The tapping head does not reverse because it is from the GDR. Always forward, never backwards!

Hi your threading tool comes from the former GDR (German Democratic Republic), i.e. from East Germany and has been made by VEB August-Bebel Werk. "VEB" is "Volkseigener Betrieb", which translates into "Publicly Owned Operation". As many other factories in the GDR this operation was named after a Marxist/Socialist politician, in this case August Bebel. Tools from East Germany tended to be of quite good quality. Kind regards Harald

I wish these videos were movie length. Then I could cancel my Netflix subscription.

That shaper is mesmerizing...I fell asleep to it and when I woke up the cat had eaten my mouse...

the shaper cam/shaper shots are beautiful. There is a commonality between watching a campfire and watching a shaper peel an object from a block of steel. The slow, steady and exacting brilliance, a whisp of smoke and a chip-- pretty great,thanks tot.

Hey younger old Tony, I just stopped by from the future to re-watch some of your classics.

I watch your videos instead of mindless TV... Much more entertaining and I learn tons of stuff. Thank you!

stubled upon this older Video and just wanted to bring some Light in the dark with the tapping head. As commented before it is from a machine factory (WMW - Werkzeug Maschinen Werke which translates to tool machine factory) from East Germany (the former GDR) It was one of the few and to my knowledge the biggest machine Factory there back in the days. They still exist today and besides building machines to your specifications, they offer cnc conversion kits for their older machines. (still for big bucks - so no hobby type affordable) The writing on the side "Gewindebohrfutter" would most likely translate to "tapping head chuck" Love your Viedeos! I know you're going through a dark time now, but can't wait to have you back!

your videos are amazing

Absolutely love the little bits of humor you add.

it's really relaxing...watching someone else work

I love watching your videos. Takes me back fifty years and more. I do love watching the shaper, it's such a versatile piece of gear..

Always fun to watch some older TOT before a milling machine was the solution to taking stock square and cutting interesting shapes. What a treat!

I absolutely love your videos and your sense of humor! Out of all the youtube machinists, I find your videos to be the most pleasant to watch. I know there are many great machinists out there but their videos concentrate just on the machining part. In my opinion, your videos have the perfect balance between entertainment and education/machining tips. I like to watch a couple of your videos every night before I go to bed... Please keep up with the great work and continue making videos!

I've said it before, but your editing technique is very outstanding!

Say Tony we miss you and hope you and your family are well. I have been watching reruns and learning everyday looking forward to seeing you back on. I'm sure your father in-law is watching you from above and waiting as we all are. I know there's nothing I can do but if you need anything at all please let me know

I enjoy your style of videos. Funny wit with some clever editing, along with some really detailed explanation of what your doing. Like the analogy of the camp fire with watching the shaper. Nice work on the tool holders.

I watch these videos before going to bed.

Love the light-hearted nature of your videos, great sense of humor, very enjoyable. One of my favorite channels, great job!

Love your channel Tony. Specially your sense of humour. And love your editing. Must take a great deal of your time. To make these video's. I nearly choked on a ice lolly when I see you was cutting the parts with that knife. Just brilliant. You do make me laugh.

I love the circular nature of your channel... Making tools to help make tools to make tools to make tools...

Can't beat starting the day with a long TOT and short AvE video. Tony has by far the best metal parting techniques. I'd watch an entire video just on that. A+ for distance mounting too, that was an excellent toss.

Watching this with my wife (God bless her) I just said out loud "that's s good idea tony" in reference to your angled holder for HSS to provide automatic relief. Just wanted you to know. Keep up the good work!

fantastic job, I'm learning on a grizzly bench top lathe and I love it. the math curve takes me way back. I remember saying I'll never need this much math in my life, well ya you do. lmbo. thank you got an excellent episode.

Knife cut let out a huge gasp and a chuckle. Absolutely love your videos.

Fun tip - if you don't need them blued in under an hour, there's a very easy and simple way to blue your parts that wears better than cold blue and is darker. Basically just thoroughly degrease your part, immerse it in distilled or very clean water (our tap water is runoff mountain water) and boil it. Let it cool and it will form a fine rust. Boil the part again to convert to black iron oxide, card it with OOOO steel wool or denim and repeat until you're happy. Overnight gives very fast results with just slightly matte finish, less time gives finer results, but requires more repetitions. It's that easy... Thanks again for the great videos!

Wow! As a dedicated viewer of all your new videos (2019), it’s amazing how far you’ve come in a few years in your video making. You have always been a wealth of information, but the specific personality and u inquest way of adding in humor in your most recent videos are what really add the enjoyment of your content. Not saying your older videos aren’t entertaining.

You are the best! So smart, so concise, so useful, not to mention clever and funny.

Very nice pieces. Man, that cut-off knife is cool.

One of my first projects in high school machine shop was a vee block and matching clamp.I used a lathe,mill, shaper and surface grinder. It was cool watching the shaper cut some long chips.

Only 5 years ago, and you sound like a 20 year old. xD Adorable!

Always a joy to watch your vids.

Spectacular ! Really enjoying your videos Tony - thanks !

Spectacular editing - just a pleasure to watch!

Thanks Tony! you and a lot of others have motivated me to start make my own tools and videos!

It's interesting how you set up and used your shaper. You have encouraged me to clean up and start using mine, when the weather permits.

A little tip on the bluing. Glass bead sand blast, raw rubbing alcohol for decreasing, apply 100% cold blue with a clean cloth, use a fine steel wool to rub it in, adding more blue as needed for color, and finally add a combination of motor oil, 3n1,and transmission fluid to stop the bluing. Wipe clean. I've done this with various types of firearms, and the effect is excellent. I prefer hot bluing, or rust bluing, but for tooling, this is the easiest and best at corrosion resistance, while still looking excellent.

I suddenly have a strong urge to do some machining on a shaper. That machine just has so much soul.

I love everything about this video. Also your vise on the mill is awesome.

Tony I've been binging on your videos for the last 48 hours... fantastic work! Such good information, lovely wit and humour, and very satisfying! You should set up a Patreon - I'm sure all of us subscribers would love to help you out with a little compensation for your work. All the best.

I can’t thank you enough for all the entertainment you have provided throughout this last 12 months. Please accept my very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year and please keep up the good work. My most favourite KZfaq channel.

great video. good educational content, excellent photography and subtle humor.

I love your videos, I came across your stuff while looking for milling machines. I have now subscribed to your channel.

Excellent video! I enjoy watching everything on your channel. In my experience, cold blueing works much better when you heat up the part briefly with a heat gun or torch to about 150 degrees F and then apply some blueing fallowed by going over it with some 0000 steel wool and repeating the process from the beginning a few times until you are satisfied with the color. This process has given me a darker blue.

I love the surface finish the shaper creates. With an utter lack of more expressive words, awesome video as always!

I always get this tingling sensation when I see your shaper in action. Especially when the piece gets hot and lets off a puff of smoke each cut.

I love the shaper as well, fantastic tool!

Great work. Thanks for the images in slow/fast motion. I enjoyed it alot.

Haven't used a shaper since I was an apprentice, cutting dovetails with it is inspirational!!

Wow a shaper! havent seen or used one since 1975, great to see .

Agree, love your videos, humor, skill, editing, very professional a joy to watch, gives me a fix without having to go to my shop

I want that knife of yours so that I can sell off my 4" bandsaw to buy more stuff!!!

Good stuff! Loved that bit with the knife.

Great video Tony! I watched while having morning coffee and damn near blew coffee on my screen when you used the knife to cut the block into segments. Really good stuff. Liked the "dunk" of the tool on the post at the end! Thanks! Fred

Cool video as always. Loved the shaper-cam.

Man I've been watching your videos nonstop every chance that I get. Working with metal and fabricating and stuff is super interesting to me, but I don't have access nor the funds to get into that world yet. So for now, I'm living vicariously through your videos. Thanks!

shapers can be so accurate. ran one for a while at Newport News Shipbuilding back in 89-90. thanks for a great video!

Shapers still have a place in the home shop. Besides cutting key-ways and dovetails I use mine for cleaning up and squaring torch-cut steel plate. Carbide milling inserts get chipped on such a job. ( Cha-ching $) A single point high-speed tool is easily and quickly re-sharpened. And yes, there is a certain Zen-like quality in operating one.

The packaging was german and from my (small) hometown! Very nice

I could watch your vids all day!

Tony,Your videos are informative and fun to watch. Thank You, Joe

you are without a doubt fan freakin tastic!!! I love the cutting metal with a knife, and the way you just threw the tool holder on, and I betcha you did that on the first try?!!! LOL thanks Tony mike

Thank you , You're videos are so easy to watch, I always loved working on the Shaper in the Shop we had a 18 " Butler Super Shaper . It could remove a lot of metal. :)

22:40 that chamfer put a smile on my face, really makes them shine.

I love how You threw the tool holder onto the slot in the tool post at the end!

great video. and really appreciate that you work fast!

Awesome video Them holders come out beautiful Great job

Interesting ! Also made some tool post holders for my little Saupe lathe recently. Used Klever Schnellbrünierung- quick bluing. That came out pitch black like from factory... And square head screws to avoid to have always chips in the allen screws of cause...

I’m rewatching this again. This was my first time seeing a shaper work. Then I found Abom79’s shaper videos. Tot’s shaper is so small now

That's just BRILLIANT work Tony, keep it up ! Best machining videos on KZfaq so far, and great editing !

Seriously now, I've started digging into the old videos, but this isn't gonna last long. You need to post something man. I know it's vacation season and all but we need our dose :)

olive oil and a baking oven looks great, and both a file and a chisel are great tools. As apprentices we were not allowed to use any machines to make complicated tools (this is some time ago). Today that is of course a waste of time with all the complicated machinery the kids have to learn. And we hated it B-) . What I remember most was a to make an anvil with a chisel.

Your videos rock!!! I get the best results with cold blue when I slightly heat the parts, it cooks any moisture out of the surface, and I get a more even blue. thanks for sharing!!

This is one of the very few channels that you can click a video and hit the like button before watching anything. :D

Great work, as always. Great video, as always. Thanks

Awesome as always Tony!

Totally under rated channel you should have a boat load more subscribers !!!

Way back machine here. Fourty some years. My dad, when I was telling him about a day on the mill and the lathe, he asked me if I ran a shaper. He couldn't identify with what a mill was, but did know about shapers. I on the other hand didn't have any idea what a shaper even was! Now, even though I've never run one, I dare say I could figure it out. HSS tooling to the tune of 40 fpm, plus or minus. Up to .005 doc maybe. That is a sweet little machine you have there. Never worked in a shop that had one.

Hi Tony great video I remember when owning a shotgun i touched up the blue with philips gun blue but it came in a small jar looked like petroleum jelly but was pale blue i just rubbed it on with a small piece of cloth left it for about 30 minutes wiped it off and oiled it up it was then a much darker blue a light smear of the stuff did the job

Yet another great video, thanks. Top marks for dry wit as well as workshop skills.

I think it is a very interesting video because when I was young I worked with these machines and it reminds me of those times I am seeing that you have experience in machining parts and this is very nice to watch on youtube I am art to see people making videos without having knowledge of machines. My congratulations on the video Angel from Spain

I got some of that cold blue stuff too, because of this video. I just used it straight out of the bottle, and the result was perfect :) I used a thin painters brush to poke the parts, don't stroke over them, just poke at the parts where the blue isn't reacting properly.

lovely job Tony

Awesome knife work at 16:00! Laser-sharp!

Yes....much better than TV, thank you for the free information.

Great video Tony. Nice flow and lots of humor. Glad to see the overarm material already.

I think the reason the shaper is so interesting is that it's so slow. Most cutting machines in a shop are fairly fast, seeing it happen in a way that you can watch it happen is interesting.

In case you were wondering, the label on the box for the tapping head said "VEB August-Bebel-Werk", so from a public owned company (combine, actually) in old East Germany, pre 1990.

Great stuff Tony - as usual.

just stumbled across your vids. very interested in machining but I have no experience. you are awesome! thanks for the vids

That shaper is an awesome machine.

16:02 i need that knife! Great vids, cheers Tony!

That gag at the end was perfectly executed!

Always love your humor!

Great videos! Love the video style makes something that's somewhat boring fun to watch thank you.

I always come to TOT’s channel for the intro and outdo music that he’s known for

Very nice work! Very nice! Thanks, Ed Hicks

nothing I can say Tony... you are great mate!

There are two kinds of men in this world. Those that have a shaper, And those that are envious of men who have a shaper.

when applying cold blue, try to brush it while inside the liquid... it works 100% better and you get black results in 3 minutes. if you just leave it inside, the oxidation is not uniform.