video! As someone who occasionally does basic CAD drawing, it's really nice to see how the analog approach works and it actually helps to understand why software works the way it does.
My pleasure! Glad you liked it!
I actually bought two K&E machines about a year ago after discovering your channel. I still don’t have them set up but soon. You’re incredibly inspirational
Dude! 😂As long as they aren' tin the trash I'm not mad 😉
That was a trip down Memory Lane. I was headed towards a career in Architecture as I entered high school in the late '60's. I took drafting all 4 yrs, w/ a 2hr class my Sr yr.
The previous version of your drafting machine, (no replaceable rules), was the newest thing in '69. My freshman year, we used a T-square & a pair of triangles.
By Sr year, I was designing things for the teacher & the school dist. By the time I got to college 2 yrs after graduation, CAD was the newest thing, & 90% of my skills became obsolete...
You have a good grasp of the skills. Someone took some time to teach you.
Boy did this bring back memories. Back in high school (early '80's) I took 3 years of Mechanical Drafting. It really helped when CAD came along. I'm wasn't in the trades that needed as I did aviation electronics and then IT before retirement but have spent my off time building things from large and small. We're currently building our 3rd house so I sold my mill and lathe as we moved half way across the country. I really miss them and can't wait to get replacements. Your videos help fill the void, thanks.
The Lost art of hand drawing's. I started out doing hand machinery drawings and moved over to hand drawing architectural drawings back in the mid 90's when we moved over to CADD . I miss the personalization of doing it all by hand. I have just recently found a drafting machine and table, and have been dusting off all my old equipment to get back to practicing this dying art form. Thank You for bring back old memories, and the desire to get back to the table.
I love to hear that! Thanks and good luck!
I am currently a second year mechanical engineer and having done GD&T for 6 months already I can tell you that it can really boggle the mind. All the different available tolerances, bilateral, unilateral, symmetrical, basic etc there is so much to know!
Its really nice to see it in action in context of the home shop and under the graphite of such a skillful person like yourself, its bound to produce the coolest parts we've ever seen. As you have have proven time and time again.
Thank you for the wonderful in depth video of your process for designing and drawing these ideas, it was a joy to watch
I would be lying if I said I fully understood GD&T myself! 😂 Thanks as always for the kind words, Charl!
@@InheritanceMachining Nobody on this planet actually understands all the nuances of GD&T.😂😂🤣🤣It is an arcane subject and will remain controversial until the end of time. That being said, it is a great way to ensure consistency within a closed system; although you can produce the same results with drawing notes. It's when you send your drawings out to an outside vendor that the trouble begins...😎😎
This brought back memories of teaching 2D drafting in the early 80's before being introduced to CAD in 85'. After using 2D then 3D I still go back to the drafting table for some work.
Ah, the joy of facing A0 size paper, 3 joints ruler, masking tape for holding the paper, spare pencil lead and yourself.
There is something soothing drawing in paper comparing using CAD. Miss those old days, its slower but an art for me
I would 100% watch 1000 unedited hours of you just drawing
I started with wooden T-Squares and triangles. Progressed to parallel movements, followed by Zucor Bieffe draughting machines. Ultimately went to 2D Autocad and 3D Solidworks.
I don't think that the younger generation has any idea the satisfaction I got producing hand-drawn designs on which I was PROUD to put my name.
I'm an engineer that prepares engineering drawings regularly and this triggered me. Sometimes I work off old hand drawn blueprints and I spend most of my time looking at all the details and work that someone out into those. And I'm just GLAD that CAD exists.
Lord, that drafting table and machine bring back memories. Spent a year in mechanical drawing in 9th grade...but we had boards and t-squares. Then did a year of architecture in 10th. I think if I'd stayed in the mechanical side I might have stayed with it. Staring at the same house for a school year killed it for me. Back in '83 AutoCAD was just getting started, I think the instructors were learning it as fast as they could teach it to the students...
Your drawings are as much a work of art as the products you make from them.
Hand drawing like this is so beautiful and relaxing to do... and I'm not even a draftsman, just an occasional hobbyist.
Yes, CAD is Bigger, Better, Faster, but also clinically cold.
I started out my design engineer career on the board and eventually switched to CAD. I can appreciate everything that goes into board work and I actually miss it at times. I still have my inherited board, machine, tools and pencils. After watching this, so many lost memories have come back. This is where it all started for me.
This is one of my favorite parts about your process
I learnt my technical drawing whilst at school. We used to draw everything to the BS 308 drawing standards used in the UK. I think when I sketch out stuff now I still use the standards from my head even though its well over 50 years since I started to use them. They were the worlds first documented drawing standards dating back to the mid 1920's.
Loved every millisecond of this. Then realized you draw the verticals in your lettering from bottom to top. You monster!
I very much enjoy the quality of your shows. I am a retired 49+ years manual machinist. What you are doing is exactly how I have lived & made my living. I find my interest now is to explore a simple fun idea in my home shop, perhaps making some mistakes along the way? If in fact I machine myself into a corner, I also enjoy the adventure of machining myself out. The end result of just "winging it" is usually far more fun than the possession of the finished product. Making repairs for neighbors & helping folks out with some broken device is by far the most rewarding. Walking into my shop can be extremally rewarding when the focus is so intense that time does fly by. TM
that drafting arm is the coolest thing i’ve seen in a while. i’d love to design one for my next build
What a joy watching tools and processes I learned years ago when I started drafting in school.
I like your drafting video(s). I took a course in engineering graphics at Ohio University and we had to draft mechanical parts and cast items with all the radius features and machining details. It turned out I worked in construction and had to read blue prints with some detail drawings included. You never can learn too much and even though I'm retired I still enjoy learning new skills or at least how to identify what is supposed to happen when completed. Thanks, Greg.
Here in middle school italy we have a class to hand draw like this. Sure no fancy tables, we would bring tools from home, a compass, 2 triangle thingies (90-60-30 and 90-45-45) and maybe 1 long ruler, the same paper you using, first thing we learned is how to make the borders manually and precisely, most kids switched to pre printed borders but i got so fast at doing them i could afford the time to make it on my own. I remember the 2.0mm mechanical pencils. Still remember the teacher saying "HB IS FOR DRAWING, 2H IS FOR FINE LINES AND SUPPORT LINES" miss those times. Most of the times we would be given some complex shape and we needed to draw it out from the 3 perspectives. Felt really good to do and i miss those times a lot
Now to make copies. No blueprint machines - God, I miss these days. Great job 👏🏻
I think blue prints are beautiful. I love drawing parts by hand. Glad to see I'm not weird.
Reminds me of my high-school mechanical drafting days. And my dad had a huge tilting drafting table in the basement with a large drafting machine and all the accoutrements. He developed the old Tandy 150 in 1 electronics kits. He drafted the schematics on vellum paper using technical ink pens. He also wrote two books for Tandy where i did the B&W darkroom work and helped him do some of the drafting as well. I wish I knew what happened to the table and machine. I'd give anything to have those back! Our drafting class was mostly architectural students and only 6 of us as mechanical. The teacher was biased to the arch students. We had the last laugh when 5 of us mechanical students won high awards in the Illinois Institute of Technology drafting competition. Only one of his arch students won an award... a student he didn't like. Hahahaha! I still love the lines made by an HB or F pencil. Aaaah.
I am a draftsman mechanical Watching this video reminded me of the days when I was studying in college. 😊
Love your videos and I myself have a drafting table at home that I’ve had for 35 years. Just in case you didn’t know, the little hole in top of the cap in your clutch pencil is a pencil lead sharpener. Just remove it and rotate it on the lead, just remember to tap it upside down to remove the removed graphite before replacing it back on the pencil body 👍🏼
I enrolled at engineering last year and hand drawing was one of the first things they taught me. I suck at free hand drawings, but designing a piece by hand brought me so much relief and joy that I could do it through a whole day. There was even this time I began designing a piece at eight at night and finished 5AM, and I was happy, and tired of course. But I said out loud that I would do it all over again, all the nine hours.
Thanks for another informative and beautifully-produced video. I've never seen pizza used as a reference for a machining video, but it actually worked pretty well. And, I'm getting hungry!