Freds Sine Bar
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- The first episode of a new series called "The Heart of Tools" This is where we will explore our connections to the people and the past through the tools they made and used. This series is also an archival tool for capturing the stories and knowledge of the people who's shoulders we all stand on. Hopefully preserving their knowledge and skills for the future generations of people that work with their hands and hearts.
fabulous. great start to a serious I'll be looking forward to.
Was that the start of your comic sine bar video?
Love your videos too, so funny and interesting.
I'm a degree qualified electrical engineer, and after 6 months of ToT and AvE and now you, I think I've made a tragic mistake.
-Love the theme !!
Althought probably you have to lost somebody very close to realy grasp the idea .
Seeying poor view count.
*I do , cold chills over my spine the first 2 minutes*
-Love the sinebars aswell , geeat legacy falen into the right hands !!
Those adjustable height blocks , can't they slip apart when the piece is heavy ?
Greets from the Netherlands
Johny geerts
Tom, you are fortunate to have had a mentor to work with. I never had one in my career, but since I've started machining, you, among a host of other RUclips creators have taught me enough to get by without hurting myself. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks Tom for sharing those stories about Fred and showing his great craftsmanship. I have some calipers and a micrometer from my grandfather.
Excellent Video.....Looking forward to the next video..........
I feel the same way about tools and the people they're connected to.
The best Christmas present I ever got was when my wife found me a Gersner tool chest with contents including the machineries handbook and every little thing that a tool and die maker accumulated from 1948 to 1982. I feel like I knew him though we never met. I learned so much just by studying things he made and I am still learning. I was sad that his family didn't want his legacy but grateful to be the keeper of it for now. Thank you Tom.
We all have people in our lives that help shape us. It's up to the individual to take those "tools" and put them to good use. Thanks for sharing.
Dozens of my elders molded me into the machinist I have become via their mentorship and example. I have stories originating in the tools they gave me on retirement or their families passed on to me. I've bored generations of my proteges recounting them. I hope when I pass these tools will go to my craft descendants who will read the notes I included in the cases and in turn... Thus we link to our pasts through our every day tools to maintain the continuum, in my one case back over a hundred years via hand made dividers inscribed "RMU" now maybe 2" shorter thanks to repeated sharpenings.
Great concept, Tom. I'm looking forward to your future offerings.
We live on through the thoughts and memories of our family and friends. Looking forward to the next installment.
Thanks Tom for sharing Fred's words of wisdom. He will now live on through many more generations. Joel....
Love the idea. Keep the stories coming.
A very heartfelt tribute to your friend and mentor. My father was a machinist and master cobbler. He built tank turrets during WWII and could make a pair of shoes from a pile of leather. He was an electrician, plumber and a decent carpenter among other things. I unfortunately did not follow in his footsteps and missed a golden opportunity to learn these skills from him. He urged me to work with my mind and not my hands. I now realize this was the one thing he had wrong about me. I am now 50yrs old and extremely interested in all these trades. Not a day goes by that I don't regret the missed chance of learning from his years of experience. My father was like a book that had all the answers to my questions and that book loved me dearly. You are quite a bit younger than my father but you remind me of him very much. Thanks for sharing.
Great job Tom! This series is a brilliant idea!!!
Very nice first series episode. Really like it. Thanks
Very cool series idea, and I like the way you talk about people, and their tools. Looking foreword to the next!!!
Kevin
Really nice Tom,good to see the man is not forgotten
You are keeping Fred alive with your memory of him. Now Fred will with through us as well.
Nice job Tom.
For a Californian you're not half bad.
love it! Looking forward to more.
This is an excellent idea for a series! I especially appreciate the idea that tools can serve as connections to their makers and users. I live in Schenectady, New York, formerly the home of the American Locomotive Works and still a major General Electric manufacturing facility. I have a collection of tools made by employees of both companies, many stamped with significant dates ("Eisenhower elected," "Giants will world series," and so forth.) My prized possessions are some beautiful tools made by a craftsman named Seymour Schreiter - I'll never know the gentleman, but I feel a connection whenever I look at his work.
Fred's legacy lives on. Thanks for sharing the stories. So much info is lost everyday it is hard to believe. It is nice to have an archive to tell some of the tales. Since most of my stuff comes from auctions typically I know little of the stories behind any of it. For example my Monarch lathe has outlasted who knows how many operators but I don't know any of them.
bcbloc02 very true Brian
Thank you Tom for bringing us the story about Fred's sine bar in this respectful manner.
Great series, Tom. Keep them coming!!
Great Tom.....I feel very much the same about my late dad's tools. He was a toolmaker
It was great to hear the back story connection to that tool, Thanks.
Absolutely great. Recognizing the people whom lent us their skills, so we could further our own, and advance to the future generations, an accumulation of knowledge&skills. My dad did this with myself, and my brother.We have passed them to those willing to learn and advance their future.
Thank you Fred! Thank you Mr. Wizard! Cool new series! Can't wait for the next installment! All the best...Chuck
Wonderful, respectful, and educational,. Your mentor lives on. Thank you.
Excellent, keeping the tradition of all your videos, thank you & keep up the good work.
Pearls of wisdom like this aren’t just dropped anywhere. You got to be at the right place, at the right time. You were!
Thanks to you, and your willingness to share… we have become fortuitous benefactors! Sadly, not all grasp this!
Brad
Very timely start to what I think will be a great series. I know I look forward to more. Most of my tools were acquired from those that have past on. Some I have stories that go along with those tools, many I just have a name or initials. I was just in my shop this morning moving some things around and paused to look at the name plate on my tool chest, which belonged to a friends grandfather and I was lucky enough to know him and acquire his tool chest and many of his machinist tools after he past on. Thanks Tom.
Thank you Tom for sharing "The Heart of Tools". This will be a great series! I've long believed that there is indeed a piece of history that becomes imbedded in many a tool's "soul" which remains with it as it is passed along to following generations of machinists. I feel I'm more the curator of the tools in my possession than I am the owner.
as an atheist I think creating lasting legacies and stories are the only way we can live in after we die, so I know I'll love this series, it helps to make wonderful people live on
Joe Roggenbuck nice.
HomeDistiller I agree.
How do you know if someone is an atheist? Don't worry they'll tell ya.
Josh Russell true.
And how do you know someone isn't an atheist? They'll either blow you up or tell you you're going to hell.
Thanks Tom. I think this is great content. One thing people often forget these days is North America did not get where it is on skills alone, It was also because of pride. It was important to be proud of what your hands made. To make it as good as you can every time. This is what is lost to corporate bottom lines these days. These old tools come from a time when people were both skilled and also proud to do what they do.
I think these videos really help to bring back this aspect of machining (and any work), the pride of the machinist.
Keep it up, Thanks.
I have a collection of 11-12 micrometers/dividers etc from a gentleman named Al Turle. Mostly starrett, all fairly old and well used, but really well cared for and perfectly operational. All in their original cases with all the accessories. Nothing newer than the 70's i believe. The story I would like to know is why the starrett #230 0-1" mic has a different name very violently scratched out, and a very neat AL TURLE is on the other side. There is some anger there...... Unfortunately I never met the man, I bought all the tools ($50 for the lot) from his hipster (great?)grandson who had them out on a sheet in the rain at a garage sale. Told me a bunch of stuff had already been scrapped. He was a witless aloof arrogant twit.
Every time I use those tools, I try to think of Al Turle, how proud he was of his tools, and try to imagine what he did with them in an effort to undo some of the disrespect his descendants did him.
Awesome listening to your story Tom. Looking forward to watching many more.
I feel you Tom. Great idea to pay homage to past mentors as well as passing on their knowledge. Too much talent has been taken to the grave. Thanks for sharing.
Tom, Thanks for sharing this heartfelt and heartwarming story of Fred and his sidebar. I think everyone has a "Fred", whether is be a grandfather, father or a neighbor from decades ago who left us with, maybe some wisdom and maybe even a tool or two. Good Luck with this new series and all of your videos. You are building a Legacy here. THANK YOU!
Hi Tom
I also had a mentor called Frank surname Vanroon, he taught me so much when I started my apprenticeship in 1979 he was already 72 yrs old , he was a turner but wow what a turner! he used to say if you can fit it in my lathe and rotate I can turn it , we never saw him beaton . Frank worked until he was 98yrs old he worked 4 hrs a day and every morning he ran to his machine , he only retired due to elsie his wife of 76years was getting poorly and he needed to look after her he lasted 6 weeks after elsie past. I hope and pray that there is a tool room in the sky as I will one day love to spend time with him again he meant more to me than any other person at that time and alway has a special place in my memories . I have to this day a micrometer which was franks fathers it was my first mic and I believe franks also it has a special place in my cabinet and will always be there .
Thankyou for sharing this story it bought back many memories
Nick
Tim you are very generous and also somewhat brave sharing something so personal. Thanks for caring and sharing.
At the end, everyone wants to be remembered. Thanks for sharing this new series. For sure you are making history with your channel.
Hey Tom, just wanted to say that I really appreciate you showing us Fred's old machine tools. I am a 3rd generation machinist, my Dad and my Grandfather were both machinist and actually my Grandfather was a tool maker back in the 40's. What I am trying to get at is, I still have a lot of my Grandfather's old machine tools. Sine bars, Planers gage, V-Blocks, Angle Plates, Indicators, Mics, ect. I can really appreciate how people had to make machine tools back in the day to get the job done.
Thanks Tom for the story of Fred. I think most of us have tools left behind by someone we care about.
Great story. Thank you. Any of us lucky enough to have mentors will appreciate this. Well done.
Very nice! I have a number of my Grandfathers tools. Most are considered antiques but I use them all as often as I can and I think of him. Never did I meet another man who loved working on cars as much as him. He was a Ford Master Mechanic who cut his teeth on Model T Fords during the great depression. I worked at a gas station one summer while I was in college. The owner knew my Grandfather and he told me "Your grandfather has forgotten more about cars than you and I will ever know". I am certain that he was right.
I like what you're doing here Tom. Recently a neighbor left an old wooden machinist box on my porch with a note saying that he'd found it cleaning out the basement of a vacant house and that I was the most appropriate person he could think of to give it to. There were a couple of pay stubs from the 1950's in it, a window sticker from an old car, bought new, and various thread gages and other machinist trinkets that we all save. I realized, as I sifted through this stuff, that I was re-constructing a man's life in my head. Also in the box was the business card, newer looking, of a man with the same last name but who was a Dentist. I like to think the man to whom this box belonged to made an honest living and put his son through college. Sometimes, when I'm conflicted or discouraged, I think about that little Norman Rockwell scenario and it brings comfort. keep doing this series.
Thanks Tom. My grandfather and dad both stamped their names into a few tools I have, great connection with the past. I wonder if my minds will see "odd things" or realize they are fixtures. So with my initials and dates in things hopefully they realize it I took time to mark my name on something, it isn't scrap metal! Time to get of the computer, and into the shop! Have a great day!
What an amazing man you are Tom. And thank you to Fred for passing his knowledge to you, and from you to us.
Great story about a great man. There are so many, at least today, who in that situation would have let you make the purchase and then give you call about it, or otherwise decline to teach and pass on their knowledge in a constructive way. I've worked with more of those types than I care to remember.
Thanks to his mentoring, both of machining and of being a mentor to others, I and *so many* others are learning things every week that we otherwise may have had to learn the hard way or not at all.
I look forward to more of this series, and I hope other content producers will take it up as well.
that was a really nice tribute to your friend and mentor Fred..... thank you for sharing Tom and I'm looking forward to the next one😊
Woke up and saw a new video from you, this is going to be a good Saturday.
Tom, the real tribute to our mentors, instructors and teachers is for us to pass on our skill and knowledge to the next generation; something you do so well in your channel.
Liked the video
The tools that I bought in my tool box go back to 1973 when I started at the
Peterbilt Motor Co
Little did i know at the time where those tools would lead me because its the tools that the person behind them takes on a challenge to produce a product or perform a service that led me to the machine shop at Mack Trucks then the service dept at Freightliner Trucks spanning a career and retirement from the Machinists Union
Now when i pick up my tools they are like time pieces that take me back in a period of my career which brings back memories
Of a young persons life and how those tools helped raise a family after 3 jobs and 37 years of continuous employment
Thanks for your time for remembering the people behind the tools
Tom, Fred's legacy lives on through you. Thanks for sharing, it's a great story of the two sine bars.
That was beautiful, Tom. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
That was awesome ! Thank you very much for sharing that history and your past as well.
Tom,
A great story. Your connection to Fred is obvious. Thanks for sharing it; I look forward to the next installment in the series. Jeff
Very educational. Looking forward to your next video.. and stories.
I wish that more men like Fred worked in the die making shops I worked in back in the 1970's. Great story plus we need to review the basic shop tools. Another great job Tom. !
That was a beautiful story to share. Thanks for posting.
VERY nice video Tom. Having grown up as a kid in my dad's shop (tractors & other machinery) I can relate to the mentorship relationships developed there. This will be a great series. I have many tools with other peoples names etched on them. Dad's, Grand dad's, friends who left the trade, etc. Makes me smile when I use them, like you. Thank you.
Excellent piece! I hope you continue this series. It's is important in every field of endeavor to understand the accomplishments of the past in order to interpret the path of the future. Or as my father often said, t"hose who fail to study history are condemned to repeat it".
Thank you for this. You are so right. The heartfelt way you talked about Fred made me think of my mentors in my trade right through the video. So much important craft comes down this way. 360 degree gratitude to you, to Fred, to my teachers!!!
ya that was great! id love to see more in the future. huge fan tom!!
SUPER! Keep them coming!
Phil
Thanks Tom, it's great to see tools appreciated, even more so those who made them.
This is a cool story about Fred's sine bar. I actually made a 5 inch sine bar in the final quarter of my machine tool class in trade school back in 1980. A very useful tool in any machine shop.
I am an apprentice trained machinist and the time I spent with the men that I worked with , that trained and mentored me is a very special to me. I will never forget them and am grateful for the experience and the opportunity it afforded me in my life. Keep up the good work on your channel.
It's obvious you admired Fred. Having a few of his tools and sharing him was great.
Tom, I give you Two Thumbs Up for creating a new series
called "The Heart of Tools". Your first episode is fabulous. Thank you.
thank you for teaching about poetry of steel. I am impressed. with my respect from Italy.
Really cool, Tom. Please continue with this great idea. Thanks.
That's a great tip sweeping the indicator on an angled surface to set the tilt on a mill head.
Wonderful series and looking forward to your series on the "Heart of Tools". This is one of the things I like about buying tools on eBay when I can find beautiful handmade tools with the builder's name/initials and date made engraved or tooled into the tools.
Hi Tom. These videos that you, and all the other guys who attend 'Stan's bash', and of course many, many others are testament to your abilities, desires, characters, humour etc.
Although I am a time served engineer myself (lapsed due over the years to change of jobs and family etc., but now coming back into it as an early retiree in my home workshop), I'm not remotely bashful about declaring that I personally have learned loads from you guys, from tiny tips to complete procedures, and I am extremely grateful to you all for it.
Some of these videos are almost 'masterpieces' in their own right, and their respective makers (and their families), can justifiably be proud of them. A marvellous record of skills for EVERYONE to learn from and pass on and keep them 'alive'.
Well done to you all, and especially to you for starting this new series. I will watch with great pleasure I am sure.
Regards Mark in the UK
The greatest respect you can pay old tools and the people who made them is to continue using them.
This episode is a great idea. Thumbs UP !!!
Tom Lipton raising the bar as usual. I can't begin to tell you how cool this video is . Tools and equipment also have a story just as the men and woman who used them. Of all the stuff I can buy I most enjoy the stuff with a story.
Thanks Tom this was amazing can't wait for the next one.
Dave
Thank you Tom, a good start to an educational series!
Excellent video, Tom. We do not need to be religious to believe in life after death. Every person who has ever lived is speaking to us, first through signs, grunts, and gestures, passed down to the next generation, then by word of mouth, then by hieroglyphs, scrolls, books, computers, Oxtools... All those people across the aeons are alive in us -- when we listen. I have many old tools that I care for that came with no provenance, or at most the previous owner's initials. When I look at them I often say to myself "If only these old tools could talk." We should listen really carefully... Thanks!
Thank you so much for rhis explanation! And very good of you to pass on Tom's story
Fred's story that is!
Great idea for a series. I love my tools that came with a story. Still have my first tool I found in the street on the way to school about age 7 and still using it close to 50 years later.
Thanks Tom very unique and inspiring presentation. I to use tools everyday left to me by my dad and father in-law.
Very talented men in their day. Miss them as well.
Will be waiting for the next video for sure.
hi Tom,
no matter how much a guy knows, he always learn more. through you and Fred i've learned another way for using a sine bar.
thank you so much for putting together this new series and i look forward to new episodes as you put them up.
cheers
mike
A great idea for a series Tom... keep them coming, I'm sure you have many other tools with a rich connection to the past and an interesting story to go with them... these connections are how we learn, and in turn pass on to others.
Great video waiting for the next one.
Really fantastic series idea, and to couple it with a how-to makes it even better. Thanks for this!
Most excellent. Keep up this series.
Very nice series. I'm using some of my grandfather's tools and love the connection. This was a meaningful and instructive program and I enjoyed it. Thanks.
Fantastic video, the loss of the story is the loss of history. My dad passed away in 2016 and I was able to give my son my Dad's Wilton vise. The story behind that vise was that it was my grandfathers vise originally and after watching your Wilton vice build I learned about the dating on them. My son was so excited to find that date was 1947, a year before I was born. So now my son (48 years old) will add his history to the vice that 3 generations before him have used.
This needs to be a series. Thanks for the video.
great music to remind us of our friends and other people, that were near to us and have passed away. A sombre tone, but necessary to let us hold in a moment.
New titles for you, Historian and Biographer. Very nice series.
Great series Tom, Looking forward to the stories.
Useful and interesting video. Fred seems like a nice guy.
After working beside my late father-in-law for 35 years in his automotive repair shop and 5 acre apple orchard, I have many tools and equipment that we use all those years. The one thing I tried to do was to ask him where how he came about to get them. What bothers me is that the younger generations are so in tune with the newest, fastest, easiest things, that the tales and lore of the older generations will be lost. Sometimes I start telling stories to my young relatives so as to spark that question from them. Excellent video, Tom. Keep them coming.
What we do in life, echoes through Eternity
Many of my machinists tools are a gift from a 95 year old retired machinist from SoCal. Unfortunately he doesn't remember the stories behind any of them. How I wish he could. Looking forward to the series, Tom. Thanks for sharing.
We've all got our Fred, thanks for sharing, makes me think of. Bill and the tools and knowledge he left in my hands.....
I am speechless. What a wonderful idea and series! Keep up the good work. It has motivated me to get a sine bar and the adjustable parallels. I am a retired scientist who has always wanted to build things, and I hung around the machine shop(s), longer that I perhaps I should have.
Nice video. I have a few tools from my Grandfather that remind me of him every time I see or use them. He taught me a lot. None of us come from a vacuum. It's the people that taught us that deserve a whole load of credit!
I enjoyed that very much, thanks. Good to remember old friends in that way. The piano music is my favourite - Moonlight Sonata - brilliant.
Just stumbled on this. Great idea. Only after I took up machining seriously as a hobby in my 40's did I discover that my (long gone) paternal grandfather had been a machinist. Now when I am perusing the antique stores and flea markets near where he lived I keep an eye out for his name (also my name) on tools. Have not found any yet, but I'll keep looking. In the mean time, I read the names on the tools I have collected over the years and hope I am honoring them with their use.