"At this level the world is rubber" - I like that.

A bozo mark is something I look at fondly in a tool I get / buy from somebody else. When we notice them, we get to feel a little of what the original maker must have felt. It is wordless communication between two people who may never have met, but are in the know. ✌😁

Tom, your ideas on the DIY cylindrical square and the adjustable filing guide are worth their weight in gold. Showing things like this that we can do in our garage shops at home, without "high-end" machinery, is a big reason I watch your channel. I'm really looking forward to your next video!

As a long time viewer of your channel I want to express how much I appreciate your content and while I am only a mere "woodchuck" to use your tern you never cease to impress me with the more technical aspects of measuring and accuracy. You have a gift to explain these things in a manner that even I can understand and not put to sleep in the process. You even captured my attention with lapping processes and now all my woodworking hand planes are lapped to flatness and the difference in them is incredible. I looked forward to meeting you at the Summer Bash last year that you were unable to attend due to work commitments and am not sure if I will be able to make it to the Bash this year but who knows. You are the very first machinist channel I watched and I cannot recall just how I found Ox Tools but I am very grateful I did!

I love the engraved cylindrical square! Nice work as always. Thanks for sharing your home shop with us!

Never too many meat loafs. Thanks for the video.

You are the only one I've found that discusses precision. Everybody else uses precision, but you explain it. Thanks.

Nice meatloaf Tom, loving that interferometer! ATB, Robin

Tom has been busy in the shop. I love it especially the laser! So much fun and frustration in one device. lol

Nice to see you posting regularly! The intro music makes me feel like something cool is about to happen. A bigger deal than usual these days, so thanks.

That Makino is soooo nice! You could run that thing in the middle of a library.

Tom, I have done the laser linear compensation on machine tools several times. We never owned our own toy so we had to contract with a provider that owned a machine. We opted for a lower tech solution by using precision step gauges and .0001" indicator. We had a 60" Mitutoyo step gauge that allowed us to most linear compensation in no more than two setups on most machine axis. We did almost no volumetric machining, so linear accuracy in X and Y planes was adequate for our purposes. Our machining tolerances were typically hole center to hole center or edge profile to hole center on large flat parts. Seeing your laser rig brings back memories. The step gauge approach was employed often enough that you might call it "routine". If we repeated within .0001" we were within our machining tolerances and often .0002" could be acceptable.

"And Bob Kruppa's your uncle" lol 🙄 I love that small toolmaker's square!👍

Love the new CNC. Very cool. Cool file guide too. Always something new. Great channel/ videos. Thanks.

I'm so jazzed to keep seeing new videos from you! Thanks so much

Thanks for the new viewer intro. As a first timer it anticipated everything I would have been wondering about.

All great stuff, I sit and watch you explain things. I really enjoy Monday Night Meatloaf.

Very enjoyable Meatloaf!

Those KE55 machines are the shizzle...most were sold in Japan. That's some giblets Mr. Gizzard!

Very cool Tommy!! Very cool I love these meatloaf episodes!

Thanks for showing the laser interferometer. Absolutely mind blowing

Thanks Tom. I’m so glad you’re back giving us your wisdom by making the videos.

Thanks Tom man I love the meatloaf great stuff thanks for making your videos thank you

Thank you for the knowledge ,, and lessons .. very cool stuff there .

Thanks Tom, I always learn cool stuff watching your videos. Can't wait to see future projects.

I appreciate you saying that you're not trying to prove anything. Unlike a certain unnamed knifemaker who who seems bent on a lifelong quest to fit every possible high-tech machine in his shop.

Hello again Tom, been out for awhile but I must say that's a Beautiful Machine and really has me missing my Bridgeport 3Axe Eztrack machines, loved the engraving on them.I bought them brand new for my old shop. BP in Connecticut said I was buying the last few made b4 closing and going Hardinge. Nothing like setting up, readjusting etc., using my hands in there opposed to my Fadals and other CNC machines I had for years. Still Love peeping into your channel when I can. Love being from the old school of machining and fab and love helping out the younger generation on new and old machines and machining both manual and CNC with G&M and MstrCam.....

Thanks, Tom. Another great video.

I LIKE THAT FILING GUIDE. Now I have a use for that old drill press stand.

Very nice filling guide. That gives me some ideas. Thanks Tom

That intro music triggers great memories of excitement from watching all your videos for so many years! Keep up the great work. Thanks for sharing Tom!

Tom, We love your nurdiness!! Keep up the great educational vids! Eric

Interesting bunch o stuff today

Great stuff. The Von Neumann quote is fantastic.

I have had that set of drills for about 4 years, use them daily & love them

Your strength in teaching was on display again, creating fundamental understanding of high end metrology. Well done.

Great video Tom! You are a wonderful inspiration!

Great show Tom! Fascinating to see how you negate the complex.

I love it when a machinist goes Metrology.

Great meatloaf,please keep it up.Can hardly wait to see more of the cnc mill!

The master of hand filing. Always enjoy the content Tom!

Very interesting stuff Tom, Thanks!

Delicious Meatloaf, Enjoyment fulfilled, brain stimulated,thought rekindled, Thanks Tom!!

Hi Tom, another great video with lots to learn. I also wanted to let you know that I received your letter today with your stickers, thank you very much for them, they are standing proud with my collection. Glyn. England.

I like the miniature survey equipment Q, thank you!

Good hunk of meatloaf today! Thanks again for bringing us along for all this. I'm learning a ton.

Tom, you really need to get a pet shark and put the frickin laser on his head!

That has to be the most precise filling jig I've ever seen!! It's a good use of that Talyrond column though! I will have to give the square a go, If you say it can be done by hand I must try!! Thanks again for the wealth of shared knoledge Tom!

Great meatloaf recipe Tom, thank you sir.😎😎

good stuff every time. thank you

Glad to here you run CNC equipment. Looking forward on view on the orange vice.

Love the metrology "Meatloaf's" The filing guide is Sick.....in a good way. Thank you Matt C.

NICE ONE TOM, REALEY ENJOYED THE COMTENT. REGARDS FROM THE U.K.

An enjoyable Meatloaf Tom... Thank you...

A fine recipe yielding a scrumptious loaf this week! The filing guide is a nice trick.

Love that you mentioned LIGO. I live about 10 miles from the one here in Louisiana.

I was about to say I have made a knife with a wooden rig like you angle filer. Very nice rig. All very nice toys. Thanks for sharing.

Nice collection Tom, Enjoyed.

Thank you Tom. When you presented the Makino as the new machine in your shop, I remembered seeing this same model during the Berkeley shop tour by NYC CNC because I thought I would love to have this same model too! I have been searching for one without having to have it shipped across the continent but no luck yet. Looking forward to hearing the story about the spindle bearings replacement. Daniel

1:37 Ebay 10$ B. Kruppa sine bar 7:10 Makino KE55 CNC mill 10:54 Drill America Bit cooler 14:51 Dogmeat Cylindrical Square 21:26 Logo Engraving 28:42 Oxtools detailing plate 30:05 Craigslist tips / Nerd Central / Optodyne Laser Interferometer 42:39 Oxtools filing stand

Another great video. Sure glad for youtube. Otherwise I would never encounter people like you and Robin (and all the others)

Been waiting for long time to see you with the Makino :)

The file guide looks like an oversized Lansky Sharpening System. Thanks for the tasty meat loaf!

My head almost exploded when you put the black polish on the engraving and missed a spot. Thanks for explaining.

That is a sweet CNC machine. Wish I had something like that at work, I would have a blast on it.

Love the filing guide.

I always liked doing engraving work on non engraving machinery. I once did the IAM logo for a guy's retirement gift with the lodge # and his service dates. About 8 inches in diameter on the gear portion. Did all the programming offline one line at a time.

That filing fixture is in very old copies of South Bend How to Run a Lathe from 1928......

Bubba Kruppa a southern gentleman.

I appreciate all these things you share. Someday I hope to be Bob's nephew. 😉

Wow, so much content lately. Thanks.

Q playing with lasers in his spare time - that is a promising start of a new movie 😁 I love the idea of using a piece of linear shafting as a round square. Finally a way to create one for the hobby shop!

I used to do laser calibration for Zeiss CMM machines. One little tip is to keep the humidity consistent throughout the measuring. If the humidity changes it could change the speed at which the light propagates through the air enough to effect your measurements. You can even just use a fan across your measurement area to keep airflow moving.

Oh and greight video Tom, THANKS!

Oh look, a Lansky on steroids. A Heim joint would work pretty good for the liner guide on a OXTool filing stand.

Meatloaf is always good thanks for the video

" I will neither confirm nor deny that making interferometers is my day job"

Very interesting, thanks for sharing

Used to use an interferometer similar to yours to calibrate our surface plate. We had to come in at night to do the cal because we could 'see' car traffic 250 yards away not to mention people walking around 20 feet away from the surface plate. Yes this was a metrology lab & we wanted to map & know how good our AA plate actually was.

I've got a set of cobalt drills from Drill America and I like them. The lid on mine came broken so I modeled up a replacement and 3d printed it.

Delicious Meatloaf, Thank You Sir

I'll be doing the mower blades with a file from now on! Thanks Tom! Chip a rock" or Novaculite

Thanks Tom, this was a Very Tasty Meatloaf. Each of these "things" you showed could be an episode of itself (your time permitted). I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us. Stay safe and well :) [edit - RE: John Von Neumann quote... Blind acceptance cements your boundaries. Imagination, Study & Testing proves that boundaries can have no limit.]

i enjoyed this.

That B Kruppa sine bar is cool as it gets Tom. Bravo Zulu 🍻. "And I have some projects" ....LOL Those drill containers have been around for many years. the tool trucks used to offer them with their branded sets. For all All know they still do. Good meatloaf tonight.

I recently purchased a Drill America Bit Cooler w/ 29 pc set of M35 Cobalt Jobber length bits from Amazon for a clam and a few skins ($102.69). So far, every hole I've punched has been straight & round.

Spectacular episode! You have changed how I will look at FT-IR forever. Now I am wondering what other analytical instruments I should try moving into the garage.

Excellent stuff! Tom I like your style! Cnc milling coming up and a lot to be learned here also (foreplay), a real sexy laser Doppler measuring device (I'm really curious about the complete story; actual condition, rework etc.) and an innovation in precision filing! Filing is not dead! It just smell's funny! (I'm guessing you know what the original phrase was and who started it) I'm really enjoying your work! You just made my day! Thank you all the way. Best regards, Job

Cool ideas Tom. Thanks.

Anybody else getting driven mental by that tiny bit at the top of the S in the makers mark on the cylindrical square that he missed with the nail polish?

That's one heck of a DRO for your dial indicator :)

The Makino KE55 CNC mill is just the cutest thing. I feel like you bought that to put some pretty curves into the wife's press

Those sine bars look like the old belt balancers. You would hang a belt over the hook end (near the 1" mark) and put your index finger under the round end and they would balance. Back in the day...

just listened to your "within tolerance" podcast (episode 35 if anyone is interesgted) and you have obviously spent a few dollars on new bearings for the Makino. Interesting podcast and meatloaf

Most often than not, my watching your videos are mixture of endurance and mild enjoyment. I have been a subscriber for ever. I would be happier to have more and shorter videos from you. Stay Safe.

The filing guide reminds me of the Russian TSProf folk that make a very nice all metal knife filing guide. Definitely a machinist solution to the knife sharpening problem.

My Norseman drill kit (I don't know how high quality they are.. I like 'em, but that doesn't mean much) has a very similar style case that I really like! If the case is the same, the center portion is actually a separate piece, and there's a cavity in the middle you can hide taps, or snacks.

Tom, thanks for another installment of dinner! I love the high precision and metrology content of your channel but to be honest I am itchin for some fab content! How about some projects using some of those unusual hammers that you can boast that you own! Anyhow, thanks again for keeping me sane during this COVID mess.

That Makino is one sexy machine for the home shop 😍

Filling attachment is cool, same concept as the Lasky knife sharpeners, but much more controllable.