We need a maker Hall of Fame so creative people like Frank, Diresta, Pask and many others can get the recognition they deserve! Such outstanding and inspiring creative minds!
So this is the beaut machine my beloved flatmaster owes its lineage to! Awesome machines and maybe the most underrated/unknown tools that make an amazing addition to any woodshop. FLATMASTER
Frank, add drawer label holders for each of the wrenches for your vertical wrench holder. This way you can have the labels and easily change them if necessary.
My wife thinks I'm nuts for garbage picking old shelving materials. Crazy how expensive basic sheet goods are now, and for shop shelves/drawers, garbage works just fine!
@@larrybud My wife doesn't understand that scrap pieces are some of the most useful things you can have when you're making stuff. If she had her way, they'd all go in the trash.
I love that you're the type of person to see a box of random wrenches and say "I could use those!" The wrench racks are a pretty neat way of using up odd spaces in the shop too!
a tip from one wood turner to another, at the 14 minute mark, if you turn your gouge upside down, it makes that cut way more efficient and it slices instead of scraping which will leave you with a much smoother surface. Love your work. Your editing is absolutely top notch. Note: WHen you turn your gouge over, swing your handle towards you and use the bottom part of the gouge. Same cut can be used for bowls when you leave a center pillar for stability. Learning this cut changed my life.
@@frankmakes in the interest of being thorough. When I get down to the bottom of the bowl and have that last bit thats no longer a column but more of a disk of wood left, I do go back to a normal push cut to finish off that last bit. The only reason is to ensure its flat to match the rest of the bottom. GL with this cut, its really easy to learn and is a total game changer for removing lots of wood quickly. Btw that puzzle piece bowl you did for a wedding present absolutely blows my mind away. I show that video to everyone I interact with at work that has questions on what a wood turner does/can do. Not only is your work gorgeous, but again, your editing and animation skills are enjoyed by people who know nothing about wood working. Ive turned so many people on to your channel just from a "appreciate the art." If I had a CNC I would absolutely try and replicate that bowl. Its truly one of the nicest pieces Ive ever seen.
Hey Frank, i love what you do. You can sand down the nuts to the handle (flush) since the clamping pressure you need is so low , the nuts just need 2 to 3 windings on the thread to do the job ;)
Another batch of creative solutions to everyday shop problem. Entertaining as well. I think the wrench handles are well suited for binding barrels instead of nuts and bolts. They'd tuck down in the handle better but still be removeable.
Frank. I remember you building your workshop and thinking, "That's a big work shop". I don't think so now. I think it's time to expand. Always enjoy your videos. Thank you.
On cutting your bolt shorter, you used the bench grinder to make the end flat, if you would rotate that bolt end in a next step at 45 degree angle to the wheel, a chamfer end will clean the buggered up thread off and let the nut spin freely. I was just doing this last week repairing the bolt downs the contractor did to hold the new garage to the concrete slab. I drilled deep holes with a 5/8" masonry bit, used wedge type Red Hat inserts with a 1/2x13 female thread, set the wedge, then cut off 1/2x13 pieces from 10 foot long threaded rod. I cut them on my bandsaw, but then grind them on a 2x48 belt sander to clean the end off, and put that chamfer on the ends. They thread in cleanly into the insert, and the nut on the top side starts and spins on without any effort. I like the big handle mod for your wrenches.
You go Frank! I recently had to sort out my socket wrenches, just in self defense, and ended up with 14 different sets, over 100 total sockets. Had to make trapezoidal trays to sort into, to make sense of them! No wonder I could never find the right one.
nice shop! I think most folks that have any quantity of wrenches are usually looking for a good way to keep them organized. (the same for sockets) What you did was certainly much better than 2 boxes... but it has it's problem too. Most folks that use wrenches all day, get to the point of just a tray or bin or space for each specific size. You have a 14mm, and you put it in the 14mm space. It is easy to sort the wrenches that way. That works if you are not hauling your wrenches to the job. My problem with what you have there is that the box end wrenches you have there are hung too low. you have to get down on your knees to sort thru. The open ended ones are better, but also not easy to sort. Fine when you first put it up there, but it will soon get messed up. I'd suggest a chest with drawers and dividers. Make the dividers adjustable if needed, but that way you can sort thru quickly. I finally went that way. There ARE a lot of types of wrenches, even for each size! Open ended, box, bent, thin, long handle, short handle, 6 point, 12 point, etc. But still, a manageable amount. If you have more copies of the same wrench, move the extra one to a remote storage. Of course there are going to be odd ones. Most of us don't have lots of 2 1/2" wrenches for instance. or lots of hammer wrenches. some odd ones can be kept aside. just my two cents.
Colour code the wrenches with small colour patches. Say one colour for metric wrenches ; another colour for any of those other type.; another colours for special Mark up the raised size on each wrench with black paint to make the size of each wrench easier to see at a glance. I spent some time in a ship yard which had many times the number of Frank’s wrenches and that’s how the yard made finding a wrench easier.
Hey frank been a huge fan for a long time! I watch them like my Saturday morning unwind when I’m loosening a collet of any kind I always try to position the wrenches close enough for the first tension break that you can squeeze the wrenches together with one hand so when they inevitably slip all at once I’m just closing my fist and not banging my knuckles
You should mark distances on the handles and grab the handles much closer to the head when tightening the nut and then use the full handle length for more leverage when you are loosening the nut.
Get yourself a bearing nut for that cnc collet. It has a thrust bearing in the end to make tighten and loosen operations easier. But also it is supposed to give better TIR due to nut no longer applying a twisting force on the collet.
I thinks thats a old timey drill press not a dust collector... but I do agree it is doing a good job at collecting dust... so I see where your coming from... ;)
I just got used tool chest with drawers and some wrench trays. Also scored wrenches from some auction... SK, Snapon, Craftsman... extras go to the kids...
The wrenches for the collet are made for hand tight, but to DO tighten them pretty tight. The threading is not the problem with "wear and tear" at most the "nut" you screw on gets some damage from the narrow wrenches that are used on them. So you will sooner replace the "nut" than anything else on that system.
07:00 This is a question of technique. I always learned to plce the wrenches so they always pull away from eachother. So it's a different wrench position for tightening than for loosening, but both times you're pulling them away from each other.
Great woodworking, but I would've done some things differently. I would've done dowels at a slight angle, so gravity would retain the wrenches. The handles I would've done differently as well fs
Exactly! I have a metric and US set at home and sets at the farm. I have some extras, but I'm wanted to get rid of them or make decorative projects from them instead of organizing more of them.
Maybe look into getting a couple of sex bolts to remove the protrusion from the collet wrenches. They just look un finished with the nuts sticking out. And im sure they add to the interference
Watching you use your radial arm saw reminds me of why I gave mine away. Any saw you have to jerk along bit by bit in order to prevent the saw from causing meyhem, is not a saw worth having.
Directional tools like knives and wrenches should really have "rounded rectangle" kind of profiles on their handles rather than being round like screwdrivers and chisels that you probably use all the time.
The reason one of the wrench head is at an angle is so you can put them both on the nuts, and create a “v” which you can then squeeze together with one hand. This should prevent you banging your knuckles etc. works in both directions by turning the angled wrench over.
Beautiful as usual. But, question... rather than those ugly nuts sticking out - why not use a captive nut of some sort and drive a socket head cap screw in so that both sides are now flush/encapsulated within the wood? Much cleaner...
Great video as always Frank. :) Do you think you'd be able to do an episode trying to turn wrench handles or something using a four jaw chuck on the lathe? You could turn elliptical handles...!
You could cut a notch on the collect wrench to make it more flush. Did you think about color coding the wrenches with layout ink ? Metric vs SAE at least.
Hi Frank, great video as usual, could you shorten the bolts in the handles the sink the nuts in deeper? Just a friendly suggestion. Keep up the good work. Derek
A Chicago screw (like what's traditionally used to secure a metal belt buckle to a leather/fabric belt) would be much lower profile--some of the other commenters have already mentioned this.
love it. always meant to ask why you operate the dewalt radial with such a jerky motion. is this on purpose or an artifact of the tool or counterweight
I have general wrench questions: Are there duplicates in that collection? If not, how could anyone use that many? Is it like three different lengths for each size wrench?
That radial arm saw looks really hard work to use. Never seen anyone struggle that much with a mitre saw. Is there an advantage I don’t yet understand?
Let me be frank: you have too many wrenches! You succumbed to the wicked garage-sale temptation. One suggestion to mitigate this problem: build two more wrench racks for the other side of the shop, so you won't be walking around every time you need one.
I hate when there's many tools in one peg such that to get the one behind all others, you need to move all others out of the way. I think you just got way too much wrenches? :D
Frank’s creativity goes from wood working to video editing to video titling. Truly an interesting guy.
A Chicago screw might work well to reduce the height of the projecting fastener; getting it below flush would make it a bit easier to use.
Good suggestion. It would look better as well.
That's what I need. I had forgotten about those
@@frankmakes my mechanics has a good project for reference - th-cam.com/video/_GPyO8Wquz4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-2erCts6wHQjldce
We need a maker Hall of Fame so creative people like Frank, Diresta, Pask and many others can get the recognition they deserve! Such outstanding and inspiring creative minds!
So this is the beaut machine my beloved flatmaster owes its lineage to!
Awesome machines and maybe the most underrated/unknown tools that make an amazing addition to any woodshop. FLATMASTER
Compliments from The Netherlands.
You deserve my like for just the title alone :D
Frank, add drawer label holders for each of the wrenches for your vertical wrench holder. This way you can have the labels and easily change them if necessary.
I love the whole “I got this piece of wood, or tool(s), or other misc item a few years ago...” Makes me feel quite normal. 😂
it's gotten to the point where every project is "what do I have on hand to make this out of"
My wife thinks I'm nuts for garbage picking old shelving materials. Crazy how expensive basic sheet goods are now, and for shop shelves/drawers, garbage works just fine!
@@larrybud My wife doesn't understand that scrap pieces are some of the most useful things you can have when you're making stuff. If she had her way, they'd all go in the trash.
I love that you're the type of person to see a box of random wrenches and say "I could use those!" The wrench racks are a pretty neat way of using up odd spaces in the shop too!
a tip from one wood turner to another, at the 14 minute mark, if you turn your gouge upside down, it makes that cut way more efficient and it slices instead of scraping which will leave you with a much smoother surface. Love your work. Your editing is absolutely top notch. Note: WHen you turn your gouge over, swing your handle towards you and use the bottom part of the gouge. Same cut can be used for bowls when you leave a center pillar for stability. Learning this cut changed my life.
Sounds like a good tip. Can you post a video of this technique? Thx.
humm.. I'm going to have to try this.
@@frankmakes in the interest of being thorough. When I get down to the bottom of the bowl and have that last bit thats no longer a column but more of a disk of wood left, I do go back to a normal push cut to finish off that last bit. The only reason is to ensure its flat to match the rest of the bottom. GL with this cut, its really easy to learn and is a total game changer for removing lots of wood quickly.
Btw that puzzle piece bowl you did for a wedding present absolutely blows my mind away. I show that video to everyone I interact with at work that has questions on what a wood turner does/can do. Not only is your work gorgeous, but again, your editing and animation skills are enjoyed by people who know nothing about wood working. Ive turned so many people on to your channel just from a "appreciate the art." If I had a CNC I would absolutely try and replicate that bowl. Its truly one of the nicest pieces Ive ever seen.
Nicely done, very jealous of that workshop👍
I always enjoy your videos Frank
A french-cleat wrench. Neat!
Very calming, thank you. Love the this arrows too for some reason 😊
Frank showing his knife privilege here, only having full tang knives 😂
I love shop projects.❤
Hey Frank, i love what you do. You can sand down the nuts to the handle (flush) since the clamping pressure you need is so low , the nuts just need 2 to 3 windings on the thread to do the job ;)
Frank, it's always a pleasure to watch and learn from you. Thank you.
not has any what need learn, basic work all, simple and easy make.
Nice additions to the shop. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
You are amazing and your videos are a pleasure to watch.😊😊
OI! Frank! thanks for all youve done over the years. tens of hours of pure entertainment.
Another batch of creative solutions to everyday shop problem. Entertaining as well. I think the wrench handles are well suited for binding barrels instead of nuts and bolts. They'd tuck down in the handle better but still be removeable.
Another great video Frank
Frank. I remember you building your workshop and thinking, "That's a big work shop". I don't think so now. I think it's time to expand. Always enjoy your videos. Thank you.
I've been a mechanic for over 30 years and you have more spanners(wrenches) than I do
LOVE THIS | I love seeing your creative process for organization in order to make creative things! It's truly an art, so glad to follow your channel!
That pano of the shop around 0:33 is like I died and made it to heaven
I sometimes have dreams like that.
All this wood working equipment.... and all we get is a shed organisation video.
I've been watching since you were moving out of your basement and started building this new shop. Wow how far you have come.
Greetings from Scotland, Frank.
A new video for my 40th birthday, you shouldn't have!
I always look forward to your videos, Frank.
Damn nice work.👍🇺🇸💪
I would definitely mark what wrenches are in rack #2. It would drive me insane having to go through them to find the right size.
I think he has four or five of each wrench anyhow. LOL, I would have made knife-type handles and just epoxied things together.
On cutting your bolt shorter, you used the bench grinder to make the end flat, if you would rotate that bolt end in a next step at 45 degree angle to the wheel, a chamfer end will clean the buggered up thread off and let the nut spin freely. I was just doing this last week repairing the bolt downs the contractor did to hold the new garage to the concrete slab. I drilled deep holes with a 5/8" masonry bit, used wedge type Red Hat inserts with a 1/2x13 female thread, set the wedge, then cut off 1/2x13 pieces from 10 foot long threaded rod. I cut them on my bandsaw, but then grind them on a 2x48 belt sander to clean the end off, and put that chamfer on the ends. They thread in cleanly into the insert, and the nut on the top side starts and spins on without any effort.
I like the big handle mod for your wrenches.
Great idea, I need to do this!
You go Frank! I recently had to sort out my socket wrenches, just in self defense, and ended up with 14 different sets, over 100 total sockets. Had to make trapezoidal trays to sort into, to make sense of them! No wonder I could never find the right one.
Thanks for sharing
nice shop! I think most folks that have any quantity of wrenches are usually looking for a good way to keep them organized. (the same for sockets) What you did was certainly much better than 2 boxes... but it has it's problem too. Most folks that use wrenches all day, get to the point of just a tray or bin or space for each specific size. You have a 14mm, and you put it in the 14mm space. It is easy to sort the wrenches that way. That works if you are not hauling your wrenches to the job. My problem with what you have there is that the box end wrenches you have there are hung too low. you have to get down on your knees to sort thru. The open ended ones are better, but also not easy to sort. Fine when you first put it up there, but it will soon get messed up. I'd suggest a chest with drawers and dividers. Make the dividers adjustable if needed, but that way you can sort thru quickly. I finally went that way. There ARE a lot of types of wrenches, even for each size! Open ended, box, bent, thin, long handle, short handle, 6 point, 12 point, etc. But still, a manageable amount. If you have more copies of the same wrench, move the extra one to a remote storage. Of course there are going to be odd ones. Most of us don't have lots of 2 1/2" wrenches for instance. or lots of hammer wrenches. some odd ones can be kept aside. just my two cents.
Colour code the wrenches with small colour patches. Say one colour for metric wrenches ; another colour for any of those other type.; another colours for special Mark up the raised size on each wrench with black paint to make the size of each wrench easier to see at a glance. I spent some time in a ship yard which had many times the number of Frank’s wrenches and that’s how the yard made finding a wrench easier.
Hey frank been a huge fan for a long time! I watch them like my Saturday morning unwind
when I’m loosening a collet of any kind I always try to position the wrenches close enough for the first tension break that you can squeeze the wrenches together with one hand so when they inevitably slip all at once I’m just closing my fist and not banging my knuckles
Well done, you did a great work 👍👍
You should mark distances on the handles and grab the handles much closer to the head when tightening the nut and then use the full handle length for more leverage when you are loosening the nut.
Get yourself a bearing nut for that cnc collet. It has a thrust bearing in the end to make tighten and loosen operations easier. But also it is supposed to give better TIR due to nut no longer applying a twisting force on the collet.
What a title 🤌
Immediately "I wish I had thought of that" :D Great title!
I thinks thats a old timey drill press not a dust collector... but I do agree it is doing a good job at collecting dust... so I see where your coming from... ;)
Nicely done
14:00 Fantastic tool.
I'm amazed by how well it works.
Knife makers recess blade tangs into the sides of the handle, locking it in with epoxy, avoiding having that open gap.
I love your videos Frank. Your shop is one to envy….however my 185 year old three story post and beam mill building makes an equally envious location.
that sounds amazing
I just got used tool chest with drawers and some wrench trays. Also scored wrenches from some auction... SK, Snapon, Craftsman... extras go to the kids...
Franken Wrench!😂 Happy Halloween🎉
Fantastic title 😂🔧 Great video!
I'll give credit to my wife for the title.
Looks good man! I subbed for more!😊
The wrenches for the collet are made for hand tight, but to DO tighten them pretty tight. The threading is not the problem with "wear and tear" at most the "nut" you screw on gets some damage from the narrow wrenches that are used on them. So you will sooner replace the "nut" than anything else on that system.
good to know, thanks
07:00 This is a question of technique. I always learned to plce the wrenches so they always pull away from eachother. So it's a different wrench position for tightening than for loosening, but both times you're pulling them away from each other.
Frank you always do amazing work. for once I would like to see you pound in the drive center with a hammer like the rest of us.
Another amazing video Frank! One request... Can you do a video some day on your filming and editing techniques?
Great woodworking, but I would've done some things differently. I would've done dowels at a slight angle, so gravity would retain the wrenches. The handles I would've done differently as well fs
I had the same idea except i thought to cut a bevel on the whole beam using the table saw so all the dowels are angled evenly.
Frank, have you thought about an automatic tool changer for your CNC? That would be a cool video.
I've definitely thought about it.
Surprised you didn't cut the dowel holes on a slight angle or mount on a wedge so you have a small camber
6+ of each size of wrenches, might be short sometimes :)
Exactly! I have a metric and US set at home and sets at the farm. I have some extras, but I'm wanted to get rid of them or make decorative projects from them instead of organizing more of them.
You could use Chicago screws on your Collett ranches then you won’t have the nuts hanging out.
Ok, they don't need to be round... just thinner. Lop some off and make the ends of the bolts that stick out facing down on the upper one.
GRAN TRABAJO
I was halfway expecting a cheater bar sleeve you could slide over the end and remove after. All you need is a bit more leverage.
Maybe look into getting a couple of sex bolts to remove the protrusion from the collet wrenches. They just look un finished with the nuts sticking out. And im sure they add to the interference
I agree the bolts should be flush.
Today on Google, I learned what a sex bolt is, and why it’s called that.
Came here to suggest sex bolts and I see you beat me to it!
Great solutions, Frank. I noticed that you had to add additional dowels to accommodate the smaller size wrenches on rack #1.
Bill
I was shooting the stop motion of that and had to come up with a quick solution.
You should try some corby bolts
Numero 1 !
Watching you use your radial arm saw reminds me of why I gave mine away. Any saw you have to jerk along bit by bit in order to prevent the saw from causing meyhem, is not a saw worth having.
Directional tools like knives and wrenches should really have "rounded rectangle" kind of profiles on their handles rather than being round like screwdrivers and chisels that you probably use all the time.
The reason one of the wrench head is at an angle is so you can put them both on the nuts, and create a “v” which you can then squeeze together with one hand. This should prevent you banging your knuckles etc. works in both directions by turning the angled wrench over.
Beautiful as usual. But, question... rather than those ugly nuts sticking out - why not use a captive nut of some sort and drive a socket head cap screw in so that both sides are now flush/encapsulated within the wood? Much cleaner...
thought you would do the handles more like people do handles for knives (ie glue the wrenches in a block and sand them down to flat handle shapes)
Great video as always Frank. :) Do you think you'd be able to do an episode trying to turn wrench handles or something using a four jaw chuck on the lathe? You could turn elliptical handles...!
#8:05 "2 wrenches". Actually, the lower is a wrench and the upper is a spanner. :P
I gotta know what’s with the jerky motion when making a cut with the radial arm saw
Well done but why would you need to display many wrenches that are the same size?
10/10 dad joke for the title.
I irony is the credit goes to my wife.
You could cut a notch on the collect wrench to make it more flush.
Did you think about color coding the wrenches with layout ink ? Metric vs SAE at least.
Hi Frank, great video as usual, could you shorten the bolts in the handles the sink the nuts in deeper? Just a friendly suggestion. Keep up the good work. Derek
A Chicago screw (like what's traditionally used to secure a metal belt buckle to a leather/fabric belt) would be much lower profile--some of the other commenters have already mentioned this.
Would like to see how you made the push stick with that saw handle pretty cool
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love it. always meant to ask why you operate the dewalt radial with such a jerky motion. is this on purpose or an artifact of the tool or counterweight
Love your videos but I’m always so frustrated by how uneven your green radial arm saw operates.
Very nice Frank. Another great video. 👍
Still gave u a thumbs up but your router renchs are goofie.
I have general wrench questions: Are there duplicates in that collection? If not, how could anyone use that many? Is it like three different lengths for each size wrench?
this would have been a great place to use tunes instead of bolts
Would wood pegs with wedges work???
How do you do the pan during stop motion? Is digital pan with a much higher resolution photo or do you use a motor?
Hey Frank, have you lost weight? Still looking good after 10 or so years subscribed.
As you were making that first wrench rack I knew you made a mistake... and saw it at the end, some wrenches are too small to fit on the dowels!
That radial arm saw looks really hard work to use. Never seen anyone struggle that much with a mitre saw. Is there an advantage I don’t yet understand?
It’s at 1:00 I see it really struggle
@@MKRM27 yes, i not has newer seen any use mitre saw this worst style. need cut traight not need play than little boy whit mitre saw.
Found a way to Oregonize his wrenches...
Let me be frank: you have too many wrenches! You succumbed to the wicked garage-sale temptation. One suggestion to mitigate this problem: build two more wrench racks for the other side of the shop, so you won't be walking around every time you need one.
"Did I get this from the east rack or the west rack?" That's what would happen to me.
You're right. I think next is to have particular wrenches I need in specific areas of the shop.
Use brass bolts and nuts?
Does the wrench holder #1 get in the way of your knee stop for the large radial arm saw?
good point. I have not tried that yet
What is the string you have attached to your radial arm saw for?
it goes to a weight. it helps if you have something to pull against
I hate when there's many tools in one peg such that to get the one behind all others, you need to move all others out of the way.
I think you just got way too much wrenches? :D