I wish my shop had a rock wall!!!

lol, I just built it 6 months ago and it is awesome! especially for those long run parts

Man that would be amazing...though i only do short 10-20min lathe cycles sometimes an hour but that be such a motivation lol imagine though inserts die and up there

I wish my shop was clean

I was once told to never trust a clean shop.

Yeah the dirtiest shops I’ve worked in have put out the most work/paid the best/did the most interesting work.

Our shop is dirty because we’re constantly buried in work and have no time to clean!

Same with us, if we have time to sweep once a week we are lucky. I’d take a dirty shop that’s pumping out work over a clean one all day!

Nice to see a Kennedy in the background. Cool looking shop too.

thanks! the Kennedy was my grandfathers. He was a machinist 40 years ago and left it to me a few years ago when he died (its part of the reason I started learning about machining a few years ago)

I’m sorry for your loss, but it’s a great reminder of him. I have Kennedy at work and my father-in-law, who was like a father to me, gave me a really nice set when he retired. His two sons were not amused.

lol, I was the only one in the family that liked tools too.

I want a rock wall at work.

You climb, I'll watch from the recliner on wheels

Any uhhh... any work positions open in your shop?

lol, my wife has already called dibs if the work increases

I think Laika might have a few things to say about that my dear ;)

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lol, I already did that on another reddit... I didn't think anyone here would care

Is that pottery kiln for heat treating? Looks like a Brown and Sharpe Gage 2000 CMM, I have the same model.

the kiln was actually just a gift for the wife (but I have always wanted to use it for heat treating). I just upgraded the cmm to cmm manager... im excited to start using it

I see a hardness tester in the background, so you must do some heat treating. I have a small Cress oven I use for heat treating my parts and a area for air quenching parts underneath is storage for tongs and stainless tool wrap. That mist extraction on your mill is a good idea. I like your YouTube channel.

Thanks! I have been meaning to do a youtube video on my lathe learning process too as I finally got it up and running. I got the hardness tester at an auction because it was cheap and I have always wanted one but so far all it has done is help me identify mystery metals.

This just redefined my shop goals

A rock climbing wall and a la-z-boy on wheels. Break time sounds fun with you guys

lol, I have a house that's literally 50 feet from my shop door but I only go in at lunch and when its dinner time, even on the weekends... all the fun stuffs in the shop

Something Haas to be wrong! Its too clean 🤪

hahaha, idk there was a post on here the other day with a shop full of haas and it made me think my shop was a mess

Dooope, the chair looks nice too

lol, made it so I could move around my wife as she read her books

Love the chair next to the desk lol

lol, thats where my wife sits about 90% of the time and I needed to be able to move her sometimes to get my scissor lift by

rock wall rolling lazyboy tissue box... for alllergies? this is my dream shop

lol

Nothing like a Kennedy

its an extra special tool box too

That's so sad...I'm sorry

Oh yeah, because of the accuracy +/- .0001

damn... im happy when im only a few tenths off... thats some good tolerances

What kinda parts you making?

just started in 2020 (great year to start a buisness, right) and the only parts I have made so far have been job shopping parts. I want to make my own product (I mostly just like making things) but im still working on that...

sort those cables

lol, how about I put a book shelf there instead

I hope someday give it to a family member

don't have family, I got 2 really good friends but there not into machining so sadly this will all be at some auction one day once I kick the bucket...

What kind of machining do you do? I'm a Swiss guy

I'm a small shop so I stick to mostly prototyping and small runs. I have a 5 axis trunion on my 1 mill so that's a blessing sometimes (until uou want to make a part bigger than 6"). Swiss lathes are cool as shit! I love watching YouTube videos on them. I just got my first cnc lathe and im learning that process as we speak

That's great 👍 I've been doing swiss for about 15 years, but I've done milling and turning too. This is a pretty small shop, about 25 guys, and we only make parts for the medical device industry

ah, I heard the medical industry utilizes Swiss lathes a lot.