That's pretty cool your grandfather has shared this space with you, he must be very proud of what you acheive in this small shed 👍

I half expected to see a huge box of hacksaw blades ready to go.😁 You've certainly made good use of the available space. Great video!!!

@stuartcox4739

5 ай бұрын

😂

Lol I think the main reason why people expect you to have, say, a large bandsaw, and other tools is because you do so much with what you have as far as space and budget. You're not a multimillion sub channel with loads of income but you do a crazy amount of work for what you do and I think it's one of the key factors many people, including me, love your channel. I do hope one day you can get your own place with much more room to expand etc, but its fun watching you come up with crazy unique solutions on a low budget, and I think a lot of people benefit from seeing that. Congrats on 100k, proud of you, you're one of my favorite channels, and I hope you grow even more in the coming years!

@ThatOneOddGuy

5 ай бұрын

I realized the bandsaw aibt worth it because he'd have to clean up the faces that are anyways One way costs more money the other other costs more time

@corey_nz

5 ай бұрын

Seeing what he was able to do with the mini lathe was what changed my opinion of them and nearly buy one (I was gifted a used lathe instead)

@itarry4

5 ай бұрын

Yeah but honestly a handheld bandsaw with a specially made stand would be a really good buy both time wise and economically in the end. He wastes, a fair bit of metal each time he cuts anything of any size and then has the extra time and end mill use from cleaning up his cuts. For me it'd definitely be the next tool I'd be saving for but I get the mindset of well I've got a way to cut things albeit a hassle and not very accurate but I've nothing that will...... (whatever it might be) so.

@OmeMachining

5 ай бұрын

Do you know his income? I could be wrong, but I'm sure from the amount of subs and views, at least a little china band saw could be bought without blowing the budget 🤣

@markfryer9880

5 ай бұрын

For what it is worth, we have a cordless Milwaukee 18v hand held band saw at work and they do take a bit of effort to get a neat square cut. Mounting such a band saw so that it becomes like a small workshop band saw is one option while keeping the capability to take the tool outside to cut larger amounts or pieces of steel. Every cutting option has it's advantages/disadvantages and benefits/limitations, it all comes down to what it costs you in time, money, effort and space. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

Everybody loves workshop tours. Thanks for showing us around!

Xynudu (your countryman) has been casting and machining his own aluminium for years. His position is that the source material is the biggest consideration, cast automotive wheels being a very good source with the alloy they contain.

@markfryer9880

5 ай бұрын

He is very good to watch and straight forward with his success and failures.

Another suggestion, prompted by the view of the grinder near the end of the video. (You were hoping for unsolicited suggestions, right??) Consider adding a 2x72 belt grinder sooner rather than later. I thought about making one for probably a decade before going ahead to design and build one (designed to use the materials I had on hand). What a game changer! I wish I had built it much, much sooner. It is hard adequately to describe how versatile and effective it is. It can remove a lot of material in a hurry, but also grind up to a scribed line with surprising precision. Highly recommended!

It really does blow me away the quality work you do with a sensible modest shop. Truly impressive, you are an inspiration

If you put the laser cutter on the shelf, consider mounting it on a shelf with drawer slides. You will need a good bit of z height when you lift the lid, so if you can slide it out to do that, you can set the next shelf lower to maximize your use of the shelving. Yes, speaking from personal experience - I set up a CNC cart this way, and have been pleased with the way the laser cutter has worked in its relatively short shelf height.

Man, 100k! When I first found this channel I remember thinking how weird it was that you had so few subs, so it's great to see you growing. Well deserved!

@keithammleter3824

5 ай бұрын

A quality product grows audience much slower than a sensationalist wild claim product, but it just keeps on growing audience numbers. Artisan will have half a million like CEE (Kurtis) in a couple of years. At least 200 K as Inheritance Machining does.

@markfryer9880

5 ай бұрын

I think that 200K is achievable, but it's chalk and cheese to compare with CEE. I will clarify that statement by saying that I am subscribed to both channels, but they are at different ends of the machining video spectrum. One is a professional heavy equipment repair workshop and the other is a home hobby workshop. Everyone is always going to want to see big TONKA toys getting repaired. Homey is also a great draw card. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

@keithammleter3824

5 ай бұрын

@@markfryer9880 ; You may have a valid point. I was initially attracted to CEE/Kurtis because I used to work for a Big Yellow Machines dealer, sending out work to people like CEE. However, I have a home workshop, and I have learnt a lot of useful stuff from Kurtis, even though I only make small hobby things. Homie certainly is a big drawcard. His personality always makes me a smile. It helps that both Kurtis and Artisan have excellent, but very different, speaking voices. Both are clear and pleasant. There is another Australian guy (Swan Valley Machines), a small shop guy with greater knowledge than Artisan, but his voice and vocal delivery is terrible - I can barely stand it. He gets far fewer viewers than Artisan, probably because of the voice. I have considered making KZread videos but unfortunately my voice is an even worse rural Australian accent.

I have a Grizzly G0765 7x14 mini lathe that I crashed (my newbie ignorance, parting off several inches from the chuck) and broke the plastic gears in the headstock. I replaced them with a set of steel gears from Little Machine Shop, and while they’ve performed well, they easily doubled the noise output of the thing! After several years use, I’m planning on going through the headstock and cleaning and re-greasing everything inside. When it’s reassembled, the metal gears will be gone and a new set of plastic gears will be in their place. I’ve also got a Harbor Freight 7x12 that I use far more than the Grizzly, and it has the original plastic gears, and I’ve had zero trouble with them! Inexperience is was killed them on the Grizzly! Btw, great tour!

Nice workshop. You keep it really clean too. Waiting for lathe gearbox teardown, as I have to do the same. Your videos are a big help for me.

Anycubic tough resin is really good. I use it all the time for functional parts too.

@DD-DD-DD

5 ай бұрын

Same, I don't think he's been printing with the right resins if he thinks FDM with PLA is "better". I've made parts for a string trimmer that spin at > 15000 rpm and bang on concrete and they hold up just fine.

Congratulations on the 100k - and many thanks for all the great videos.

@artisanmakes

5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much

Do it! Slap some stepper motors or servo motors on the old mini lathe!

And what I should have said up front: thanks for the great videos, and congratulations on 100k!

Congrats on the 100,000. Your videos are so relaxing to watch. I like how you solve problems.

Thanks for the tour. I see room for a band saw 😊😊

Thanks for another great video! In an instant, you've turned my own pegboard from a nightmare to a useful storage solution. This may have come easily to your mind, but your idea for mounting a board with nails at just the right spacing onto a peg board would probably never would have occurred to me. I've been trapped in the perspective that the hole spacing has to determine the spacing of the pegs, but that doesn't have to be the case. Sometimes a different point of view opens up a whole new world of ideas. Thanks again.

I really enjoy your content and hope that I can become proficient in my Lathe and Milling work that would make my departed Fitter and Turner Grandfather proud. Congratulations on your subscriber numbers 🍻

Consider replacing the drawer runners in your old toolbox; you will get more mileage from it.

Congratulations on the 100k subs - more than deserved! Your channel is essential to us newbie mini-lathe-machinists :)

Thank you for showing me around your workshop. I admire what projects you manage to realise without having access to all the latest and greatest machining equipment. Please keep up the good work. Also, my congratulations for reaching the impressive 100K subscriber milestone. I hope your channel will continue to grow, you deserve it!

Watching another video from CEE, he had the same concerns about a larger lathe such as yours. He figured it was the straight cut gears making the noise.

Well, if you ever need to forge a damascus, the hacksaw blades would do the trick 😉 Congrats on100g Cheers

That’s incredible you built a channel that big with those space restrictions. Bravo.

Best tool you could ever get would be an 18v battery cutoff wheel tool OR inversely a grinder with cutoff wheels like a milwaukee or (since you're an aussie) the brand they run at the skid factory channel... toolpro? They save you loads of time, elbow grease, and money in the long run as well as the most precious thing you need to treasure: space! Sure its noisier and dirtier than a bandsaw but with some practice you can make pretty accurate cuts and deburring is a breeze. Swap the disk off for various grit grinder disks, polishing pads, or whatever. Extremely versatile and worth the 150 you spend (ours cost that much for a makita).

I love your show. And you made me realize that I've wasted 23 years of my life as a union electrician: machinists are the real rock-stars. Thanx

@SELG88

5 ай бұрын

union electrician? whats that

@Vuski36911

5 ай бұрын

@@SELG88 Are you trolling? Or do you really not know? IBEW L.U. 130 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 130 New Orleans. Best trained, well paid.

Gday, congratulations on 100k subs, that’s a great milestone to reach and thanks for the shop tour, cheers

I always feel tempted to fast forward through the hack sawing because my arm starts to hurt just watching. I hope some day to see you with a portaband ripping through metal lol.

Congratulations on the 100K subs. You do make good use of a small work space, and you make a lot of great things. All the best from NZ.

Nice workshop and congrats on 100K

Awesome video and workshop! 👍 Congrats on the 100k too, you earned it! 🏅

Thanks for the walkaround.

Just need to go all out with some solar panels , inverter and batteries , so that your lighting is eventually free. Congrats on 100k , always a good watch.

@artisanmakes

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, solar and a few batteries and this shop would be all set. Doesn’t use much power in general. Not cheap though. Cheers

Congratulations on breaking 100k subs! You absolutely deserve the following. I look forward to more of what I like!

Congrats on 100k. Your workshop size, storage constraints, tool size and footprint considerations and endless compromises are easy to relate to.

The best hacksaw blades I've ever had were Starret bi-metallic blades. I did get good enough with a hacksaw that I was able to win $5 bet hand cutting a 45 degree angle in aluminum. My secret was to orient the piece in the vise so that I was cutting straight down. Also use cutting oil on steel, and WD-40 on Aluminum.

Thank you for sharing.

Please buy a portaband and make a stand for it, you deserve it

Even though it's a small workshop, there's ENDLESS possibilities. Turning the old lathe into CNC could be cool, or getting a small router (mabye not 3018 small) could be really helpful. I have a 3018 and i've now put 3x the price of it, in upgrades and parts. So they're expensive to get into routing aluminium.

Nice little shop. Few years started as hobby welder and when progressed in it,machining was natural step forward,where your videos helped me a lot.

Artisan, firstly congratulations on your achievement of 100K Subscribers! It is well deserved and you can be proud of yourself for the work that you have put into this channel to achieve that result. You have been producing a very professional and well presented product from a tiny workshop. Your video skills have been on point since the first video that I watched. Well done! Now to a couple of things that you raised in this video. Casting aluminium and machining it, my best recommendation is Olfoundryman from Melbourne. He was a long-term professional with years of experience in the automotive industry as well as his own foundry. His range of videos will help you out in so many ways. I think that turning your mini lathe into a CNC lathe is a great way to keep the original machine involved in your channel. I was drawn to your channel originally because you had the mini lathe and I wanted to see just what it was capable of. I have been meaning to ask just where in Australia you are and as a part of that just where do you source your supplies of quality steel and tool steel? Even in ordinary mild steel there are differences between Australian steel, imported steel and Chinese steel. I mostly buy my mild steel from Robot Trading, which is mostly Chinese steel but some that I bought for work recently was from another country, but which country escapes me at the moment. 😅 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family! Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

This is a machine shop and you are a machinist. Albeit a small shop, but a good one. Machinist is the one who runs the tools, runs the shop, keep up the good work.

Great tour thank you for that, 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Having a versatile vice that you can turn 360 degrees & also a pipe vice on opposite end can change your positioning for prefab. I went to a woodworking shop & they sold a cheaper vice than the major retailers. Yes the lathe is noisy. Probably due to amount of gears in small space & thin casting.

@tas32engineering

5 ай бұрын

Might be a cheap spindle bearing but good change gear also lubrication would help.

It’s been fun to watch you and your channel progress these few years. Great work! Happy holidays to you!

Amazing amount of output ( making AND filming) from a modest workshop. Makes your 100k + all the more impressive. Keep it up eh? Regards Robert ( Sydney)

@artisanmakes

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do my Sydney friend :)

You've done very well squeezing a lot into the limited space you have. Great job. Thanks for sharing.

Congrats on the 100k subs! 👍👍

congrats on the 100k, love the channel

Neat workshop and air conditioned- wish mine was ! Don’t get rid of all the brazed carbide tooling - keep one or two for those mongrel jobs that come up here and there - interrupt cuts , cast iron or cast steel with hard spots and hardened materials where you don’t want to damage an expensive insert - at least the brazed carbide one can be re ground if damaged. Another tip is with the insert holders - when you go to buy new ones try to use holders that all use the same shape and size insert , I found the kits usually use two or three different shape or size inserts which make things more expensive. I generally found TCMT tips to be a good all round tip and you can use them on boring bars as well .

@artisanmakes

5 ай бұрын

Only when the AC decides that it wants to work :) mostly used as a fan and you can hear it in the background of some videos. Fair enough I will probably keep a few, busy some of them do need to go. Cheers

Good on you mate. Thanks for your videos

I still have my mini lathe on a bench. It doesn't take up much space and it comes in handy for small things when my main lathe is in the middle of a bigger project and I don't want to tear down a setup for a simple cut. I think you'd find plenty of uses for yours if it was out. If you haven't seen Clickspring's shop tour video it's worth checking out.

Congratulations on 100k!

Some could say you're the new This Old Tony

Congratulations on 100K subs!

Thanks for the tour!

Great to see the shop perspective. It’s inspiring to know how much can be done w/ a modest sized area. Awesome stuff!

Good to see the unimigs getting around I have a razor 230 ac/dc hf mig and stick but my dedicated is a razor 200

Thanks for a great insight into your workshop

I'd love to have that sherline I've been wanting one for years lol.

My reason to comment about You. 🤔 It took 44yrs of my careers, so let's us talk about the desire to either be a big watcher and it took me about 1 1/2 years. First retired and had a serious interest to make items. Buy a decent Lathe, location. Aquire various tooling...on and on. Save projects from ytube videos. Your content is very good. My final note is, don't rush into running moving parts / spinning. Please take care and enjoy what you are doing!

Great job! I hope your subscribers double soon.

Always amazing what you manage produce in that little workshop of yours. From perspective of results as well as video content. Keep on!

Fantastic shop video! Covered all the questions I had for the past 3 or so years. Thanks for all you do for the DIY shop community and take care!

It’s awesome to see your channel grow. I’m at 240 lol. I cringe at the effort you have to put into hack sawing your steel. I’d give you a band saw if we were closer. And congratulations on 100k. Cheers from Vancouver.

A portaband setup like Quinn's would be amazing for you. Its probably my most used tool in the shop.

I highly, highly recommend a bandsaw. I can’t understand how I made it without it now that I have one. Aside from that, you have just about everything you need ! 😊

Congratulations on 100k 🥳🥳. Not only do I enjoy your projects and the quality of them, I also like to hear the Aussie wildlife in the background…very exotic to UK ears 😁, I also now have workshop envy…

Traditional heads up that cheap laser cutters are blinding machines

@johncoops6897

5 ай бұрын

Traditional heads up that irrelevant random comments are irrelevant 😉

It's not a huge shop but it's a good one. 🎂

That has been an amazing amount of projects done in a small workshop. I have a home workshop slightly larger (4 x 7 metres) and constantly have to move stuff around to get stock in and out of storage, get enough working room around machines, etc. Artisan is a very neat and tidy worker. I also have to have custom fire resistant plastic sheet covers over machines as during summer months the local shire has effectively banned angle grinding and welding out of doors due to the fire risk with grass. Angle grinding dust sure goes everywhere - it even accumulates on top of overhead lights. Artisan, thanks for the comments about the tool cabinets. I am going to purchase a couple more and the Big Green B Warehouse has cheap Chinese-made cabinets imported by a certain Queensland company. Maybe I should stick to Sidchrome. They are made in Taiwan now, but probably better. I bought a Chinese genset imported from that QLD company and it couldn't produce the claimed power output and has been trouble prone.

Oooiii! You've got to get a Porta-bandsaw! Were all gritting our teeth watching you hacksaw your way though projects! LOL Nice shop. Can't wait to build my own. And yes, it'll have a spot for a Porta-band!

Well done, I probably do 1/10th of the work you do and I have 10x the gear. Some people just have the knack. My lathe is an old Hafco belt drive and it’s noisy to the point I prefer to wear earplugs especially when the feed levers are engaged. I’ll be interested to see what you find with your lathe but one thing that is noisy are straight cut gears especially if they’re not meshed together perfectly.

Yeah waited this one for some time. I was also one of those who requested this 🌝

Congrats on the 100K subscribers! Always enjoy your projects, well done! Cheers.

Another great video THANKYOU. But you missed out one workshop component. You didn't tell us about the operator. As a novice, albeit old, hobby machinist finding out about your journey in acquiring your knowledge base and skills would be extremely interesting. A future video? Please Please Please. Thanks again. Alistair

Congrats on the 100K....well overdue and much deserved 🎉 I want to get you a 4-jaw chuck to celebrate for the big lathe.... I've been asking over and over with no response... what's the deal!? I'm guessing it would be a 5" (125mm) independent with adaptor plate? Please let me give back for all the entertainment you've provided so of us... just shoot me a message.

How a tiny room turns into a big world

Fantastic. It's so good seeing how people go about setting up their workshops. Although we all seem to suffer from the same problem. Not being able to part with our old tools and machines. I look forward to your new adventures after the Christmas break. 🙂

Congratulations!! 🎉 I really enjoy your channel and am excited to see you post new videos. I look forward to when you hit 250k and beyond!

Amazing! Thank you sooo much for all the videos!

Well that size shop answers my question on why you don't own a band saw but you could make a milwaukee portable band saw work and even make your own stand to replace your hacksaw.

@markfryer9880

5 ай бұрын

One trouble is the cost of Milwaukee stuff in Australia. Check out Total Tools or Sydney Tools and then convert those figures into US $. Warn me beforehand so that I can get my ear plugs in because I just know that you are going to scream blue murder! 😅 Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 Hint, the Aussie dollar currently buys about 68 US cents.

@BEDavisBrown

5 ай бұрын

@@markfryer9880 I was thinking shop size not prices but it just goes to show how you and the rest of the world already know what doesn't occur to us living in America.

100K subs, congrats and may your channel keep growing.

Thank you so much for the tour. You've done well to utilise the space you have.

Have a similar welder - I call mine the Toaster kos that's about the size of it. Still have my Arc welder from 40yrs ago for heavy steel work but the toaster does 1-2mm steel just fine. For lighting White coreflute makes for an affordable good backsplash, I also use it to wrap MDF kit shelves if I'm putting any liquid containers on them as the MDF swells from moisture.

I'm american and know nothing about machining but because of you I want a small lathe and small mill. I have no idea what I'd do with it but... I'm sure I'll buy something in the near future

Thanks for sharing your shop tour with us. You do some great work!

Enjoyed it very much!

Nice shop!

congratulations!

Congratulations on your 100k achievement.

Brilliant, well done 👍👍👍

If you use alloy wheels as your base casting stock, and heat treat at 150C for 3 hours afterwards you will find it machines a whole lot nicer, and is a lot stronger. it will go from making a dull thud when struck just after casting, to ringing like a bell, and it's nowhere near as sticky when machined. I bought a cheap kitchen oven off ebay to do my heat treating, it works really well.

I have an Anycubic Photon too. While the resins aren't as strong as FDM prints, if you use resins like Siraya Tech Blu (not sponsored, I wish I were) you can make decent fixtures for locating parts on the mill or even just small parts with highly detailed features like nozzles or tiny brackets that are too small for the mill. Compared to FDM printers, these printers really shine when it comes to accuracy and small details.

@artisanmakes

5 ай бұрын

Not too familiar with this brands resin but that sounds very impressive.

I much appreciate your content!

I think you should make your self a electric saw next. You made the fly press so why not a saw as a next project ? Keep up the good the work and videos I'm entertained 👌👍. Atb.. Jay

Congrats on the milestone 🎉. Always amazing to see what people can do with modest spaces

Congrats on the 100k I really enjoy your videos and am amazed at what can be achieved on small machines keep up the great work

Congrats!