Reminds me of the old Loony Toons where they had a saw mill cranking out single toothpicks from trees. Handy methods for delicate parts! Thanks for sharing!
Whew. I had to force myself not to skip to the end or scroll to the comments. For some reason your delivery in the intro gave me an uneasy feeling something was wrong/bad news. A welcome end to a toothpick video. What a treat to get a renzetti vid and a lipton vid in the same week.
That is brilliant!!!!! This is particularly helpful to guys like me that are just hobbyists bc we work mostly in small tiny parts like that more than anything else. That has got to qualify for the Machinist's Tip of the Year Award. Haha!!! It's a flipping toothpick!! How many of us have had the thought of machining a toothpick for sh1ts n' giggles?! Lmao!!! Great video Tom!!! Thanks for sharing!
@@stanervin6108 I think what Add is saying is I don't have any mid video ads. Sure I have before and after but the ones in the middle bug the crap out of me so I don't do them. Thanks for the comment. Cheers. Tom
I think what Add is saying is I don't have any mid video ads. Sure I have before and after but the ones in the middle bug the crap out of me so I don't do them. Thanks for the comment. Cheers. Tom
Great video and techniques. As I was watching it I was thinking that was an incredibly expensive toothpick and expecting it to be some sort of indicator component. What a great project and finish.
What a great video.... Real peril as I wondered if the swarf would scupper the part and handy tips, beautifully complemented by some sage advice.... Cheers Tom
That’s why you old school guys put in over size stock and peel a ton of chips! I was waiting for you to stab an olive, plop it in a martini and say “shaken not stirred!” Thanks for sharing.
@@oxtoolco The next thing I'm waiting for is 'Daily Dose of Internet' to release the title "Man makes toothpick out of Cheese"!!! :P Good to see you Tom.
Thank you Tom, it's great to see you at the top of your game... You never cease to astonish... Please, never stop you are a true inspiration to many...
Wow the prescience of your final statement and the callout quote at the end. Ideas clearly have a time. Your and thine be well fellow universal traveler.
Very cool Tom, I know that technique well. At my shop we make a living doing this similar technique. We machine small mandrels down to as small as .013 diameter and anywhere from 10 to 30 times length to diameter ratio. We only have one difference in technique, we take the entire thing in one cut up to .375 per side. We do it on our Mazak turning center. We make these mandrels from 303 stainless or Aluminum, they also get polished and are very close tolerance +/- .0002. I remember a guy trying to sell me a swiss cnc machine laughing at my idea and saying it wouldn't work, 15 years later million and a half per year+ sales on just that product line, different is good! Cheers!
Hi Jerod. Most of the time I do the entire diameter in one pass. The tapered tip presented some challenges hand feeding a full diameter plunge. Thanks for the comment. Cheers. Tom
@@oxtoolco The end support thingy was great by the way too! Tell your day job quit working ya so hard so you can make more videos for the rest of us working stiffs! lol
That had some neat tricks, and a good laugh. Liked the ER holder in the chuck trick also for those small collet jobs. saves time instead of taking off the chuck. Thanks
After you pulled it out of the collet, I thought " it looks like a tooth pick!". Thanks Tom, I loved watching the technique; and greatly appreciate your sharing. Best wishes!
Nice Tom, I have used a similar technique making some small plastic repair pins and some parts for my CO2 pistol, which disappear when disassembling. This technique also works very well on my Taig mini lathe, although the tool elevation adjustment is a bit of a bear with an unmodified post. Cheers and thanks for a very entertaining little item!
I was with Mark Bolton, I was anticipating some news such as "this is my final video" or worse. Loved the message and the precision. Who'd ever think a machine with so much power could be used to produce such a small part.
That was wonderful. The support gizmo in the tailstock is genius. Never would have come up with that in a dozen years. Unfortunately, the autocorrect daemon caught up with Tom at the end where I assume he meant to type “alone” but got along instead. Who among us hasn’t been there?
Thanks brother. So the next challenge is one of the square to round toothpicks. Lots of machining challenges in that double ended tapered design. Might need the Renzetti touch to pull it off in say, PET or PEEK. Its okay if your scared.......Thanks for stopping by. Cheers. Tom
You laugh, because I am different. I laugh, because we are the same. I knew half way thru that I was going to spend a full 16:30 watching you make a toothpick. Very educational, thanks.
Nice tweezers,Tom. Texas Joe Pie did one like this a while back too, but didn't explain the importance of tool height and nose radius like you just did. Thanks
Nice solution to a common problem. I wondered why not cut the grooves tight against the full-diameter stock, and then go on to cut more final diameter to the location of the second groove, and finally machine to final diameter to the cut-off point. The extended "steady-rest" worked as well, but seemed like an extra bit of tooling, and might not be possible in some circumstances.
Hi Tom, I use brush picks they have a tiny brush on one end. On the other end they have tiny bumps. 😁😁😁 Making those features would be very difficult. 😁😁😁
What Tom did not mention (unless I missed it) is that the real secret of machining a skinny diameter over a long length like that is in having an exact 90 degree angle from cutting edge to the work, otherwise the angle of the cut would cause a side thrust to the work, bending the shaft. Tom's tool geometry was perfect for that work.
Wow, very nice, can you please explain how you have grinded your cutting tool please. I'm trying to cut polypropylene round bar to 6mm but it keeps flexing (pushing away) as I turn it down
Hello sir, Thank you for your videos I really appreciate the knowledge sharing you put into them. This job reminds me when i had to turn a 20mm Invar rod into 3mm at about 100mm length. I tried various ways to turn it including taper turning in segments and only the final pass was to remove the diameter from 6/8mm to 3 at about 20mm segments. but the material was gummy and kept sticking to the tool and just breaking the thing off.. we eventually milled a hexagon to the inscribed circle of 3mm and that served the cause which was a base or a 3 leg parallel laser platform.
Hi Slavik. That sounds like a challenging job. For that situation I would try to get ground OD material and run it in a bored emergency collet. You can then step turn the small diameter a little at a time while working close to the collet nose. The key is a good OD on the stock material. Thanks for the comment. Cheers. Tom
Great video! I liked the tail stock support idea a lot. Could certainly have used that in the past. Perhaps it could be mounted on the follow rest as well in a similar manner.
I love it that the lathe makes these "...zwwwwwut..." noises when moving the tail stock. (14:17) As a kid I used to make surprisingly similar noises when playing with some toy cars, but I've grown up now.
Thanks Tom, Informative and delivered beautifully! I've got some carb needles that need a shave, I've now got a much better idea of how to do it. although since they are tapered i'll have to wedge them into the end of my support and have it mounted in a live center of sorts. I don't have one with interchangeable tips so I guess I've got another project! Why do machining projects always seem to snowball like that? I guess that's part of what makes it so much fun!
I have a method this madness. Once the first chip line is initiated, i stop, grab it, and thread it through a small loop of wire that sits above the cutting tool. It's instantly pushed wherever i point it and makes for easy collection. This stuff is really good when you pack stuff.
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Very Good demonstration, love the end, thanks Tom.
The whole video I was thinkikg about old cartoons where they mill a matchstick out of a tree... Love it!
ruclips.net/video/Jn4k2TPIJf0/видео.html or search "lumber jerks looney tunes"
Meep, Meep!!
All in the production of the ever so valuable chipboard ingredient for the weekend warriors!
classic
Ha, good one
Fun video Tom. I enjoy watching an expert at work.
Reminds me of the old Loony Toons where they had a saw mill cranking out single toothpicks from trees. Handy methods for delicate parts! Thanks for sharing!
Whew. I had to force myself not to skip to the end or scroll to the comments. For some reason your delivery in the intro gave me an uneasy feeling something was wrong/bad news. A welcome end to a toothpick video. What a treat to get a renzetti vid and a lipton vid in the same week.
After the SV Seeker shenanigans, I know what you mean 😁
tailstock support idea is not something i have seen before. very useful. thanks Tom!
Great job Tom, I truly didn't think that was possible. Thumbs up!!
Thanks again Mr.Miyagi. It takes a machinist to understand the hairs split on this one. I always learn something from Tom.
Tom, now you're just showing off. True craftsman and artist. Always look forward to a new video.
That is brilliant!!!!! This is particularly helpful to guys like me that are just hobbyists bc we work mostly in small tiny parts like that more than anything else. That has got to qualify for the Machinist's Tip of the Year Award.
Haha!!! It's a flipping toothpick!! How many of us have had the thought of machining a toothpick for sh1ts n' giggles?! Lmao!!! Great video Tom!!! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot for your good knowledge you share ,much appreciation and respect,all the way from Trinidad and Tobago,a Caribbean country.
Hay Tom, really appreciate there not being any adds. These little things don’t go unnoticed. 👍🏻🇦🇺
There is an ad. As there should be.
@@xenonram
Yup. I got 4. Two pre roll and two at the end.
@@stanervin6108 I think what Add is saying is I don't have any mid video ads. Sure I have before and after but the ones in the middle bug the crap out of me so I don't do them. Thanks for the comment. Cheers. Tom
I think what Add is saying is I don't have any mid video ads. Sure I have before and after but the ones in the middle bug the crap out of me so I don't do them. Thanks for the comment. Cheers. Tom
oxtoolco, Thanks Tom, I knew you’d get it even if others did not, it takes all sorts I guess. 🤣
Great tips both on turning small diameters and on living who you are.
Thanks, Tom.
Lots of great knowledge shared in the process. You teach is a very practical way.
man thanks for the video.. I needed it , bad,, been re-watching your videos from 4 years ago..
Great video and techniques. As I was watching it I was thinking that was an incredibly expensive toothpick and expecting it to be some sort of indicator component. What a great project and finish.
Wow, a machined ABS toothpick. An exercise in expertise. Excellent work Tom. .....and yes I guessed it before the end of the video.
What a great video.... Real peril as I wondered if the swarf would scupper the part and handy tips, beautifully complemented by some sage advice.... Cheers Tom
Another awesome opportunity to learn from one of the best machinist minds alive today. Thanks Tom. 🙌🏼
That's a big claim.
That’s why you old school guys put in over size stock and peel a ton of chips! I was waiting for you to stab an olive, plop it in a martini and say “shaken not stirred!” Thanks for sharing.
Hey Sam,
Great Idea! I missed that trick. Cheers. Tom
@@oxtoolco The next thing I'm waiting for is 'Daily Dose of Internet' to release the title "Man makes toothpick out of Cheese"!!! :P Good to see you Tom.
@@KnolltopFarms Hey Chuck. Long time since I've heard from you. Hope things are going well for you. All the best! Tom
Damn, that was good! I always learn something from your videos, but this one was over the top. Thanks
Thank you Tom, it's great to see you at the top of your game... You never cease to astonish... Please, never stop you are a true inspiration to many...
Excellent Tom, well done! 👍👌
Thanks Ray Ray. Hope your doing well. All the best. Tom
Wow the prescience of your final statement and the callout quote at the end. Ideas clearly have a time. Your and thine be well fellow universal traveler.
Tom,
I am impressed. Thanks for all your lessons.
Gary 76-Year-Old Home-Shop-Machinist In the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas
I learned something today and I did not want to. Thanks
Very cool Tom, I know that technique well. At my shop we make a living doing this similar technique. We machine small mandrels down to as small as .013 diameter and anywhere from 10 to 30 times length to diameter ratio. We only have one difference in technique, we take the entire thing in one cut up to .375 per side. We do it on our Mazak turning center. We make these mandrels from 303 stainless or Aluminum, they also get polished and are very close tolerance +/- .0002. I remember a guy trying to sell me a swiss cnc machine laughing at my idea and saying it wouldn't work, 15 years later million and a half per year+ sales on just that product line, different is good! Cheers!
Hi Jerod. Most of the time I do the entire diameter in one pass. The tapered tip presented some challenges hand feeding a full diameter plunge. Thanks for the comment. Cheers. Tom
@@oxtoolco The end support thingy was great by the way too! Tell your day job quit working ya so hard so you can make more videos for the rest of us working stiffs! lol
OMG! A little stressful for me. I learned a lot with this. Very much appreciated.
An excellent video, I'm glad I took the time to watch it. I definitely picked up some great pointers. Well done.
Great tips. Thank you Tom.
Fun video. Nice camera work.
That had some neat tricks, and a good laugh. Liked the ER holder in the chuck trick also for those small collet jobs. saves time instead of taking off the chuck. Thanks
I got it now,I somehow miss the first part 🙏 thank you so much for the excellent video
That's crazy Tom. I was thinking it was going to be a metering rod for a carburetor. Thanks for sharing your time and talent.
Thanks for the added knowledge and experience
Great top Tom. I really enjoy your videos
That was an awsome tip. I haven't had to come up with something like that yet, saved me some future contemplation time.
After you pulled it out of the collet, I thought " it looks like a tooth pick!". Thanks Tom, I loved watching the technique; and greatly appreciate your sharing. Best wishes!
Nice Tom, I have used a similar technique making some small plastic repair pins and some parts for my CO2 pistol, which disappear when disassembling. This technique also works very well on my Taig mini lathe, although the tool elevation adjustment is a bit of a bear with an unmodified post. Cheers and thanks for a very entertaining little item!
Thanks for the video. I am certain this information will come in handy some day.
Always satisfying for some reason watching a heavy rip on plastic ……kinda hypnotic in a way
Man I was going to comment that’s a pretty technical toothpick,and you beat me to it. Keep’em coming.
I really love this type of problem solving Tom, great video! Cheers, Doug
As soon as the second step cut was made I thought "that is one expensive toothpick"... Little did I know... :)
Hahaha I thought that too
Me too
Me three!
Me four!!!
I thought it was going to be a needle for a carburetor slide.
That's very impressive! Thanks for the video.
Didn't know how you were going to do the grooves, makes sense now. Thanks for Trick
I was with Mark Bolton, I was anticipating some news such as "this is my final video" or worse. Loved the message and the precision. Who'd ever think a machine with so much power could be used to produce such a small part.
A poor man's Swiss lathe. Excellent demonstration of technique.
Hi Tom, great video, the ending summed it up nicely!
Tom, I really liked this !! It was a real hoot.... Thanks a bunch, Cliff
Nice tips.
THANK YOU TOM , I LERENT A LOT FROM THAT. REGARDS FROM THE U.K.
awesome tom. enjoyed as always
Glad to have the intro jam back again Tom!
Edit: and outro!
Awesome vid Tom!! Awesome. Thank you.
Still learning a ton from you Tom. Thanks
Joe Pie did a similar vid a while back, but this one has some nice twists and turns. Love that rulon thingy.
To heck with Jimmy Diresta's ice picks, and Randy Richard's scribes, I want a Tom Lipton tooth pick!
You might get your wish. Somebody else suggested I auction it off. Might be a fun exercise. Thanks for the comment. Cheers. Tom
@@oxtoolco I'll start the bidding at $25!
Or a Tom Lipton carb jet?
That was wonderful. The support gizmo in the tailstock is genius. Never would have come up with that in a dozen years.
Unfortunately, the autocorrect daemon caught up with Tom at the end where I assume he meant to type “alone” but got along instead. Who among us hasn’t been there?
That's a nice toothpick you've got there, thanks for all of the tips and tricks over the years.
Very nice work Tom, liked that tailstock support! I am not a toothpick expert but I endorse your methods ;-)
ATB, Robin
Thanks brother. So the next challenge is one of the square to round toothpicks. Lots of machining challenges in that double ended tapered design. Might need the Renzetti touch to pull it off in say, PET or PEEK. Its okay if your scared.......Thanks for stopping by. Cheers. Tom
@@oxtoolco Send me a drawing, I need a challenge ;-)
You laugh, because I am different. I laugh, because we are the same. I knew half way thru that I was going to spend a full 16:30 watching you make a toothpick. Very educational, thanks.
Abom! Stop giving Tom's videos a thumbs down. Great video btw Tom, I'll just add another to the 2k thumbs up camp :)
Nice tweezers,Tom. Texas Joe Pie did one like this a while back too, but didn't explain the importance of tool height and nose radius like you just did. Thanks
I’m watching Ox Tools and my name is Tom.👊🏻 Great tip for use tiny turners👌👍💯💯
Nice solution to a common problem.
I wondered why not cut the grooves tight against the full-diameter stock, and then go on to cut more final diameter to the location of the second groove, and finally machine to final diameter to the cut-off point. The extended "steady-rest" worked as well, but seemed like an extra bit of tooling, and might not be possible in some circumstances.
Nice work!👍😎
Love it Tom. About halfway through the turning, I started to think it really looks like a toothpick.
Always enjoy your videos. 835 likes and 7 dislikes within a few minutes of posting. I don’t get some people. Keep up the great work Tom!!
👍 good thing it wasn't a Vespel part😁. Thanks for another great episode Tom.
tom, that was very impressive! poppy's workshop says HI
Technique is everything...
Great method!👍🏻
BRILLIANT TOM!!!!!!
You get a like for the Airplane! reference! and because you're generally awesome.
Hi Tom, I use brush picks they have a tiny brush on one end. On the other end they have tiny bumps. 😁😁😁 Making those features would be very difficult. 😁😁😁
You're funny and very talented.
OK, let's leave looks out of this...
KIDDING! 😄
What Tom did not mention (unless I missed it) is that the real secret of machining a skinny diameter over a long length like that is in having an exact 90 degree angle from cutting edge to the work, otherwise the angle of the cut would cause a side thrust to the work, bending the shaft. Tom's tool geometry was perfect for that work.
I puckered up everytime it hairballed. That's also what brake pedals are great for.
Wow, very nice, can you please explain how you have grinded your cutting tool please. I'm trying to cut polypropylene round bar to 6mm but it keeps flexing (pushing away) as I turn it down
That was hilarious and educational!
Can you do it again with 304 stainless please.
I thought for sure at the end you were going to stick it into a little cocktail weenie! Great video!
Hello sir, Thank you for your videos I really appreciate the knowledge sharing you put into them. This job reminds me when i had to turn a 20mm Invar rod into 3mm at about 100mm length. I tried various ways to turn it including taper turning in segments and only the final pass was to remove the diameter from 6/8mm to 3 at about 20mm segments. but the material was gummy and kept sticking to the tool and just breaking the thing off.. we eventually milled a hexagon to the inscribed circle of 3mm and that served the cause which was a base or a 3 leg parallel laser platform.
Hi Slavik. That sounds like a challenging job. For that situation I would try to get ground OD material and run it in a bored emergency collet. You can then step turn the small diameter a little at a time while working close to the collet nose. The key is a good OD on the stock material. Thanks for the comment. Cheers. Tom
Great video! I liked the tail stock support idea a lot. Could certainly have used that in the past. Perhaps it could be mounted on the follow rest as well in a similar manner.
well I sure been accused of being "different" in my life time! lol enjoyed the message at the end.
Excellent! Getting my Oxtoolco fix!
Great video, thank you. 😁
Yes indeed nothing but the best hand made toothpicks. How does it stand with proposition 65.
Nothing wrong with being unique, That is what sets us apart from the crowd!
Great video and great ending! Haha
Learned a lot just now
I love it that the lathe makes these "...zwwwwwut..." noises when moving the tail stock. (14:17)
As a kid I used to make surprisingly similar noises when playing with some toy cars, but I've grown up now.
Thanks Tom, Informative and delivered beautifully!
I've got some carb needles that need a shave, I've now got a much better idea of how to do it. although since they are tapered i'll have to wedge them into the end of my support and have it mounted in a live center of sorts. I don't have one with interchangeable tips so I guess I've got another project! Why do machining projects always seem to snowball like that? I guess that's part of what makes it so much fun!
Joe pye showed something like this this but didn't show the external support tube for cutting the grooves so i guess i did learn something anyhow !
Very nice, Tom. Superb messaging. ----Aaron
thank you for cleverly demonstrating a cartoon concept in the real world . . . how they make single toothpicks from whole trees.
I wondered how those were made.
I have a method this madness. Once the first chip line is initiated, i stop, grab it, and thread it through a small loop of wire that sits above the cutting tool. It's instantly pushed wherever i point it and makes for easy collection. This stuff is really good when you pack stuff.
Awesome! 🤣
Thanks for the video.