Best channel on the tube. You really are an example of how to do youtube exactly right. Please keep them coming. I wish it had a twin who made fabrication/welding videos.
+Joe Doesntcareaboutthis Check out AvE. He's similar to clickspring, but not as flashy. He has a few welding videos. Also, if the market is open for a certain youtuber, perhaps you could start the channel.
+Joe Doesntcareaboutthis Joe, could you give a little more on AvE? Searched for it and got a lot of wonderful music. AvE metalwork search kept sending me to ACE metalwork..... help? @Chris -thanks for another great video. Keep learning new things everytime you post a video.
+Joe Doesntcareaboutthis ChuckE2009 has a metal fab channel that has a ton of good info and projects. Production value may not be quite as high as ClickSpring but lots of good info.
Thank you for the inspiring videos, Chris! I have a suggestion for putting the relief angle on the cutting edges. First make a fixture for the mill to hold the collet block at a tad bit less than 22 degrees in the mill vise. The cutter needs to be rotated 3 degrees, or whatever you want for a relief angle. Next, take a cup style grinding wheel, not too fine of grit; 60 is what I am going to try first when I do this. Mount the cup grinding wheel on an arbor to be held in a collet in the mill spindle. If the wheel is too fine it will glaze over very easily. Now, at the highest rpm, the mill can't spin that grinding wheel nearly fast enough, but for this application it will do. Start with a light depth of cut, maybe .03 to .05 mm, if that much. And the feed must be fast: too slow and things will heat up too quickly. The most important thing is to keep the wheel moving! If the grinding wheel is allowed to rest in one spot it will glaze over, generate a lot of heat in the cutter and anneal that spot, and will need to be dressed down to remove the glaze or it will burn all of the cutting edges, ruining the piece. Using a spin fixture you could do the same for D-cutter, and grind a bit of relief clearance as well! Now that I am retired I don't have access to the industrial machines I did this sort of thing on for 40 years, and your videos are helping me think out of that box.
I made a dovetail cut today. The lighting and photography were not as good as this vid. The production quality of these Clickspring videos is more like professional than hobby.
Chris, it's just amazing and incredible your high quality craftsmanship. It almost feels so artistic the way you take your time and the step by step go just into makeing a TOOL for your main project and details. I can't wait to see more. Mad love for your work :)
I know this video is years old but I thought I'd make a suggestion. I work for Leitz Tooling in Germany. You should see if you can find yourself a "Vollmer UWS-70U pedestal grinder" would make your life so much easier. That's what we use to sharpen these by hand at work.
Love the vids, thanks for taking the time to create them. I know it can not be easy; not only are you concentrating on the tasks for which you are capturing for video, but the video-creating/editing can be just as tedious and time-consuming.
Clickspring I think your videos and ideas are great, but I am old now and a newcomer and I haven't worked on metal for over 40 years. And so I am worried that I wont live long enough to even scratch the surface of you ideas. but I really like them, please keep them coming. regards Colin. UK.
Nice work Chris! Sure, like you state below, you could have done a few things a little differently to obtain a better finish when using this cutter, but you would not have learned that without having tried to make the tool in the first place. This is a quality that I try to instill in the youth because too many people fear failure and allow this to paralyze themselves and thus never even try, which is a real shame. You set a fine example and are a good role model mate. Thanks for sharing!
I have a few home made dove tail cutters myself,if you're looking for a carbide one,small ones can be ground from a boring bar.But I've tried to make larger ones without too much success hence why I'm getting ready to order one from AB Tools.I was going to try and make one for carbide inserts myself but after working out the details its best that I just order one and figured I'd mention it to help others.
I had a bit of a chuckle how casually you said that you made the cutter in the video of the impossible dovetail. Very cool stuff, a lathe and a mill can turn a chunk of metal into just about anything you want.
Nice job Chris, good dovetail, specially without the cutter grinders, I would've made this with a spiral flute on my Walter 5 Axis CNC tool grinder at work. There's always time for you to get one!
You might try milling the relief angles, hardening it while covered in some protective sludge (clay - coal dust - flour - salt are ingredients i have seen or heard of being useful) and then just careful oil stoning....
As always Chris exceptionally well videoed and edited. You really are doing professional quality videos. A suggestion that's most likely redundant since I'm quite sure you've thought of it already. If it were me I'd seriously consider building a proper spindle mounted ER chuck. Much more rigidity as I'm quite sure you already know, but I'm adding this for those who might not. Plus you then have the spindle open for longer work. Very nice demonstration of what's capable of being done to build custom tooling on the average shop equipment. And done with the finest M.E., Clock, or watchmaker methods. I think even GHT would be happy with what you did.
Ok first off, how do i get in the club of "Men Who MAKE Their Own Tools" ? Man i been going and BUYING shit that usually is only KINDA what i was looking for. Your work and skill are AMAZING. Keep this going brother!
M8 if you remove a small cross section vertically down the shank of the bur head, you could braze/solder in with six sold. a small carbide insert a lot of the factories used in todays day use NOTHING but carbide, and when it is down to the shank you might be able to get them for a very small price. your work is amazing and thank you for putting it up and taking the time to explain everything
Hiya to sharpen the cutter teeth without altering the profile you can take the cutter to the stone, lay the cutter on the stone edge then move the cutter on the stone which hones the cutter face that leads from the cutting edge to the flute 👍
Awesome, after your D cutter video I tried my hand at a D style dovetail cutter and had moderate success in aluminium, however I will be replicating this cutter next as positive rake and a hollow ground end seem like a much better idea! Thanks, happy holidays and keep up the great videos!
Is it because your mill is open that you don't use cutting fluid? You do such beautiful work, it seems to me that a flooding of fluid or oil might fix your cutting speed/over heating issue. 😉 Thank you for sharing your talent with all of us! It's Awesome. 💕
I was wondering if your 3 jaw chuck is accurate enough for making a milling bit. But then at 1:10 you switched to a collet. Nice stuff, well explained. Thanks.
Ficou bacana essa feramenta ai! Com sua ajuda da postagem consegui fazer uma dessa ai também. E a outra peça q essa feramenta ai fabricou! Fiz uma também! De náilon! Você é muito inteligente Parabéns pelo o que faz 👍👍
Before you ground the blade edges would it have been possible to just leave them Square drill and tap two or three holes in each blade face and attached carbide blades which would really make that tool a nice precise flute cutter even on brass
The HSS tools you make are great. could you show us how you grind them. The one I like most is the Lathe rounded one you use a lot. Thanks Great videos I've watched almost all of them.
Lovely job. Could have some carbide inserts made up to braze on.. Last a lifetime if treated right.. Good vid bud like all the manual machining i``m a cnc guy but i want a proper mans cave like you one day ha.. Keep up the good work..
Great video, well put together. Forgive my novice questions. Why simultaneously upmill and downmill both sides of the dovetail rather than use a narrower cutter? And why not cut out the bulk first with a regular flat ended mill? Thank you.
Add just enough to make a thick paste. For the small jar you see in the videos, it ends up being a few capfuls of alcohol. Be sure to use powdered boric acid, rather than borax. It can usually be found at the local hardware store as a roach bait.
hey, love the video as always. its very cool to see the process explained so well from start to finish, and see the results after. but as someone with experience in hot work, you need to immediately get rid of your heat treating setup, its very dangerous. ceramic refractory wool, especially when being heated or disturbed, gives off a lot of dangerous fibers that behave like asbestos (or worse in some cases). you need to totally enclose it inside of some kind of ceramic cement (like itc 100) for it to be safe. there are a lot of simple forge designs online that ive found really easy to build. please, once you see this, stop using that setup as is. and please put out more vids!
Best channel on the tube. You really are an example of how to do youtube exactly right. Please keep them coming. I wish it had a twin who made fabrication/welding videos.
+Joe Doesntcareaboutthis Check out AvE. He's similar to clickspring, but not as flashy. He has a few welding videos. Also, if the market is open for a certain youtuber, perhaps you could start the channel.
Yeah, I'm subbed. Love AvE.
The trouble is that's exactly what I'm trying to learn. It's not a channel I could do.
+Joe Doesntcareaboutthis Joe, could you give a little more on AvE? Searched for it and got a lot of wonderful music. AvE metalwork search kept sending me to ACE metalwork..... help? @Chris -thanks for another great video. Keep learning new things everytime you post a video.
+Joe Doesntcareaboutthis ChuckE2009 has a metal fab channel that has a ton of good info and projects. Production value may not be quite as high as ClickSpring but lots of good info.
But now he kind if spoiled.
I can't decide if it's more engrossing watching you make projects, or watching you make the tools for the projects; either way, thank you!
Thank you for the inspiring videos, Chris! I have a suggestion for putting the relief angle on the cutting edges.
First make a fixture for the mill to hold the collet block at a tad bit less than 22 degrees in the mill vise. The cutter needs to be rotated 3 degrees, or whatever
you want for a relief angle.
Next, take a cup style grinding wheel, not too fine of grit; 60 is what I am going to try first when I do this. Mount the cup grinding wheel on an arbor
to be held in a collet in the mill spindle. If the wheel is too fine it will glaze over very easily.
Now, at the highest rpm, the mill can't spin that grinding wheel nearly fast enough, but for this application it will do.
Start with a light depth of cut, maybe .03 to .05 mm, if that much. And the feed must be fast: too slow and things will heat up too quickly.
The most important thing is to keep the wheel moving! If the grinding wheel is allowed to rest in one spot it will glaze over, generate a lot of heat in the cutter
and anneal that spot, and will need to be dressed down to remove the glaze or it will burn all of the cutting edges, ruining the piece.
Using a spin fixture you could do the same for D-cutter, and grind a bit of relief clearance as well!
Now that I am retired I don't have access to the industrial machines I did this sort of thing on for 40 years, and your videos are helping me think out of that box.
you guy's time machine sent me back 1 yr 4 months, where im watching this video as it came out.
I made a dovetail cut today. The lighting and photography were not as good as this vid.
The production quality of these Clickspring videos is more like professional than hobby.
this has to be one of the best edited channels on youtube
+ben middleton Thanks Ben, very much appreciate you tuning in :)
Chris, it's just amazing and incredible your high quality craftsmanship. It almost feels so artistic the way you take your time and the step by step go just into makeing a TOOL for your main project and details. I can't wait to see more. Mad love for your work :)
This is incredible to watch. I sit here eating my dinner watching your videos all the time.
I know this video is years old but I thought I'd make a suggestion. I work for Leitz Tooling in Germany. You should see if you can find yourself a "Vollmer UWS-70U pedestal grinder" would make your life so much easier.
That's what we use to sharpen these by hand at work.
Can you please do a shop tour sometime?
Ps: love your vids
Woah. I thought that his workshop would have been massive. Nope- it's basicly an american-sized closet
I have see all ur videos love all the work you do I was a machinist for 7 years great seeing various metals being used big thumbs up from me 👍👍
+Peter Robson Cheers Peter, thanks very much for watching :)
That ok was good to watch
Love the vids, thanks for taking the time to create them. I know it can not be easy; not only are you concentrating on the tasks for which you are capturing for video, but the video-creating/editing can be just as tedious and time-consuming.
Clickspring I think your videos and ideas are great, but I am old now and a newcomer and I haven't worked on metal for over 40 years. And so I am worried that I wont live long enough to even scratch the surface of you ideas. but I really like them, please keep them coming.
regards Colin. UK.
Will do Colin, terrific to have you watching mate :)
Nice work Chris! Sure, like you state below, you could have done a few things a little differently to obtain a better finish when using this cutter, but you would not have learned that without having tried to make the tool in the first place. This is a quality that I try to instill in the youth because too many people fear failure and allow this to paralyze themselves and thus never even try, which is a real shame. You set a fine example and are a good role model mate. Thanks for sharing!
I have a few home made dove tail cutters myself,if you're looking for a carbide one,small ones can be ground from a boring bar.But I've tried to make larger ones without too much success hence why I'm getting ready to order one from AB Tools.I was going to try and make one for carbide inserts myself but after working out the details its best that I just order one and figured I'd mention it to help others.
is it sad that I even just love watching you make parts to use to make more parts...
thanks again sir!
These videos are really fantastic. They are really nice to look at and listen to and exceptionally relaxing.
I just love to learn. You teach me new things with every video. Thank you very much.
I had a bit of a chuckle how casually you said that you made the cutter in the video of the impossible dovetail. Very cool stuff, a lathe and a mill can turn a chunk of metal into just about anything you want.
i am awed by your workmanship. thank you for giving me a standard to reach for!
Awesome work as always!
dude your videos are the best in production and content. I hope you keep making them forever!
Ideal for the job at hand or not, still a rather genious solution.
+lone wolf Thanks for watching
Nice job Chris, good dovetail, specially without the cutter grinders, I would've made this with a spiral flute on my Walter 5 Axis CNC tool grinder at work. There's always time for you to get one!
ooh yes please! Must talk to Mrs Clickspring before Christmas!!
You might try milling the relief angles, hardening it while covered in some protective sludge (clay - coal dust - flour - salt are ingredients i have seen or heard of being useful) and then just careful oil stoning....
Sir you are like Bob Ross's Australian cousin who's a machinist instead of a painter. Love your work.
+UndyingSimmons Thank you very much, that is a wonderful compliment, I appreciate your support :)
Wow! I never would have thought of making your own router bits!
I'm waiting for you to buy some carbide inserts to braise onto tool steel for use when making these bits.
You've done it again, Chris! Amazing machining with a great video to do it justice!
Watching this made me a better human being :D
i"m impressed and in love with your art... this is absolutelly beautiful... congratulations!
As always Chris exceptionally well videoed and edited. You really are doing professional quality videos. A suggestion that's most likely redundant since I'm quite sure you've thought of it already. If it were me I'd seriously consider building a proper spindle mounted ER chuck. Much more rigidity as I'm quite sure you already know, but I'm adding this for those who might not. Plus you then have the spindle open for longer work.
Very nice demonstration of what's capable of being done to build custom tooling on the average shop equipment. And done with the finest M.E., Clock, or watchmaker methods. I think even GHT would be happy with what you did.
Aaaaahhhhhh........ A double dose of Clickspring magic!
Ok first off, how do i get in the club of "Men Who MAKE Their Own Tools" ? Man i been going and BUYING shit that usually is only KINDA what i was looking for. Your work and skill are AMAZING. Keep this going brother!
Another top quality video 👍🏼
You've a pretty steady hand to
get such a good straight cutting
edge 😉
You make everything look so incredibly easy in your videos. Caution, may leave Amateur gamers with a false sense of security.
Again more useful tips to be seen & learnt from. Very slick professionally made & edited video. I've subscribed to your channel. Great stuff👍🇬🇧
Appreciate your sub, thanks for watching :)
M8 if you remove a small cross section vertically down the shank of the bur head, you could braze/solder in with six sold. a small carbide insert a lot of the factories used in todays day use NOTHING but carbide, and when it is down to the shank you might be able to get them for a very small price. your work is amazing and thank you for putting it up and taking the time to explain everything
Hiya to sharpen the cutter teeth without altering the profile you can take the cutter to the stone, lay the cutter on the stone edge then move the cutter on the stone which hones the cutter face that leads from the cutting edge to the flute 👍
Great video as always. I saw one of these a while back and had to admit it got me! Obvious when you are shown how it works!
+Matt Harrington :( That comment was meant for your other vid.....
I go to sleep with these videos, Chris has a great voice.
It's wonderful when there's no need skip forward
Awesome, after your D cutter video I tried my hand at a D style dovetail cutter and had moderate success in aluminium, however I will be replicating this cutter next as positive rake and a hollow ground end seem like a much better idea!
Thanks, happy holidays and keep up the great videos!
I love the spare parts series. Thanks for taking the time to show us how you do it.
I like very much how you work. Congratulations
Awesome as ever chris. WELL DONE!!!
Is it because your mill is open that you don't use cutting fluid?
You do such beautiful work, it seems to me that a flooding of fluid or oil might fix your cutting speed/over heating issue. 😉
Thank you for sharing your talent with all of us! It's Awesome.
💕
Great work! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Jim
Your videos and work are amazing since the first day I subscribed! Keep them up and better like you do every time you post new ones!!
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Pretty darned good job Chris, with that free-hand grind :)
The cut in the Al was impressive. Nice!
Happy New Year mate.
Looks like a challenging piece..especially for only a few reliable uses... Great video Mate.. G'Day Chris
Best Cannel RUclips
I was wondering if your 3 jaw chuck is accurate enough for making a milling bit. But then at 1:10 you switched to a collet.
Nice stuff, well explained. Thanks.
Awesome video as always Chris!
Impressive offhand grinding skills Sir !
Hi quality videos. You clearly love your craft. Cheers.
Great vid Chris. I really like your honest assessments after making tools like this. Have a happy new year!
nice tool Chris Great Work
Wow, I'm impressed.
G'day , Im here . Watching all your vids . Always ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Très beau travail good job 👍
Fabulous my friend, always enjoy You,re vids Chris
Ficou bacana essa feramenta ai!
Com sua ajuda da postagem consegui fazer uma dessa ai também.
E a outra peça q essa feramenta ai fabricou! Fiz uma também! De náilon!
Você é muito inteligente
Parabéns pelo o que faz 👍👍
Awsome project, congrats on 112,755 subs
harika takımlar yapıyorsunuz teprik ederim hava çeliğinden yapıyorsunuz dimi
nice job. happy New year from germany
fantastic video! well done sir.
Great work as usual! Merry Christmas!
+Metallurg33 Merry Christmas to you and yours also :)
your comment was posted 7 days ago? what kind of sorcery is this?
+Ian Kyle Maturan Patreon contributors get videos a week early.
+wewd That explains why the video he released three hours ago has close to 4,000 comments and only shows 277 views. Chris
Thank you! Happy New Years!
Before you ground the blade edges would it have been possible to just leave them Square drill and tap two or three holes in each blade face and attached carbide blades which would really make that tool a nice precise flute cutter even on brass
Great video as always. I saw a video today about high precision spinning tops, would love to see you make one.
excellent video as always!
The HSS tools you make are great. could you show us how you grind them. The one I like most is the Lathe rounded one you use a lot. Thanks Great videos I've watched almost all of them.
+Jerry Wallis Yes I will do a lathe tool grinding video at some point, thanks for watching Jerry :)
Well, this wasn't the flute I was expecting, but was still pretty effin' boss!
Great work!
thats amazing, awesome work.
awesome as usual
Lovely job. Could have some carbide inserts made up to braze on.. Last a lifetime if treated right.. Good vid bud like all the manual machining i``m a cnc guy but i want a proper mans cave like you one day ha.. Keep up the good work..
Interesting as usual. I wonder if it would be more efficient if you made it from silver steel?
Great video, well put together. Forgive my novice questions. Why simultaneously upmill and downmill both sides of the dovetail rather than use a narrower cutter? And why not cut out the bulk first with a regular flat ended mill? Thank you.
again awesome video, the 50fps makes a big difference!
you are a great artist
+Abed Saab Thank you for watching Abed :)
Que lindo!! muy buen trabajo!! Saludos.
would you use flutes like this for wood too?(i mean the material, and how you build it) friendly greetings, jörgen
Hi Chris,
Thanks for another great video. What is the ratio of Borax to alcohol?
Thanks,
Rob
Add just enough to make a thick paste. For the small jar you see in the videos, it ends up being a few capfuls of alcohol. Be sure to use powdered boric acid, rather than borax. It can usually be found at the local hardware store as a roach bait.
I miss these vids.
hey, love the video as always. its very cool to see the process explained so well from start to finish, and see the results after. but as someone with experience in hot work, you need to immediately get rid of your heat treating setup, its very dangerous. ceramic refractory wool, especially when being heated or disturbed, gives off a lot of dangerous fibers that behave like asbestos (or worse in some cases). you need to totally enclose it inside of some kind of ceramic cement (like itc 100) for it to be safe. there are a lot of simple forge designs online that ive found really easy to build. please, once you see this, stop using that setup as is. and please put out more vids!
Man, you are good.
Good work 👍..
FANTÁSTIC , FRON BRASIL.
Thanks Chris - another awesome video. Why did you cut the relief angles on the cutter AFTER hardening and tempering?
Can you make a video about how you calibrate the mill with those tools I still don't understand how it works with the positioning.
Lovely ART.
Outstanding work... Really beautiful... What kind of lathe and vertical milling machines do you use ??
Stupid question, but if heating of the tool is a problem, would coolant help? I notice that there was no coolant running during the test run.
+deemdoubleu Not a stupid Q at all :) Yes coolant would help, but I don't have a flow coolant setup. Thanks for watching and asking :)
oh so folling you mate , simple easy to understand ideas
Why do I suspect that Chris’ freehand grinding is probably more accurate than me if I was using a tool holder?
Best channel...
love your videos. There are similar shape woodworking router bits available.
still looks professional btw.