If shop class gave out letters in high school I would've been a 4 yr letterman. Electric, engines, wood, mechanical drawing and machine shop. Took them all and use information yet today that was learned there. Not everybody should be a paper pusher or desk jockey! Kudos Mr Pete!
Thanks for the tour Mr. Pete. Once I show this to my wife she can never call me a hoarder of tools again. Hopefully you've just saved me from years of complaints about buying tools.
Mr. Pete, mighty impressive collection of functional life's work tools and materials. It's so nice to see a man who makes things and is also capable of dispensing the knowledge and techniques to those of us who also care about such things. I suppose it's just fine to have a collection of "you-name-it" that sits on shelves and does nothing BUT, it's so much better to display a "work-in-progress" collection of items that, with skills, knowledge and abilities added, can cause a transformation that can become just about anything. Three cheers for Tubalcain! Let's reassemble America!
Great to see I am not alone in collecting multiples of every thing!! My dad always want me to take scrap wood and I alway say "I have a perfectly dry well organized collection at the lumberyard" And for screw etc; "I keep all my screws at the hardware store" always in good order!
+jimmydiresta Thats a truism. In fact, I just threw out at 10,000 screws & bolts that have been sitting there forever and I will never use in my lifetime
I noticed that you don't keep your inventory at Walmart. Walmart is always out of stock and has a real hard time figuring out they are out of stock and need to reorder.
I have been a auto tech for over 40 years. I am a tool fanatic and like you have collected quite a few tools and machines over the years. I recently bought a Logan 820 and have discovered a whole new tool world. Thanks for showing us around your shop. Very nice. I wish I had mine organized a well as you. I'm studying many of your videos. You're very thorough. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowlege.
One of the big problems today is people do not have a passion for what they do for a living. This video is a perfect example of someone who loved what they did for a living teaching others. Its rather sad that there are no more vocational classes in schools today, who will be around to fix things that break but isnt every thing today a throw a way so I guess it does not really matter. Thanks for letting us view your lifetime of work.
I just thought about some of his videos on where he gets a lot of the machine tools, cutters, etc. , !- from auctions of companies going out of business, 2- from widows of dead machnist, I've even seen scrap metal yards with perfectly good machines I guess no one wanted. Thats my point sadley enough.
Enjoy your videos! The basement tour was great. Let me share some thing I learned from a fire investigator. House fires tend to burn slowly until they come in contact with a flammable liquid. They then accelerate and quickly destroy the structure. Lesson learned: Move out excess flammable liquids and aerosols. Store the rest in an enclosed metal locker away from the furnace and hot water heater.
As one gear head to another, thank you for sharing your private home shop with us. I am continually fascinated by this bug that bites us and causes us to be one of the few idiots in our village whom seems to have no restraint for lathes, mills, tools, and the like. It's not hoarding if its not out in the rain, its organized, you know how to use it and do,.. it's a collection. I seem to have been on this path for quite some time now and wondering where it is all going and what it is all about. Your shop tour helped me understand a little bit more about my own quest. Thanks, Mr Pete for all that you share with us. It is truly amazing how much creative energy can come from such a small sq/ ft.
Thanks for the tour Mr. Pete. It was absolute eye candy for us tool and workshop junkies (also known as workshop voyers). This isn't the first time that we've seen your face. I remember another video a few years ago. I believe it was about the horizontal band saw. In it you showed us how to coil a bandsaw blade and your mug was plainly visible. Keep up the great work! To some of us, you are the only machine shop teacher we've ever had.
@@mrpete222 Where is the vertical slotting machine for internal square index blind hole work and a keyseater for internal hole through square work and racways!
Along with a brick of Lady Fingers and a dozen bottle rockets. Just for those odd projects. In 1972 I was working maintenance at the Midwest Foundry. We use to graze the scrap pile for odd bits of iron like cannon balls and the occasional length of 1/2" chain, but that's another story. One day I found a pile of heavy hollow bar stock. 3/4" bore and 2" od. We had already made air guns out of hydraulic tubing, so finding ready made cannon barrels was a natural progression. We tapped one end of a section about 12" long. Threaded a bolt in an inch and welded the head of the bolt. The next night one of thr guys brought in some black powder and fuse. We clamped it in the big vise, lit the fuse, and left the room. The maintenance shop was the former boiler room building. It was separated from the main plant by 24" thick walls. When the cannon went off the building shook. 😆
What an inspiration to see your shop. I'm a recently retired machinist/tool and die maker. I have just bought an old Carroll-Jamieson 16" x 72" lathe and a 1954 model round ram, J head Bridgeport for my home shop because I miss my craft so much! Thanks again for the tour! Tree Top
listening to your voice for many years. watched many many dozens of the videos. Good to at last put a face to the voice. Don`t know why looking around other peoples workshops is so interesting.... just is. Applaud your good common sense approach to everything. keep it up..
Lovely Aladdin's cave of possibilities, almost submarine like in places through the wide angle; all glorious, delightful & useful. The strength of having all this good stuff to hand shows in your passionate, enthusiastic & powerful teaching. Thank You!
👍Nice! Your basement shop puts today's so called hardware stores to shame. I too have a nice (1942) Waller-Turner DP. Got it years ago for $200. Runs true as new & much better than today's new ones. Thank you for the show sir 👍🇺🇸☕️
Thanks for the interesting tour. Finally great to put a face with the voice. Reminds me of listening to someone on the radio and imagining what they might look like; which never coincides with reality.
I recently stumbled upon your channel, I am drooling over your knowledge and equipment. I am graduating in a month with a mechanical engineering degree, and it's people like you that I really look up to. I sincerely appreciate the time you put into your videos, you have taught me a lot. Thank you
Mr. Pete - very nice video. Thanks for showing your basement shop. Truly you have a passion for your machining! I really respect that because I feel the same way about my work and hobbies. Your videos are well produced, and it is not obvious that you are working in a small area. You have to be well organized to effectively use this many tools in a small shop. You have humbled me by how well you manage to preform so many projects in your basement, while I struggle to accomplish what I want in a large barn! I understand about the bolts and hardware. I also have many boxes of fasteners I got here and there. Some days when I am feeling bored, I sort fasteners. That's my version of "fishing" you might say!
thank you very much, mr. peterson, for inviting us in for a tour -- lots of nice machines and very enviable collection of supplies! i'd contradict the famous texas motto: not everything that's bigger is better. i like your shop, for it is cozy and well suited your mission. thank you for the video, -toly
WOW! Lyle, you have a great shop. Also I think this is the first time that I've seen your face on TH-cam. (Although we met up in Elgin, IL.) Thanks for sharing!
Great collection of tools. Thanks for the tour. I love looking at other peoples shops particularly when it doesn't look like an operating theatre and has been 'lived in'.
I try to keep my files especially, and cutting tools like taps and similar devices in order in rolls and vertical or horizontal boards so they do not bang together and dull in the drawer and that I can take to the place I'm working, then return them to their home when I'm done. You can stack the boards in drawers It is a good way of selecting worn or excess duplicate tools or as a reminder to buy new ones. Sharp files are a joy! Thanks for reminding us to use handles on them. You might remind us of the dangers of rotating machinery and the possibility of tools or work becoming a projectile. I once launched a several pound piece of wood from my table saw at what must have been 100 mph or more, fortunately I did remember to stand to the side, and the wood hit the wall about 20 feet away without dropping an inch. I'm a mechanic by trade and try to allocate periodic blocks of time for cleanup and organization/reorganization. I cannot seem to do serious work and clean efficiently at the same time, I have to separate the jobs to some extent. Try to consider the cost of space, and time wasted finding things. I try to separate boxes of mixed nuts and bolts and other things from time to time by dumping them on a metal table, then sorting them into piles (using a suitable piece of scrap to save the fingers) with similar properties, length, size, thread, etc. or to find the one bolt I'm looking for, perhaps sorting a bit while searching. When finished, I sweep them into labelled boxes of the same category or into the scrap. Better to sort through ten items to find one than through 100! I try to keep suitably-sized PERMANENT labels along with a marking pen to label the boxes and new boxes. Temp labels tend to fall off after 5 years. Sometimes can I fix sagging stacks of heavy boxes of drawers by putting plywood between the layers to spread the load. Have you tried donating extra tools and equipment to schools? Enjoyed your workshop tour.THANKS!
I can't help but wonder if there is some sort of way I can navigate myself into being adopted by tubalcain so that I can somehow inherit his undoubtedly amazing tool collection.
Grest shop. Might need a shoe horn to get any more machinery in there. Never have enough drill bits & tap & dies. Thanks for inviting us to tour your great shop.
Thankyou so much Tubalcain for the shop tour and all of your other videos. "A glorious disarray" is the best way that I can discribe what I see. My own personal disarray pales by comparison but I'm working on it. My knowledge and techniches have benefited greatly from your's and other youtube machine shop gurus. Hopefully you will continue for a very long time.
You are a wealth of information and I learn something every time I watch one of your videos. It's plain to see what a wonderful teacher your were/are! Thanks for letting us see your wonderful workshop !
Hi ! Ha, ha, ... you're gone way too fare collecting stuff if you prefere to go to the hardware store instead of searching in your - drawers - right ! I must admit I have a little of the same idea ... collecting too much "valuable stuff" !
Hi Lyle, how very nice to put a face to a name, as usual you have put up a very informative and engrossing video, you contribute immensely with others of the same ilk to keeping my sanity whilst the rest of my family monopolise the tv, I spend many a happy hour on this laptop absolutely glued to the screen and every word, please keep up the good work, you have educated me on more than one occasion. Regards, Rich....UK.
I have so much respect for you Americans as I am Bahamian and have been very lucky to have you folks bring me tooling for my old S.B. lathe and K.T. mill and many other things that are not available here---much respect and much thanks!
Going back and trying to get caught up on the volume of your videos. I thought my basement was crowded with all my magic making equipment. I was lucky and got a bunch of shelving from an old CVS drugstore that my brother in law worked at. Yes, all my shelves are full. The joists have a lot of stock (8' to 12") loaded with things. At least with metal working it stays pretty clean. I remember my granddad doing wood working but it was always a mess. It is sad when we think about it that very few people want this stuff but these are our treasures. Hopefully, when the time comes the next guy will appreciate them. The strangest auction I went to was a small home maybe 40 x 40 with a basement a former drive in garage in the basement. He had all kinds of machinery. Bridgeports, lathes, drill presses etc....all driven from one drive belt and pulley system. Thanks for posting this.
I think this is absolutely the best use of space I have seen for use as a shop I have no where the amount of tools or machines that you have, and after seeing this I really need to get of my backside and get organized- Great video mrpete very inspiring for me as a goal to work for! Thanks
Very good Mr. Pete. Good decision getting rid of the TV but I did notice Ray Price music. Outstanding shop. Having a small shop makes a person really creative on how they use space, present company included.
Very nice to see you, Lyle. Amazing shop; one which has grown as a garden grows, organically. Your love for metalworking and all things interesting is reflected in your personal collections of tools, tooling and machinery. I enjoyed every minute of this tour and thank you for sharing.
Great Shop, Mr Pete. Seeing a teacher waving a wand like that made my knuckles ache and my fingers curl up. ;-) Thanks for a great tour of your shop Best regards Phil
The revelation @8:00 had me in laughing so hard I had to pause the video. If you've ever purchased equipment from someone even close to the background and experience of Mr. Peterson, those are the treasures you're going to find. Stuff you've probably never seen before which for some inexplicable reason managed to find a way into their shop over several decades. High quality information in all of the videos here, with a compelling, often humorous delivery style, setting a very high benchmark for instructional videos.
good day mrpete222, I thoroughly enjoyed the tour of your shop. Very close to the end of the video, you showed two sets of import hold-down clamping bars and hardware. Your comment was that you didn't like them much. I've had an import set like the one you've shown for many years now and it has served me well. I will say that some minor machine and hand work was required before I could use them with confidence. I will say that my US made tooling is better by far and I'm sure you will agree. Thanks for all of your videos. Your vast knowledge should be in videos for people to watch so their projects can be done correctly and safely.
Thank you for sharing part of your world... it makes me happy to see that you don't need a huge garage with all the bells and whistles to have a great shop. :D
Fascinating tour. Treat use of space + very insightful. Very good of you to show your personal space like that, educational as always. Thanks for sharing.
Speechless. Very nice shop you have there, I just wish for you to be able to use every tool you own in there so we can learn and feast our eyes on how to work with metal. It is always a pleasure to watch your videos and now we can put a face to the voice. Thank you.
Many thanks for this tour mrpete. Its great to have a look around a shop to get more ideas on storage etc. I have a little shop in the house which is 9'x9' (part of a converted garage). It is packed to the hilt with Boxford AUD lathe (S/B 9a clone) mini mill, 2 drill presses, compressor,stick welder 2 belt sanders, bench grinder, mig welder, a horizontal and a vertical band saw + all my powertools, hand tools and stock. You learn how to store and make stuff moveable very quickly. If I had all my stuff out at one time I would need 5 x the space. (wishful thinking going on here). In all a great tour many thanks for sharing. regards from the UK
Your comments about never enough space is so true, my workshop is 40ft x40ft and it is still as packed as your, in fact I could have been in my workshop looking at your, many thanks for posting this, it shows we all have the same lack of space problem! Funny enough the casual observers often ask, why do you need so many files and hammers? There is no hope for them!
So good to see our old friend Lyle! hanks for the tour and keeping us company all these years. I think we saw you one or two times before but not too often. So long for now!
I love your shop! Reminds me of my father who was an old school tool and die man. He started in our basement and eventually built a dedicated shop beside his house packed to the gills with old school machines and tooling.
Just to use each one of your tools once would probably take a life time. And as such one would become a Master. It was a pleasure watching a true Master's life tool collection. Thank you for sharing with us all.
Well Mr. Pete, you have confirmed what my wife has been telling me for years. I am a clutter bug. I guess now I need to turn some attention to my little 20 x 24 shop and get organised! Thanks for showing us, it was a great video! Joe
Thank you Mr. Pete for the tour and your tutalege. I finally acquired my first 6" Atlas lathe a few years ago, and it ha she been a great learning experience. Your videos are my classroom here at the University of You Tube. You most certainly are a man after my own heart. Tool users!
Great video Mr. Pete. As they all are. I have watched all your videos, some of them over and over again. I wish you were my shop teacher when I was growing up. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
Hello Sr. thank for show you shop ,for firth time I see you face ,I like you howdy and so lone ,you are EXCELLENT teacher please keep on I enjoy all you videosTHANK
It surprises me how much stuff can accumulate over forty-years. I don't have as much space as you, however I still have the problem of finding it easier to go buy a thing at the hardware store than finding it in my hoard, even though I'm pretty sure I've got at least one somewhere. These days I hesitate to move something to a new, more logical spot in a different drawer because I'll begin searching for it in the drawer or on the shelf where it was before I moved it. One of my younger friends often kids me that some day I'm going to have a hell-of-an estate sale. I'll show him some tool or another that interests him, and he'll ask, "Is that going to be in the estate sale?" :-) It is a reminder that I ought to be paring my inventory. Thanks for the tour. It always fun to see another man's workshop.
What a shop. Some day, I hope I have 1/10 of what you have, I need to get out more and I hope I can put things away and organize like you. Thank you for sharing.
Dear Mr Pete, I have been watching you for years, and you were my first of many 'TH-cam shop teachers', and I took great delight in meeting the face of the voice in your videos. It was not what I expected, I don't know what I expected but you are a very humble man with great intentions. Which is nice. I think your young Jordan is lucky to have such a Grandfather. Great shop video, nice change up to the normal style. Keep up your videos, I love them! Kind Regards, Jack Green, Sheffield, UK
At 2:00 you just about break my heart to see those planes, no broken totes, sitting second to the bottom shelf bladeside down. My best non-users or rarely used are on my living room wall! And you should drag out that jointer, trade in some of that excess for a nice piece of 2-4 thick curly maple and make yourself a beautiful BLOed finish shelf for those models to sit on in a room in your main domain.
What a great video. You have your shop the way you want it, and that's how it should be. My wife is not happy with this video because I now have new ideas about getting more stuff in my basement shop. I hope to organize some of my space to properly utilize my space better, more room for more tools.
I happened found some of my pops old tools,barden calipers,brown amd sharp, like new. a picture of him running a belt drive Brigeport belt drive and his pop running a Bullerd. you have a great show. Jim
New you had a lot of stuff but never expected that much.I like the machines you have, they are far better than the modern prefabricated, fancy coloured toys what we have to buy today. Thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed watching your video and please don't decide to move house because you wouldn't have time to make more videos.
Just found this channel, The name I recognized from the books. great to see the chromatic aberations in the new wide angle lens. it gives me a bit of sea sickness, modern lens designs have overcome this in all commertial products, I 'm sure later videos changed soon. Love the layout, I have similar rails for the plier type and screwdrivers/ punches, scribes. I hung hammers to an onerhead beam unril I tapped one off its pins jumping up and as I squatted down below the hammer followed me and bonked me on the donce. I have several books. Spindle lock on foot switch. nice. looking forward to watching more.
Thank you very much for joining me. You need to wear a hardhat in your shop, lol. I am not the long dead Tubalcain from England who authored many books. He was a great inspiration to all of us
There is something to be said about a smaller shop, the bigger the shop there is more places for things to get lost or misplaced. I hate to spend hours looking for things that I know I have but can't find. I really enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing. I don't need that big of drawer for my money.
Thank you, sir, for the tour of your shop. It's honestly an honor after watching your videos. I'd like to say that whenever I get stuck on something, or need or want to learn something new, you have an answer, or at least a good start off point. Thanks again.
mrpete thank you! A very well-done shop tour. Sir i have come to the fact that all shops are all the same. not enough space and to much stuff that we cant part with. Thank you sir to take a peak at your shop! Like ~M~
Thanks for the tour Lyle, you really have a lot packed into your shop. I guess it is not so much different thana lot of small shops , except for the number of machines that you have in your's.
Really, he's got more DPs and two have a second band saw for a blade size? I don't even own one. I could afford it but I make do with 3 jigsaws (mine, my dads & my grandpa's...no kidding!) and just bought a milwaukee sawzall when they told me to throw away one of my bikes due to a bottom bracket they couldn't get out. I put a Shimano UN -55 (the one with the METAL cup, not plastic!) into it last fall and rode it through every blizzard and snowstorm we had this past winter!
I have been waiting for this shop tour for years! my shop is 12x16 and I have a giant manual lathe and a bridgeport, I have a short video showing how small but I couldn't fit a tenth of that in my shop! Thanks for the tour, that basement is Awesome!
Nice to see your set up in its entirety. When I polished molds for the plastics industry we used Foredom flex shafts. You wouldn't believe all of the different attachments there are for them. They were really the first industrial "Dremel". The one that I preferred using had a variable speed foot peddle and worked really good when using diamond compounds and nylon bristle cup brushes to get a mirror finish.
That was a honour to see your shop setup. very much enjoyed. Thank you for sharing.
+one4stevo Thanks for watching
Yes indeed.
Thank you Mr. Pete!
If shop class gave out letters in high school I would've been a 4 yr letterman. Electric, engines, wood, mechanical drawing and machine shop. Took them all and use information yet today that was learned there. Not everybody should be a paper pusher or desk jockey! Kudos Mr Pete!
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Thanks for the tour Mr. Pete. Once I show this to my wife she can never call me a hoarder of tools again. Hopefully you've just saved me from years of complaints about buying tools.
+The Texas Gun Guy Good luck with that. My wife would just tell me to stop watching the nut.... :-)
+Blazer02LS That's what mine does... not that I'm going to do what *she* tells me to in this respect... ;^)
+The Texas Gun Guy Yes-Thanks for watching
Great idea, then I wont need the ear plugs when I buy more tools.
Mr. Pete, mighty impressive collection of functional life's work tools and materials. It's so nice to see a man who makes things and is also capable of dispensing the knowledge and techniques to those of us who also care about such things. I suppose it's just fine to have a collection of "you-name-it" that sits on shelves and does nothing BUT, it's so much better to display a "work-in-progress" collection of items that, with skills, knowledge and abilities added, can cause a transformation that can become just about anything. Three cheers for Tubalcain! Let's reassemble America!
+james mccoskey +Thanks for watching!--and thanks for a positive & encouraging comment!!
Great to see I am not alone in collecting multiples of every thing!! My dad always want me to take scrap wood and I alway say "I have a perfectly dry well organized collection at the lumberyard" And for screw etc; "I keep all my screws at the hardware store" always in good order!
+jimmydiresta Thats a truism. In fact, I just threw out at 10,000 screws & bolts that have been sitting there forever and I will never use in my lifetime
For me, its 35 miles to town (about 25k population) and over 100 to nearest city, so having stocks at home are of value.
I noticed that you don't keep your inventory at Walmart. Walmart is always out of stock and has a real hard time figuring out they are out of stock and need to reorder.
Buying screws and bolts from stores is a ripoff, I don’t throw out anything without stripping all the hardware first
@@sd906238 They used to brag about computerized restocking.
Wow Mr. Pete. Lots and lots of everything. Nice shop. Thank you for sharing.
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Being surrounded by what you love is wonderful - Thanks for the tour.
+John Strange Thanks for watching
I have been a auto tech for over 40 years. I am a tool fanatic and like you have collected quite a few tools and machines over the years. I recently bought a Logan 820 and have discovered a whole new tool world. Thanks for showing us around your shop. Very nice. I wish I had mine organized a well as you. I'm studying many of your videos. You're very thorough. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowlege.
+Douglas Tees Thanks for watching--its alway good to here from another "old shop teacher". Keep watching
One of the big problems today is people do not have a passion for what they do for a living. This video is a perfect example of someone who loved what they did for a living teaching others. Its rather sad that there are no more vocational classes in schools today, who will be around to fix things that break but isnt every thing today a throw a way so I guess it does not really matter. Thanks for letting us view your lifetime of work.
+gary smith Shop class still exists, only now it's online right here.
It would be interesting to know the age range of mr. Petersons subscribers.
I just thought about some of his videos on where he gets a lot of the machine tools, cutters, etc. , !- from auctions of companies going out of business, 2- from widows of dead machnist, I've even seen scrap metal yards with perfectly good machines I guess no one wanted. Thats my point sadley enough.
+gary smith Thanks for watching--so true
+gary smith 75 and up
Enjoy your videos! The basement tour was great. Let me share some thing I learned from a fire investigator. House fires tend to burn slowly until they come in contact with a flammable liquid. They then accelerate and quickly destroy the structure. Lesson learned: Move out excess flammable liquids and aerosols. Store the rest in an enclosed metal locker away from the furnace and hot water heater.
+Art White well noted!
As one gear head to another, thank you for sharing your private home shop with us. I am continually fascinated by this bug that bites us and causes us to be one of the few idiots in our village whom seems to have no restraint for lathes, mills, tools, and the like. It's not hoarding if its not out in the rain, its organized, you know how to use it and do,.. it's a collection. I seem to have been on this path for quite some time now and wondering where it is all going and what it is all about. Your shop tour helped me understand a little bit more about my own quest. Thanks, Mr Pete for all that you share with us. It is truly amazing how much creative energy can come from such a small sq/ ft.
+Douglas Smith THANKS FOR WATCHING--there's no explaining it--its just craving I guess.
Thanks for the tour Mr. Pete. It was absolute eye candy for us tool and workshop junkies (also known as workshop voyers).
This isn't the first time that we've seen your face. I remember another video a few years ago. I believe it was about the horizontal band saw. In it you showed us how to coil a bandsaw blade and your mug was plainly visible.
Keep up the great work! To some of us, you are the only machine shop teacher we've ever had.
+TAWPTool Thanks for watching
A man can't hardly get by these days without some cannon fuse in his inventory.
+Doug Rundell True-Thanks for watching
@@mrpete222 Where is the vertical slotting machine for internal square index blind hole work and a keyseater for internal hole through square work and racways!
Along with a brick of Lady Fingers and a dozen bottle rockets. Just for those odd projects.
In 1972 I was working maintenance at the Midwest Foundry.
We use to graze the scrap pile for odd bits of iron like cannon balls and the occasional length of 1/2" chain, but that's another story.
One day I found a pile of heavy hollow bar stock. 3/4" bore and 2" od. We had already made air guns out of hydraulic tubing, so finding ready made cannon barrels was a natural progression. We tapped one end of a section about 12" long. Threaded a bolt in an inch and welded the head of the bolt. The next night one of thr guys brought in some black powder and fuse. We clamped it in the big vise, lit the fuse, and left the room. The maintenance shop was the former boiler room building. It was separated from the main plant by 24" thick walls.
When the cannon went off the building shook. 😆
Its a nice starter collection!! Honestly I would walk over hot coals for a room like this. Great informative videos. Thank you.
Thank you, I'm glad you like it
What an inspiration to see your shop. I'm a recently retired machinist/tool and die maker. I have just bought an old Carroll-Jamieson 16" x 72" lathe and a 1954 model round ram, J head Bridgeport for my home shop because I miss my craft so much! Thanks again for the tour! Tree Top
+TreeTop1947 Thanks for watching--yes, when I retired, I bought almost all the machines I had favored when I was teaching
There's a lifetimes work there, absolutely outstanding. Thanks for taking the time to show all you have.
+thornwarbler Thanks for watching
listening to your voice for many years. watched many many dozens of the videos. Good to at last put a face to the voice. Don`t know why looking around other peoples workshops is so interesting.... just is. Applaud your good common sense approach to everything. keep it up..
Lovely Aladdin's cave of possibilities, almost submarine like in places through the wide angle; all glorious, delightful & useful. The strength of having all this good stuff to hand shows in your passionate, enthusiastic & powerful teaching. Thank You!
+Springwood Cottage Thanks for watching
Not a wasted square inch in that shop...thanks for the tour, loved it.
+dale pratt Thanks for watching
👍Nice! Your basement shop puts today's so called hardware stores to shame. I too have a nice (1942) Waller-Turner DP. Got it years ago for $200. Runs true as new & much better than today's new ones. Thank you for the show sir 👍🇺🇸☕️
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Thanks for the interesting tour. Finally great to put a face with the voice. Reminds me of listening to someone on the radio and imagining what they might look like; which never coincides with reality.
+Robert Ross Thanks for watching--yes, they never match
I recently stumbled upon your channel, I am drooling over your knowledge and equipment. I am graduating in a month with a mechanical engineering degree, and it's people like you that I really look up to. I sincerely appreciate the time you put into your videos, you have taught me a lot. Thank you
+Luke Ranta Thanks for watching & welcome to my channel. You have 650 videos left to watch. Conrats on your degree
Hello Mr Pete -
Thanks for showing a tour of your shop - also - good to put together your voice with your face . Keep your videos coming .
+Pete Moss Thanks for watching
Mr. Pete - very nice video. Thanks for showing your basement shop. Truly you have a passion for your machining! I really respect that because I feel the same way about my work and hobbies.
Your videos are well produced, and it is not obvious that you are working in a small area. You have to be well organized to effectively use this many tools in a small shop.
You have humbled me by how well you manage to preform so many projects in your basement, while I struggle to accomplish what I want in a large barn! I understand about the bolts and hardware. I also have many boxes of fasteners I got here and there. Some days when I am feeling bored, I sort fasteners. That's my version of "fishing" you might say!
+davida1hiwaaynet Thanks for watchingall so true
Thanks for the tour, and the appearance in front of the camera.
+cougarhunter33 Thanks for watching
thank you very much, mr. peterson, for inviting us in for a tour -- lots of nice machines and very enviable collection of supplies!
i'd contradict the famous texas motto: not everything that's bigger is better.
i like your shop, for it is cozy and well suited your mission.
thank you for the video,
-toly
+Toly Dukhovny Thanks toly-and you've been a big help
That was great. I'm amazed by how much you can fit in such a small space :-)
+Metal Tips and Tricks (Dale Derry) Thanks for watching
Its such a blessing to have a good Christian man like you to be my shop teacher, love you Mr. Peterson
Thanks 🙏
WOW! Lyle, you have a great shop. Also I think this is the first time that I've seen your face on TH-cam. (Although we met up in Elgin, IL.) Thanks for sharing!
+Herb Blair Hi Herb
Great collection of tools. Thanks for the tour. I love looking at other peoples shops particularly when it doesn't look like an operating theatre and has been 'lived in'.
+Matt King Thanks for watching--its lived in alright
Fantastic little shop!!
Danny Herrera But little is my Shop 4m2 not .. :D
I try to keep my files especially, and cutting tools like taps and similar devices in order in rolls and vertical or horizontal boards so they do not bang together and dull in the drawer and that I can take to the place I'm working, then return them to their home when I'm done. You can stack the boards in drawers It is a good way of selecting worn or excess duplicate tools or as a reminder to buy new ones. Sharp files are a joy! Thanks for reminding us to use handles on them. You might remind us of the dangers of rotating machinery and the possibility of tools or work becoming a projectile. I once launched a several pound piece of wood from my table saw at what must have been 100 mph or more, fortunately I did remember to stand to the side, and the wood hit the wall about 20 feet away without dropping an inch.
I'm a mechanic by trade and try to allocate periodic blocks of time for cleanup and organization/reorganization. I cannot seem to do serious work and clean efficiently at the same time, I have to separate the jobs to some extent. Try to consider the cost of space, and time wasted finding things. I try to separate boxes of mixed nuts and bolts and other things from time to time by dumping them on a metal table, then sorting them into piles (using a suitable piece of scrap to save the fingers) with similar properties, length, size, thread, etc. or to find the one bolt I'm looking for, perhaps sorting a bit while searching. When finished, I sweep them into labelled boxes of the same category or into the scrap. Better to sort through ten items to find one than through 100! I try to keep suitably-sized PERMANENT labels along with a marking pen to label the boxes and new boxes. Temp labels tend to fall off after 5 years.
Sometimes can I fix sagging stacks of heavy boxes of drawers by putting plywood between the layers to spread the load.
Have you tried donating extra tools and equipment to schools?
Enjoyed your workshop tour.THANKS!
I can't help but wonder if there is some sort of way I can navigate myself into being adopted by tubalcain so that I can somehow inherit his undoubtedly amazing tool collection.
+Brady Rose You're a twisted person.
I also have dreams where I find a box full of money. Try not to take it too seriously.
+Brady Rose Thanks for watching
+Brady Rose In the beginning of the Iraq War a couple helicopters of bribe money went mysteriously missing. So not boxes, but pallets. Seriously.
Grest shop. Might need a shoe horn to get any more machinery in there. Never have enough drill bits & tap & dies. Thanks for inviting us to tour your great shop.
Thanks
Next time someone tells me I have too many machines and tools, I'm going to show them this video and say "obviously I've only just gotten started".
Thankyou so much Tubalcain for the shop tour and all of your other videos. "A glorious disarray" is the best way that I can discribe what I see. My own personal disarray pales by comparison but I'm working on it. My knowledge and techniches have benefited greatly from your's and other youtube machine shop gurus. Hopefully you will continue for a very long time.
+Jay Minor Thanks for watching--lots more to come
wished you were my neighbor
no dumpster diving
You are a wealth of information and I learn something every time I watch one of your videos. It's plain to see what a wonderful teacher your were/are! Thanks for letting us see your wonderful workshop !
+William Yester Thanks
Hi !
Ha, ha, ... you're gone way too fare collecting stuff if you prefere to go to the hardware store instead of searching in your - drawers - right !
I must admit I have a little of the same idea ... collecting too much "valuable stuff" !
+Keld Sørensen Thanks for watching
Hi Lyle, how very nice to put a face to a name, as usual you have put up a very informative and engrossing video, you contribute immensely with others of the same ilk to keeping my sanity whilst the rest of my family monopolise the tv, I spend many a happy hour on this laptop absolutely glued to the screen and every word, please keep up the good work, you have educated me on more than one occasion.
Regards, Rich....UK.
+rich kellow Hi Rich--Thanks for watching--glad you like them--and much more to come
I've watch this a dozen times, still enjoy it! Thanks Lyle
👍👍
I have so much respect for you Americans as I am Bahamian and have been very lucky to have you folks bring me tooling for my old S.B. lathe and K.T. mill and many other things that are not available here---much respect and much thanks!
Going back and trying to get caught up on the volume of your videos. I thought my basement was crowded with all my magic making equipment. I was lucky and got a bunch of shelving from an old CVS drugstore that my brother in law worked at. Yes, all my shelves are full. The joists have a lot of stock (8' to 12") loaded with things. At least with metal working it stays pretty clean. I remember my granddad doing wood working but it was always a mess. It is sad when we think about it that very few people want this stuff but these are our treasures. Hopefully, when the time comes the next guy will appreciate them. The strangest auction I went to was a small home maybe 40 x 40 with a basement a former drive in garage in the basement. He had all kinds of machinery. Bridgeports, lathes, drill presses etc....all driven from one drive belt and pulley system.
Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for an interesting comment. I stopped doing woodworking in my shop many years ago because of the mess.
With all that many tool u can build anything, thanks for the tour ,so i see i am not a lone .
Thanks, from a long time subscriber tubalcain - been waiting about 8 years for this tour. What an amazing shop. Tim
+metaling1 Thanks for watching
Another great vid Mr.Pete! A cluttered shop is always the sign of a great mind and true Craftsman such as yourself! Thanks for the tour!
+Mr Frog Thanks for watching
You are welcome sir!
I think this is absolutely the best use of space I have seen for use as a shop I have no where the amount of tools or machines that you have, and after seeing this I really need to get of my backside and get organized- Great video mrpete very inspiring for me as a goal to work for! Thanks
+Rosario W Glad you like my shop!!
Very good Mr. Pete. Good decision getting rid of the TV but I did notice Ray Price music. Outstanding shop. Having a small shop makes a person really creative on how they use space, present company included.
+Mike C. Thanks for watching
Very nice to see you, Lyle. Amazing shop; one which has grown as a garden grows, organically. Your love for metalworking and all things interesting is reflected in your personal collections of tools, tooling and machinery. I enjoyed every minute of this tour and thank you for sharing.
+Jim Milne Thanks for watching
Great Shop, Mr Pete.
Seeing a teacher waving a wand like that made my knuckles ache and my fingers curl up. ;-)
Thanks for a great tour of your shop
Best regards
Phil
+Phil's Projects Thanks for watching
The revelation @8:00 had me in laughing so hard I had to pause the video. If you've ever purchased equipment from someone even close to the background and experience of Mr. Peterson, those are the treasures you're going to find. Stuff you've probably never seen before which for some inexplicable reason managed to find a way into their shop over several decades. High quality information in all of the videos here, with a compelling, often humorous delivery style, setting a very high benchmark for instructional videos.
That basement is a great example of how a man can live as a minimalist :) Love the 1 inch of ceiling clearance on the Bridgeport.
+C Puzz Thanks for watching--can't get the drawbar out witout tilting head
good day mrpete222, I thoroughly enjoyed the tour of your shop. Very close to the end of the video, you showed two sets of import hold-down clamping bars and hardware. Your comment was that you didn't like them much. I've had an import set like the one you've shown for many years now and it has served me well. I will say that some minor machine and hand work was required before I could use them with confidence. I will say that my US made tooling is better by far and I'm sure you will agree. Thanks for all of your videos. Your vast knowledge should be in videos for people to watch so their projects can be done correctly and safely.
I noticed that as well, speaking personally I've found mine a god send at times on the mill
Thank you for sharing part of your world... it makes me happy to see that you don't need a huge garage with all the bells and whistles to have a great shop. :D
+lavalleyk Thanks for watching
Fascinating tour. Treat use of space + very insightful. Very good of you to show your personal space like that, educational as always. Thanks for sharing.
+jix177 Thanks for watching
Speechless. Very nice shop you have there, I just wish for you to be able to use every tool you own in there so we can learn and feast our eyes on how to work with metal.
It is always a pleasure to watch your videos and now we can put a face to the voice. Thank you.
+Tonyus81 Thanks for watching--sooner or later, I will use them all
Many thanks for this tour mrpete. Its great to have a look around a shop to get more ideas on storage etc. I have a little shop in the house which is 9'x9' (part of a converted garage). It is packed to the hilt with Boxford AUD lathe (S/B 9a clone) mini mill, 2 drill presses, compressor,stick welder 2 belt sanders, bench grinder, mig welder, a horizontal and a vertical band saw + all my powertools, hand tools and stock. You learn how to store and make stuff moveable very quickly. If I had all my stuff out at one time I would need 5 x the space. (wishful thinking going on here). In all a great tour many thanks for sharing. regards from the UK
+Gary C Thanks for watching--I bet I would like your shop too
Your comments about never enough space is so true, my workshop is 40ft x40ft and it is still as packed as your, in fact I could have been in my workshop looking at your, many thanks for posting this, it shows we all have the same lack of space problem! Funny enough the casual observers often ask, why do you need so many files and hammers? There is no hope for them!
+Englishman French True-Thanks for watching
Your shop is what I would call---complete!
Indeed
most impressive collection of tools you have.. as they say you can never have too many tools.. thanks for sharing sir..
+Kevin Willis Thanks for watching
So good to see our old friend Lyle! hanks for the tour and keeping us company all these years. I think we saw you one or two times before but not too often.
So long for now!
+phooesnax Thanks for watching--glad you saw me
I love your shop! Reminds me of my father who was an old school tool and die man. He started in our basement and eventually built a dedicated shop beside his house packed to the gills with old school machines and tooling.
+Foothills Trail Hiker thank you your dad shop sounded great also
A pleasure to put a face to the voice and get a feel for your work space.
+Godshole Thanks for watching
+Godshole Agreed! So interesting to see how much can be done in a relatively small space.
Just to use each one of your tools once would probably take a life time. And as such one would become a Master. It was a pleasure watching a true Master's life tool collection. Thank you for sharing with us all.
Thank you very much, and thank you for watching
Vice nice, thanks for sharing, I enjoyed the tour very much.
+tfp777 Thanks for watching
Love the shop tour. I love all your videos. Keep them coming.
Well Mr. Pete, you have confirmed what my wife has been telling me for years. I am a clutter bug. I guess now I need to turn some attention to my little 20 x 24 shop and get organised! Thanks for showing us, it was a great video!
Joe
+My Heap Thanks for watching
Thank you Mr. Pete for the tour and your tutalege. I finally acquired my first 6" Atlas lathe a few years ago, and it ha she been a great learning experience. Your videos are my classroom here at the University of You Tube. You most certainly are a man after my own heart. Tool users!
Thank you very much
I enjoyed seeing your museum........I mean little shop. Recognized a few areas and tools from other videos.....Never enough time.............never.
Great video Mr. Pete. As they all are. I have watched all your videos, some of them over and over again. I wish you were my shop teacher when I was growing up. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
+Michael Wooten thanks for watching--you have just encouraged me
Hello Sr. thank for show you shop ,for firth time I see you face ,I like you howdy and so lone ,you are EXCELLENT teacher please keep on I enjoy all you videosTHANK
+Hito Ortega Thanks for watching
It surprises me how much stuff can accumulate over forty-years. I don't have as much space as you, however I still have the problem of finding it easier to go buy a thing at the hardware store than finding it in my hoard, even though I'm pretty sure I've got at least one somewhere. These days I hesitate to move something to a new, more logical spot in a different drawer because I'll begin searching for it in the drawer or on the shelf where it was before I moved it.
One of my younger friends often kids me that some day I'm going to have a hell-of-an estate sale. I'll show him some tool or another that interests him, and he'll ask, "Is that going to be in the estate sale?" :-) It is a reminder that I ought to be paring my inventory.
Thanks for the tour. It always fun to see another man's workshop.
+Richard Freeze Thanks for watching--true, I don't dare move things,
What a shop. Some day, I hope I have 1/10 of what you have, I need to get out more and I hope I can put things away and organize like you. Thank you for sharing.
+Larry Pardi Thanks for watching
old Walker Turner Drill Press...I have one like that...bought it used 40 years ago...still works fine....Nice tour of your shop..!!
+Doug Ankrum Its my favorite press
Dear Mr Pete,
I have been watching you for years, and you were my first of many 'TH-cam shop teachers', and I took great delight in meeting the face of the voice in your videos. It was not what I expected, I don't know what I expected but you are a very humble man with great intentions. Which is nice. I think your young Jordan is lucky to have such a Grandfather.
Great shop video, nice change up to the normal style. Keep up your videos, I love them!
Kind Regards,
Jack Green, Sheffield, UK
+Jack Green Thanks for watching and the kind words. keep watching
Thanks for the tour and all the other video's you have made.
Your teaching skills and humor make learning a joy.
Please keep up the good work.
+van miller Thanks for watching
At 2:00 you just about break my heart to see those planes, no broken totes, sitting second to the bottom shelf bladeside down. My best non-users or rarely used are on my living room wall!
And you should drag out that jointer, trade in some of that excess for a nice piece of 2-4 thick curly maple and make yourself a beautiful BLOed finish shelf for those models to sit on in a room in your main domain.
What a great shop setup you have. I love the level of organization. All shop teachers would be proud. Good luck when you sell it all.
What a great video. You have your shop the way you want it, and that's how it should be. My wife is not happy with this video because I now have new ideas about getting more stuff in my basement shop. I hope to organize some of my space to properly utilize my space better, more room for more tools.
+stefanoworx Thanks for watching
I happened found some of my pops old tools,barden calipers,brown amd sharp, like new. a picture of him running a belt drive Brigeport belt drive and his pop running a Bullerd. you have a great show. Jim
I like to watch this video from time to time. Just to get ideas and such. Nice shop.
Thanks for watching
Thanks for the tour of your shop. It is always good to see what someone else is doing and how the machines are set up. One can never have enough tool!
+Ernie Noa Thanks Ernie
A long awaited Tour Mr. Pete! A classic case of too much stuff and too little space - LOL!!
+Bobby W Thanks for watching
New you had a lot of stuff but never expected that much.I like the machines you have, they are far better than the modern prefabricated, fancy coloured toys what we have to buy today.
Thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed watching your video and please don't decide to move house because you wouldn't have time to make more videos.
+Nodrog Awson Thanks for watching-I love the old ones
Just found this channel, The name I recognized from the books. great to see the chromatic aberations in the new wide angle lens. it gives me a bit of sea sickness, modern lens designs have overcome this in all commertial products, I 'm sure later videos changed soon. Love the layout, I have similar rails for the plier type and screwdrivers/ punches, scribes. I hung hammers to an onerhead beam unril I tapped one off its pins jumping up and as I squatted down below the hammer followed me and bonked me on the donce. I have several books. Spindle lock on foot switch. nice. looking forward to watching more.
Thank you very much for joining me. You need to wear a hardhat in your shop, lol. I am not the long dead Tubalcain from England who authored many books. He was a great inspiration to all of us
Really enjoyed the tour sir! No man can have too many tools!
+David Lowe Thanks for watching
Thanks for the tour Pete and yes you do have a few tools. Later and all the best.
+NSTRAPPERHUNTER Thanks for watching
Nice to see your face ! Good Luck and I wish a long life to to enjoy your shop.
+Donald Bernaitis Thanks for watching
There is something to be said about a smaller shop, the bigger the shop there is more places for things to get lost or misplaced. I hate to spend hours looking for things that I know I have but can't find. I really enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing. I don't need that big of drawer for my money.
+James Minor Thank you very much for watching-much more to come. I still cannot find things in my small shop
Thank you, sir, for the tour of your shop. It's honestly an honor after watching your videos. I'd like to say that whenever I get stuck on something, or need or want to learn something new, you have an answer, or at least a good start off point. Thanks again.
+Derek Broestler thanks for watching-glad I helped
You are an great wealth of knowledge.. I can Listen to you all day thanks so much…
I appreciate that!
I'm willing to bet that compared to most people's workshop yours is very tidy and well organised!
+voidmansions Thanks for watching
mrpete thank you! A very well-done shop tour. Sir i have come to the fact that all shops are all the same. not enough space and to much stuff that we cant part with. Thank you sir to take a peak at your shop! Like ~M~
+Mike A Drover Thanks for watching--You may not be able to tell it, but I just threw away a mountain of fasteners.
Sad I would have been very interested in that mountain of fasteners. I enjoy your site keep them coming ~M~
Always enjoyed your simple and no nonsense explanation.Thumbs up.
+yustech THANKS FOR WATCHING
Thanks for the tour Lyle, you really have a lot packed into your shop. I guess it is not so much different thana lot of small shops , except for the number of machines that you have in your's.
+Tom Bellus Thanks for watching
Really, he's got more DPs and two have a second band saw for a blade size? I don't even own one. I could afford it but I make do with 3 jigsaws (mine, my dads & my grandpa's...no kidding!) and just bought a milwaukee sawzall when they told me to throw away one of my bikes due to a bottom bracket they couldn't get out. I put a Shimano UN -55 (the one with the METAL cup, not plastic!) into it last fall and rode it through every blizzard and snowstorm we had this past winter!
I have been waiting for this shop tour for years! my shop is 12x16 and I have a giant manual lathe and a bridgeport, I have a short video showing how small but I couldn't fit a tenth of that in my shop! Thanks for the tour, that basement is Awesome!
+wheelitzr2 Thanks for watching
Nice to see your set up in its entirety. When I polished molds for the plastics industry we used Foredom flex shafts. You wouldn't believe all of the different attachments there are for them. They were really the first industrial "Dremel". The one that I preferred using had a variable speed foot peddle and worked really good when using diamond compounds and nylon bristle cup brushes to get a mirror finish.
+harperjmichael Love those foredoms
wow a great shop heaven to the likes of me thanks for sharing Mr Pete .
+james morleyjmor Thanks for watching
NICE! Thanks for showing us your shop!
I thank you for all I have learned from you through your videos. The shop tour was a treat.
+lornie212 Thanks for watching