I am always amazed at the shallowness of some minds when they comment that they can buy one for $20. The value of your video to me is how edge finders are made and function, how you can use a mill to do lathe operations and if you choose you can relax and do a project that in the end is useful. Thank you for your videos-I look forward to every one!

I’m in school to be a machinist right now, and the school doesn’t provide any tools other than a micrometer, calipers, center drills, and HSS blanks. We make our own tools, like v blocks, machinist hammers, punches, toolholders, etc. this will be my next project on the mill.

Great video. Taught me a few tricks. I went from welding and fab at my job to stepping up to a self-taught machinist, when ours moved away. I now do all 3. It's been almost 3 years, and fortunately i have yet to screw any jobs up. It just sometimes takes me a bit longer to do the job. Learning simple tricks to speed up jobs is priceless.

I made one in my beginner machining class about a year ago and can't even compare it to my auction find Hermann Schmidt (Unicorn af). In a pinch I will use whatever endmill and a mic'd piece of paper for large tolerance parts. Who says manual machining is dead? I'm 22 and learning all the forgotten tricks from a master.

Thanks for setting up and running through this using the mill - I think it helps us novice viewers to see different paths to reach the same end result.

Joe, Great project! When drilling the center you may want to chuck the part in the spindle collet and the drills in the vice. Use the mill like a lathe as you did for cutoff and facing. When the part is spinning the drill will follow the center line of the part. This will also eliminate the possibility of crushing the hollow cylinder in the vice. The complication would be in locating the drills on center under the spindle. A small bit of math and the DRO solves this for different diameters.

As a "semi-advanced beginner" some of your videos go over my head (for example, I need a much more basic rotary table video)--but I enjoy all of them. This one is one of my favorites so far. Not only do I now know how to make an edgefinder, but I also have gained some new ideas about how to fix several sticky ones that I've picked up used. The best part, though, is the way in this video you explain and encourage using and adapting the equipment one has, along with some hardware store parts, to get the job done. Very inspiring!

Hi Joe, great little project. I made an edge finder with a difference. Mine has a magnet in place of the spring which lets me change tips easily. This allows you to have multiple tips for various applications..

You are a very talented teacher, and have posted some of THE best machining techniques related videos on this platform. I have nothing to add to your awesomeness for sharing your knowledge apart from highly recommending getting a small remote mic for your video productions for voice clarity.

I can’t wait to start making my own edge finder Thank you for such a clear, concise explanation.

NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW. THE PARTING TOOL IDEA GAVE ME AN AHAA MOMENT FOR SOME STUFF I BEEN STRUGGLING ON THE LATHE WITH. THANKS

Thanks so much, I’ve been trying to find a 6mm edge finder forever and now I can just make one. 👍🏼

Great build. I always thought there was more to building an edge finder.

This will be a great tool to have in my tool chest. Thanks for creating a project that is so useful.

Joe, most of the videos I have seen get the edge finder to run true (with a spanner for safety!), watching you flick it into the error state allows you to creep up on the edge. Brilliant!

What a great build! Love learning new ways to tackle projects. Had not even considered a mill being able to do lathe type work.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one that has shot an acid core brush across the room putting cutting oil on a drill operation........... As always - A great job! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing Joe. I’m getting a mill and lathe next week. I haven’t done metal work since I had a back injury when I was a mechanic, so these video really help.

Love your videos Joe: You You Tube fellas are replacing our lost trade schools. As a 70 year old toolmaker I'm still learning. I like a .50 dia. edge finder because if I forget to compensate for my finder its usually a glaring problem at the first hole or cut and has saved me a lot of scrap. Good job mate.

Joe, thank you so much for all that you share. I think I'll make this one of my 1st projects this winter after I get done putting my mill together.

Holding the spring out with the scale. Genius!

Just found your channel very informative always like watching an expert who is passionate in his craft.

Thanks Joe, I Like the creative thinking for parting off using the mill!

Joe, yet another fantastic and instructional video! Thanks for taking the time necessary to share it with us!

Experienced electronics engineer here, total rookie machinist. Can’t express how much I love this video. I learned so much! Thank you.

Your video's are a great way for us novices to develop our machining skills. I watch your videos with a notepad and make frequent use of the 'Snip' tool to catch images of the little tricks and useful gadgets that show up in your videos. I'm off to make a pair of those 'nifty' little work stops, just like Tad below!! Looking forward to the Yucatan dive footage, in the 80's I did a couple of short, 'easy' cave dives in Yorkshire (UK) to pass flooded sumps. The vis was 12-18 inches (I mean inches, not feet), all I could see was a short section of the orange lifeline disappearing into the gloom ahead and a small patch of mud cover rock. Character building!!! Cheers Paul in NZ

'I bet a lotta light bulbs just went on huh ? ' yeah Joe every time I watch one of your videos, thanks !

I’m always so pleased when you release Your videos that have simple but really helpful stuff for home machinists. Thanks so much for sharing. Hope you had fun in the caves dude. 👍

Thanks Joe. Love that trick with the parting blade.

Absolutely fascinating, thank you! Especially like the milling machine lathing techniques--highly envious!

Nice example of lateral thinking, like the gauge pin trick to line up horizontal diameters. Many thanks for sharing.

Many thanks, that is quite interesting. My edge finder was bought and basically works the same way but has a ball end in a socket at the arbor and the other end a precision ground 0.100 end. Much harder to make. I can't see them advertised anywhere any more though. I do like this setup though and thanks for the ideas on how to fit things to awkward springs!

This is gold Joe! I have been using Tally Ho papers with a 5mm dowel pin for the past 10 years.... This is next on the project list.

Great stuff as always Joe! A simple tool that is in a way very gratifying to make and immensely useful to have. I'm not a machinist but my philosophy in life is to share and mentor where I can , a nice little project for my friend and student Leon to tackle to build character and confidence! Thanks a bunch! :)

I agree, a very good project to do. Thank You Joe.

I love your quick estimated metric conversions... quick and "out of the air" works fine for me and really really helps me to undrrstand your "strange American measurements". :)

Awesome. Great project. Definitely needed in shop. Thank you for sharing

It looks like once you get a mill & a measuring device such as a dial indicator and you can basically make a lot of the other tools that you need. Great video and thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the video. You showed some techniques that I had not thought about.

Great project idea Joe. Thanks and can't wait for the scuba video.👍👍

I've got a few different diameters of 01 drill rod, I'm all over this! Just have to sneak away from my inletting project without being noticed . . . . Great video as usual Joe. Be well.

I first found u by googling tooling ball video. Hard to believe that I've been a manual and CNC machinist since '96 "when I graduated" and I had never used one, until about a month ago. You helped me understand what I needed to know and what to order. Love your videos and keep it up. Cemco expander/shrinkers. Press repair and now tool and die and forms

I love the macro shots. Beautiful job

A lot simpler than I realized. Guess I need to make a couple.

Thanks for another great video. Really liked seeing the parting and turning bits used on the mill.

Hi Joe, thanks for the tip with the parting tool in the Vice, I would have never come up with that idea, so simple, another great little product 👍😀

Great video . . . from a novice that really enjoys learning.

This one popped up today. Love making tools to last a lifetime Joe. Thanks a bunch. This was fun. I am a diver but never had the privilege to do a cave. The northern tip of Vancouver Island in BC Canada has amazing cold water dives. Pacific giant octopus and friendly 8 ft woolf eels and 4 ft tall orange or white anemones to name a few. Oh yea, dungeness crab for dinner. Kings a bit north of there. Always remember that divers do it in the deep eh, LOL. Take care and stay safe teach.

Awhile back I watched your video on sharpening drills Man I put to use what I watched and now I find myself touching them up instead of waiting till they won’t cut to sharpen them Great and easy to understand videos keep up the good work. And the bits I use or 2” through 2 3/4”

thank you for this useful mill tool as always i appreciate your efforts in showing us how to become better our home hobby efforts thank you for your time and efforts to produce very informative videos

Great video, for edge finding larger diameters this is awesome, I need to quickly make one for that. My eyes are not what they used to be, so a larger kick is useful to me as well

What a bloody good project for someone just starting off on their machining career Joe. I bought a cheap Chinese one but I will certainly knock one up on my new lathe! Thanks for showing this, glad you had a good time diving those caves! Cheers from Olde England!

This is so good ! Simple, doable, useful!

Great video Joe. Very affordable Edge Finder. Thanks for sharing

I have have a long list of projects I want to do but this one is going right to the top of that list!

Thank you for posting this, I always learn (usually a lot) from your videos! Thanks again!

Nice project Joe, thanks for sharing! Looking forward to the cave dives, sounds like an awesome adventure! Also looking forward to seeing you soon buddy!

Hi Joe ! Oh, really nice little project for the shop - thx for sharing the idea !

I have a nice Starrett edge finder, but now I am off to the lathe to make a non stepped version. A few really good tips in the video Joe. Thank you!

Just made one ( on the lathe ) and works great.. took a half hour with hardening the tool. Thanks

I love the way you structure your videos. And also your humor... "shit that's hot, as would be indicated by the smoke..."🤣

Thanks, Joe 😊. Due to a certain new tool in my shop I'm gonna need some of these 😁. Cheers!

Thanks, great video. In addition to a half inch edge finder, I also like to use a half inch carbide mill whenever I can, spins and cuts a lot faster than HSS. When the position is not super critical, I just bump the part against the (non-rotating) mill shank, sets to the same position as the edge finder!

I do like the idea of chucking lathe tools in the vise . The Parting tools seem to even be smoother than they are in the lathe . Gotta make the edge finder today . Great Video Joe !!

A very handy item, thanks for sharing.

Thank you Joe, I just brought my first mill and I was going to buy one but now I’ll be making one so thank you mate, very much appreciated, Merry Christmas to you and all your family, Matty

So simple! So elegant! Fantastic...

Thanks Joe! I have been thinking of making one for myself and was not sure which way to go. Truthfully though i will make it on my Lathe I will be more confident.

It's nice to see you back on the Tube again. Also looking forward to watching your cave diving videos..

Thanks Joe, very nice easy edge finder, will have to make a couple.

Thanks this will be another winter project for me.

Joe, the added value is that I now know how an edge finder works. I will be making one shortly! Probably on the lathe though. Easier? Maybe for me.

Thank you for this I now know my mill can do so much more. I had no clue.

Good one Joe! A deceptively simple project producing a useful tool.

Great content Joe!! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome! I have some W1 tool steel. I had other plans for it - but I knew I'd have a lot of extra stock... I think I just found a good use for that extra... I'll make it on the lathe though. Thank you for sharing - that is a brilliant idea...!!!

Great Video, awesome teaching, Thank you!

Finally I took my time to view this video of yours. Either I'll make an edge finder like this one next week or in three months.

great video thanks for taking the time to make it

great project. will be making one of these next week

Old spring maker showed me a simple way to bend out the spring loop. Use your side cutters. Try it! Nice edge finder.

It amazes me how many things people buy for the mill, lathe and shop they can make with the equipment they have in the shop. Much of it from scraps picked up for free.

Some neat ideas, Joe. Never thought of using a parting tool on the mill...

Thank you Joe for this project as I only have a mill and retired I don't think I will get a lathe any time soon.

Great work. I just learned a lot of important information. I'm definitely going to try this myself. This was definitely a real eye opening video. Prett amazing,

Good work, that small end is handy for small hole location. course the indicol is too. The edge finder probly quicker to set up. thanks for helping us new guy's

Cool edge finder Joe ! I'll make one ! Thanks...

Wondaful I also see someone has made their mark in about exactly the same place as my vise is marked !

Lacking either a Lathe or a Mill my Cordless Drill is nervously looking towards me as I keep smirking back at it ;D

Pretty slick. 'Nother project on the list. Thanks Joe.

This turning in the mill technique is also handy for DIY mill arbours because tooling tapers on the mill and lathe are generally different and work holding such parts can be challenging when it is time to machine the other end of the arbour.

Great video! Especially for your beginner viewers. (Beginners being myself)

I often chuck round stock with a collet in the spindle, and move the table to capture it in the vise, then release the collet. Can get within a couple of thou fairly easily.

Who just needs a spring lol thanks joe great video, and a tool I need for my mill :-)

Thanks for the weekend project Joe..😁😁

Thanks for sharing, again, very helpful!

It's always good to make and use your own tools. It gives them more value.

I like your build idea. I think I'll rebuild some old edge finders. I have been known to Chuck on the 200 thou end of the edge finder & run the (3/8) body against a large diameter cylinder at a Slower rpm. If I need it (location) closer than that, . . I use a dial indicator. I have also used a shaft of known size, and a piece of paper, subtracting half the shaft & the thickness of the paper to get a feel for where the spindle was.

Great video. I will put that on my someday list.

Hi Joe very cool never considered using parting tool in vice. Tops in method and guess what im making tomarrow. Thank you Missed you, business must be booming.