Holy smokes, you make it look so easy! Effortless. That's wild. For anyone watching, I assure you that it is NOT effortless. What you're seeing is skilled mastery at work. I would come work for this guy for free just to learn.

Well i take my hat off and bow. Mr Brian you are one of the last legend of yesteryear. TOTAL respect thank you for a professional vid your approach to teaching is direct straight to the point. Thank you.

Real craftsmanship is alive. Thanks for the video. I can tell you guys take your work seriously.

The orange and black that I use are mortar color mixture that comes in a powder form, you can pick it up at any brick place. Then you mix it with a lite spindle oil A to make a firm paste this has worked great for me. If you have any other question please feel free to call. Thank You, Brian Ives

@earlroth6035

7 жыл бұрын

Brian Ives

@JonesAndGriesmann

7 жыл бұрын

Brian Ives who makes your power flaker/scraper?

@Steve_Just_Steve

6 жыл бұрын

I use concrete pigments also. It's particle size is some of the finest powder I've ever seen. I use it cause it works better and is dirt cheap/free and so do many other good scrapers. Look at this great video by Wes Johnson kzread.info/dash/bejne/qnyIj9eze7SzZrg.html he's an excellent re builder who also uses it.

@Metaldetectiontubeworldwide

2 жыл бұрын

Thats what i wanted to know and ask , thanks alot ! Well done video !

Brian, Thank you for your clear, concise video on scraping. It's always a pleasure to watch a true master at work! Obviously years of experience trained by another master of the craft.

Great video. I've always been interested in scraping but could never find anyone willing to show how. It's probably because I'm 70. People just didn't share their meal ticket back then. Thanks again!

I work in trades and you can just tell who's a master in each trade. This man is a master! And a great teaxher

Excellent video: Great presentation , very informative and an awesome display of craftsmanship. I learned more from your 20 min video than from all the other info I had gathered over the years. Thank you, Bernhard

I've bought books and DVD's, but this is the absolute best info I've ever seen on scraping. Thanks for posting!

wonderful video - very clear well filmed and you included your plugs without it being intrusive. thanks for sharing.

Hi Brian, I just wanted to thank you for uploading this video on the techniques of how to hand scrape. I'm a mechanical engineer with an interest in "hands on" fabrication/truing of metal and I've always enjoyed seeing how true craftsmen work. Thank You, Gordon

blown away you guys are killin it thank you! took me to the net level

Always nice to see great craftsmanship... Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for sharing this, I really enjoyed watching the video. I've always wondered how it was done

Excellent video. I'm glad tradesmen are getting involved with KZread. These skills are all to often lost from generation to generation and these videos will help preserve them.

@matthewjackson9615

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps this is a lost manual art , however, why couldn't a robot with artificial intelligence, perform the same scraping task faster and better ? I didn't realize that a scrape and rebuild job was such a cost effective alternative to a brand new machine.

@MostlyPennyCat

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewjackson9615 I imagine we've long since got to the point where this is automated. You'd make this with a suitably accurate mill I guess.

Thank you Brian, very informative. A masterly job indeed.

Great video! I've been looking for a good video on scraping and this is the best one I've seen so far!

@akoredeadewale8647

2 жыл бұрын

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This was awesome! Thank you so much for posting! When I restore my mill and lathe I'm coming here.

I've just started researching what is involved in scraping the ways of an old Bridgeport that I acquired. This was very informative. Thanks very much, Brian.

Beautiful! That was an awesome overview of the process!

So right, the scraping is easy the measuring is a huge challenge. Thanks for posting a great vid .

Brian, I'll probably never do it, but I always wondered what it was and how it was done. Now I know, thanks for your efforts.

I don't know anything about scraping but you did an awesome job explaining thank you

I want my truck to be stripped , scraped , and checked. That looked amazing. I loved working on a Bridgeport with a fresh checked surface. So easy to slide a vice on. That would be an awesome finish on a wood burning stove.

What a great video! Wish you kept making them!

although you aren't as old as my grandfather, you brought me back to my adolescence when my grandfather was hands on and taught me trade. I can basically build a house but have diminished with age but the knowledge is there. The irony is my son has absolutely no ambition to learn hands on. Damn millennials. Brian thanx for the video.

Excellent video, well made! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for posting this video! Wonderful instruction; I am more confident in attempting a scraping and flake job when I take apart my 1960 Bridgeport. I still have lots to learn, but this video has given me courage!

Great Video. Thanks for taking the time to share. Good Job

one word ..Outstanding !

Many thanks! Helped take some of the mystery out scraping for me. Huge investment in those tables I bet!

nice job, I have only flaked by hand before, but that was an awesome tool you had and really makes it uniform

More good information here than in ten books, Thank you very much!

Thank you very much for the video! It was extremely helpful to someone who’s learning to scrape..

Wow! Thanks for this! I just got into collecting, restoring and using "Old Arn" last year, and these are the things I'm learning to do to restore it faithfully to it's optimal working capacity and efficiency, that my machines may look down upon all other of recent manufacture. I have Tennis Elbow and Arthritis, but find I need the work of this nature, and that accomplishing it despite my pain is truly rewarding, but learning to do it the right way and most efficient way are critical to minimize my time spent at toil. I was just about to start rubbing part for a new lathe on a surface too small for it to be done correctly, but I had not thought of that til' i found your video during my research! I'de have created a whole new level of mess had I not seen this and realized my surface was too small for the job. I have a second work-piece on standby if I screw the first one up, but I think that getting a new surface inside the house will be worth the effort, and since it is only ten feet away from where I type this, I can make a tomorrow project out of it. It is not a surface plate, but is a granite headstone from Rock of Ages that had a defect in the engraving and ended up a paver in my walkway. I have a come-along and ingenuity, so we'll see about doing the work tomorrow with the right size "Faux Surface Plate". I do this as a hobby and to make machines I need to build myself a new house and proper workshop, so a wood lathe with a 36" bed can be off by a little when I have cobbled it together, but I can correct it and learn/see what I did wrong, and that will be of greater value than nailing the art of lathe building on my fourth go at it. My previous lathes have not amounted to much, but now that I understand the machines and have enough other machines to make the parts, I'm creating something really nice that I will share when done, since so many folks here share the Art of Machining with me for free. Awesome Video, and thank you again. Subscribed for sure! Dave from VT.

@OktoPutsch

5 жыл бұрын

nothing to help your tennis elbow but about your arthritis you should eat more carrots for its silicium or try to find some organic silicium G5. Prepare some nettle soup more often too, it helps. Cheers from France

I am late to the game. Great video and super nice job. I hope you are well and still scraping!

Good to see the skill is alive good job

Thank you for this. You just saved my new rotary table from the disc sander. I will treat it with more respect and in honor of your craft I will scrape. Thanks for taking the time to share this info.

Thanks for the video. You definitely got yourself a new subscriber.

Excellent video,excellent work!

Nice video on a black art of machine tool manufacturing. Very informative thanks!

Thank you for video. This was exemplary commercial. Information opened to public, good explanation, detailed comments and specialized services advertisement. Post Scriptum: I've tried scraping - it is not easy in any mean. It requires enormous amount of patience:)

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice work

This is awesome. Never knew how it was done!

Old school hand scraping.also a very nice informations about hand scraping and more.Nice and interesting video

that's pure artistry.

This takes the mystery out of 'scraping' for me.....TRULY becoming a lost art!

Brilliant video...Learnt alot in ten mins...Top man... Thanks.

Excellent video. I have wondered how this is done. Now I know. You make it look easy -- though I know it is certainly not easy. Thanks!

Very helpful. Thanks. This helped me much more than *reading* about scraping.

Amazing work!

Thanks you for posting this.

Very interesting! Thanks for posting!

very informative video , great to see how its done.

Neat stuff! I guess anything can look easy . . . after thirty years.

@xmachine7003

5 жыл бұрын

Start. Before you know it you can do it too. Brian stated you can call for help,if needed.

really good and informative video thank you. i dont understand why using a surface plate thats much larger than nessisary would be a problem however? its still flat to the same tolerance as a smaller plate of the same grade right?

Can't even explain how I stumbled upon this video...... looks like things are going well

Thanks for the video , very well explained:)

Very informative. Thank you!

Awsome, Thanks for posting!!

Hi Brian, cool video. What stones do you use for deburring and how do you keep them flat?

This is ABSOLUTELY the best scraping vid on the web. DO you have any tips for a hobbyist with a clapped out Bridgeport?

Hi Brian ... thanks for the video

Hey this is brilliant stuff. I used to work in a shipyard and we often had to scape out large bearings but we never had flaking tools. All the scrpaers were either made out of flat or half-round files and then carefully tempered. Flaking by hand was a back breaking job. Do you sharpen the sides of the tip or just the end? Lots of people watching this will never know the skill there is in doing what you are doing. It looks simple because you're a master of the art. All the best. Robert

I have watched this video a dozen times and bookmarked it! I am still in awe of the process. It's something we would like to learn to do on our machines in the future. My hometown is Romeo maybe we could arrange for some training some time when I'm up for vacation?

@brianives4106

6 жыл бұрын

Sure, my contact information is now in the video description so give me a call!

@xmachine7003

5 жыл бұрын

Call him. His number is publicly posted for all to see😇

Great video!

Thanks Brian looks beautify

Excellent instruction

excellent video, thanks

This is a great video. Do you have more info on the differences in the power scraper vs the power flaker?

awesome job thanks

Great job thank you

very nice and educational.

Excelente!!!!

Great video thanks

I like your video, we scrape alike as I have been told I could scrape with a deer antler and push Metal off the part

Great video Brian. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us. I like how your yellow & black inks show up well on the cast iron. I found the answers to my questions below... Which brand do you use? Where can we purchase? I regret living too far away to attend one of your classes...

Hi..very very good master...thank you very much

Have you ever used a dial indicator dovetail gauge to measure how straight the dovetails are?

great vid! question: is there any way to use a 24 " reference plate to check/mark a 36" long surface?

Right on !

Great Video! I feel like I just received on the job training. Do you recommendation for practicing at home. I.E. good practice materials to scrape for possible tooling or fixtures, measuring equipment that is affordable or in a lower price range, or possible ways of achieving a flat surface for measuring or oranging and blacking without a surface plate? In a nutshell how did the first flat surfaces become flat surfaces and how do you know they are flat without said commercial measuring tools and flats.

@MostlyPennyCat

3 жыл бұрын

Like this: ericweinhoffer.com/blog/2017/7/30/the-whitworth-three-plates-method

We always look for old thread grinding wheels. You need a hard wheel that will bring up the bearing spots, not something that will scratch the surface. Brian Ives

Really good tutorial Brian. I have never heard of using orange for visibility. What brand are your orange and black pastes and where do you buy them?.

that was awesome

Excellent

What type of stone is used for this application? I know I had one given to me in the past but really never knew the name or grit of the stone. Help if you can

WOW ver nice. Thank you

you are a very talented person. i am very interested in how things like centerless grinders can hold such close tolerances. my pint is tipped in your general direction.

@xmachine7003

5 жыл бұрын

Don't spill it😂😂

@13:00 by this stage would it be ok to use a wider blade so as to take just the tops off without risking cutting inbetween them? Like a self-jigging effect.

My web page is temporarily down. If there is anything I can help you with please feel free to call Thank you, Brian Ives

Hi im rebuilding a Bridgeport milling machine and it needs re finishing, what brand of scrapers and stones etc would you recommend?

The reason for scraping is more accuracy than the surface grinder. The stroke of the grinder may not be as flat , Scraping allows for lubrication as well.

@Madmoody21

5 жыл бұрын

True but if you have a parallel say 4 x 3 x 24 and it has a twist or hump to it you would have to substrate shim any spots and block in on a surface grinder to make one side flat. You cannot just mag chuck or clamp a warped part and grind it flat it will spring back. Accuracy limits are not on the removal or manipulation of material the limit is the measurement.

Excellent video! What stone where you using?

THANKS SO MUCH! for this video! Is there a way to prepare a surface plate without another surface plate? How was the first surface created? Thanks again!

@harris34567

9 жыл бұрын

Tricknologyinc Yes there is.What you have to do is make 3 surface plates at the same time, slowly working 1-2 2-3 3-1 and the plates will bring themselves into true. try wikipedia for the full explanation of why this works.

@xmachine7003

5 жыл бұрын

Yes,lapping and metrology devices. Look up oxtool on KZread.

It is interesting how were made rotary parts of the first machine tools in the world

Great job

@xmachine7003

5 жыл бұрын

Dennis Danich, Arsenal Millwright? John Willand passed away. Chuck.

@xmachine7003

5 жыл бұрын

That you Slim?

@dennisdanich7190

5 жыл бұрын

@@xmachine7003 Yes it is, cantact me at dennisdanich@yahoo.com

Hey Brian, What do you use to sharpen the scraping edge?

Very Nice!

When I was learning to hand scrape we was expected to get a checker board pattern in it or the semi-circular one like they on sheet aluminum to hide scratches all the time not just as a finishing process