I'd like to see more machinist tool box tours, anyone else feel the same way?

That's a good motto to live by.

You truly are a master of many crafts. It has been a pleasure to watch your videos and see how you organize your tools, i'm sure it helps people with ideas and different ways to organize and access their tools. Please play no attention to any trolls who are ungrateful and immature viewers. Understand that this is the Internet and many will have no weight to their comments, Smell and taste can always be argued but one cannot argue facts. The fact is one can only hope to get to your level of diligence, patients and workman ship. Please continue making videos and pay no mind to anyone being cruel or negative and I look forward to seeing your future videos

You're not silly at all because you have a passion for tools, mr. Pete. You are a wise man with a constructive mind. I have learned a lot from you, in a very pleasant way. Therefore I thank you. Best regards from Holland.

I just have to say, you are a man of MANY tools but also a man of MUCH wisdom. Don't let the negative comments get you down. There are far more admirers of what you do and appreciate your videos! Keep up the GREAT work! Best Regards.

Thank you for the tour. Don't bother with the people who criticize others for having a passion about something. I enjoy watching your videos. They are so detailed and informative. I hope you keep them coming. Thanks again.

Thank you for the time taken to show us your tools, don't listen to anyone who criticizes you for it, it's a great collection!

I get tears in my eyes, seeing the reamers in the drawer, cutting edge on cutting edge...

Love your videos, you are an excellent teacher and thanks for the look into your toolboxes. I too love tools and add to my collection whenever something useful shows up. You have also inspired me to finish the refurbishment of my old Myford lathe and get my workshop set up at last. Been meaning to get into model engineering ever since I left school and now I'm retired I now know what I really want to do with my spare time. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.

Nice series, very impressive collection, and I'm sure we just scratched the surface! Thanks for the tour!

Thank you, for your machinist toolbox tour! It's really scary how much stuff someone else can have that's exactly like your stuff! When you mentioned Boston Gears, I remembered that I have a diametrical pitch gear gauge set somewhere. Found it after an hour's search! LOL! I find it necessary to do an occasional inventory to remind me just what I have!

Thanks for the Toolbox Tour, excellent! Really enjoyed it.

I love the brutal honesty of what very well may happen to a lot of us and our tools, any real tool junky owns more tools with someone elses name on them other than his own, and loves the thrill of finding a good tool at a fair price, and giving it a good home and enjoying it even if its only looked at with hopes of one day possibly needing it. great video thank you.

A great series! You're not silly..we all have our own passions and hobbies. Who watches a series about tools then complains about it?!

I appreciated the tour of the tool boxes. I for one would like to see the rest of your tools. One can never have enough quality tools. It is like collecting art that has a useful function beyond making the heart glad to see elegant but functional design.

I really enjoyed you giving us a tour of your 4 Kennedy toolboxes-drawer by drawer. Thank you, Mr. Pete! One can never have too many tools. If you have the proper tooling... makes the job easier! :-)

Another great series. Thanks for sharing with us as many enjoy the love of quality tools. All the best.

Mr. Pete Thankyou so much for sharing your collection and knowledge with us. Loved the tour and looking forward to the shop tour and file video! ;). God bless

Thank you so very much Sir!!! I really enjoyed this series as I do all of your very informative videos. I was surprised to not see any machine set up levels in there, maybe they just passed me by. And I am a Christian bit must ashamedly admit that I greatly coveted that German silver caliper!! I also have a bad habit of piling up files any kind a I own a sharpening business as a side job. Thanks for the wonderful tour and God bless!

I think you publish some amazing content, Mr. Peterson. Thank you for your videos and your service as a teacher. Keep up the great work and don't let anyone get you down. Cheers!

Thank you for this and the other three, really enjoyed them, fascinating. I have a passion for tools as well so you are by no means alone in your addiction. Those who don't are just missing out I think. I used to work for an engineers merchants and it was the best fun just looking through the catalogues. L. S. Starrett was one of my favourites!

I love it! Great to see all these good tools cared for.

Thanks for the small tour of a machinist's tool box!! You always hope that you have the tools on hand to accomplish the next job, but that is seldom the case and so you have to acquire that next tool. Seeing your collection gives me an idea of what I should acquire if I come across some of these at sales.

Hay if it's one thing that I have learned You can never have to many tools

I love your tool selection! I just bought a used Clausing lathe that was made back in 1949. Once I change it over to single phase and clean it up a bit, I will need a lot of those same tools.

Thank you again Mr pete, really enjoyed the toolbox tour and commentary, it helps a lot to hear what an experienced machinist has to say about any given item. I must say I am really looking forward to seeing your presentation on files. I have just started using files a lot to file clock parts, and would love to hear what you have to say on the matter. It is very satisfying using a file on metal, a real pleasure. Thank you again.

I was inspired by your passion for tools. I have taken it upon myself to do the same. Never stop collecting and keep it up. Im teaching my kids the same. MORE VIDEOS PLEASE

Enjoyed this series, thanks for sharing and ignore the folks who don't have a passion except for belittling others for their passion, why they waist our time and theirs is a mystery.

A machinist can never have too many tools. I have many of the tools that you have and I think that the older tools have more character to them, think if they could tell their own stories. I have enjoyed watching the entire tool box series!

I got a hoot out of that comment and the way you said it " its what I like to do" LOL, when I was a young man and newly married I told my sweet new bride the same thing when she made the first little complaint after about a month or so of marital bliss...lol, but now in my old age I collect old outboards and I'm always catching flack for having to many, you can never have to many,its your life and money collect what you want and be happy, Ahole's need not apply. Thank you Mr. Pete for sharing :)

Ignore those idiots who criticize you for too many tools. I have a collection similar to yours (the same but very different) and I treasure every one. Anyone who doesn't understand the value of such tooling has no clue about real values in life. The satisfaction derived from a home machine shop cannot be described to such empty heads. Keep up your most valuable and generous efforts. They are appreciated more than you know. I am on many Yahoo machining sites and your series is always mentioned

Watching you go through your tool box reminds me that having what you need doesn't lead directly to being able to use it. First you have to find it. The current job use to dictate most of my working tools. As an apprentice die maker I spent days with the little hones that you showed. Frank Printke taught me most of my die making knowledge. He felt that polishing draw dies was a good starting point. It did teach patience and regard for the tools. One ham handed setup person could wipe out a days work in a heartbeat. Eventually I was introduced to files, then power tools. The sequence brought me from the slowest process up to the fastest. It highlighted how the speed of the process increased the damage an error caused. 😆

I've really enjoyed all your vids , thanks for taking the time and sharing :)

It's a fact for us tool nuts; Ya just can't have enough stuff. But we're no different than anyone else that has a passion for what they do, it's just that ours has the tendency to cost more and therefore worth more. If we manage to place what we use in a dedicated tool box(s) and the rest in safe storage, it frees up a lot of room in the shop. Thanks for sharing a bit of your collection with us mortals. Almost anyone getting this close to another persons tools will be joining the "Long Dead" forthwith. JD

An amazing mind excursion into a machinist's life and down-to-earth sharing of your personal views on many things- you are a brave man and I thank you for your courage in expressing yourself with self confidence. Please, keep it up, it's sadly needed, in my opinion, to set an example for our younger generation. You sir, are a true philosopher, and I can't respect you enough.

I have never seen an 'acorn' die before. Thanks for showing us "newbies" all the different type of tools and instruments that you have collected and explaining what they are used for.

The sky is the limit. If you have a tool for every job and if you have the right tools, you can do any job.

thanks for the series of your toolboxes, it's very entertaining anf informative.

I really enjoyed these videos... being a machinist myself. I was fortunate enough to apprentice in a tool and die job shop full of old timers. there was probably 250 or so years of experience in that shop in Kokomo, Indiana. Unfortunately it went out of business about 15 or 20 years ago.

Thank You so much for the videos, There were a few tools I remembered seeing at my last job but didn't know the name. Keep up the great work.

God created man as a tool user. What could be more natural to us than collecting tools? Tool collections also serve historical purposes. I really enjoyed the four videos.

great series Mr Pete,It just makes me wanna see more of the treasures you have stashed away and there is 1 tool or shall i say machine that will remove an easy out or anything else stuck even used it to get a broken off carbide drill out of a workpiece once,been lucky that the place i work has one

Great video series. I love tools too!! Thanks for sharing!!!

nice video. good to see so many interesting items in one video.

Your tool box is great! I have that Chicago gear works catalogue as well. I got it at the same time I purchased the 1939 version of how to run a lathe, which i saw you had a newer on in another video. Interesting stuff!

Love this series of tool box reveals. Can’t have too many tools, especially if it how you make your living. I’m just a hobbyist.

Awesome videos, very imformative for me as a newb in the machine shop, thx for all great tips!

dear sir thank you for shareing your great interesting tools,set up etc like mr fenner you are both teaching us all great things and like me we look forward to your vids if people dont like what they see then bugger them we like them take care and have a nice day sir

Mr Peterson, I watched almost all your videos with great interest. I only want to say one thing about the tools, it doesn't matter who and what they say, you can't have too many of them. I come from a second generation of tool and die makers and I too have some basic knowledge about what the trade is all about. Keep up the good work

Great tour!!! Bob

Machinist Toolbox Tour 1 - 4 are great fun to watch as are the rest of your videos. Re the critic, I guess that he would be critical of musicians and the instruments that they make great music with, or a farmer who loves his fields and orchards. Please don't let them bother you.

Thank you Mr Peterson! Your videos are very informational, and I'm sure they will be of great use for a long time to come! As an aspiring engineer, I would only hope to become half as knowledgeable as you are. Vin Martinez

Great vid! I enjoyed that far more than I believed I would! I have no room to talk because my boxes are in desperate need of organizing but some of your drawers look like you could combine items and have a better idea where things are! Also, I bought a Brother label maker a while back and used it to label my drawers contents (not all of them yet) it may not be manly to do that but with labels I can glance and see what drawer has what without doing the drawer shuffle I used to do!

I did enjoy the tool box tour. Thank you-

Don't let them get to you Mr. Pete ! I too am a tool nut and have lots of tools and lots of duplicates and stuff i'll probably never use...but it's a passion of mine also keep the grat videos coming !

Thank you so much. you are a much needed inspiration to our declining society.

Ah! Tools. You can never have enough. I like seeing the tools other engineers have, there is always something very interesting or very obscure. You would think that one would have seen every tool over a lifetime in engineering....but that's never the way, is it!

Great series. I still have my P38 I got sitting in a muddy hole trying to eat some pork, stew, 1ea. Always was hoping for the cookies in the little can, those were great. Anyway, don't stop now. Show us more.

HELL NO, don't get rid of those books. Any book that provides information one needs is worth it's weight in gold! Love your vid's Mr. Pete, never stop.

These videos are fun to watch like all of your videos, i would like like to see more of the tools and shop tours if you don't mind making the videos, they are very interesting and i learn a lot, thanks

very interesting must of taken years to accumulate such a variety of tools ,plus the knowledge to use them well done sir.

Mr Peterson, Sent you a small package of tools..for your hard work, passion and dedication. Thanks Edmund Matthews

great video some all tools are previous gems some we never see but a real craftsman appreciated them all even broken tools can be useful as something else like a new tool

Do all the other drawers please, these videos are fascinating!

Well I side with the fellows who say ignore the naysayers. For one thing, though you may not have used the word, you are a collector. Now, who can criticize a collector? Furthermore you also use your collection for work and teaching, that most noble of pursuits. And I both benefit from your teaching, and share it with others. Your machine shop talk takes me back to high school. I wish that I could talk to my shop teacher and tell him how much of his teaching has stuck with me. He has benefited my life. He would be surprised because I was a knucklehead back then. But I think he would be pleased what has stuck with me. And at least an appreciation for the skills I did not acquire. Books? The value of multiple books on the same or similar topics is that different editions or authors don't all cover the same material, or cover it the same way. And many of us want the additional information. I am quite taken by tap & die work. And I know more than the average guy about that work. But I learned even more about dies in your tool box tour. And I thank you. Next I enjoyed your overview of your vises, big and small. I want to find that video again because I have a young fellow who wants to see it. It fits several of his interests. So, thanks again. You are very valuable to many of us.

You can never have to many tools, nor just one of any tool. It shows you take pride in what you do and have passion for it. There a re few of us left.

What ever people say. I think you are a great person. God bless you always.

Great series on the tool box. It saddened me to hear you let the KZfaq trolls get to you; though I understand; I've had a couple on my channel. The first one really upset me. I really enjoyed you sharing your tool box with the viewers. Being a complete neophyte to machining, It would appear a separate building is required to support the use of a lathe and probably another building required to support milling tools. I recently acquired a Craftsman 6" lathe; that came with a box of tooling and misc other stuff. I was chuffed to learn I did get my first Starrett tools - a thread pitch guage and two feeler gauges. I guess a person has to start somewhere. So many questions and not enough answers. :/ Thank you for the videos!

good vid nice to see good tools well cared for.

Please do not be troubled if someone says you like tools too much. I love them and respect the older ones more than the new. I live in Louisiana but I would come to your yard sale. G I love this stuff!!!!!!!

Thanks-and that's a great analogy.

i am all so a tool lover.i have been fixing power tools for over 50 yrs. i am going to do it as long as long as i can i hope you do the same. you are very good on everything you do.god bless you. sal

Also, an interesting clash of old meets new. I have an old L-W Chuck Co. dividing head with a broken sector arm. Yesterday I designed and printed a replacement out of nylon on a ROBO 3D printer!

Ilove the tool box videos keep-em coming

after enjoying the 4 part tour I can recommend some additions before the estate sale. Would be some Dream Bar sticks with wrappers, a few petrified bugs, some silly putty and assorted sizes of rocks. Give it that flair of a bygone era.

I didn't want to comment about the eventuality (in your video at 22:56). I had thought of it though. I've watched all 4 parts of this video straight through in one sitting. very interested but didn't want to bring up such a subject. I've learned a lot from you, and I have 38 years experience... still I hardly ever watch one of your videos without learning something useful. Thank You for that.

A very nice series. You can never have enough tools.Those who cannot appreciate tools have probably never got their hands dirty in their life. So just pity them for they shall never know the true joy of working and creating with your hands.

MrPete....When you are speaking of the Heinmann Transfer screws, they are made about 5 miles from e in Urbana, Ohio. Also, I know you have heard of Desmond_Stephans. They made vises years back, sold out to Ridgid Tool, but Desmond still makes Grinder dressers, for the wheels on bench vises. Both have been in business for years. And don't worry about people talking about people collecting tools. They have no idea what sort of passion runs through a Toolmakers blood. Once a person becomes a Toolmaker, the passion for different and unique tools comes with the title.

Going through a man's tool box is akin to going through a woman's purse and just as personal. Being an electronics engineer, I learn a lot of useful, practical methods of making things and the tools used to make them from your videos. Although I don't use all the heavy industrial equipment in making my prototypes, I adapt some of your methods to make my prototypes more professional looking.

Thank you for the tool box tour...wondering if the center drill can be sharpened...also, how do reamers actually cut and size a hole so precisely? Merry Christmas!

I saw that P38 in your tool box... I still carry mine for about 30 years or so.

Love your videos Love tools to Keep it up

I enjoy your video's. Now as a tool collector. I must find a cupped center finder for pointed taps. Thank You so Much.

Awesome mr pete tight stuff

Thanks you--I,m sure i'll like it.

Thanks I am a 71 year old newbie but you and Keith are my go to guys. Have you ever done a video on last word dial indicator. I went to an auction and picked up two or three indicators when I got home I realized that they were sticky I have not found a good video taking one apart and evaluating whether or not it can be fixed shouldn’t be sent out etc. if you’ve done one please let me know or if you know of one please let me know keep the good work up

Thank you very much another great video! I would keep the books. calculators can loose there battery charge:) Very much enjoyed the toolbox videos and I would love to see the lower ones as well

You are a Great Teacher If you did not have all these Tools you would not be able toTeach us about them There will always be those who sit in the back of the class and Refuse to Learn ...When they have Negative Comment at least we know they are Watching !!!!

Thanks for the tour. We share many of the same tools as well as an affinity for them. If you ever have the opportunity look up a writer named Eric Sloane. He is more of a wood worker but he has written some fascinating books. A Museum of Early American Tools, A Reverence for Wood and Eric Sloane's America. Great historian and every book is a fun read.

JPJP - I think that the "pickle-fork" ball joint separator has a taper from the tips at the open end of the U back up towards the closed end - at least the ones I've used have that shape... Also, they are made from castings, and won't ring when tapped...

You can never have enough tools. Thanks for sharing.

I admire your patio for tools. I find that people who complain are mostly jealous. I also am a collector with 7 shipping containers of tools. I just wish I had mine as organised as you do.

always enjoy antique tools and other things

I watched and enjoyed all 4 of your toolbox videos. Where are your micrometers? I'd be awfully interested to see what you had for micrometers.

Love the videos.

hey mr pete. i really look forward to hopefully getting in contact with you. i was fortunate enough to experience the tail end of the high school machine shop. mr. david bloom was my teacher and i learned alot in that class. sadly, in the year 2000 he retired and so did the his class room format. what im getting at is the knowledge you put out on your videos is more valuble than most people realize. knowledge is the key to success! it would mean the world to me if we could meet and chat

gotta have a pair and a spare at least. Great video series!

Same here, and I always learned you should keep your files from rubbing together in drawers as well.

I don't see how a machinist can not like tools. fantastic video as usual

Thanks Mr. Pete!