Very Good demonstration, love the end, thanks Tom.

The whole video I was thinkikg about old cartoons where they mill a matchstick out of a tree... Love it!

Whew. I had to force myself not to skip to the end or scroll to the comments. For some reason your delivery in the intro gave me an uneasy feeling something was wrong/bad news. A welcome end to a toothpick video. What a treat to get a renzetti vid and a lipton vid in the same week.

That’s why you old school guys put in over size stock and peel a ton of chips! I was waiting for you to stab an olive, plop it in a martini and say “shaken not stirred!” Thanks for sharing.

Reminds me of the old Loony Toons where they had a saw mill cranking out single toothpicks from trees. Handy methods for delicate parts! Thanks for sharing!

As soon as the second step cut was made I thought "that is one expensive toothpick"... Little did I know... :)

To heck with Jimmy Diresta's ice picks, and Randy Richard's scribes, I want a Tom Lipton tooth pick!

That is brilliant!!!!! This is particularly helpful to guys like me that are just hobbyists bc we work mostly in small tiny parts like that more than anything else. That has got to qualify for the Machinist's Tip of the Year Award. Haha!!! It's a flipping toothpick!! How many of us have had the thought of machining a toothpick for sh1ts n' giggles?! Lmao!!! Great video Tom!!! Thanks for sharing!

tailstock support idea is not something i have seen before. very useful. thanks Tom!

Great tips. Thank you Tom.

I puckered up everytime it hairballed. That's also what brake pedals are great for.

One of the best machining videos I've watched in a VERY long time. What a great set of tips & tricks.

Thank you Tom, it's great to see you at the top of your game... You never cease to astonish... Please, never stop you are a true inspiration to many...

Nice Tom, I have used a similar technique making some small plastic repair pins and some parts for my CO2 pistol, which disappear when disassembling. This technique also works very well on my Taig mini lathe, although the tool elevation adjustment is a bit of a bear with an unmodified post. Cheers and thanks for a very entertaining little item!

Great tips both on turning small diameters and on living who you are. Thanks, Tom.

Great video and techniques. As I was watching it I was thinking that was an incredibly expensive toothpick and expecting it to be some sort of indicator component. What a great project and finish.

Thanks a lot for your good knowledge you share ,much appreciation and respect,all the way from Trinidad and Tobago,a Caribbean country.

Tom, now you're just showing off. True craftsman and artist. Always look forward to a new video.

Fun video Tom. I enjoy watching an expert at work.

Damn, that was good! I always learn something from your videos, but this one was over the top. Thanks

Great job Tom, I truly didn't think that was possible. Thumbs up!!

Awesome vid Tom!! Awesome. Thank you.

I really love this type of problem solving Tom, great video! Cheers, Doug

That's crazy Tom. I was thinking it was going to be a metering rod for a carburetor. Thanks for sharing your time and talent.

man thanks for the video.. I needed it , bad,, been re-watching your videos from 4 years ago..

Lots of great knowledge shared in the process. You teach is a very practical way.

Thanks for the added knowledge and experience

An excellent video, I'm glad I took the time to watch it. I definitely picked up some great pointers. Well done.

OMG! A little stressful for me. I learned a lot with this. Very much appreciated.

What a great video.... Real peril as I wondered if the swarf would scupper the part and handy tips, beautifully complemented by some sage advice.... Cheers Tom

That's very impressive! Thanks for the video.

Excellent Tom, well done! 👍👌

Great top Tom. I really enjoy your videos

Another awesome opportunity to learn from one of the best machinist minds alive today. Thanks Tom. 🙌🏼

Thanks again Mr.Miyagi. It takes a machinist to understand the hairs split on this one. I always learn something from Tom.

Thanks for the video. I am certain this information will come in handy some day.

That had some neat tricks, and a good laugh. Liked the ER holder in the chuck trick also for those small collet jobs. saves time instead of taking off the chuck. Thanks

Fun video. Nice camera work.

That was an awsome tip. I haven't had to come up with something like that yet, saved me some future contemplation time.

I was with Mark Bolton, I was anticipating some news such as "this is my final video" or worse. Loved the message and the precision. Who'd ever think a machine with so much power could be used to produce such a small part.

awesome tom. enjoyed as always

Tom, I really liked this !! It was a real hoot.... Thanks a bunch, Cliff

Great method!👍🏻

Wow, a machined ABS toothpick. An exercise in expertise. Excellent work Tom. .....and yes I guessed it before the end of the video.

After you pulled it out of the collet, I thought " it looks like a tooth pick!". Thanks Tom, I loved watching the technique; and greatly appreciate your sharing. Best wishes!

Hi Tom, great video, the ending summed it up nicely!

Nice work!👍😎

Still learning a ton from you Tom. Thanks

BRILLIANT TOM!!!!!!

THANK YOU TOM , I LERENT A LOT FROM THAT. REGARDS FROM THE U.K.

Joe Pie did a similar vid a while back, but this one has some nice twists and turns. Love that rulon thingy.

I got it now,I somehow miss the first part 🙏 thank you so much for the excellent video

That was wonderful. The support gizmo in the tailstock is genius. Never would have come up with that in a dozen years. Unfortunately, the autocorrect daemon caught up with Tom at the end where I assume he meant to type “alone” but got along instead. Who among us hasn’t been there?

Great video, thank you. 😁

Wow the prescience of your final statement and the callout quote at the end. Ideas clearly have a time. Your and thine be well fellow universal traveler.

That was awesome.

I learned something today and I did not want to. Thanks

Nice tweezers,Tom. Texas Joe Pie did one like this a while back too, but didn't explain the importance of tool height and nose radius like you just did. Thanks

That was hilarious and educational!

Excellent! Getting my Oxtoolco fix!

That's a nice toothpick you've got there, thanks for all of the tips and tricks over the years.

Abom! Stop giving Tom's videos a thumbs down. Great video btw Tom, I'll just add another to the 2k thumbs up camp :)

Hay Tom, really appreciate there not being any adds. These little things don’t go unnoticed. 👍🏻🇦🇺

Didn't know how you were going to do the grooves, makes sense now. Thanks for Trick

Always satisfying for some reason watching a heavy rip on plastic ……kinda hypnotic in a way

Awesome! 🤣 Thanks for the video.

Glad to have the intro jam back again Tom! Edit: and outro!

Great video! I liked the tail stock support idea a lot. Could certainly have used that in the past. Perhaps it could be mounted on the follow rest as well in a similar manner.

I’m watching Ox Tools and my name is Tom.👊🏻 Great tip for use tiny turners👌👍💯💯

Man I was going to comment that’s a pretty technical toothpick,and you beat me to it. Keep’em coming.

Nice tips.

Very cool Tom, I know that technique well. At my shop we make a living doing this similar technique. We machine small mandrels down to as small as .013 diameter and anywhere from 10 to 30 times length to diameter ratio. We only have one difference in technique, we take the entire thing in one cut up to .375 per side. We do it on our Mazak turning center. We make these mandrels from 303 stainless or Aluminum, they also get polished and are very close tolerance +/- .0002. I remember a guy trying to sell me a swiss cnc machine laughing at my idea and saying it wouldn't work, 15 years later million and a half per year+ sales on just that product line, different is good! Cheers!

Perfect love the end

Thanks Tom, Informative and delivered beautifully! I've got some carb needles that need a shave, I've now got a much better idea of how to do it. although since they are tapered i'll have to wedge them into the end of my support and have it mounted in a live center of sorts. I don't have one with interchangeable tips so I guess I've got another project! Why do machining projects always seem to snowball like that? I guess that's part of what makes it so much fun!

Always enjoy your videos. 835 likes and 7 dislikes within a few minutes of posting. I don’t get some people. Keep up the great work Tom!!

Great video and great ending! Haha

Love it Tom. About halfway through the turning, I started to think it really looks like a toothpick.

I wondered how those were made.

well I sure been accused of being "different" in my life time! lol enjoyed the message at the end.

Learned a lot just now

Technique is everything...

👍 good thing it wasn't a Vespel part😁. Thanks for another great episode Tom.

tom, that was very impressive! poppy's workshop says HI

Good stuff.

I thought for sure at the end you were going to stick it into a little cocktail weenie! Great video!

Tom, I am impressed. Thanks for all your lessons. Gary 76-Year-Old Home-Shop-Machinist In the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas

I love it that the lathe makes these "...zwwwwwut..." noises when moving the tail stock. (14:17) As a kid I used to make surprisingly similar noises when playing with some toy cars, but I've grown up now.

You laugh, because I am different. I laugh, because we are the same. I knew half way thru that I was going to spend a full 16:30 watching you make a toothpick. Very educational, thanks.

Thanks Tom

Hello sir, Thank you for your videos I really appreciate the knowledge sharing you put into them. This job reminds me when i had to turn a 20mm Invar rod into 3mm at about 100mm length. I tried various ways to turn it including taper turning in segments and only the final pass was to remove the diameter from 6/8mm to 3 at about 20mm segments. but the material was gummy and kept sticking to the tool and just breaking the thing off.. we eventually milled a hexagon to the inscribed circle of 3mm and that served the cause which was a base or a 3 leg parallel laser platform.

You're funny and very talented.

Awesome!

Very nice, Tom. Superb messaging. ----Aaron

You get a like for the Airplane! reference! and because you're generally awesome.

Ditto. Love it

Nice solution to a common problem. I wondered why not cut the grooves tight against the full-diameter stock, and then go on to cut more final diameter to the location of the second groove, and finally machine to final diameter to the cut-off point. The extended "steady-rest" worked as well, but seemed like an extra bit of tooling, and might not be possible in some circumstances.

enlighting clip in all senses. :-)

Very nice work Tom, liked that tailstock support! I am not a toothpick expert but I endorse your methods ;-) ATB, Robin

It's really the simple things that can be the most challenging.

I was thinking "toothpick" all the way through the video. Very nicely done, of course! Thanks.