nice work!!

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Learn from the best! Thanks for stopping by

@tmatheson

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I was like this is another one of Tony’s disciples. And here you are. 🔔

@tonywilson4713

3 жыл бұрын

@@westweld Really novel take on the ball turner. Mounting it via the QCTP is a really clever. It really highlights that a QCTP can be so much more than just for basic tooling. Just a thing for future videos do a bit of an intro where you are describing what your building or going to build. This is novel in that you are mounting it off the tool post but that isn't obvious until right near the end. So a some of what you were making at times wasn't very clear as to purpose. Some stuff was obvious but how it was all going to go together and work wasn't so clear.

@thuss5162

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely nice work. I'm a convert made my living doing hi end wood projects ,circular stairs,custom furniture all the fun stuff a lot of no budget make her happy jobs! That said I'm converting more to steel projects. After all a cut is a cut its all the same but different! I appreciate your videos it helps ,my sor spots are what tooling and fixtures, clamping.

@christophermarchand320

3 жыл бұрын

Daaammmnnn it, I was just about to make a ToT reference and the fucking legend himself beats me to it.

I've been a professional cameraman for over thirty years, and an amateur machinist for only about five months. I'm impressed at your skill in both disciplines. Very nicely done!

Nice machining, but the quality of filming and video production makes it pure joy to watch.

That was phenomenal! The build stands on its own, let alone the composition and the way you put the video together. Hats off my friend!!!

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you man!

When I was an apprentice at Lucas Aerospace in the 1970s I got an award for making similar to dress the grinding wheel on a universal grinder to put a radius surface on to a stainless pipe joint that allowed it to move without leaking.

That was nothing short of extraordinary skill, so I’m left to wonder how 13 people could possibly give this a thumbs down. Very impressive machining and the video and soundtrack were first rate. Subscribed!

I'm a man of simple tastes, I like "Beer" brand beer and "alloy" steel. Awesome work on the project, and badass video!

Really enjoyed this, thanks mate. What set this video apart from many other channels for me was the inclusion of all your metrology; setup, in progress and inspection. It’s a vital part of the job and interesting to see!

Incredible machining and the filming/production was very easy on the eyes. Keep up the fantastic work, our world needs as many craftsmen as possible!

I think sometimes I completely mesmerized watching a video and it's because of people like you who did finest work. Hats off to you buddy and thank you for showing us your skills.

BALLER! Very enjoyable to watch, great camera work/editing, excellent machining, nice design and perfect tunes. Looks like your achieving superb surface finish buffing with the Scotchbrite EXL wheel (info posted in your response to Tommy). Thanks for the tip! Best, Hoji

I have been a machinist since 96 I must say you do some of the best work I have ever seen!!!

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks man

Amazing work. Love watching the process. Professional all the way!!

I'm loving your attention to detail on these projects. It's nice to see someone putting a high quality finish on parts instead of just smashing them all over with an angle grinder and then painting with a rattle can of cheap paint. Nice job. Mark from Australia.

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark im not much of a machinist so I need to at least make it Shiney haha

You have some serious skills! Much respect!

Enjoyed every aspect of this video. Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing

Nice work your attention to detail is what made it for me and I also love your lathe always wanted one just like it also noticed all of the top quality tooling and measuring tools most of it top shelf I can tell you have been successful in your work or you could not have afforded all the nice equipment my hats off to you young man your work is also top shelf thanks for sharing from a retired machinist of 50 years

The more I discover your videos the more I am impressed by the quality of your work.

Beautiful work! Love seeing the process. Great video work too! Thanks for sharing.

Dude You are Talented. I own an Industrial Machining & Welding Shop that had 50 employees. Have done work all over North America and worked overseas. You have real Talent & Skill. Great Job

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man I really appreciate that

I only watched to enjoy the skill and honesty I learned new tricks and skills in every second

god damn dude, this is just some solid freakin machining. beautiful camera work too. I'm pretty new to machining, been at it for just a bit under a year now, and sometimes I get discouraged because there is a lot to learn and sometimes problems can be difficult to track down. but every now and then I find a guy like you on youtube, just making beautiful parts and making crunchy, thick-ass chips, and it always gets me back in the shop with that extra motivation needed to tackle something I've been putting off, or maybe just to be less lazy about something. thanks for taking the time to make these videos on top of all the work you did to make the part. really man, thanks.

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks man I appreciate that. I'll you what I did to learn that really helped me......I started with the most difficult project I could find and struggled my way through it but by the end I had learned alot.

Beautiful work and you really know how to get the action on the screen. Keep em coming!

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks glad you liked it

Professional skills. Phenomenal Tools.

Alloy has quickly become one of my favorite materials to work with. So predictable and cooperative, and I know the exact speeds and feeds to use without having to look anything up!

Excellent, love your work. Great tool and you clearly respect them. well done.

Muchas horas de trabajo, pero una gran satisfacción cuando se terminan trabajos como este, felicitaciones por esta hermosa pieza.

I enjoyed the techniques you used to get your precision in the prices you made. I made a ball turner years ago and only used it twice. I like your design with the bearing. Solid. Love your shop too

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man I appreciate that my shop is small but ive worked hard for it.

Awesome project and loved your humor. Great camera and narrative. Thank you for publishing this vid.

Beautiful, precise work! Well done!

Awsome work!!! And a GREAT video! That turner is a work of art.

Perfect! What an amazing tools you have there... i wish i had some

Awesome work! I hope to have a shop likes yours one day. Thanks for sharing!

Great job,thanks for the tip on how to put the part on the 4 jaw chuck using the tailstock as a support to guide the center of the machine 😍👍🙏🏼

Very nice build. I can imagine several uses for this. And that was a very useful tip regarding the die and shoulder proximity. Thank you for sharing this. You do need to get yourself a Baldor (or 3) for finishing touches.

Awesome fabrication,my brother made a ball hitch the size of a grapefruit as a joke for his GTO back in the day at our machine shop in phx!👍

Nice work Always fun to watch you work 👍🙂

I don’t do a ton of machining so I really enjoy watching videos like this to see all the really smart techniques used. I’ve wanted to make a ball turner for my Logan for a while, and seeing this brings that a lot closer to the top of the to do list

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man glad you liked it. Its a fun project and you can build it out of anything laying around really just make sure you have a little adjustment so you can get your tool height on center.

@cheepkeeper8336

3 жыл бұрын

@@westweld please the music linke

Wow - what a great channel. I’ve immediately subscribed and look forward to seeing the rest of your high quality content. 👍👍😎👍👍

Slick, quality and satisfying, nothing any of my videos past or future could ever be. Brilliant work young man!

Discovered you today, and its Really nice! I love your shop, how everything is available and yet compactly arranged. You're very methodical and organized in every department - work holding, gauging, tool storage, machining, design. Loved the quality of the weld and how you take care of the surface finishes on all parts. Love your vacuuming of chips and keeping everything neat and tidy. Superb camera work and video editing. You're a rising star - burn big, bright and long! I would like if you could describe the project in short beforehand do that we know how everything falls into place. I was scratching my head all along what a ball turner could be! Keep it up man, love your work! And don't you dare not call yourself a Machinist!

Love the music. So chilled. Nice work too

A great tool for working with steel. Good job !

What a wonderful job, and a pleasure to watch. Thank you.

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Big Al!

The camera work is among the best I’ve seen for machining content. Please keep producing. Thanks.

Great job, and easy listening music, can’t beat that.

Perfect footage and music combination

No slouch in that work. Excellent and superbly presented

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir

Exceptional videography. Excellent music and machining. Fantastic project. Nicely done!

Felicitaciones..!!! Excelente trabajó..!!! Saludos desde Argentina !!!

Great video and amazing build. I'm impressed with the part off, I always manage to blow up my cutter. Keep up the great content, subbed.

Amazing use of tools, I learned more in this video then in a hole month class

Just ran across this video and decided to watch it. I had to laugh when I seen your crocks shoes, I had the same ones and I used to where then in my shop too!!! Great video

Nice work, nice tooling, great easy listening.

I watch vids like this to keep the memories fresh. Good work!

@t.d.mich.7064

3 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray I guess I just don't understand the need for some to attack others over nothing. I appreciate the man's video as it keeps my memory fresh on shop procedures. After 46 years in the machine trade, I have interest in this work, and enjoy watching it. Why do you feel the need to call people names over such issues? Grow up!

This is probably the greatest of all machinist porn ever made. The cinematography, the soundtrack. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Thank you!! You’ve earned every bit of these likes and subscribe.

Watching your work I could get competent. Thanks.

Really inspiring to see such good work!

Amazing craftsmanship!

You are a true craftsman.

Earns a subscription in my book! Nicely done!

Just watched it again. This is one of my favourite machining videos on this plattform

@westweld

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Christoph I appreciate that

Very happy about finding this channel! Great video and project brother! Cheers from Argentina

Really nice work, just subscribed cause the work AND the video are so well done. You can see the effort you put in the making of the video. So many camera positions a d so many steps that show how you done everything. So much work have to be appreciated. 👍

Man your videos are awesome. I watch them wanting to see each step and at the end I’m always like” that’s is bad ass.”

Excellent work! You are an artist!!

Awesome build! Your video production quality is fantastic.

Maravilloso y fantástico trabajo, felicitaciones! Saludo desde Colombia Sur América.

The video editing is very thoughtful, I like the music very nice choice 👌. And ofcourse the machining process with very high details, very professional. I am so jealous that you have all these tools.

Everything from the build to the editing is fantastic! Keep up the good work.

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks I appreciate that ......this is my favorite video wish I could make them all like this

congratulations, a very accurate video and a complete equipment

Excellent video. Very impressive all around.

Ohh man What a lovely work I've been watching every moment of it Be blessed

I like how adventurous you are with your shots it’s inspiring to me hope fully I can use these on my videos

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man.....ive been watching your channel for awhile now....i found it when you were building the belt grinder.......that lathe turned out really nice too

Great production value.

Man, this thing is gorgeous

Great work and thanks for posting!

Excellent craftsmanship, Nice tunes aswell for the shots. Really like to see you make this especially with the measuring tools required. Not slot of people on YT actually use micrometers and true measures and such. Nice work mate!

Just found your channel and this video. Beautiful work all around. Machining, videoing and editing. Well done

Great Job! Love this video

EXCELLENT CRAFTSMANSHIP 😎👍 CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MORE OF YOUR CONTENT

Thanks for teaching by showing .. the pin gauge trick is awesome for odd stock. For someone that doesn't have access to other machinist that have 20+ yrs experience.

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

No problem anything I know about machining I learned from better machinists on youtube........that one was from Joe Pieczynski

@davep8462

3 жыл бұрын

@@westweld If you are willing to share, I would be psyched for drawings, I can modify to fit my lathe. I like your design much better than the one I made previously. Thanks again, Great work in the shop and on video!

Your cinematic abilities are phenomenal.

Real work of art man, god bless u,,.

Great machine work, and camera work 👍 keep em coming!

Thank's for a nice work and to a great inspiration 👍👍👍👍

Amazing 👏 workmanship dear, each and every process is done very nicely, cleanly and precisely 😀👌👍😊👏

Outstanding editing. Great build too.

Nice video. I hope to see the plans soon, they can be adapted to others needs.

Beautiful machining and nicely done video. Been wanting to do a ball turner for some time, and you have spent many hours designing it, so yes very interested in a plan.

I just discovered your channel...awesome content and great presentation! Many thanks

These videos are masterpieces 🙏

Tony's spot on. Nice!

Great work 👏🏾

Dude does some awesome work

Great techniques, live and learn!

being a machinist for years using manual machines! the finish work was awesome. thanks for the video. Whoever you are that gave a thumbs down you are just not smart enough to understand what he did and the process it took to get there. go play video games guys

This was fun to watch. Well done. 👍🇦🇺

I’m not sure what part is my favorite, the music, the tooling, the machining, or his beard. Nice work brother!

Great video and build. Happy to see that I'm not the only one using a Portaband (DeWalt in my case) with a SWAG Off-Road table as my vertical bandsaw.

@westweld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks......I love that thing great for my small shop

@ChazzC

3 жыл бұрын

@@westweld Small? My third of the basement is 13' x 22', which I share with the water heater and heat pump inside unit. There is a 30" path between a central core of shelves and the perimeter shelves (which I also share with my wife's seasonal decorations). Part of the central core is a 4'-6" x 24" bench with my 3" vise and electronic test gear (seldom used these days). I have a 6' x 30" work bench with my 7 x 16 mini lathe and a micro mill (on bases so I can push them back under a deep shelf and use the front 20" as needed, and a 4' x 24" low table (with a toolbox long the back) for small hand work. My mini mill is mounted on a reinforced steel 2-drawer file cabinet, and my surface plate lives on top of a rolling base cabinet as a moveable part of the central core (so I can access one of the shelves). The DeWalt/SWAG is mounted on top of a 30" x 18" rolling base cabinet with a Craftsman 3-wheel bandsaw for wood (in front of the shop vac which is in front of the outside door - if needed, I can move things and get outside in about 30 seconds, but I'm sure a building inspector wouldn't approve). For a production shop, what you have is tight, but I drool over hobbyists that have a two-car garage with just their equipment in it, or even if they have to share it with one car. Sorry for rambling, but I'm jealous of your space, equipment and wide range of talents.