I’m impressed what you’ve done in such a short period of time. I’ve been a journeyman toolmaker since 1972. 5 years later I started my own shop. All manual machines until business grew enough for the first CNC. First one is the hardest lol. After that about one new one a year. Today I’m totally retired after selling to my sons. It’s great seeing new ppl get into this fascinating and rewarding business. Wish you the very best. BTW I am so envious you got that awesome Deckle for that price! That’s insane! And when you learn it you’ll love it. Trust me. 👍🏼👍🏼

I have to say I am extremely impressed with what you have been able to accomplish in such a short time. As an engineer who has been involved with machining for 64 years, (yeah you read that right) I am glad to see someone interested in the trade. I have owned my own shop for 37 years and I love machinery. That Monarch lathe has features that I have never seen before and it is a great piece. Most of the equipment in my shop today is CNC, but that would fit right in. You've managed to compile a nice group of machines, and your restorations are beautiful. If you ever decided to open a shop I think you'd do well, but if you decided to open a museum you'd probably do just as well. Thanks for the tour!

Thanks for the tour. I am 70 years old and just starting. Never did any of this stuff before. I really enjoy your Chanel. Hope to see more.

This is also my favorite lathe. Thank you for showing it

Fantastic shop and killer tools. Well done sir!

Very envious! Beautiful job in very short time

Been waiting patiently for this shop tour and you didn't disappoint. Thank you and congratulations! See you on Always Sunny in the Shop soon. Cheers!

Aaron, You have done very well with only three years experience... Take care Paul,,

Awesome shop Aaron. Great room and machines. Thanks for the tour!

wow. now that guy keeps the shop clean

Excellent tour video . Well equipped shop. You’ve done a great job restoring the tools.

G'day Aaron, everything about your shop is a credit to you. The first time I saw your intro I was really impressed - clean lathe, and everything organised. I was particularly envious of your drawer full of drills with dividers. I'm pleased to say I now have a long desired set of drawers, with drills, taps, cutting tools, etc. all organised and labelled using the same trays that you used. Keep up the great work!

Beautiful shop and thanks for the tour.

Excellent shop tour, thanks Aaron

Wow I am amazed! You are so talented AWESOME

Like your shop, amazing work. Will be watching, thank you.

Aaron, great job. Thanks for sharing your cool stuff. Gary

Good on you for saving all this fine machinery.

Wow! That deckel pantograph was a steal!

Amazing shop!

Figured you were in sales, you seem to have a knack for making good deals. If more of guys like you were around, lots of good old iron would get a second life, instead of rusting away.

Very inspiring. I am just starting learning machining. Your shop gives me great ideas!

Dream workshop man unreal ❤️👍

Aaron, Thank you for the shop tour. We purchased a Sharp knee mill in the mid 1990's to upgrade from a Bridgeport Series II. I was down on it for being an import machine, but it proved itself very well. Fit and finish was very nice. Repair was infrequent and I found that the areas that I worked included impressive engineering. Parts for it were sometimes challenging having to source from west coast distributor and parts coming out of the Pacific rim. I grew to think that Sharp was a class act. Burr King are class machines. I tried to get our shop to upgrade, but we were deeply committed to Kalamazoo and/or Baldor for that size machine. We had Wilton and some others for our 6" belt and belt and disc machines. I managed to get one if those Wilton's for $100 for my home shop when we did some shop equipment liquidation. We repurposed a 3 phase power cord plug to use on a repurposed 3 phase branch circuit. I suspect that most of the home shop buyers steered clear of the 3 phase equipment. Being the maintenance man insider, I knew what I was buying! I suspected that you were in industrial tooling/supplies sales from hints you have previously dropped. I worked for the same shop for my entire career, which honed me into "our shop" expert, but limited me on what could have been gained by being in and out of others shops. Our shop philosophy was to purchase designed for the purpose equipment and my philosophy was to repair and maintain to OEM specifications. We had a panoply of brands throughout the shop, but were vastly loyal to Mazak for milling and turning. Mazak CNC inventory was around 22 machines. The other 20-30 major machines were a smattering of other brands. When I started in 1982 we still did lots of manual machining, but CNC was the future. I was already a skilled electrician. The company needed my skills for CNC troubleshooting and for maintaining facility power distribution. I learned my precision mechanic skills on the job, having no previous machine shop experience. I was just a young buck in my 20's and I grew up with a company that expanded from $8M to approaching $200M annual sales before I retired. Watching you take such a rapid deep dive for a home shop is a lot of fun.

Enjoyed.....tool envy here...lol

AWESOME

really cool shop tour. already seen the lathe, but didn't know the history. also hadn't seen the rest of the shop and some of the other equip. love those cabinets.

I found your channel through one of the Facebook pages were both on. You do really good work👍

*_Another awesome tour! Thanks for publishing these and sharing. I am a woodworker, but have a long machining resume so I follow a bunch of these types of channels. I already follow Keith Rucker and Abom79, but this guy is a new one and I will surely stop by his channel!!_*

Gday Aaron, very nice setup there, I’ve always enjoyed your projects that you have done, the lathe is a beautiful machine, I hope you keep doing videos for many years to come because I’ll be here watching, take care mate, cheers Matty

Very well done restoring the machines! Subscribed!

New to this channel. Spent 20 years in metal manufacturing. Degree in Machine Tool Technology. Been out for quite awhile. Went into the "office" as engineering staff. Very impressed with your accomplishments! Thank you! Miss that smell and the blue chips! Lol

Oh my God 🥴🌪️this is a wonderful shop✌🏿💎

You have a beautiful shop Aaron!

My suggestion, 1)Air tank keep outside building-safety first. 2)Keep cutting tools in the box piece by piece or keep vertically to avoid cutting edge damage. 3)All storage tools and equiment need to have a tag so they know where is it.

You are the master of organization in your humidity free desert oasis!

nice guy, nice shop

Awesome shop Aaron! Well done. Still the nicest lathe on KZfaq. BTW, if your grinder takes a long time to wind down, it typically means the bearings are dry. If they start growling, it’s time to replace them.

Hi Aaron, just found your channel, same as you been into machining about 3 years but could restore and make things, Abom69 is very inspirational

My excuse for my mouth watering is it is supper time, and I'm sticking to it!

Nice.

Beautiful lathe no doubt. Almost makes me pop open a lawn chair crack a cold one, and stare at it.

Nice tour, thanks. Did I see a Rucker straight edge on your bench?

You got a deal on those strong hold cabinets. I would love to find something similar.

I too blame Adam Booth for my lathe obsession.. :D

Two of the major commandment for any shop, one is to protect your floor space... every piece of equipment should pass muster as far as usefulness, capability vs floor space. Obviously this is less of an issue in a 10,000 square foot facility than a thousand aquare feet. Second key commandment is capability. I am very impressed with your choices. There is probably no better lathe built by human hands than your Monarch. The shaper with auto downfeed and universal table, and the original vise.... what a score. I would suspect the panagraph, is a cool machine but one day it will succumb to the commandments and be replaced by a laser engraver/cutter. You spoke of wanting to be able to cut large stock.... build a blade holder for the shaper, turn it into a once in a while power hacksaw, you'll be able to cut I-beams if you desire or rail iron. Slow yes, but a power hacksaw is almost as mesmerizing as a shaper use. The Rollin saw, the only saw I have seen better is the one Fireball has, an auto feed Marvel .... which takes up a lot of space. Thank you for the tour, and five stars for the shop you are creating.

Nice! You are local. I'm in Gilbert. Enjoyed the video. Your saw looks fantastic! I'm going to message you on IG.

I live in parker az and was wondering how you find business closing or where is your favorite place to look for deals? I like how clean your videos are i get new organizational tips all the time.

I like the shop tours, but I would like it even more if the videos started with a slow pan of the shop showing the overall layout, etc.

That's a very nice and clean shop. May I ask where you bought those little red boxes seen at 0:03 ?

I would like to purchase the Deckel if you would have any interest in selling it. I understand that in is worth a lot more than what you purchased it for. Very Nice shop, question about your cut out shapes for your cabinet with the mic's and stuff, how did you do the cut outs ?

You can use a machining center for a lathe much easier than you can use a cnc lathe for a mill. Just put a lathe tool in the vise and put the stock in an ER collet in the spindle. ,touch off the stock like you would a tool . set y as the tool is centered on the stock and make simultaineous moves in Z and X , Instead of G17 use G19. it's good for short parts sometimes.

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Love the shop I’m guessing you spent hours before the shoot making everything perfect

LOL I spent half a day on a construction job as a teenager looking for the board stretcher my foreman told me to find

How much did it cost to ship that?

You got it made in the USA, try having that in your home garage at home here in the UK? here in the UK youd be considered a freak, a pariah if you admitted to folk you like machining, but the UK is an absolute dump going from bad to much much worse! my younger brother lives in Roseville California and hes told me to get and join him there, but at 61 with my shop here im way too old and skint to! ;-)

I just purchased a lablond lathe 19 in swing 54 inch center. I have never done anything on a lathe or a mill but can’t wait to get started. Should I be thinking of buying a smaller chuck and a smaller tool post to work on smaller parts like 1/8 in diameter.

Very nice video but it does not count as your weekly video let’s get to the editing

You spend a lot of time cleaning and painting. I see no chips.

Lot of nice machinery, but I'm more interested in what you can do with them. This channel appears to be more oriented to collecting and fixing machinery, not so much machining and fabrication.

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