I have nostalgic memories. When I was a teenager with acne I had a hobby of making various crafts from plywood and sawing patterns on plywood. My work looked pretty much the same. Andy, keep making more videos about using hand tools.
Hi there, I like to share my ideas, over the years I have found so may useful ideas on TH-cam, I hope that folks find my ideas helpful. Kind regards . . . Andy
Hi There, yep the devil is in the detail. You know, I worked with a major aerospace manufacture to carry out a heat treatment process on an engine component, when I asked for a temperature profile they said that they wanted to heat it to 'cherry red.' Man I couldn't believe it! Give me the details, give me the numbers. All the best . . . Andy
Hello Andy. Very nice idea! This gives much flexibility to the work table or bench. Not all jewelers can have a tall bench with the bench pin/peg at the correct height. This is a great way to solve that problem. Keep it up my friend. Greg Greenwood
Hi Greg thanks for the encouragement. I hope that it will help some folks. And thank you for not berating me for applying downward force on the backstroke when I'm filling. When I played the video back for myself the first time, I thought, I'll be in trouble when Mr Greenwood sees this. All the very best, my friend . . . Andy
Hi Rick, I hope that you are well. I thought that I'd put this up as I'm sure there's a lot of hobby jewellers who haven't got the room, or money for a fancy setup and this works just fine. All the very best . . . Andy
thanks Andy love your bench jig to get the work up to eye level.gives me an idea for my bench also. As a side I notice all your hand tools neatly arranged in from of you .did you make those stands or do you know if they are commercially available? I am in New Orleans Louisiana.thanks John
Hi John thanks for the comment. I made the tool rack out of 15mm diameter copper water pipe. That's a standard (small) domestic pipe size in the UK. It's not very clear in the video but the rack on the righthand side, with the pliers and cutters on has 3 horizontal cross bars. What I have found is, if you drop some pliers/cutters on a single rail they can roll off, which is really annoying, so I have two copper rails side by side, that stops the roll off. The rails are 3/4" (20mm) apart, and that holds everything from large tin shears to small cutters etc. I've flattened the tubes so that they are about 5/16" (8mm) thick and that helps with the very small tools. I adapt and add things, hooks etc as the need arises. The thing is, make what you need out of what you can get. You could use timber but the joints won’t be as strong as brazed copper. You could make the inverted ‘T’ legs out of copper and ‘T’ joints and bolt thin strips on wood to that for the rails, but you’d have to stop it from collapsing sideways, if you get my drift? (stop the video at 4:04 minutes in and take in the detail) All the very best. . . Andy
I have nostalgic memories. When I was a teenager with acne I had a hobby of making various crafts from plywood and sawing patterns on plywood. My work looked pretty much the same. Andy, keep making more videos about using hand tools.
Hi there, I like to share my ideas, over the years I have found so may useful ideas on TH-cam, I hope that folks find my ideas helpful. Kind regards . . . Andy
The small details are what make the big ones happen. Job well done Sir....
Hi There, yep the devil is in the detail. You know, I worked with a major aerospace manufacture to carry out a heat treatment process on an engine component, when I asked for a temperature profile they said that they wanted to heat it to 'cherry red.' Man I couldn't believe it! Give me the details, give me the numbers. All the best . . . Andy
@@AndyDaviesByTheSea Right on Andy. Details matter.
Hello Andy. Very nice idea! This gives much flexibility to the work table or bench. Not all jewelers can have a tall bench with the bench pin/peg at the correct height. This is a great way to solve that problem. Keep it up my friend. Greg Greenwood
Hi Greg thanks for the encouragement. I hope that it will help some folks. And thank you for not berating me for applying downward force on the backstroke when I'm filling. When I played the video back for myself the first time, I thought, I'll be in trouble when Mr Greenwood sees this. All the very best, my friend . . . Andy
Great idea! Thanks for sharing this technique. Others will benefit from your knowledge,
Hi Rick, I hope that you are well. I thought that I'd put this up as I'm sure there's a lot of hobby jewellers who haven't got the room, or money for a fancy setup and this works just fine.
All the very best . . . Andy
Really nice - thank you for sharing!
Thank you for the feedback. All the best . . . Andy
thanks Andy love your bench jig to get the work up to eye level.gives me an idea for my bench also.
As a side I notice all your hand tools neatly arranged in from of you .did you make those stands or do you know if they are commercially available? I am in New Orleans Louisiana.thanks John
Hi John thanks for the comment. I made the tool rack out of 15mm diameter copper water pipe. That's a standard (small) domestic pipe size in the UK.
It's not very clear in the video but the rack on the righthand side, with the pliers and cutters on has 3 horizontal cross bars. What I have found is, if you drop some pliers/cutters on a single rail they can roll off, which is really annoying, so I have two copper rails side by side, that stops the roll off. The rails are 3/4" (20mm) apart, and that holds everything from large tin shears to small cutters etc. I've flattened the tubes so that they are about 5/16" (8mm) thick and that helps with the very small tools. I adapt and add things, hooks etc as the need arises. The thing is, make what you need out of what you can get. You could use timber but the joints won’t be as strong as brazed copper. You could make the inverted ‘T’ legs out of copper and ‘T’ joints and bolt thin strips on wood to that for the rails, but you’d have to stop it from collapsing sideways, if you get my drift? (stop the video at 4:04 minutes in and take in the detail)
All the very best. . . Andy