Let's Make a Scribing Tool!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- This episode on Blondihacks, I’m making a scriber! Exclusive videos, drawings, models & plans available on Patreon!
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Clickspring’s Scriber: • Milling a Metal Scriber
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Love your work mate :)
Aww thanks! You inspired me to get into this in the first place 😁
praise of giants, bravo quinn, bravo :)
Maaaaate !
I would pin this comment too! Nice one Quinn. Keep up the great work. You’re well on your way to inspiring me to get into machining - from an Aussie electronic engineer :-).
@@Blondihacks yeah awesome work buddy, i would have done it completely the same way if i wouldnt own a six axis cnc lol. take care, bye!
Seeing that you feel that the Starett scriber is smaller than you like. Would you now call it a "subscriber"?😉
😆 I see what you did there!
Interesting point.
very clever i love it!
Did your dad tell you to say that...
I kept waiting for this joke or similar. Glad I found it here at least
Bonus points for those drilling out the hole in the back to allow for storing some spare needles
Quinn is so thorough and detail-oriented that she even spin-balances her Sprockets.
Yes, cat and slave having fun right up to the point where the cat vomits.
Once you finished the new scriber did the old one magically reappear? That seems to be the only way to find a lost tool, replace it and then find the old one sitting in plain sight.
Works with everything except 10mm sockets. When they leave town, they don't come back.
This is especially true for tape measures. I am convinced that they include a cloaking mechanism that disengages when the tool feels safe … like when the searcher is carrying another tool of the same type.
I bet it's under the bottom drawer of a tool chest, I routinely remove the bottom drawers now to check for escapees.
True heheh
@@UncleKennysPlace shit, my dad was a 10mm. How could mum keep this from us!?
"Bloke" was just right. Thankyou for the vid as this one I feel confident in trying.
So great the way you use every mishap as a "teachable moment," instead of editing it out. Integrity always shines through.
Thank you. I am disabled and cannot Ryun a machine safely. I live vicariously through your safety and precision. Your calm narrative is welcome. You are my Saturday grace, however, your health and safety are paramount.Keep up the phenomenal work as possible. Thank you for making my day.
Enjoyed the brief zen polishing break.
Another great source for a HARD scriber point is the TIG welding tungstens that are too short for welding. Chuck them up in a drill or Dremel tool, and (outside) gently hone in a point against a cutoff disc on an angle grinder (disc down, guard between you and the spinning death blade).
If anyone is curious those TUL pens are amazing. I highly, highly recommend them.Some of the best writing pens I have ever used.
It's no Pilot G-2, but it's a pretty nice pen.
Zebra F701 is my go-to.
"... so I'm going to use the character builder saw, like a chump." had me rolling, what an absolute mood! I literally had to cut some hardboard today with a coping saw because I didn't want to go through all the rigamarole of getting my circular saw out, clearing a table and setting up the cut.
Great looking Scriber.
You’ve got the new space looking nice.
From time to time you mention lathe or mill speeds, but personally I think it would be interesting for you to mention them more often. Absolutely love your channel!
Great first project for the new shop…… ‘mate’
👏👏
Robert
( Australia)
Thank you for doing a complete thru cut with the character-building saw. My old metal shop teacher years and years ago drove that into my head.
I always find it strange that most people cut on the right hand side of a vice, the left hand does very little and you have to reach round a possible danger zone to catch the offcut/part. Using the left side allows you to hold the free end to stop vibration etc. and especially at the end for the last few strokes, you get a good view of the cut too (for right handed people)
@@incubatork Good point! The force (of habit) is strong with this one (a.k.a. me)... I will immediately start cutting on the left side of the vice!
I also really like the Clickspring design, and made a few of my own also using sewing needles as the scriber point. One trick I do, which Chris alludes to: the first part I make is the scriber point, which is cut just a hair over final length (snapped, really) and *then* I use a bench stone to turn the non-pointy end into its own drill, as Chris shows, but where Chris uses the waste end of the needle, I simply use the end which will be installed into the scriber body. Perfect fit, first time every time, at the cost of a very small amount of work with a bench stone and more chip-clearing when drilling.
You can also use sharpened tungsten tig electrodes as the scribe bit.
Heck yes. Happy to see you christen your new shop and doubly happy to see Sprocket again.🐈
When I studied metal engineering at school one of the projects was a centre punch. We used a masonry nail for the tip on that one
You just showed this old dog a new trick. I have been using the tungsten stubs from my tig welder. Lucky I don't lose scribers all the time because normally I would take these to my welding supply for recycling and get a few cents credited to my account. Much cheaper to raid momma's sewing basket.
Another material that works fairly well for a scriber tip is an old tig tungsten electrode stub. Or you could just get a new one from a welding supplier.
Yay!! It's Blondihacks time!! (You just mentioned falling asleep, and it's 03/30 here, so falling asleep as soon as the video is over is definitely my goal...)
Beautiful scribe. I made one using mechanical pencil and 3 mm steel for point that I sharpened on belt sander to a less acute angle to I could retract , so I wouldn't poke holes in my shirt.
That was good to get back to a simple project. It reminded me of a high school project we made here in Australia from similar sized brass, it was a scalpel blade holder, the brass was drilled out and a steal shaft with a taper on one end with a slot to hold a scalpel blade and the other end was threaded this went through the brass tube and a brass nut at the other end would pull the shaft through causing it to grip tightly on a scalpel blade. We also knurled both the gripping end about the same length as you did and the brass nut was the same diameter and length of the knurled section at gripping end. We also made a pocket clip out of brass with a hole in it so that it would fit over the smaller turned section of the brass nut and would therefore be clamped between the brass nut and the main tube.
Not just any office chair .. the only one i can sit in indefinitely.
Chris is a smart bloke
Chris is a clever bugger
Chris is a good operator
All Australian compliments acceptable for use in mixed company.
Quinn. Quinn. Holy crow, m8.
You forgot the most important thing:
DOES IT APRON?!?!
That Sprocket spins freely but is a bit out of round.
yeah, this kind of sprocket tends to run out a lot if you’re not paying attention. gotta keep an eye on that.
If you have a pocket in your apron that's sized for a pen you can jam a piece of foam or whatever in there and have it be a dedicated scribe pocket.
Nice project. I really like your, calming H.R., voice overs
It is now the time on Sprockets when we dance!!!
Great! now I have to go buy a lathe... thanks! it's not like my shop has any more room... But it did look like fun and I can use little things like that in my shop.. Carry on Gal. Well done!
Character-building saw. I like that. I'm going to keep it.
Nothing like enjoying the second pot of coffee to Miss Quinn doing her thing in the new place.
"My the swarf be with you" 😆
A good source of solid tungsten is the drills used for PC boards.0.9 mm with a 3mm shank. Large numbers of drills are broken leaving a nice tungsten shank.
Il mondo è bello perché ci sono persone come te! Un saluto da Firenze
so glad you are back. miss your re bandana, spinning machines, and loose hair don't mix
I save broken 1/8" endmills, they make great scribe points once you sharpen them.
Great project for breaking in the new workshop! Glad to see its up and running 🎉
I couldn't find the needles online so ended up going to a fabric store and I picking some up there. I made a scribe today but used 1018 instead of brass and made it a bit larger in diameter (.410) since my hands don't like to close up very tight from to many years of construction. I knurled the end then took a bit across the top of the knurl and smoothed it down leaving just enough to give it a texture for better grip. I also hollowed out the handle to lighten up the weight then put a hex end on it to help it keep from running off.
Nice little quick project. The lost one is probably with the 10mm socket.
To use small drills make a bracket to hold your Dremel on your tool post .A nice strong holder possible a permanent fixture Then you can spin drill at appropriate speed .
Bloke was correct 👏 on ya mate. Great video.
Brilliant! I didn't know the hardness of these needles..
One of our cats is very good at jumping up onto a barstool in just such a way that it will rotate around (just enough!) and she'll end up facing out the sliding door the stool is next to.
Awesome as usueall, I have itching now to build one scriber and maybe make the hole of the hexagon insert deeper and put some spare already cutted needles in there. Thanks for the tutorial.
I love it, “Character building tool”
You should check out making you a sliding chuck for your tail stock. Makes drilling with small drill bits a breeze. This was a fun video thank!
11:40. That click into the tap center was satisfying. 😌
That's a fancy chair Sprocket sitting on
You could chuck up a small piece of aluminum, drill and tap a hole, thread your knob on then do your ops.
A short length of the alu turned down smaller than the pen dia would let you work on the chuck side of the work.
If you drill your threaded hole deeper you could store a replacement scribe. Thank you for your time and knowledge. Love all your videos.
Woohoo! First project from Blondihacks HQ 2.0! Nice job on the scribe tool 😁
I appreciate the fact that Sprocket is spinning on a Herman Miller Aeron Mk. 2 chair if I'm not much mistaken... A discerning cat and human.
Wow, a real expert identifying the generation of Aeron. Impressive.
I love the options for creativity for non-precision parts like that, like you mentioned at the end with the choice between the knurling and the grooves. Personally, something I really like is a knurled grip with maybe one or two groves just for design accents, which I think looks lovely. Very nice beginner project, very utilitarian, and I love your take on it.
Very enjoyable watching you work and being not serious at times, have to unbury my two metal lathes and try one.
What a great idea, using your favorite ball point pen as a model for the length!
Nice work as always. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎
With my "luck", once I replace anything missing I would now find what was missing, often in an obvious spot! Great job!
Quinn, Now that you've made the sufficient sacrifice, the old scriber will magically reappear.
Yes! Often just "invoking its name" is sufficient - taking steps to gather the necessary parts, settling on a design and such like.
A corollary is that if you say "where is that thing I ordered, I am going to chase that up", it will arrive the next day.
a piece of tig tungsten works well for the scribe tip (i think its harder than the needle) but it requires grinding... And as an Aussie male myself, "Bloke" is correct for a formal masculine noun, Koala would be the informal, non-binary, noun, for someone you think poorly of, and mate is a formal, non-binary, noun for a friend. 😅
A 2mm mechanical pencil will hold a 2mm tungsten electrode.
Bloke in the third person, mate in the second person and bloody wombat for idiots. As in: “Owyergoin, mate?”, “That Chris is a clever bloke”, and “You bloody wombat, what did you do with my scriber?”
Excellent beginner project. and like you say, a tad longer to fit you hand. and like yourself I like the additional length and the larger diameter as well.
You nailed the Aussie vernacular mate!
Ayyyy love the Telus spark hat! My go to weekend stop for my son to learn and run around at the same time!
The echo in your new shop gives us a sense that you have way more space than you used to :) Congrats on the new space!
I laughed out loud at "character builder saw". What an apt name!
As for the sewing needle as a point: I have no experience with hand sewing needles, but due to the fact that I used to have a somewhat cheap and misaligned sewing machine I can say that there can be large differences in the quality of the metal. When they hit something hard they either shatter (which is the harder type I guess) or they bend. So better test your needles for hardness before you replicate this. Some of the chinesium needles might be to soft.
I object to the racial profiling, but you otherwise have dispensed excellent advice.
Needles for sewing machines generally come with a ground flat, so you could use a setscrew to quickly replace them.
@@adamthethird4753 chinesium isnt racial profiling, its long been known that cheap chinese tools use far inferior metals to keep the costs down. Shit, half the chinese stuff Ive got seems to just be cintered grinding dust when they snap. Cheap tools arent known for quality, you get what you pqy for most of the time
Bloke is good... I reckon that will be a good first job on my lathe when I get it levelled in its correct location. Cheers from Oz.
OMG I thought it was Sunday until I saw the episode post!
G'day, great project, being a learner myself, I think I will make one myself, thanks for sharing 👍
Seems you'll have to come up with a new source for shim stock in your new digs - no soda cans here. I suggest you substitute with pop cans but stay away from the ones that say Molsens to avoid the taste of cardboard in your mouth
Clickspring reference and, although probably unintentional, a "my mechanics" reference in the same video. Doesn't get any better than that!
Thank you! This was just what i was looking for, dont hav a lathe, but i need a scribe! Yours look great!
Sprocket go spinny!!
I've been using a tungsten tip out of a tig torch, best scriber I've used tbh lol
It looks much like your favorite pen.
Nice to see you making chips in your new home. I like that design. In use the needle should not bend or break but a fall on a hard floor might break it so making it removable is good. If you ever need a heavy needle you can look at sailmakers needles the only drawback is one section of the needle is triangular shaped but the middle is round.
Well done, (as is tradition.)
Re: lead angle
Have asked lead angle questions of many online, (didn't know correct term until your vid), but have never received an answer.
Would love to see you cover it fully in a beginner's vid. You always explain concepts & techniques so plainly & thoroughly.
Re: scribers
Replacement carbide tips are available through MSC, so I'm sure others have them, as well. (Starrett replacements are WAY expensive, so look for no name imports.)
It's funny, I have several store bought scribers, but my fav is made from one end of a broken fiberglass tent rod. It had a round rubber end, which I milled to a hex, plus the rod had the perfect size hole for the tip.
not having any "scrap" brass lying around and gagging over the cost, I bought a length of 0.4 aluminum rod. I DID have some 3/4" aluminum rod lying around and used that to make an 8 point cap to prevent rolling. I can file 8 flats a lot easier and accurately that 6....(:> Speaking of scrap, I was at a local boat ramp and ran into a guy tasked with hauling out derelict boats and he let me strip out a prop shaft from one of the hulls. I now own a 3-1/2 ft long piece of what I think is 630 stainless steel . What I will ever do with it with on a 7x16" lathe I don't know, but I'll have the material(worth about $250 best I can tell)!
Years ago I made a carbide scriber that fit inside a ballpoint pen housing. I just copied the geometry of the ink cartridge and ground the carbide blank (broken endmill) to match. I liked it so much I made a second one using high speed steel in the same manner.
IT WORKS !
I had a friend in middle school named Greg but I nicknamed "knurl" because, I told him, man you're thinking is really bumpy sometimes, I just remembered that after 40 while watching this! 😂
Good Project.... Order of operation is a subject we all struggle with... Thanks for sharing your "mishap" we all learned from that....! Keep up the good work from your new shop....!
As an Australian, "clever bloke" is spot on.
If you want a less modern, bushy style, you could say "he's a clever fellah" (fellow).
The old scribe went underground and became a sub-scriber.
I found an old broken scriber made of aluminium hex stock. Looks like someone had used it as a prybar and had broken the tip off. Your video has given me some inspiration to save the thing and return it to service. Thanks very much, Quinn! Keep up the great videos, love them muchly.
That is a great looking project.
Nice to see you back in the shop actually "shopping" stuff. I'da never thought of a sewing needle for a scribe point, thanks for the tip
This is something that I actually have both the skills and the tools to now make. I don't currently have the brass, but will give this a go once I remedy that. (It also gives me an excuse tor replace my as-cheap-as-the-make-them knurling tool.) Thanks!
I don’t think Sprocket was amused but I was!
Well Quinn, that’s the first job done in your new workshop and may you have many many more successes as time goes by. It is nice to have you back up and running, your other videos did help fill the void but there’s nothing like making chips. Thank you, although I am a trained fitter and turner, I must admit that I do not have a scriber that I like. mine was supplied in my apprenticeship many moons ago and has the normal straight end and a ninety deg bend on the other end. It is way too thin, and I have never liked it, so I am going to make one similar to yours. I never would have thought to use a sewing needle as a point, that part is magic. Thanks for sharing and welcome back.
Glad to have you back !
Beautiful shop, very happy for you.
Well done.
well done mate. I was impressed to see you use a hacksaw the correct way, with your pointer finger extended along the handle. so many people dont and therefore cuts are not straight
Great new scribe Quinn. I think this will be one of my first projects on my new lathe.
Thanks for sharing.
Aaaaand first new shop Yahtzee! Congrats Quinn, enjoy the new shop! Looks great!
TUL (for the price) writing instruments is what separates us from the animals!
Nice project, I think I will make one for myself