This channel is the epitome of "done is better than perfect." The number of projects you've completed that seem beyond the reach of a little home shop is really impressive.

Sunday morning coffee watching Artisan Makes and Blondihacks making great projects on small machines.

You'll never guess this. The hole in a lock where you put your key is in fact called a keyway

AFAIK, you can periodically back the press a little bit for releasing the tension and preventing the broach from breaking in case something is not aligned good enough.

Just an FYI for future. You can 3D print the bushing for keyway cutting. I’ve done so in the past and never had an issue. Just make sure you leave a bit extra at the bottom to help support the cutter. Also 100 infill helps.

Silly suggestion: grind the broach even thinner, then shim it to the left/right and do two passes so that you can keep to the standard key stock.

It is an unending source of wonder that artisan makes achieves so much with what? A mini lather, a cheap mill and a hacksaw. The whole shop must be in the order of 1,000 AUD. Quite amazing.

I can almost smell the bandsaw build series! 😆 Great video bud!

For a crisp parting edge where the weld meets the unpainted base table surface, you could always tape right up close to the weld and then brush on some Vaseline right up to the horizontal edge before painting. Not sure I'm explaining that right but the paint wont adhere to the Vaseline and it can be quickly, and pretty accurately applied to the uneven area and cleaned off rather easily afterwards. I apologize, I'm shit at explaining things but I swear it works. An old industrial machine equipments painter showed me that trick in the late 90's and I'll never forget it.

I’ve been watching for 1.5 years waiting for your cast gear series to come back. I knew we were making some progress with the press!

In all the years I have been watching your videos, you have never, ever failed to amaze me in some way or another. Putting that pin in to use for even spacing was genius. Well done yet again. BYW, looking at some of the comments, I see I'm not the only one waiting for band saw build.😂 👍

At 15:20, you could hollow grind the sides of the broach maybe 0.001 to give some side relief to the cutting teeth while traveling through the guide bushing and the side of the keyway slot being made. Excellent video.

Gday, nothing wrong with that cutter, it worked great, top job, cheers

Well done as always. I like how you get around the problems you sometimes create for yourself. I'm looking forward to the next episode.

hey i tipp for heattreating. Just get your self some Sheetmetall for heattreating,You can pack everthing in their nice and tight,Just fold over the corners 2-3 times and hit them flat with a hammer. To prevent oxidation.Just place some paper next to the part.The bruning paper will use up all o2

I just ordered an 8x33" bench mill. Can't wait to get started in this hobby, you've been such an inspiration :)

You should try some Heat Treatment Paint, I use it for heat treating knives and it works really well to stop scaling. Just don't make the same mistake that I made and others have made and only apply a single coat. Heat treatment paint is a paint and like any paint it requires several coats to get full coverage. I've found 3 coats is good anything over that is overkill and a waste. Great video as always! 👍👍

Clickspring shows you how to make a square broach which you can easily adapt to make yours that little bit better if you want to, I mean it seems to do it's job plenty well enough but it's there if you want. He also shows how to make loads of different tooling etc and his work is exceptional. He shows ways to get precision in cases, where getting even close is hard for most showing ways to set up your lathe etc to get the best out of it no matter what. I mean you seem to have managed anyway but honestly if you're not already watching Clickspring you really, really should as he takes what you can do in a small shop to the next level.

... I sense the hacksaw becoming a meme for this channel

Voted #1 for excellent machining projects w/o use of a bandsaw

Great video, great build. This was an area I wondered about fabricating my own broaches. Your video helped me understand the dynamics and give me confidence of trying to do one myself. Thanks for sharing.

I'm glad you did it a second time so you showed that the first time was not a fluke.

I love your work. I am going to attempt to make a broach myself. Thanks.

ok. I can`t see a note about a patreon. you need to get yourself a partreon. IF ONLY to get yourself a metal bandsaw. my arm aches just watching you!!! (awesome content, and the humour is exquisite. thanks for the work).

this is something I need to make for making the drive pulleys on my belt grinder ....thanks for the how to, because I wasnt too sure lol

good result ! cheers ben.

Works a treat.

Brilliant jig sir! I really enjoy how you solve problems in a practical and simple way. Explanations are spot on too, even I can understand them.

That came out so good!

Nice job showing that a workable broach can be made in most of our home shops. Honing the broach teeth' gullets will reduce the friction of forcing the broch through metal. I found using a ceramic hone as the last step in sharpening high-speed steel lathe bits gave them a longer cutting life. I had to sharpen a profile bit every 6 hours the ceramic hone increased the tool life to 9 hours.

Nice job! You want to make sure you’re lifting the ram off the broach every so often so it doesn’t tip the whole setup forward. That causes more slop in the keyway. Cheers!

ImPRESSive. Also: you might not be the LPL, but you certainly are the keyway broaching machinist, now. I'm always impressed with the way you make tooling in your shop.

Thanks for this one as well! 👍💪✌

Great build ! The press was a great build adventure. Your channel keeps getting better with each week's episode, I always enjoy watching Cheers

Professional results in a hobby shop.

Great job!

Nice work pal! 👍You didn't go over the math for the DOC per tooth etc. I make it about .005-.006 DOCPT and that gives ~ .080 Required shim thickness to step up. I think it will work a lot better if you grind the back clearance with your cup wheel to sharpen the teeth which are eroded from the heat treat. You might also consider alternating interrupted cut on each tooth. That give a place for the chips to collapse into.

Outstanding!! Been a subscriber since the early days, and your channel just keeps getting better and better

If you are going to make custom broaches, you are about to going to be one out of five companies world wide.

very impressive ! now i want to make a press

2 broach videos in 1 weekend. Nice

Lovely cheeky script. Nice build. Banger vid, cheers.

Nice work

the old lathe 🥺

I get winded every video just watching the 2 second cut of this man sawing through andromeda sized lumps of steel with a freaking hacksaw. Im fully convinced this man will have a working small homeshop made aeroplane before he gets a freacking bandsaw.

Great work 👍🇬🇧

Nice video. I did this at a bigger scale and I found this work the most terrifying. I always feared the broach would shatter and put schrapnel in my face.

One more successful project. Thanks for the video.

O1 steel is very forgiving for hardening. thats why I used it for knife making.

He is just trolling us now with the hacksaw

Another great build and video.

Love your videos! 😊

Return of the hacksaw

Yay! That’s great

Nicely done 👍

Nice, gives me some ideas

I did that once with a parting blade and a grinder. 10$ parting blade was way cheaper than the 80$ specialty broach I needed

Works like a charm.

Good man. Your site gives a great instruction to many who have never been educated by metalwork classes as most of my generation was. The videos are a treat to look forward to. In age ascendancy Tubalcain, Abom.Artisan Makes. Who would want more? Cheers matey.

It isn't my original tip but as you press down on the broach, let off occasionally to allow it to find its own happy place on the face of the ram.

Genius thinking with the pin, to make even distances for the rest of the teeth's! :-))

Very successful brochure fab way to go.

AvE did a good video on broaching, seems like you already solved your problem but that video has some good hints on broaching.

Great work

You can heat treat o-1 with a torch very easily. Just heat the part till a magnet doesn’t stick and quench in oil/atf.

Well done. Better than having nothing. 👍👍👍

Great job 👍

Fantastic job!

Most excellent.

Most excellent! Cheers

Nice! It's good to see another expensive workshop tool closely matched in a home workshop. I'd even go as far to say that if someone really needed one of these, something like your design could be done with a file and some time.

100% for trying to do something and never giving up

Looking great, one day you will get bandsaw 😂

Sure beats a hand file... Thumbs Up!

Try ATP-641 for protect parts during hardening

When you're heat treating parts use anti-scale compound or use an air hardening steel with stainless tool wrap. You'll have much better results.

I am Im-pressed!

you should get some stamps to mark this as a 5mm broach before hardening

You also need to quench it before you remove the clay. Otherwise it will oxidize as soon as you expose it to air

I programmed an NC lathe to cut keyways, just stop the spindle zero RPM's, feed the cutting tool at about .015 depth each pass. Cut a 1/2" key in about 35 seconds., no broach needed.

He's still using that hacksaw!

Very injoy ❤😊

To get rid of scale you can soak it in vinegar overnight

Instead of using shim stock, why not make a few more guide bushings that have less depth. That would allow even deeper keyways with the same tool.

You said the broach was about 30um undersize, but you didn't say if it cuts exactly at 4.7mm. If it cuts a little oversize, 3/16" is ~4.76mm, so you may be able to buy 3/16" key stock and not need to grind down 5mm key stock. Assuming 3/16" key stock is available to you, I don't know its availability outside the US.

Goog video! Can you tell me the model of the press?

I believe the expression is: They are both identical except for the one on the left.

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You're next project should be building an electric heat treating oven, because you're current setup could use some improvement.

Did you leave the broach full hard? I didn't hear mention of tempering it back.

Very creative approach. Was the depth of the broach dictated by the diameter of the bore in the work?

2:00 press is not tall enough ? just need a hole in surface beneath or jack up the press, too simple ? or can the press work horizontally

This hole time you could have done it on the lathe. I like to cut a rounded slot with a endmill on the mill and finish it up broaching it square on the lathe.

click on 1, 2,.. damn, broke my tap.

You stated that the taper from end to end of the broach was 1 degree and that the teeth were relieved 11 degrees. How many degrees are between the teeth, I mean the angle away from square that forms the cutting edge?

your ToT viewership is showing 😁

3:00 How come you don't have a band saw ?

Good work bud, but you should temper that broach.

Impressive result. 👍 I noticed that you did not hacksaw the 5mm steel haha

Great job! My only comment/question is shouldn't you harden the keyway bushing too?