Here I am, 81 years old and learning trig. Fantastic!!! I love it, Joe!

Thank you for sweating your balls off longer than you needed to, to share your knowledge with everyone.

Joe, you're great for parting with your knowledge, FOR FREE! It's much appreciated. This is a great tip.

I am an untrained hobby / miniature engineer and your videos are clear concise tutorials for me. Thought provoking. Many thanks

Long time toolmaker here. In this situation, I superglue the jig to the back jaw and use a stop on lower end of the part. When done, knock off the jig and razor off the glue.

Thanks. You just saved me a small pile of money. I had been thinking buying a set of angle gages. After watching your vid I scampered out to the shop, squared up a bunch of 1/4" x 4" by 3" aluminum plates, and then used the DRO to drill and ream .251" holes on 3.000" centers on the X and appropriate offsets on the Y. By putting four holes in each plate I could make two angle blocks from most of the square plates. I sawed them splitting the two angles and used my little Rong Fu to finish the angle on each one. Took about 3 hours. Now I have a nice set of aluminum angle blocks from 0.5 to 30 degrees (0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 22.5, 25, 30).

It's 2020 now Joe. Thank you for taking some time back in 2016 to teach me now.

Your tips are absolute Gold Joe. Thank you so much!

The boss needs to pony-up for a shop A/C.....people are MUCH MORE productive when they are comfortable. Can't tell you how much I have learned watching your videos. I am in the process of doing numerous upgrades to my Chinese mini lathe and can't wait to practice with my newly acquired knowledge! Thank you kindly for all the great info!

Thanks for staying late on a hot afternoon to explain this.

I teach at a high school. All day long my students tell me math class is worthless. Thank you for helping me prove them wrong. This was great.

From the design side, I designed aerospace cameras and paper mill equipment, and I hardly ever used a sine or cosine. I worked the tangent, which I find the easiest to use, and always ended up with spot-on x and y dimensions, which made the machinists happy. They didn't have to do the trig. Just x and y. Nice trick! I'm not a machinist, just a woodworker dabbling in machining, and I'm glad I subscribed. Gems like this video keep me coming back!

Wonderful solution, this is better than the purchased angle block sets. I always hated how short they are. This method solves, span, angle & location. BTW, Carr-Lane had the same little booklet with common trig tables and other cool things, I've had mine since the early 1980s. Keep those great videos rolling.

Thank you so much. I use a mill in making individual parts for muzzleloaders I build. Being self taught your videos are a wonderful resource.

I'm cutting custom bevel gears and need a special angle plate for a setup gage. This is perfect. Thanks, John

Joe !, im now addicted to your instructional videos, please make a million more, may god keep you in good health , we need guys like you on the web

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Great tip! I was wondering how to make my own. You’re an absolute champion for sharing your knowledge and expertise for those wanting to learn. Thank you so much!

I’m in my Time Machine watching Mr. Pie’s videos from 5 years ago!!! What I love about him is the simplicity he puts into any solutions he shows here!!! He always assured that if there’s a product being sold, someone has had to make it before hand! That’s the approach I’ve to in every field I’ve worked on, if another human being made it, I possibly can take it apart and back together! It’s reverse engineering which fed all fields, including medicine and astrophysics! We knew nothing but found out someone’s done it before, then we just studied and replicated! Mr. Pie is the best example with knowledge to back him up!!!! He’s inspires confidence in many of us, I’m sure, when we didn’t know we could! Thank you, Mr. Pie!

I was going to DIM - do it myself - a few holder for CCMT0602 at front back ends ... was discouraged finding no end mill that can mill 7 degree of inclined wall. I don’t even have a set of precision angle plates necessary to grind that 14 degree engrave cutter. This video has make my day. I end up with an angle plate measuring 7.0 degrees with my digital protractor. Couldn’t be happier. Thank you Joe.

I have been retired for fifteen years and still keep that same little book on angles in my desk, adding a calculator makes it fun. Nice shop.

Such a great, simple, and easy idea! Also, I've never seen such a high like/dislike ratio on a video before! You are the best!

Joe, what I like about your videos, its "hands on" and easy going. not high tech like the other guys.

Brilliant. Now I know another reason for keeping & saving broken endmills... Awesome video and a wonderful tip!!!!

Been watching all your videos after seeing the milling quick easy square-up and the upside down lathe thread turning….you have saved me an immense amount of time and money but most importantly teaching my kids how to think about problem solving instead of just throwing money at it. I don’t know how you find time to keep making these videos and run a business!

You explain thing so easy to understand and I truly am grateful. I am 56 and sliding fast to 57 but thank you. You are my go to guy when I want to learn something new.

You are one smart person, I wish we could have worked together. Some of the finest brains on the Israeli medical industry have learned some tricks from you, thanks

Great video Joe you are a very good teacher.

Learning every video you make , it’s like going to school only better 🖖🏼

some people buy expensive equipment and tools but did a little precision works。 This kind of trick is very good!

I used this trick first time today, to make a few hold downs for a small parts clamping block that I built; and even though didn't need huge precision, I did it anyway. I'm just a hobbyist with a garage shop, but never the less, I loved the time savings; and the parts all have matching angles. ...Almost makes me look like I really know what I'm doing... ;) Thanks Joe!

As an old engineer, one that has forgotten too much, when you said all we know about this triangle is one angle and one base length. Then you said it was a right triangle. As soon as you said that we now know two of the three angles. On any triangle, since we know all three angles of a triangle has to add up to 180 degrees, the other angle is 70 degrees. The side opposite the right angle is the hypotenuse. The base line you used is the adjacent side to the known 20 Degree angle. The length of the hypotenuse is the adjacent side (2.50) divided by the cosine of 20 degrees. Enough,, sorry for the aside. A wonderfully presented trick that I am going to use tomorrow to make an angle plate to set up a part on the Bridgeport to drill a hole on a 10 degree angle off vertical. Thanks for all you do Joe. If you are not the best teacher out there you are certainly up in the top five. Been subbed for a long time.

I just like to say I've been a tool maker for 20 years you are probably the first person I've seen on the Internet who knows exactly what they are doing nice job keep the videos coming I am loving them

NTMA SANTAFESPRINGS,CA IS the school I graduated from last year on Dec 12. ,Your videos are clearly understood by by me, make many more, This tree will grow deep!

Hey Joe.... I got around to making more DYI QCTP tool holders and I needed a better way than using a plastic triangle last go. This worked very well, light years ahead of my first go. Important to me is the locking handle being close to the same location with all the holders, this method proved to be much easier to repeat as well as being accurate. Many thanks for this and your other tricks. oh, the trick of drilling 1/8" holes for stops, priceless.

Took me quite a while to find one, but finally did get an original Illinois Tool Works Trig table book in fantastic shape. With this lil trick you showed, it has opened a door to doing things only dreamed I myself could accomplish. My old HS math teach would drop dead if he knew I was doing ANYTHING using trig. Next time I'm in Austin, I owe you a dinner at Papadeaux's. Thanks !!!!!

Yet another GREAT video packed full of great info you only get from years and years of experience! Thanks for sharing your knowledge Joe! Please keep the videos coming! Jason

This tip first off was brilliant and solved my problem. The best part it opened my mind solving problems in a new way of thinking. Simple solution but it never crossed my mind.

Joe; (making accurate angle cuts) I am a machinist with 55 years of experience in the trade. I find it of interest to see how persons with varying abilities explain how things should be machined on the internet. I find when I watch your videos you go into great detail and carefully explain why and how to proceed. Sometimes others assume that because they know how to do some aspect of machining they assume that others do also. You should seriously consider making a program explaining machine shop practice so that others could learn the proper approach to machining. Having said the above I should mention that you indicated the back jaw in the shoe but not the moving jaw. This could throw off the angle. By the looks of your shop I assume that you run a typical job shop as I do also. I wish that my shop was that clean. Good job.

Joe, this is a great tip. I am a home shop machinist and used this video tip to create a 29.5 Deg right triangle using a 3 pin or hole pattern layout. This allowed me to get that perfect 29.5/60.5/90 I needed for setting my compound angle on my lathe. I made mine out of .125" brass and it has become a goto tool. Thank you so much for your videos, tips, and tricks. Keep up the great productions. I truly enjoy how you make many quandaries simple!

Im so thankful a good friend and machinist told me about you! I’m learning so much!! Great job!

Nice... refreshingly direct and well-taught material. I much prefer your appreciation of your own skills to the tongue-in-cheek modesty ubiquitous elsewhere; not to imply anything negative towards you. You clearly know what you're doing and you make it clear that you know what you're doing. That is very important to people like me, trying to learn from the right sources, while retaining some healthy skepticism. Thanks for sharing.

I learned this 55 years ago... The revision was welcome!!! :-) Thanks Joe

Joe. You have saved me so much time with setting up multiple repeat parts. I have never taken the time to use logic you make the job so much easier. Thank you Paul

Joe you are amazing. This tip is Awesome! Thank you for being so willing to sharing your experience.

Thank you Joe.

Thank you, I learned so much in such little time. hope you do more videos like this, I'm a hobbyist and if I can learn from this video ,anybody can.

Thanks again Joe. I spent years in school and have a good handle on trig, conics, calculus etc. none of which I ever used in dentistry. Now that I am learning lathe and mill work to custom build parts for my gyroplane I am finally getting to use what I learned almost 50 years ago. I sure wish our local college had a machine shop and an instructor like you! More than anything you are teaching us to think! Today I drilled on my flywheel but don't have an index table. I made a fixture which indexed on the 105 tooth starter ring gear every 15th tooth... voila perfect 7 hole pattern... you haven't shown us how to do that without a dividing table yet! You are making this stuff fun for us all! Terry

I've been a mill man over 30 years and always indicated my angle gage in. Never thought of drilling holes to get the angle. Nice trick I'll be using from now on. Thanks for the vid. Enjoy your other vids as well.

Mr Pieczynski, You Sir are one of the truly outright good guys. Can't tell you have much I've picked up watching you work I'm reminded of my Dad when he was teaching me to run the machines except at the Wizard level with you speaking Can't express how much I really appreciate you doing these tidbits on all these operations and generously sharing your knowledge and time I am very impressed and hey, I normally ain't impressed by much! Thank You

Heheheh! I chuckled when you say it’s all Greek!

Great stuff Joe. This is an affordable solution to a common problem faced in the shop. As a bonus I can stir up the gray matter in the brain and revisit high school Trig.

Great to see you mending nicely, Joe!

That is some solid information on how to make a quick angle gage.

Don't making shooting these videos harder than it needs to be. The information is the important part. Your hand held shots are good enough. Thanks for passing on your great setup ideas. By the way, Pierre sent me.

Great tutorial, I wish my school would teach these kinds of tricks

I just made a 45° and a 30° (w 60° as a by-product) angle gages using your method. Done the sketch on CAD : even easier than using the trig tables. Your trick works great Thanks for the videos

Great instructional video. I am just a hobbyist which I carried over from trade school machine shop. I always like to learn the tricks from the professional tradesman.

Joe, I have been in the trade longer than. Your videos are the best of any on You Tube. I wish my shop was as clean and well organized as yours. I have two suggestions: 1.) if you have a cylindrical square do a video on it, very few machinist even know what a cylindrical square is or how to use it. I think of that since you tend to point the necessity of squareness this would be a good topic to cover. 2.) And along the lines of a clean and well organized shop it should go hand in hand with GOOD hand tools. Ever tried any Noga tools. Made in Israel........very good tools, NOT cheap, a mag base would be a good place to start. Thanks Eric..........Please keep up the good work!

Very simple, but accurate technique. I love it. I'll try to use it next time I have to cut angle(s) at work. Thanks Joe.

You are so kind to provide these useful information. I wish you will have day by day increasing new techniques in your job.

Another AWESOME video !! Thanks Joe !

Joe, Have watch several of you videos and am blow away with your knowledge and ability to communicate these techniques. Thanx so much for sharing you expertise. I actually live in Blanco and would love to come over to Austin and visit some time. Thanx again.

Watched serration video moments ago. Knew I had to watch this one. It was worth it. I have to thank you Joe. You’re an excellent instructor.

I appreciate you taking your off-work time to spread your knowledge to a very interested audience. You explain concepts well and make great real-world machines to demonstrate. Sorry that your shop gets so warm. Cooling such a large area is expensive. Well done and God bless.

Very much worth the watch. I'm not sure I could drill the two holes precisely without a DRO, but will try. Your explanations are crystal clear and it is obvious that you have an extensive knowledge of the trade. Inspiring for me.

Joe, has anybody yet told you how awesome you are? I geek hard on the stuff you show us how to do. Thanks for taking the time. I just knew there were real world applications to all this stuff we learned in HighSchool!

It's so incredibly simple it's [t's positively elegant! Precision angle parallels of any thickness or angle you need in 15 minutes. You made me feell even stupider then I am for not thinking of it for myself. That;s another one for Joe! Bless you my brother. Keep them coming!

in the uk the charts are in a zues book trig tables, hardness charts,tapping sizes pitch circle diameters drill charts great little book still have one!!

Joe you have taught me so much. Thank you bro.

Great video I been a machinist for 10 years now and everyone harps on speeds feeds, g code, cad cam, but honestly figuring out fixtures is the hardest thing, I look at it more as tricks of the trade. The more you know the better you will become. Fixtures are more complicated because it has to be right and it has to be strong, and it has to be repeatable, you can miss. Judge speed or feed by 5-10 % it won't kill the job not the same for any part of fixture

Thank you as always for sharing your knowledge with us Joe. Every time I lay my hands on the controls of machines, I use what you teach.

Yes! ... all so easy to understand - opening up so many possibilities - by such simple means: making the gauges, alone is good practice on a wet day! As we say here, Any fool can Steer a machine ( work the controls ) but can they Drive it / get it to sing! Keep up the singing, music to m years !!

Wow, this will be super handy for all of us home shop guys who like you said most likely do not have any gauge sets (yet). Thanks for the info Joe!

whata legend, i am going to use this with my 3 axis. I wish i could like this video twice!

Great tip, I was always crap at maths, but seem really easy when you are shown how...sir you would make a great teacher...thanks once more jack from across the pond

Hey Joe, I made me a 20 degree block using this technique, its perfect. I going to make many more too. I did it on a bench-top micro mill from LMS. Keep your tips coming. I'm new to machining but enjoy it very much. My son lives in Austin too. Next time I'm in town I'd like to check out your shop. Thank you, Kurt Kenyon, Seattle Wa.

All i can say is thank you! Your channel has given me so much knowledge and confidence in my fabrication shop. Thank you so much for sharing these tips n tricks with us lil guys 🤘🏼

I just wanted to say thank you for all the information you provide in your videos. If i ever have a problem with my lathe or mill i know you always have the answers already on youtube.

Great stuff as always Joe. Your channels is a wealth of information. Thank you.

Great tip. I'm going to make my own angle set now. From Norway here.....

THANK YOU! Exactly what I needed about a week before I needed it. I was going to make a .125 thick sine bar with hard step for locating parts, and a dedicated .125 thick gage block, but then I have one extra piece that can move around. This idea gets me just as accurate and less stuff to fiddle with on every part change. Loving these videos.

Everyone of these videos is full of so much useful content. As a home machinist I've learned to use my lathe more proficiently and since getting a small burke/millrite mvn mill I have learned how to put it to use. I can't say thanks enough for the free and immensely valuable info you are passing along!

I have the little ITW book , and know how to use it. I haven't been in the machine shop for maybe 40 years, before CAM or even digital readouts. These tips are tremendous. For about the last 40 or so years I'm in the mechanical design function, and do lots of mechanical drafting. This added precision is so great I wish I had known these tip when I was the shop. I'm one of the guys who gets requirements from physicists or optical scientists who believe they need some of these unreasonable tolerances. I am of the way of thinking that I only like to put numbers in dimensions or tolerances on the drawings that you can measure - but that's just me. Knowing these tips is great, but I hardly think I will find machinists in my list of shops that will know these tips, except for a couple that I use who are actually toolmakers. I also don't think I will become a real popular guy by going to a shop and helping a machinist know about these tips, just like I don't find appreciation many times showing another designer or draftsman a better way to do things. So I can only contribute my appreciation for these tips, even though I probably won't be able to make much use of them.

What a time saver trick for making multiple parts exactly the same. Thanks for sharing

wrecked my back, watching videos to fill the boredom... watched this one again, and slapped my head going, yea.... forgot about this one.

Hey Joe. Just a quick shout out. I rewatched the vid the other day and used it to set up an adjustable angle plate for motorcycle raked trees. Was able to dial it in to 0.006mm vertical over 100mm horizontal. Keep up the great vids

Thank you Joe, very well presented sir. down n dirty with tons of applications, what more could we ask for, thank you

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing your experience! Learning from you is pure pleasure! So many smart tricks so well explained! I love your channel! Milling a 22,5° angle for my 1958 Harley becomes now easy! Thank you! Please, keep on going! Greetings from Germany!

Great job explaining that process. I wish there were more educators teaching with your presentation skills. Thanks for all you do.

This was awesome, Joe! As a hobbyist I thought I'd never be able to justify buying angle blocks. Now I don't have to buy them! Thanks!

Words fail to adequately express my thanks and appreciation of the time you spend and the skills you relate when you make these videos that are SO good!

Thanks joe, ive been watching a couple of months now, I really enjoy your videos. And you just saved me the cost of cheap Chinese angle gauges 😎😁

Thanks Joe, practical, useful information well demonstrated.

This is great! Makes you wonder why guys buy angle sets when they can make them...which is what I'm gonna do! Thanks, Joe!

No nonsense and strait forward great trick thank you

Super useful, both in the simplicity of making the angle gauge and in the use of stops for mass production. As a limited experience mill user, these tips jump me a long way forward into making things accurately and quickly which is what motivates me to carry on and get better. I don't have dro but I do have a surface plate and vernier height gauge and for when I want holes at very precise points I often use an optical centre punch that I completed a while back from someone else start of it . I am amazed how experienced folk can pick up exact crossing points and have found that by scribing hard and feeling when the punch hits the cross I do better, but I still like the optical. Thanks for the inspiration and techniques.

Brilliantly simple. I am kicking myself for not thinking of it. I haven't used trig tables for a long time -- for the price of tables, buy a scientific calculator. It will read out in decimal degrees, but this is actually easier to use than Babylonian minutes and seconds. This video earns a subscription.

Dang it,,,doing a crash course this morning with my 13th edition Machinery Handbook open to page 199,,,(@@),, Now to got out to mill and make some angle plate attempts,,, thx Joe as always.

If you keep up sharing all these great tips I might be able to not only spell the word machinist I might become one. Thanks for taking the time to share, John F