nice! when i do engraved dials, to blacken the lines & numbers, i machine positive lines & numbers out of black acetal and bond them in one by one. you should really try it next time.
I love the way you explain the mathematics throughout the Machining process. I believe it is the best explanation of all of the Machining videos I have watched on CZcams! Thank you for making such great videos keep it up!!
Another fabulous tutorial on how to do things most people would never try. Your video's always give me ideas that I try to replicate whilst working in my modest shop. You are an inspiration to the aspiring machinist. Thanks for sharing Stefan. regards from the UK
Another wonderful video Stefan - many thanks for posting. I like the amusing touches which demonstrate your ever improving presention and editing skills. Bravo!
Very professional looking results! That was quite some setup to hold the part at the proper angle. I have been toying with the idea of building a massive rotary adjustable angle table for use on the HBM to be able to easily do odd angles and multiple operations in one setup just by rotating or changing the parts axis.
Such an incredibly informative and enjoyable video. Thank you for the inspiration to try something new with not only my lathe but my pantograph engraving machine too.
Great job Stefan. Quite a pleasure to see someone working "manually", precisely, with forethought and accuracy in mind. In this age of "the CAM made me do it", it is refreshing. That book "Tabellenbuch Metall" 16:48 brought back some memories. I worked as a toolmaker in 1990 outside Nurnberg and bought a copy in German. Quite silly that I never thought to look later for an english copy, it is an excellent reference.
I know very little about these things but I consider that art, really nice. If I looked at the dial I would never imagine how much technology and engineering was used to produce it, truly amazing
absolutely beautiful work man... your add on is better than if the company that made the mill added the feed setup from the factory. love your vids, thanx for your effort
I sold my engraver a few years ago; it was ancient, but functional and complete. And now I need to make new dials for my lathe, as I'm replacing all of the imperial leadscrews with metric!
Great video, Stefan! I love how your machines sound so smooth, like a sewing machine. All of my tools seem crude in comparison. Not sure how I found your channel, but I am now subscribed and look forward to watching more. Thank you!
As Always stefan simple gr8 outside of the box thinking that again proves the adage that there is a million ways to do anything in a machine shop and the only time a job is undoable, is when u give up! thank you again and still for all the gr8 videos.
Great job Stefan I am more impressed with your skills every time I watch your video's you are very skilled machinist!! I would love to meet you in person someday.
nice work Stefan came out real nice what would you use for a cross slide dial on a lathe i have an old boxford and its awkward to re zero the dial you have to use an allen key
Hey Stefan, Your work is absolutely impeccable! I have a couple restorations projects in which I'd like to make larger dials for, but yours is the first one I've seen using the engraver to mark the lines. Absolutely professional in every way! Now where can I get an engraver? Damn, I need more tools to make more tools...Will it ever end? Happy New Year Stefan. Enjoyed this one big time!!!! Razor!
This was great for me to see, and all of your numbers(excepting the metrics) were very familiar to me since I've been working on making some new jumbo lathe dials with 125 divisions. I found it odd that there are no 25 hole patterns on most dividing head hole-plates, since 125 and 250 are both multiples of 8tpi leadscrews. Anyway, thanks for the boost to my confidence in tackling this project and happy milling. Aloha...Chuck
Harold Hall designed a "Lining Tool" in his workshop practice series #37. It is even in metric dimensions!!! I was wondering if you might have an interest in making one of these as a video. If you plan on needing more dials this might be a solution. Would love to see your ingenuity adapted to this tool especially if you use it on your rotary table or dividing head.
Thanks for the super trick Stefan ! I wanted to blacken my Dial engraving and didn't find a proper cleaning technic before seing this video. Also I wanted to "clear-Laque" the Dial, but you explained that it's unecessary. My engraving are pretty deep, hence I will use black epoxy as you suggested. François
I just love the attention to detail. e.g. Clean the file after each stroke. Put cloth under the lathe. Clean the grinding holder before inserting and after removing the sharpy ... Just perfect
As usual, an excellent video Stefan...! Years ago I had the chance to buy a pantograph from a Jeweler here in Vancouver. I have regretted it ever since... :-( Cheers and thanks, Daniel.
great videos, love a few of you guys, and starting lil metal shop in my shop, hahaha, well this old Tony named you, another admirer, in " A Brief Chat about Carbide Tooling "..... keep up the videos man, great work
As always extremely well done and you never fail to impress. It was very light duty cutting so it didn't need much for rigidity, your methods obviously worked just fine., But you probably need a proper dividing head that can rotate the head Stefan. A little easier and faster to set up and use. But you'd already know that better than I do. It would need to be suitably reworked so it's Stefanized of course. A lot of hours and craftsmanship into the whole power Z axis build and the finished results certainly show it. First class work imo. That power feed will sure pay for all the time invested every time it's used. Oil blackening of the dial and polishing off everything but what's in the engraving would also work as one more method to color the divisions and numbers. Clever trick with the paper, I'll need to remember that one.
Beautiful job Stefan! That looks like a design that could be adapted to a mill drill power feed for X axis . I don't think the engraving on half the stuff you buy nowadays is half as nice as that wheel! Thanks.
Great video Stefan, thanks for sharing! I love the chamfers on your zero plate, did you do them on your chamfer machine for a part so small? The only problem I have with your video is seeing the runout in your power feed engagement knob is going to keep me awake at night.
Yes, I do pretty much all chamfering on that machine. Sometimes I use a pushblock if my fingers get a bit close, but generaly that machine is very safe :) I agree on the knob, I think I have to turn my own...
Takes me back to my original job I trained for....many years as a commercial engraver, used to graduate and engrave these types of dials every day. Shouldn't have needed to file anything if your cutter was sharpened correctly
You can fill the graduations by rubbing or melting wax crayons into them. You could make multicoloured lines by doing using different colours. You can see it used here czcams.com/video/yZxjJ2gKLrc/video.html You can also use Nail Polish as filler material for engravings.
I remember you saying "I'm not a tool maker"... yeah yeah... I am just a monkey that stumbled upon electricity... but that enabled me to watch your videos... now I might evolve! ;) Please do not stop! ;)
I like that rubber O ring / setscrew friction idea. Just curious, did you go back & validate your new dial increment movement to your quill plunger test indicator displacement? I have a similar RF-45 & its been a standing joke for many years on these mills that the Z rotation crank is wonderful random number generator, but not very indicative of actual depth. It could be how they tried configuring to inch measuring, maybe your metric machine mitigates this issue. Anyway give it a check.
Mr Stefan,you are very meticulous in intricate setup and the work itself.Nice video and narration as always.A few questions. a)What trade/field are you in as day job? Just curious.That's all. Thank you
I love your videos, you're a very talented machinist and the creativity shows through in your work. My question is though what is that beginning music?
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" is an old song. It was written during the American Civil War. We sang it when I was in elementary school almost 100 years later. The lyrics still come to mind when I hear the music. Hurrah! Hurrah! : )
Excellent, as always, Stefan! Have you tried artist's workable fixative to spray over the ink? It might work. (I have some somewhere. If I can find it I'll give it a test and report back.) Your videos are very inspiring, especially on a grey winter day. : )
Cheers Stefan, I always look forward to watching your work. I received my Mechanical and Metal Trades Handbook this morning after noticing that it had details for calculating differential indexing on the opposite page to where you were working from. Unfortunately, the new English editions must be edited or compiled differently to the edition you have as this information was not contained within the book. The book is still full of good stuff and won't be wasted but I thought the omissions might be useful to others.
joshua43214 Thanks Joshua. Apologies if my comment wasn't clear. I noticed some info that took my fancy on the opposite page to where Stefan was working and thought I would buy the book based on that, nothing to do with what he was working on. I have a couple of copies of Machineries Handbook, but again, thanks for the tip.
nice! when i do engraved dials, to blacken the lines & numbers, i machine positive lines & numbers out of black acetal and bond them in one by one. you should really try it next time.
Doesnt sound very complicated at all :D
Stefan Gotteswinter if you'd rather not deal with adhesives you could simply press fit them too.
I thought of friction welding them ;)
Derek Richline it does, I've tried it. It's a great trick for fixing broken 3D prints
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The humour and sarcasm in this video is brilliant. That setup for shaping was excellent
Dr Frankenstein 😉
I love the way you explain the mathematics throughout the Machining process. I believe it is the best explanation of all of the Machining videos I have watched on CZcams! Thank you for making such great videos keep it up!!
Another fabulous tutorial on how to do things most people would never try. Your video's always give me ideas that I try to replicate whilst working in my modest shop. You are an inspiration to the aspiring machinist. Thanks for sharing Stefan. regards from the UK
Stefan! Your skills and talents are boundless and truly a pleasure to watch and learn from! Thank you!
That's a very nice dial you made. The black against the satin finish is a good contrast. The whole project turned out great. Thanks Stefan!
Your amazing Stefan. I love how you figure out how to everything yourself. Keep it up.
Stefan - beautifully done - yet again the Gotteswinter precision and attention to detail.
Nice work sir. :)
Dialed in on something like 37 other tricks besides dial engraving, thank you!
Another wonderful video Stefan - many thanks for posting. I like the amusing touches which demonstrate your ever improving presention and editing skills. Bravo!
Excellent work as always, Stefan! Thanks for sharing your skills with us.
Danke, wieder eine Serie neuer, cooler Tricks!
Die Aufspannung rockt natürlich.
Very professional looking results! That was quite some setup to hold the part at the proper angle. I have been toying with the idea of building a massive rotary adjustable angle table for use on the HBM to be able to easily do odd angles and multiple operations in one setup just by rotating or changing the parts axis.
Dialed me in !
Who said Germans don't have a sense of humour ?
You are a marvel Stefan, you make everything so simple. Thank you for sharing.
superb craftsmanship, also loved the video editing. Bravo.
Such an incredibly informative and enjoyable video. Thank you for the inspiration to try something new with not only my lathe but my pantograph engraving machine too.
Hat's off for you sir, awesome craftsmanship and i like the way you handle common machining problems...simple and effective!
Great job Stefan. Quite a pleasure to see someone working "manually", precisely, with forethought and accuracy in mind.
In this age of "the CAM made me do it", it is refreshing.
That book "Tabellenbuch Metall" 16:48 brought back some memories. I worked as a toolmaker in 1990 outside Nurnberg and bought a copy in German. Quite silly that I never thought to look later for an english copy, it is an excellent reference.
"I wouldn't be who I am if I hadn't just made my own index plate" hahaha amazing
I know very little about these things but I consider that art, really nice. If I looked at the dial I would never imagine how much technology and engineering was used to produce it, truly amazing
I go back and watch this vid from time to time. It’s simply impressive. 👏
absolutely beautiful work man... your add on is better than if the company that made the mill added the feed setup from the factory. love your vids, thanx for your effort
Beautiful work as usual. Thanks for sharing, Stefan.
I sold my engraver a few years ago; it was ancient, but functional and complete. And now I need to make new dials for my lathe, as I'm replacing all of the imperial leadscrews with metric!
Nice video, I liked the use of the cut off o-ring and the grub screw.
very ingenious enjoyed this .thank you keep them coming and happy new year from the UK.
Great video, Stefan! I love how your machines sound so smooth, like a sewing machine. All of my tools seem crude in comparison. Not sure how I found your channel, but I am now subscribed and look forward to watching more. Thank you!
I like the flashback sequence, Tony/10 !
I would say that is a first class job and I especially liked the sepia-flashback. Thank You
Beautiful work as always Stefan, thanks for sharing.
The dial looked more like the combination dial on an expensive safe! Nice job. Thank you for sharing.
"A second class job" LOL. I can't imagine what your first class one looks like! Thanks for sharing.
A great video Stefan, this will be a big help with several projects I have coming up. Thanks!
As Always stefan simple gr8 outside of the box thinking that again proves the adage that there is a million ways to do anything in a machine shop and the only time a job is undoable, is when u give up! thank you again and still for all the gr8 videos.
Thank u Stefan. That certainly completes a perfect project. Well done. Love the playing with ToT s. haha
"just to get rid of any schmutz on there"... Stefan du begeisterst mich immer wieder, Daumen hoch für diese tolle Arbeit! :D 👍
He sounded like my oma/grandma when he said it
Great job Stefan I am more impressed with your skills every time I watch your video's you are very skilled machinist!! I would love to meet you in person someday.
Really slick dial, it came out very nice
I'd say that was a first class dial, very impressive. Thanks for showing your technique. Regards, Graham Payne
nice work Stefan came out real nice what would you use for a cross slide dial on a lathe i have an old boxford and its awkward to re zero the dial you have to use an allen key
Beautiful work, and a pleasure to watch.
Outstanding work as usual.
first class work as usual sefan. i would love to find an engraving machine like yours. your tips using copy paper and the oring are very clever.
Some creative work there Stefan. Thanks for sharing.
That looks REALLY sharp! It looks really professional too. How often to people ask where you buy things like this?
Very thorough and well explained. It's nice to have all those toys.
Hey Stefan, Your work is absolutely impeccable! I have a couple restorations projects in which I'd like to make larger dials for, but yours is the first one I've seen using the engraver to mark the lines. Absolutely professional in every way! Now where can I get an engraver? Damn, I need more tools to make more tools...Will it ever end? Happy New Year Stefan. Enjoyed this one big time!!!! Razor!
Bravo! Beautiful in form and thought and action. Thanks for sharing.
Stefan you're a true artist
You make me want to be a better (hobby) machinist. Thank you for showing us how you work.
Fantastic video, I now know how to ink engravings, I tried loads of times with no success now I know how, Thank you Stefan.
This was great for me to see, and all of your numbers(excepting the metrics) were very familiar to me since I've been working on making some new jumbo lathe dials with 125 divisions. I found it odd that there are no 25 hole patterns on most dividing head hole-plates, since 125 and 250 are both multiples of 8tpi leadscrews. Anyway, thanks for the boost to my confidence in tackling this project and happy milling. Aloha...Chuck
Bravo Stefan, ottimo lavoro, grazie.
Very nice Stefan. I always envy your 'engraving' of numbers.
Harold Hall designed a "Lining Tool" in his workshop practice series #37. It is even in metric dimensions!!! I was wondering if you might have an interest in making one of these as a video. If you plan on needing more dials this might be a solution. Would love to see your ingenuity adapted to this tool especially if you use it on your rotary table or dividing head.
Love your angle setup system for the rotary table. Well thought out. But of course, its you :-)
This video is packed full of brilliance!
Yes it is.
I concur.
Thanks for the super trick Stefan ! I wanted to blacken my Dial engraving and didn't find a proper cleaning technic before seing this video. Also I wanted to "clear-Laque" the Dial, but you explained that it's unecessary. My engraving are pretty deep, hence I will use black epoxy as you suggested. François
Very interesting! I am thinking of making a dial or two and your video made
it all look like something I could do. Thank you.
Even if I fail sometimes at it, I try do show approachable methos of doing things - Thank you!
Looks great: nicely done.
I just love the attention to detail. e.g. Clean the file after each stroke. Put cloth under the lathe. Clean the grinding holder before inserting and after removing the sharpy ...
Just perfect
As usual, an excellent video Stefan...! Years ago I had the chance to buy a pantograph from a Jeweler here in Vancouver. I have regretted it ever since... :-( Cheers and thanks, Daniel.
Looks wonderful. thank you for sharing.
great videos, love a few of you guys, and starting lil metal shop in my shop, hahaha, well this old Tony named you, another admirer, in " A Brief Chat about Carbide Tooling "..... keep up the videos man, great work
What size rotary table did you use? I ask because I have the same milling machine arriving this week and want to buy some bits for it. Great video
Ahhh the music makes you a good machinist.
As always extremely well done and you never fail to impress. It was very light duty cutting so it didn't need much for rigidity, your methods obviously worked just fine., But you probably need a proper dividing head that can rotate the head Stefan. A little easier and faster to set up and use. But you'd already know that better than I do. It would need to be suitably reworked so it's Stefanized of course. A lot of hours and craftsmanship into the whole power Z axis build and the finished results certainly show it. First class work imo. That power feed will sure pay for all the time invested every time it's used. Oil blackening of the dial and polishing off everything but what's in the engraving would also work as one more method to color the divisions and numbers. Clever trick with the paper, I'll need to remember that one.
Beautiful job Stefan! That looks like a design that could be adapted to a mill drill power feed for X axis .
I don't think the engraving on half the stuff you buy nowadays is half as nice as that wheel! Thanks.
That is absolutely fantastic...well thought out.
High quality good engineering practices.
Well done sir.👍👍
Great video Stefan, thanks for sharing! I love the chamfers on your zero plate, did you do them on your chamfer machine for a part so small? The only problem I have with your video is seeing the runout in your power feed engagement knob is going to keep me awake at night.
Yes, I do pretty much all chamfering on that machine. Sometimes I use a pushblock if my fingers get a bit close, but generaly that machine is very safe :)
I agree on the knob, I think I have to turn my own...
Ausgeseichnet, Stefan. Vielen Dank!
Takes me back to my original job I trained for....many years as a commercial engraver, used to graduate and engrave these types of dials every day. Shouldn't have needed to file anything if your cutter was sharpened correctly
that is perfect!!! iv been wanting to make new dials for my 100 year+ old lathe
You can fill the graduations by rubbing or melting wax crayons into them. You could make multicoloured lines by doing using different colours. You can see it used here czcams.com/video/yZxjJ2gKLrc/video.html
You can also use Nail Polish as filler material for engravings.
I remember you saying "I'm not a tool maker"... yeah yeah... I am just a monkey that stumbled upon electricity... but that enabled me to watch your videos... now I might evolve! ;) Please do not stop! ;)
Great video!
Can I ask where you can get the emery cloth holder?
Very nice work. It was really interesting to see how it was made.
Liked it despite the closing pun. :)
Love your videos and I don't even have a shop. Yet.
Quality craftsmanship! Well done sir! It's the little things like this that separate German (and English) work from the rest of the world! Love it
Stefan, schön gebaut und gut erklärt! *thumps up*
The zero marker line is called the fiducial . sounds like fi dew shal
I like that rubber O ring / setscrew friction idea. Just curious, did you go back & validate your new dial increment movement to your quill plunger test indicator displacement? I have a similar RF-45 & its been a standing joke for many years on these mills that the Z rotation crank is wonderful random number generator, but not very indicative of actual depth. It could be how they tried configuring to inch measuring, maybe your metric machine mitigates this issue. Anyway give it a check.
Why should i go out in the machineshop, when there is news from Stefan "the God" Gotteswinter? Loved it! Ty for showing.
Very nice work Stefan
I love your work
Beautiful job!
very talented you are !
Top notch video. I bought the "Mechanical and Metal Trades Handbook" as it seems quite useable.
Hervorragendes technisches Englisch! - Tolles Video!
Hi Stefan- another great video
thanks for the inspiration
Markus--USA
Mr Stefan,you are very meticulous in intricate setup and the work itself.Nice video and narration as always.A few questions.
a)What trade/field are you in as day job? Just curious.That's all.
Thank you
Very Nice . The Engraving Machine Is Way Cool ,Best Regards S. L. Wagar
I love your videos, you're a very talented machinist and the creativity shows through in your work. My question is though what is that beginning music?
That "When Jonny comes marching home" otherwise known "The ants are marching", otherwise known as "THAT song from the movie Die hard 3 :)
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" is an old song. It was written during the American Civil War. We sang it when I was in elementary school almost 100 years later. The lyrics still come to mind when I hear the music. Hurrah! Hurrah! : )
Excellent, as always, Stefan! Have you tried artist's workable fixative to spray over the ink? It might work. (I have some somewhere. If I can find it I'll give it a test and report back.)
Your videos are very inspiring, especially on a grey winter day. : )
1st class job Stefan Not second man ! Great share .. Thumbs up
That articulated tool grinder is sweet. As I start scrubbing google for it :)
Bravo!
Thanks for sharing, Stefan
Cheers Stefan, I always look forward to watching your work. I received my Mechanical and Metal Trades Handbook this morning after noticing that it had details for calculating differential indexing on the opposite page to where you were working from. Unfortunately, the new English editions must be edited or compiled differently to the edition you have as this information was not contained within the book. The book is still full of good stuff and won't be wasted but I thought the omissions might be useful to others.
joshua43214 Thanks Joshua. Apologies if my comment wasn't clear. I noticed some info that took my fancy on the opposite page to where Stefan was working and thought I would buy the book based on that, nothing to do with what he was working on. I have a couple of copies of Machineries Handbook, but again, thanks for the tip.
Magic, pure machinist magic!