I've made several of these Turners Cubes over the years when I was in the US Air Force, most of the time to teach younger Airmen that you could square a part in a lathe using a 4 jaw chuck. I never used a holding ring nor did I use the hot glue. Each cube was cut from the inside one to the outer one. Sometimes we would heat the cube and freeze a steel ball from a bearing and drop it into the center cube, when everything went back to room temp the steel ball was captured in the smallest cube. This was also a way to teach new guys coming in to a machine shop to think outside of the box to come up with ways to machine parts. You have to understand, that back in the 1970's and in to the late 80's or 90's most of our shops were still using machinery dating back to WWII and we didn't have a lot of tooling like downtown shops or factories had. So we had to come up with ways to use the tooling on hand and make tooling that would work to fix and or make parts for aircraft. It was a real learning experience during those times.
Thank you for your service, I just recently join the Air Force and got lucky enough to get Metals Tech. Its easily the most satisfying job in the AF, I love every minute of it! I've got to make me one of these in the shop ASAP
there are some very clever people on this planet. I used to use a lathe for 15 years but i was no where near as good as this.Absolutely fascinating to watch
the finest piece of work from a Master Machinist that I have ever seen. All old school and perfect! It was a privelege to see your work. Thank you so much!
Wow. I absolutely love the work you put into that. the thinking, planning, math, attention to detail, sanding and polishing turned into a gorgeous work of art. I'm sure you get a million questions from people that see it asking how you got those cubes inside the bigger one. Thanks for the video, you sure make this look so easy (but we now know it takes a lot of planning and skill). Amazing job.
Very nicely done. Plain old denatured alcohol will dissolve hot melt glue. One could use automotive body filler to hold everything solidly together for machining the last step, and just placed the finished piece in acetone to dissolve the body filler. Lathes and mills teach one patience. Thanks for taking the time to film and post for all.
Having made a couple of these, I fully understand why you so very seldom see them for sale. They are (usually) hand made and take a good deal of time (and skill) to make. When you make a nice one, you keep it! When you make a nice one or two, you move on to a more productive use of your time. If you make them on a CNC machine, which I consider cheating, it is a piece of cake. These are beautiful decorations, but otherwise worthless. They were used, so I understand, to train apprentice machinists how to do set ups and simple machining. If done old school, They had to be removed between each step for measurements by the Master Machinist, then reinserted and the next step cut. That can get to be a LOT of to-ing and fro-ing if you make a 4 or 5 cube Turners cube, but when done correctly, they would teach an apprentice a lot about accurate machining.
Brilliant! My father made one of these on his hercus lathe, though it was smaller and only three nested cubes. He didn't use hot melt glue, but instead machined matching stepped concentric cylinders to plug the holes as he went along. The cube was just a 'proof of concept' before he went ahead with the dodecahedron version, of which he made three copies. I could send you a photo if you are interested. Thanks for posting.
Fantastic movie! Thanks! In the first year of high school in Norway - Machine and mech, year 1985, we made such cubes. Instead of glue, we made four precise spacers that locked the inner cubes at the last cuts. We were not allowed to use measuring equipment in machining, just measure at the hanballers from center etc. The teacher finally measured everything with micrometer and gave grades. My cube is under the PC screen and reminds me who I really are.
@@deconteesawyer5758 I'm going to guess that he's talking about the handwheel scales. If so, that would be the ultimate challenge, but also a great exercise in understanding backlash.
Just a random idea regarding avoiding the hot glue mess. If you were to make multiples of this, It would probably be worth it to make a stepped down cylinder that matches the diameters of the various successive holes in the cube. 3 of those inserted and secured would hold everything in place and be easily removed at the end of the process, and be reusable on other parts. If I were going to do more than 1, I'd definitely make a set like that.
It is so funny! I learned this 53 years ago. Made about 3 pices. The last one around 1985 just to impress my friends at a high-tech, silicon-valley company. I thougt, only I know about this, but here it comes. - I have used a large soft collet patron instead of the chuck and made a spring load puller fitted in to the collet inner tread, to make it easy for the final cut. - Great work! Thank for share!!
When I saw the finished cube at the start of the video I thought "impossible." But now I've watched the entire video, I still think it's impossible. Wow!
I found that the internal grooving tool, if ground from tool steel can be a bit fragile when cutting the release grove for the larger radius cubes. Its dimensions are based on the smallest cubes and with the larger cubes the the tool is put under some chatter stress when striking a void at the outer edges of the cube. The answer I found was that to have at least two grooving tools, perhaps even three. The outer cutter one can be made much stronger and able to cope with the chatter because it doesn't need to fit into the 6mm hole. I hope this helps someone else.
You made a real nice job there,. I remember a couple of my pals making these back in the 70’s when I was an apprentice turner. They didn’t use a ring or hot glue...they had to be very careful on the final faces and they did the machining for the small cubes first if I remember correctly... they they put them in a tumble polisher to remove the burrs... I always wanted to make one but never got rount to it... maybe when i retire I will buy a small lathe and make one.. great video!
I knew, that machining these cubes is tricky. But i couldn't imagine, that it is such a time consuming and precision metal art work. Until i saw this video. Great job, Sir, thank you very much for sharing it with us.
Thank you for sharing, Sir during my machinist school years we had to make a part in the lathe, (south Ben 9) of our own design, and made a cube but I would have dream to make what you show in the video, it was the most interesting work I have seen thus far, thank you. Have a nice day from the distance, (Montevideo-Uruguay) stay safe.
I'm actually just finishing mine up right now in my trade school. I only faced two sides on the round stock with the lathe and I made the other faces with a milling machine. We don't have a working 4 jaw chuck so I had to use what I could take. So what I did was take a scrap piece of round stock and bored out the middle until the cube fit in it and cut a slit in the top of it to compress the cube inside the piece while it was inside the 3 jaw chuck
Hi themetalcuttter i just turned 1 up from aluminium really enjoyed maching it even though i have been working as fitter/machinist for 40 years a good test of trade skills, The cube is more difficult than it looks! As stated before it is turning project .thanks Dibbo
Damn. I'm sorry I watched this. Now I have to head off to the workshop :-) Done similar in wood but never thought of metal. Thanks for the demo. Regards, Ruaidhri
I have to be honest, I'm not really sure how I ended up here. Must have clicked without thinking, but I have to say I can't remember a video I've enjoyed more. You are, without doubt, a true master. I personally haven't used a lathe since school and that was 40 years ago. This video, however, has reminded me just how much pure pleasure it gave me. So, after seeing this, I will be buying a lath, just as soon as I can figure out where to put it. decisions, decisions lol. seriously though, Thank you!
Great video, and as a machinist inspired me to make all the platonic solids from solid brass, The are all nested similarly. The icosahedron particularly tested my patience.
When cutting for a camera that gets in the way, you can hook the camera to a live monitor and use that to watch the part and cutter. If you have good enough resolution, you can see even better than direct observation.
First of all Congratulations. What you did can only be appreciated by people who did some fine works. Now you have a beautiful piece all ones would like to have. Before you had the imagination, the calculations, the strategies, the right tools, lots of patience and someone around to stimulate and incentive. As a former electronic engineer now at 77 I still amazing to see people to do marvellous things like you did. Take care
Absolutely amazing! I would like to do this, but I only have a regular grinding wheel, so I am not sure I can make the undercut tool. Using the hot glue for the last cut is brilliant!
Use Denatured alcohol and the hot glue will just pop right out, no heat necessary. this project is badass, when i get a lathe that is going to be at the top of my list
I love this video. Not just the nice work on the lathe. But also the great filming from the different angles. And especially the silence, I love it. Keep up the great videos
That is just a plain beautiful piece of art! I have seen simular things done in wood with a simple forstener bit, but this just tops it off! Very nice work! :)
+themetalcutter hello friend very good your video I'm from Argentina please show me the formula that is the outer and inner diameters and depth. thank you very much're a genius !!!
Made a cube in a cube in a cube 31 years ago at 18 years old. No such thing as hot melt glue back then. Didn't use a cylindrical holder either just a good old 4 jaw. Undercut tool was just ground on a normal pedastal grinder. The 3rd cube had holes all the way through so a piece of round bar small enough to go through the cube was placed in the cube then either a very strong piece of elastic or rubber band went through the hollow machine spindle and was secured under tension at the other end. Once the cubes were set free the tension pulled the cubes cleanly away from the cutting tool.
pretty cool... I wonder If there could be any way to magnetize those cubes (well the same design on a different material) to be able to keep the cubes on the middle point... would be so epic
Very cool. How much undercut and depth do you recommend so that each cube can rotate freely without falling out? If I made a cube to your dimensions, how much undercut and depth of undercut?
Looks like a great project drew it up in 3d solids and going to leave smallest cube out and have only 2 inside main cube .Going to make it at work out of aluminum....thanks for the idea
Thanks for this unconventional but very useful and entertaining video. And thanks especially for the shots of the marker board at the end and the closeups of the various drawings and critical dimensions!
Very nice work and great results! Fun to watch if one is a machinist! P.S. A DTI is a dial test indicator. You are actually using a DI or dial indicator. DTI's have a lever, DI's have a plunger. I could be wrong, but that's what I was taught.
Hey, don't suppose you could submerge it in wax, then let it cool instead of glue gun to hold them together to make the last cuts, then once done. Place it in boiling water to melt off the wax What are your thoughts? Do you think the work piece would get too hot and melt it? Or is the glue easy enough to just remove to not bother with the wax? Etc. Like to hear your thoughts.
yea I like the machine sounds :D there's something so intrinsically beautiful too about this metal being freshly exposed for the first time to the light after a couple seconds in that lathe, it's just so damned beautiful.
I had a similar project on a cnc mill. A aluminum soccer ball inside of a aluminum square frame. The soccer ball and frame was machined from one piece of aluminum for 5 sides, and for the 6th side, the jaws held the ball and the frame so they could be machined to separate parts. Like yours, the ball does not fit through the frame, and people can't figure out how the ball got in there.
the cutter is very tiny and precise. wouldn't it then be easier to make on a larger scale? 10mm smallest up to 50mm for the larger. I'll have to try my hand at this tho not in brass at first. you make it look very simple!
Excellent video and craftsmanship. I got lost a few times though, especially with the floating table. I think a running commentary or even just a narration would positively impact this video 100%. Thank you for sharing your time, effort' and expertise, much appreciated! ☺
Hey I sorta skipped through the video a bit but I want to make sure that you repeated this process 6 times to make each phase correct? I don’t see how you would do it any other way
The piece is beautiful and your video tutorial is excellent. However, one question. Did you use a special type of hot melt glue? I ruined a piece with scratches trying to remove the remnants of the glue.
themetalcutter. Is there any reason, other than complication, whereby you didn't drill a three or four mm dia hole in the 5 mm cube so it is similar to the other cubes? In any event a lovely video and thanks again for sharing.
Nice work.. But ...Why do you made the first under cutter (see at 18.00 min/43.07) between the outermost and the 2nd cube? For avoid mistake(s) of technological practical to make the innermost cube at first (plus be careful at the 6th side). Maybe somebody would like to make this sample and he possibly will make a mistake...
What would be really interesting is if you had weight measurements for the different stages, so we could see how much material was removed for the final product. I'm kind of guessing the finished cube weighs only a fraction of what the starting cylinder did...
Suggestion for sound: That BOLTR/AvE guy plugs-in classical music and I understand that you can get this music without copy write problems. Great stuff!
Superb workmanship, from the care in grinding the tool to attention to detail and accurate measurement. Well done. If I might make one suggestion, dont use auto focus so much. Some important shots are blurred as the rear end of the tool catches the focue away from the work. That said great workmanship and a joy to display. Thanks for the video.
I've made several of these Turners Cubes over the years when I was in the US Air Force, most of the time to teach younger Airmen that you could square a part in a lathe using a 4 jaw chuck. I never used a holding ring nor did I use the hot glue. Each cube was cut from the inside one to the outer one. Sometimes we would heat the cube and freeze a steel ball from a bearing and drop it into the center cube, when everything went back to room temp the steel ball was captured in the smallest cube. This was also a way to teach new guys coming in to a machine shop to think outside of the box to come up with ways to machine parts.
You have to understand, that back in the 1970's and in to the late 80's or 90's most of our shops were still using machinery dating back to WWII and we didn't have a lot of tooling like downtown shops or factories had. So we had to come up with ways to use the tooling on hand and make tooling that would work to fix and or make parts for aircraft. It was a real learning experience during those times.
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Thank you for your service, I just recently join the Air Force and got lucky enough to get Metals Tech. Its easily the most satisfying job in the AF, I love every minute of it! I've got to make me one of these in the shop ASAP
WWII ? That's modern stuff! Our machines go back pre 1'st WW.
there are some very clever people on this planet. I used to use a lathe for 15 years but i was no where near as good as this.Absolutely fascinating to watch
Best 45 minutes of silence I've ever spent. Thank you for the time and effort you took in making this video and your finished cube!
I dont know how I ended up here, but good lord man! that was 45 minutes of my life well spent watching an artist do his thing! thank you very much.
Awesome work and excellent video. Thanks for not adding annoying music!
hmyeah, but some sound would have been nice! :P
Imagine being so old you like videos with no sound
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And who would have thought thirty years ago that this work would provide entertainment. Bravo!
the finest piece of work from a Master Machinist that I have ever seen. All old school and perfect! It was a privelege to see your work. Thank you so much!
Easily one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in my entire life!
@@mikefriesdrums thanks very much for your comment.
Wow. I absolutely love the work you put into that. the thinking, planning, math, attention to detail, sanding and polishing turned into a gorgeous work of art. I'm sure you get a million questions from people that see it asking how you got those cubes inside the bigger one. Thanks for the video, you sure make this look so easy (but we now know it takes a lot of planning and skill). Amazing job.
Very nicely done. Plain old denatured alcohol will dissolve hot melt glue. One could use automotive body filler to hold everything solidly together for machining the last step, and just placed the finished piece in acetone to dissolve the body filler.
Lathes and mills teach one patience.
Thanks for taking the time to film and post for all.
Having made a couple of these, I fully understand why you so very seldom see them for sale. They are (usually) hand made and take a good deal of time (and skill) to make. When you make a nice one, you keep it!
When you make a nice one or two, you move on to a more productive use of your time. If you make them on a CNC machine, which I consider cheating, it is a piece of cake. These are beautiful decorations, but otherwise worthless.
They were used, so I understand, to train apprentice machinists how to do set ups and simple machining. If done old school, They had to be removed between each step for measurements by the Master Machinist, then reinserted and the next step cut. That can get to be a LOT of to-ing and fro-ing if you make a 4 or 5 cube Turners cube, but when done correctly, they would teach an apprentice a lot about accurate machining.
Making one on a CNC isn’t cheating!
Making 20 on a CNC would certainly be cheating. xD
Brilliant!
My father made one of these on his hercus lathe, though it was smaller and only three nested cubes. He didn't use hot melt glue, but instead machined matching stepped concentric cylinders to plug the holes as he went along. The cube was just a 'proof of concept' before he went ahead with the dodecahedron version, of which he made three copies. I could send you a photo if you are interested.
Thanks for posting.
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Fantastic movie! Thanks! In the first year of high school in Norway - Machine and mech, year 1985, we made such cubes. Instead of glue, we made four precise spacers that locked the inner cubes at the last cuts. We were not allowed to use measuring equipment in machining, just measure at the hanballers from center etc. The teacher finally measured everything with micrometer and gave grades. My cube is under the PC screen and reminds me who I really are.
"hanballers " does not translate. And what did you measure with, as you were not allowed to use any devices.
@@deconteesawyer5758 I'm going to guess that he's talking about the handwheel scales. If so, that would be the ultimate challenge, but also a great exercise in understanding backlash.
@@g.tucker8682 Well it certainly did not help him in understanding English.
You just gave away one of the great secrets of the Universe.
Just a random idea regarding avoiding the hot glue mess.
If you were to make multiples of this, It would probably be worth it to make a stepped down cylinder that matches the diameters of the various successive holes in the cube. 3 of those inserted and secured would hold everything in place and be easily removed at the end of the process, and be reusable on other parts.
If I were going to do more than 1, I'd definitely make a set like that.
I agree completely, it makes sense to do that what you said.
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Hmmm?
If I wanted to make a cube to put around my dick
I’ve seen many of these but never saw one being made, thanks for the lesson.
It is so funny! I learned this 53 years ago. Made about 3 pices. The last one around 1985 just to impress my friends at a high-tech, silicon-valley company. I thougt, only I know about this, but here it comes. - I have used a large soft collet patron instead of the chuck and made a spring load puller fitted in to the collet inner tread, to make it easy for the final cut. - Great work! Thank for share!!
It looks really satisfying picking that glue out at the end. Like picking your nose.
aalever, thanks, I spent 15 minutes of pure laughter at your comment, I couldn't stop! Thanks!!!
Tastes like chicken.
When I saw the finished cube at the start of the video I thought "impossible." But now I've watched the entire video, I still think it's impossible.
Wow!
Very nice. As another mentioned, only video that long without sound that I have watched all the way through. Thanks for showing us all.
Hypnotic! I couldn't stop watching. Amazing skills.
I found that the internal grooving tool, if ground from tool steel can be a bit fragile when cutting the release grove for the larger radius cubes. Its dimensions are based on the smallest cubes and with the larger cubes the the tool is put under some chatter stress when striking a void at the outer edges of the cube. The answer I found was that to have at least two grooving tools, perhaps even three. The outer cutter one can be made much stronger and able to cope with the chatter because it doesn't need to fit into the 6mm hole. I hope this helps someone else.
You made a real nice job there,. I remember a couple of my pals making these back in the 70’s when I was an apprentice turner. They didn’t use a ring or hot glue...they had to be very careful on the final faces and they did the machining for the small cubes first if I remember correctly... they they put them in a tumble polisher to remove the burrs... I always wanted to make one but never got rount to it... maybe when i retire I will buy a small lathe and make one.. great video!
Ok, you win!!! That has to be the coolest thing EVER!! Thanks for sharing!
This defiantly was well worth watching, was fascinated the entire way through this video
What a fabulous piece of art, science and engineering!
I knew, that machining these cubes is tricky. But i couldn't imagine, that it is such a time consuming and precision metal art work. Until i saw this video.
Great job, Sir, thank you very much for sharing it with us.
Thank you for sharing, Sir during my machinist school years we had to make a part in the lathe, (south Ben 9) of our own design, and made a cube but I would have dream to make what you show in the video, it was the most interesting work I have seen thus far, thank you. Have a nice day from the distance, (Montevideo-Uruguay) stay safe.
I'm actually just finishing mine up right now in my trade school. I only faced two sides on the round stock with the lathe and I made the other faces with a milling machine. We don't have a working 4 jaw chuck so I had to use what I could take. So what I did was take a scrap piece of round stock and bored out the middle until the cube fit in it and cut a slit in the top of it to compress the cube inside the piece while it was inside the 3 jaw chuck
thanks for sharing this! its one of the most lathe works i´ve ever seen!!
This is truly a work of art. Engineering is beautiful!
"Video has been speeded up", right away I cant tell we got a real genius on our hands...
Hi my cube turned out real good. I made mine out of aluminum and when people see it they can't belive it.It looks so cool . Thanks for the help.
Simply excellent - and beautiful to boot!
Thanks for posting!
Wow man thanks for that! Started making mine today. The pictures of all your measurements at the end of the video were amazing!
Hi themetalcuttter i just turned 1 up from aluminium really enjoyed maching it even though i have been working as fitter/machinist for 40 years a good test of trade skills, The cube is more difficult than it looks!
As stated before it is turning project .thanks Dibbo
Beautiful !
The video very instructive.
Thank you for sharing.
Great work, the wonders of the modern age creativity never ceases to amaze me.
Brilliant. It looks gorgeous.. and done properly too, unlike a lot of others on youtube.
Damn. I'm sorry I watched this. Now I have to head off to the workshop :-)
Done similar in wood but never thought of metal.
Thanks for the demo.
Regards,
Ruaidhri
I have to be honest, I'm not really sure how I ended up here. Must have clicked without thinking, but I have to say I can't remember a video I've enjoyed more. You are, without doubt, a true master. I personally haven't used a lathe since school and that was 40 years ago. This video, however, has reminded me just how much pure pleasure it gave me. So, after seeing this, I will be buying a lath, just as soon as I can figure out where to put it. decisions, decisions lol. seriously though, Thank you!
Great video, and as a machinist inspired me to make all the platonic solids from solid brass, The are all nested similarly. The icosahedron particularly tested my patience.
Well done. Clear explanation. It's a pleasure to look!
When cutting for a camera that gets in the way, you can hook the camera to a live monitor and use that to watch the part and cutter. If you have good enough resolution, you can see even better than direct observation.
First of all Congratulations. What you did can only be appreciated by people who did some fine works. Now you have a beautiful piece all ones would like to have. Before you had the imagination, the calculations, the strategies, the right tools, lots of patience and someone around to stimulate and incentive. As a former electronic engineer now at 77 I still amazing to see people to do marvellous things like you did. Take care
Absolutely amazing! I would like to do this, but I only have a regular grinding wheel, so I am not sure I can make the undercut tool. Using the hot glue for the last cut is brilliant!
@@Steve2Q thanks for the comment, you could grind the cutter by hand but you might need to shape the wheel or use a thinner wheel.
Use Denatured alcohol and the hot glue will just pop right out, no heat necessary. this project is badass, when i get a lathe that is going to be at the top of my list
All I got to say is Amazing. This guy is the cube God
turning brass is my favorite shop process but this I never imagined!
you gave me the gift of knowledge and I will cherish it for ever J.B.
I love this video.
Not just the nice work on the lathe.
But also the great filming from the different angles.
And especially the silence, I love it.
Keep up the great videos
That was a great video.
I couldn't take my eyes away.
That is just a plain beautiful piece of art! I have seen simular things done in wood with a simple forstener bit, but this just tops it off! Very nice work! :)
+themetalcutter hello friend very good your video
I'm from Argentina please show me the formula that is the outer and inner diameters and depth. thank you very much're a genius !!!
Watched your video completely silent with open eyes and open mouth... Thank you so much, it was a real pleasure.
I could NEVER do anything like that. Amazing!
Made a cube in a cube in a cube 31 years ago at 18 years old. No such thing as hot melt glue back then. Didn't use a cylindrical holder either just a good old 4 jaw. Undercut tool was just ground on a normal pedastal grinder. The 3rd cube had holes all the way through so a piece of round bar small enough to go through the cube was placed in the cube then either a very strong piece of elastic or rubber band went through the hollow machine spindle and was secured under tension at the other end. Once the cubes were set free the tension pulled the cubes cleanly away from the cutting tool.
You are the most skilful Turner in the world 👌
This was long years ago my audit test and the end of my qualification.-:)
Be proud man, that is a realy good work that you have done.
very nice that was one of the first project I had to do when I was taking machine shop back in the seventies.
pretty cool... I wonder If there could be any way to magnetize those cubes (well the same design on a different material) to be able to keep the cubes on the middle point... would be so epic
Very cool. How much undercut and depth do you recommend so that each cube can rotate freely without falling out? If I made a cube to your dimensions, how much undercut and depth of undercut?
The fantastic turner job
I like it very much!
Hey man that was real good. I nodded off for a bit but I had to see it thru. Well done!
Looks like a great project drew it up in 3d solids and going to leave smallest cube out and have only 2 inside main cube .Going to make it at work out of aluminum....thanks for the idea
Thanks a lot mate, your numbers worked a treat!
Glued to your brilliant video throughout,amazing well done.
Thanks for this unconventional but very useful and entertaining video. And thanks especially for the shots of the marker board at the end and the closeups of the various drawings and critical dimensions!
Wow, you cover up wish some of the guys in my shop would do that!
Very nice work and great results! Fun to watch if one is a machinist!
P.S. A DTI is a dial test indicator. You are actually using a DI or dial indicator. DTI's have a lever, DI's have a plunger. I could be wrong, but that's what I was taught.
We had an English guy deliver and set up a machine and were highly amused when he asked to borrow a clock.
Hey, don't suppose you could submerge it in wax, then let it cool instead of glue gun to hold them together to make the last cuts, then once done. Place it in boiling water to melt off the wax
What are your thoughts? Do you think the work piece would get too hot and melt it? Or is the glue easy enough to just remove to not bother with the wax? Etc.
Like to hear your thoughts.
This is precious. Thank you.
Greetings from Portugal.
Beautiful, amazing craftmanship. Thanks, yes I watched it all the way through.
This must be the first 43 minutes mute video I've ever watched to the end.
I too!!-)
in total silence too
I kinda like the sound of the machines tho XD
yea I like the machine sounds :D there's something so intrinsically beautiful too about this metal being freshly exposed for the first time to the light after a couple seconds in that lathe, it's just so damned beautiful.
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I had a similar project on a cnc mill. A aluminum soccer ball inside of a aluminum square frame. The soccer ball and frame was machined from one piece of aluminum for 5 sides, and for the 6th side, the jaws held the ball and the frame so they could be machined to separate parts. Like yours, the ball does not fit through the frame, and people can't figure out how the ball got in there.
Pretty cool.....great job....I never had the opportunity to machine anything that small....steam turbines and gears and the like.
the cutter is very tiny and precise. wouldn't it then be easier to make on a larger scale? 10mm smallest up to 50mm for the larger. I'll have to try my hand at this tho not in brass at first. you make it look very simple!
Excellent video and craftsmanship. I got lost a few times though, especially with the floating table. I think a running commentary or even just a narration would positively impact this video 100%. Thank you for sharing your time, effort' and expertise, much appreciated! ☺
Hey I sorta skipped through the video a bit but I want to make sure that you repeated this process 6 times to make each phase correct? I don’t see how you would do it any other way
It would have been nice to have audio, of something.
Great job, it looks absolutely fantastic!
Awesome job thanks for filming and sharing. Cant wait to give it a go!
very nice machining indeet, and a excelent idea too, i think i will have to try something similar...,pray tell how long did you work all in all???
The piece is beautiful and your video tutorial is excellent. However, one question. Did you use a special type of hot melt glue? I ruined a piece with scratches trying to remove the remnants of the glue.
Terrific craftmanship. Love it.
Great with out any noise. What is the glue used? I shall try one...
Pretty cool project ! Well done !!
themetalcutter. Is there any reason, other than complication, whereby you didn't drill a three or four mm dia hole in the 5 mm cube so it is similar to the other cubes? In any event a lovely video and thanks again for sharing.
Nice work..
But ...Why do you made the first under cutter (see at 18.00 min/43.07) between the outermost and the 2nd cube? For avoid mistake(s) of technological practical to make the innermost cube at first (plus be careful at the 6th side).
Maybe somebody would like to make this sample and he possibly will make a mistake...
What would be really interesting is if you had weight measurements for the different stages, so we could see how much material was removed for the final product. I'm kind of guessing the finished cube weighs only a fraction of what the starting cylinder did...
Beautiful workmanship! Don't need to hear metal being turned..we all know what that sounds like.
Yep
When it's brass it goes....
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@@maconbacon2653 Yes. Closed captions when machining steel read "music"
Wow! Lots of work with indicators, the digital readouts now are deadly accurate and getting cheaper all the time?
Wonderful work; delightful to see. Amazing.
Incredible & beautiful. Well Done.
Suggestion for sound: That BOLTR/AvE guy plugs-in classical music and I understand that you can get this music without copy write problems. Great stuff!
That is realy good work, I enjoy your video, I'm from Venezuela and here de are not see something like this, nice job and nice piece....
Superb workmanship, from the care in grinding the tool to attention to detail and accurate measurement. Well done. If I might make one suggestion, dont use auto focus so much. Some important shots are blurred as the rear end of the tool catches the focue away from the work. That said great workmanship and a joy to display. Thanks for the video.
Very nice work - thanks so much for sharing!
FYI for future use, common rubbing alcohol dissolves most hot glues.
Subscribed just for watching the magical skill you have.
Wonderful work with the Mother of All Machines
brilliant i'm a goldsmith by trade and don't know much of machining but this almost makes me want to learn it.
Could have gotten really interesting if the chuck had grabbed that towel laying on the ways. Great video. Thanks.
Great work, If I have some brass I will be making one soon. Thanks for uploading.