Nice work Jon. Tip for setting your angle, set the part on parallels so the pivot end cant "move" down. Put a machinist jack under the other end and wind it up to the desired angle. If friction makes the part "jump" past your desired point you can tap it down against the jack and likely not go back past your desired angle

The army on the shoulder, you can't beat it to keep you on your toes. Classic Sunday morning viewing

I'm impressed. The way it works for me is "if I can buy it for 100 dollars I can build it for 300 dollars". Thanks and keep them coming.

Think I’m the first guy on the block, one of those days I have them all the time,nice work Jon

Great outcome Jon. Another time put the splitters in a bench vice to give pressure. Saves needing 3 hands and banging them with a mallet. A gentle squeeze pops them apart nicely. Chuck down so when they part it just rests on the bottom of the vice instead of dropping onto the floor. Regards from Australia.

Watching you belt the wedges with that big hammer was definitely an edge-of-the-seat moment, I was expecting to hear some bleeped-out expletives following hammer->hand impact! I once tried using my 20 ton hydraulic press and wedges to slacken a chuck taper. It didn't end well. I bent one supposedly-hardened wedge, and when the taper finally popped, the wedges, chuck, arbour, spacers and plates all leapt in the air and the arbour landed on the concrete floor, rolled under the lathe and disappeared. That's when I started using a vice to squeeze the wedges, applying a light tap with a brass hammer to persuade the seal to let go.

That's a nice job for an afternoon in the workshop. Great thumbnail!

Roughing it in the shed, love it Jon.

good job jon..thanks for your time

Three saw cuts I was stumped, I thought, "have I missing something" lol. Just like Four candles lol. Also had some good laughs in the past Jon with cockups, specially when theres an audience. Turned out well and did the job as expected. Tony

Excellent job jon, well done. 👍👍👍

I had to get a cheap cast iron bodied Jacobs chuck of drill (it was mounted directly on the spindle) so I held a drill in a vice, drilled a hole in the chuck, taped it out, screwed a bolt in until it forced the chuck off.

Well Done Jon. Very handy!

Nicely done Jon. Always wanted to see these wedges in action. Another Sunday morning treat. See you next week. 👏👏👍😀

I love the idea that someone is going to be spending hours trying to figure out why there is a L and R!

Gday Jon, the wedges worked well, they did the job nicely, I have made a set of these and I have no bloody idea where they are, great job as always mate, Cheers

I think someone was putting bricks in front of your wheelbarrow Jon, gets the job done ✔, like the petrol pump analogy. When you was using the pushing stick/block on the bandsaw, it reminded me of an incident where I worked, we had a good sized vertical bandsaw, and all trades used it, it became apparent that the blades were getting blunt more frequently?, one of the fitters solved when waiting for a spark to finish using the saw, the spark was using a Tungsten Guage/Slip Block as his pushing block, I kid you not, someone had given him this by his family, and being nice and hard it didn't wear out. The sparks were banned from using it thereafter. I guessed the "L" & "R" was a private joke !. Great job, thanks for sharing. Regards John.

Good work Jon. Tools don't need to look pretty as long as they do the job they are intended for, which these did. Another good thing about this video is that we get a lot from the suggestions in the comments (e.g. using parallels and a machinist jack, using a vice because you don't have 3 hands etc.). It is all good information and ideas that we may not think about.

Hi Jon. Nice to see that someone who's done this sort of thing as a job can still produce the same kind of mistakes as us amateurs. We're all human after all! Perfectly functional tool, no need to spend hours on something you might use twice in your life. Maybe not visually appealing, but as you suggest, it will certainly lead to some headscratching in the future: "Why is the hole offset? Why is one leg thinner than the other? Must have been a very specific problem for this unique design!"

Interesting timing. I've been thinking about making a few sets of these in different sizes.

Hello Jon, They did the job well... I must admit I had not seen then before... Take care. Paul,,

Nice one Jon! Got the job done nicely! 👍

Jon and others that read this comment, I know as Fox Wedges as that is what my Father described them as. Great result as well the satisfaction of making your own tooling to save money. John, Australia.

Lol , i won't even mention what i had to use last time ! 👍👍👍

We all enjoy watching you make useful tools, even though the two wedges may never see day light ever again,,,hehe! I am making a New Years resolution early,, ever new, are special needs tools, will be entered in to a log book with location where its stored. I think "SRS" is becoming more evident the old I get (@@)! Spent 2 + hrs last week in every tool box for the wedge to remove the 19mm chuck from the Powermatic. It ended up in the draw for the column mill :(< ugh! Was to the point of making another one from scratch, but the tool gods lead me to it, are Sammie (@@)!

Thanks Jon! I have learned from your mistake! I have been trying to figure out how to do this without a mill of a 72" belt grinder for about a year and a half, got it sorted this summer, but Garden, Home Repairs and Paying jobs first... I'll not make mine that narrow... (When I get the time!)

When you said "3 sawcuts", I thought "wow, we're gonna learn some magic here". But no, just 5 sawcuts :)

Cheers Jon, I reckon, if you were on a rummage and find one with a L on it, you r not going to use it to make something else for fear there is a R.

Jon. If I didn't make mistakes, I wouldn't make anything at all.😀I think that the youtubers who don't ever make mistakes on camera are very good at video editing, or make 3 parts to get one good one.😀 Take care, Steve.

Hi,Jon. I've been meaning to stamp all my srewdrivers as left and right to identify which ones are for tightening and which for unscrewing.....brilliant,eh?

well..... that worked well 👍👍😎👍👍 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂 I'll be keeping my letter punches close (thanks for the tip)

Hi Jon, nice job on the taper wedges. Whats next on the agender? Cheers Kevin

If only you had asked i would have told you the damn things tend to spread in use so they should be made stronger to take it into account, BUT who cares, they worked anyway.👍

Got the job done Jon. Why did you chemically black them? Because you can! Best wishes, Dean.

Your right Jon you need to have a laugh in this game and if can’t in your own shop what’s the point it seem the simpler the job is the more mistakes you make lol

Not a lot one can say about them is there. I think you need at least one pint of the black stuff there to ease the brain. Hahaa