Home Made Tools! - DIY Boring Head

Time for another great intermediate machinist's project as I make a my own boring head for the home shop.
These aren't incredibly hard to make, but they're definitely worth while and I had great fun thinking through all the challenges that needed to be overcome, especially with regards to fixturing and indicating in features.
The boring head has a 20mm straight shank with a 50mm diameter body, designed to take 12 mm boring bars it's on par with some of the smaller commercially available boring heads. other than a dovetail cuttet and maybe a reamer though, not much is required to make one of these for yourself, so I hope I inspire some to give it a try

[@rakumprojects]

Great video!

[@Freethinker711]

Thanks Mark! I really enjoyed it. Please keep them coming.

[@ChristophLehner]

Great video👌 keep em.coming

[@homemadetools]

Good work. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

[@HexenzirkelZuluhed]

Funny, you and Artisan Makes releasing "the boring head video" today. Nice work. Maybe consider shorter bars to reduce the chatter.

[@rugger8787]

it seems like they copied each other almost all the way down to the design with out knowing it

[@devmeistersuperprecision4155]

Nice Job! This design is similar to one done by This Old Tony a while back. These heads are really useful. But….what is really cool is if someone would tackle a wohlehaupter head or the exotic and rate Tree taper boring head. I would do it but I am moving my shop and home and won’t be able to post machine videos for a while.

[@RustyInventions-wz6ir]

Very nice work

[@jamescopeland5358]

Great video

[@jerrypeal653]

Good job .

[@HM-Projects]

Nicely done. You and Artisan Makes need to co-ordinate video scheduling 😆
I like the idea of assembling the top and bottom before the boring operation for the dial.

[@Mark_How]

Haha yeah, I remember the same thing happened a while back with Blondihacks and Adam Savage both doing videos on knurling tool builds right around the time I was thinking of adding one of those to the project list

[@kenclaro1806]

Where did u get the micro dial?