I'd have to get a box before I can start bedazzling it.

I always say, "Anyone who wants to be President should be immediately disqualified."

"There is no such thing as “the cloud,” it’s just somebody else’s computer." - A motto I live by

that Etch-a-Sketch gag at 4:33 is fargin brilliant!

I’m watching this on company time. Take that evil OmniCorp!

"It ain't stealing if you also *used it* on company time." 😉 I've had a friend bring me patent forms, swearing one or two of my deelybobs were destined to make a million bucks. I'm with you, more like a million pin pricks in the ass... You always tell the stories, well... I've got a story about the best bosses ever and, most people don't get to make that claim. 😀 I was the luckiest "underverker" in the world when I worked for a particular movie production company. My "shop boss" was the most under-spoken, even tempered, actually nice, calm, cool and collected (in front of us) guy, *even when you F'd-up bad...* He'd look at you, ask you if you learned anything and if you think you'll do it again and, presuming you gave him the correct answer and didn't have a look of sheer terror in your eyes, he'd show you the *right way* to "F'er-up" and send you on your merry way... Just as long as you never tried to hide anything. There was someone(s) bending the lower legs on the expensive, automatic trailer jacks because, it's a "hurry-up, it's due yesterday, even though we just got the order ten minutes ago... Kinda place. Some walkin' dingle-berry would hook up to a trailer and take off... Dragging the jack leg in the dirt then drop it really quick and not say anything. *Not cool.* The owner (actually a very cool guy, whom I punched squarely in the mouth on my first day and didn't get fired!!) and his #1 came toolin' up on his golf cart (big lot) and asked me "Do you know who bent that trailer jack on the XYZ trailer back there??" I looked him squarely in the eye and said "Yes, Sir... I did. And I know what I did wrong and it won't happen again, Sir. I'm just going in right now to get a new one and get it fixed..." He just looked at me and said "Fair enough, I'll let you get to it." And they drove off in a cloud of dust. A little while later, his #1 came rolling back up, by himself and said "You're a very smart, *very* lucky man. He saw that bent jack and he hit the roof!... He was going in to go to the cameras when we pulled up. He was going to look through the footage and fire whomever did it, right on the spot... But, you caught him off guard, owned up to it, promised not to do it again and were already fixing it so, he didn't have anything to say. If you'd have lied about it, you'd be done for, right where you stood." I asked him "why should I lie and lose a $50k job over a $150 jack that I'd be happy to pay for. That's stupid." That's when he said that people were bending them every couple days and just hiding them and he was over it. (a couple days later, I noticed one less person at the lunch table). It's a shame to act like that when you have really cool bosses. The owner would charter a bus and take the *whole production shop crew* deep sea fishing every spring, down to Panama City beach (The "Redneck Riviera!" 😆) and paid for *everything.* Rooms, breakfast and dinner every day, the works. We'd have a full day of fishing in between two days to do whatever "stupid tourist tricks" we wanted. Easily a $30k trip... And people repaid him by hiding fuck-ups and lying to him (but not for very long). If there was a rush on a job building a special project, he'd ask for volunteers to work overtime (never orders, just asks, you wanna leave, no prob.) and he'd walk by, an hour or two in and just hand you an extra $20 bill (or two) and say "thanks for the good work." and move on out of your way. Nobody does that. It's just a gesture of appreciation but, it's flowers and wine for the wife to make up for being late for dinner, missing an event, etc.. There's not too many owners and foremen who treat you like that. Then again, there's not a lot of companies like that... Very special skill-sets required and you have to be a good fit overall (personality, etc.) because, it's a fast paced, "bust-ass from whistle to whistle" job to which many people say "screw this!" roll up their gear and hit the bricks (or are shown the bricks) after a week, maybe less. I'm probably going to get called on this but, it's *the largest* provider of movie production/transportation equipment in the entire US of A. Need to shoot a location set somewhere? Cast and Star trailers, "Honey wagons," grip, electric and camera trucks (with custom built dark rooms), hair and makeup trailers, light towers and a bunch of support equipment. Anything you can dream up, they'd build it and deliver it to you, anywhere you want it. It's a great company but a very "tough nut" to crack. But, once you're "in, you're in" until you want to leave. And they take good care of you... No yelling, screaming or threatening of jobs. It's not a job you just "go to school" for, it requires a collection of skill sets just to get hired, then it's a *lot* of OJT. 👍 When I got the call to come for an interview, he asked if he'd called before. I told him "no, I just figured they weren't interested." He apologized, said he wanted to talk to me 4 mos. ago and am I still interested. It so happened I was so, the wife drove me down and ran a quick errand and waited in the front lot. I found the boss, one "Mr. Rock..." Great boss' name (he's retired, I can say it now). He looked over my resume for a hot second and asked "Is this you?? This is your resumé?" I said "Yes, Sir." And he said "walk with me." We looked over the *huge* compound (which is hidden behind another business in front of the property, they don't take walk-ins 😆). We walked and talked and looked at equipment and buildings and got a feel for each other. We made the circuit and conveniently ran out of things to say right back where we started. I just said "Im happy." to which he replied "Im happy." The entire interview (only one, none of this 2 & 3 interview crap) took a little over two hours. Just for an interview... I told him I needed to get back to my wife and he started apologizing and I said to not worry, she was reading and listening to music, it took what it took for both of us and that was it. The next day I started the best/coolest job I ever had and, it was because of the owner and bosses that ran the place, not a bad apple in the bunch. But they gave no slack, it was a very high stress, "has to be perfect and done two days before you start" type of environment. As long as you keep up with the curve, you're fine. But, the movie industry is crazy and it's in the top 3 hardest jobs I've had, including the military. The other was piledriving foundations and forming up skyscrapers in the carpenter's union so, they have to be understanding of the employees, too. if you make a mistake (and I made a couple big ones) you learn from it and move on or you find another career. But if you can swing it, it's also the most challenging and fun time you'll ever have. 😉

In October in Texas, damn near every weld shop is busy creating all manner of deer stands. You wonder how any deer survive-- but remember how much beer is sold at the same time.

As an apprentice engineer back in the late nineties, Friday afternoons consisted of manufacturing billet VW Beetle switch pulls to sell at car shows and drag racing events for beer tokens 👍🏻

We always called it wage compensation on account of getting paid diddly.

1:10 It's not just a blue-collar tax. When I was a kid, dad and I would go to his workplace and let me fuck around on a lab computer for the whole day and it just so happened that said computer ran either a pen plotter or a CNC machine (no, they weren't that cheap, I literally could just pick which IBM 5150 I wanted to fuck around on). The funny relevant bit here is that his supervisor found out this was going on, would come by to watch, and not only didn't mind it, but encouraged it because he was just amazed that a kid not yet even in his teens could be taught how to operate this stuff competently. This later extended into my teen years, where I was then plotting circuit traces on a HP-UX workstation running something from Mentor Graphics (when not using his Windows machine to play online games on the company T3). Different supervisor came by one day while I was doing this and said that if it weren't for my age and lack of a security clearance, he'd have hired me on the spot.

While nosing through the fab shop scrap bin at work I was asked several times “What do you need?”. The third time I clued in that he was offering to custom cut some “scrap” material that was oddly similar to the sketch I quickly made for him. What luck!

I'm so glad that CNC is proliferating so quickly, all the way to the hobby level. That leaves me a fighting chance of affording my own clapped out bridgeport one day without my wife euthanizing me.

I worked for Spar Aviation years ago and we were doing avionics upgrades on RCAF C130. We had a sheet metal tech that was on shift with us wire pullers to drill holes if needed. He was bored most of the time, so he would make stuff for the crew. His best off the books project was a titanium lunch box. He probably used about $200 in materials. Beautiful workmanship.

My grandpa has a couple of Jack Stands made on company time that you could sit a tank on and they wouldn’t bend.. best he ever had!!

it's only missing a circular pocket to hold your malt beverage while you search for the 10mm socket.

Here's an idea for your next Friday session, titanium pry bar. Like a 4 footer. Buddy had one I saw in the 80's built on military time and military dime. No doubt on a friday. Keep up the great vids AvE!

I had a great shop that taught me set up. No one ever said anything about taking too much time as long as the machine didn't go boom. 1st day supervisor was like "the guy who was here before you caused $40k damage. Don't do that."

When you drill a hole into your mill bed make sure to stamp the word OIL over it. You might even squirt some oil in there to make it look good.

Have to admit I was momentarily surprised the Etch a Sketch didn't USB 😅

I used to work in hospital maintenance, and one of our guys would so some Friday freelancin’ in the HVAC/welding shop to work on his holiday decor. He was one of those guys whose yard was transformed into a Griswaldian wonderland at Christmas time. Biggest project was using a large (like 6ft diameter) metal spool that once held electrical cable to make a Ferris wheel. It was something to behold with seats for stuffed animals, a motor and stand so it actually worked, and he even engineered a system using motor brushes to transfer AC power to run the twinkle lights on the spokes and circumference since any cord or wiring would get twisted and mangled when the big wheel was turning. It was impressive to me, anyway.

I had a belt buckle made out of Inconel with my name welded in beautiful script. It was made by hand at a place I worked at years ago. It had a slight curve with fluted edges and a satin brushed finish.

Do you know what's better than watching this video on company time? Watching it on the governments time. Thank you American's for paying me to watch this

"It's not wrong, is it? It's only wrong if you get caught..."

Your Friday-afternoon comments remind me of when my dad's college department's machine shop first got in a CNC mill in the late 1980s. From what I remember, the first two people to learn how to use it were my dad (who needed some airfoil shapes for his research) and the machinist who was using it to make some fancy trigger guards for his rifle. I don't know how much of that was precisely on company time, but it meant he actually knew how to use the thing, so I figure it was worth paying him for it.

Gives me an idea of my own. Not a good one, mind, but I'll mull it over a bit until it get worse

Oh snap even deburred. Damn uncle AvE went the full 30% on the video production.

Thanks for breaking the edges on the aluminum. I work on buses and the three fingered trained monkeys who built them love to leave razor sharp edges on every piece of sheet metal

I absolutely love your content - and the Slavic Ladies commercials are really keeping me watching every second!

Thank you for having this CNC machine, so I don't have to. Cheers!

as one of those odd fellows, I 100% agree with your assessment that we're about the individual processes, I find myself working about each individual tool path making sure it's as good as I can get it then, moving to the next, but that may just be because I am the individual that programs the part sets it up and runs it. The major breakdown you see may come when you get into a shop that has a programmer, a setup, and then a operator. The programmer only cares that it virtually simulated out, The setup actually wants it to make good parts but is trying to idiot proof it for the operator, and well the operator .... "Green button make robot go wherever".

Cloud computing is a great idea if you own the cloud. Otherwise it's more expensive than DIY.

"blue collar tax" I'm borrowing that.

The Etch-a-Sketch bit is top notch comedy. The mirrors to G-code reality made me laugh and throw my keyboard at the same time.

It’s like magic! You start out with a clean tool box and a dirty bolt, end up with a clean bolt and a dirty tool box! You’ve outdone yourself again AVE! This is why I love your channel!

I miss working in a shop. I have tools at home, but there was just something more enjoyable about spending half the work week building some project for home.

Great for dressing up some scabby old M14 winter wheel lug bolts you swore you would never use again just four winters ago.

I still have a set of jumper cables built from scrap cable from my employer, 20+ years ago. I did have to buy the clamps and am looking at replacing them, but the 4 AWG cable has been great the whole time.

So fun to hear you talk about the "little things" that can be the whole world in production. I learned to start at the basics when trouble shooting. As I was STARTED/trained on a night shift all by myself. I ran screw machines so checking the variables, were as many as I imagined as I worked out the troubles. Usually it was something like tension on the guide bushing. If I got three bad ones in a row I shut the shop and went home. Because it's really about keeping the (4 screw machines and a Hobart to fix shit) shop alive. We had/have 2/4 guys doing sales dev and production. When we started we did the shit that other shops were passing on. Our Dev is the best. Just send an Etchashech pic! LOL! We did stuff for Boeing and Shh DARPA... Made free parts for dental work in Africa. Glad to hang and watch you play..

Mill: *touches material* KZfaq: [Music]

Took me twenty three minutes to realize that wasn't an ashtray made for Mother's Day. That is a clever little device.

Do you get time and a half for people who watch this on Saturday?

Nicest joint rolling tray I have ever seen.

When you flipped the etch sketch and groaned made me laugh out loud. I love that kind of humor

Your explanation at the end sounds like a wise man I know who gave the exact same explanation when I asked him why he did not sell the pens (beautiful lathe turned pens) he made... Cause then its a job and not a hobby,,, Love ya AvE...

Your content has been so consistent four years, and it just keeps on coming. Pretty sure most of us that have been here before you hid your sub count are still curious what numbers you're up to, because you're one of the best gals on KZfaq.

Choke up on your tools, and your tools won't be as prone to yelling at you.

Your mastery of language never fails to keep me bolted to the screen. Bravo Sir.

Props for the nod to Bob Widlar with the poster. To say he was an interesting fellow is an understatement. Thinking about it just a little tiny bit, it is easy to see that you and he share some personal philosophies. Love your videos. Along with the great visuals, there is no shortage of wit. An entertainment enigma to be sure. Keep up the great work, love you long time.

Love the "Christmas Story " reference . It's a major award. !!!

Love to see you back at the mill. Was afraid I might have to actually make something myself to get my fix.

Fusion 360 is like golf. Work at it hard for years so you can be just kinda shitty.

This looks awesome, to get a little extra mileage out of the sharpie maybe mill in a 1/8 slot so you could store it upside down so the juices flow to the tip

Skookum as frig! I've been binge watching your videos here in Iraq. AWESOME. I need one of these major awards for my milling/machinist magic tool box when I get home. Absolutely bad-ass.

Can you imagine working with Ave? I would never stop laughing long enough to get anything done!

Glad to be supporting the beer fund! Got no need to clean any bolts but the content is one of a kind. Miss the days when the camera wouldn't focus though.

G'day. I received my stickers and some have made it to my workplace. Happy to help out.

Blue collar tax, love it and I'm gonna use it

That Makita 9v brought back some so-so memories.

Meet a vendor at the golf course. It’s good to be a boss. And, “ nobody works, nobody gets hurt”, that’s a great quote!

Those Friday night and weekend shifts are what built my empire of dirt. Some of the coolest shiz I have was a weekend night shift project. All those night hours with the lathe and mill sitting still ... Shame to leave em lonely..might as well keep em lubed and running smooth after all a rolling stone gathers no moss ..right

I look away for one goddamn second, hear some screamin' goat, look back and Ol' Bumblefuck is dumping lubricant on a sparkler and playing with an etch and sketch... never a dull moment. :D I also like to think he is talking to the CNC machine and we are just watching a video of that. Like that front of the house guy that comes into the shop once in a while and talks at you while you are working on something. When he is talking about bringing down the feed speed, it even looks like the machine pauses to see what his choice will be.

My dad still has the same makita 3/8 drill with the stick battery. It still works perfectly. He even has the tile saw.

USB Etch-a-sketch was absolutely priceless... Will be sharing with machining cohorts!!!

Brilliant, get yourself a beer! (or whatever the Canadian equivalent of beer is, LoL!). That’s mighty slick! When can we start ordering the pencil swing press?lol!……

I am not sure what I just watched...but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Those arty-farty videos showing some state-of-the-art 12 axis machine producing some wonderful piece of machinery-art. You watch for 25 minutes and marvel at the end product and they NEVER tell you what it's for! 😖🤯 AvE - you watch a piece of material being machined through a haze of lubricating fluid with a commentary that is out of sync with the world but at the end of the video you have a practical thingamajig that does stuff that you don't need BUT you really want! That's the AvE difference!

Golf slacks on, gotta go meet the vendor! Gold!

Back in the early aughts, I was a lightbulb licker for a now long gone New England juice company. The walls and floor were brick, and everything else was stainless steel, right down to the pushbuttons on the cabinets I built. Friday afternoons were often spent loading higher-ups trucks with "scrap" SS, which would then be found on many a boat.

After the brass pen holder debacle I finally feel safe, once again, to suspend my disbelief! Thank you.

I'm machining an injection mold today and should be watching my ops, but instead I'm watching yours. Good thing I'm the boss otherwise I'd be fired.

Wage theft is a bigger issue than gov'ment jobs. You do your work on my time, I'll do my work on your time.

Those multiple passes in the center of the block at the 10min mark.... The sound and speed made the moves sound like the klaxon from Ghostbusters after Peck ordered the Laser Containment Grid powered down.

Cloud computing is a good idea because the higher you are the smarter you are.

Between you and Rob Dahm, it always blows my mind that anybody can just buy one of these machines.

Machining for my own needs, is one thing i miss about working in a shop. Offshift was always Friday.

"Frah-geeeeee-laaaaaayy. Hmmm...must be Italian!" I love that you referenced Christmas Story

Need to get an Osborne deburring brush and get that mounted to a tool holder, save that 35 seconds in hand deburr. Also leaves a real purdy finish.

I spend the majority of these videos trying like hell to figure it out and how it will make my life easier knowing full well the enginerds in the crowd figured it out in the first minute based off the X, Y, and Z paths they caught a glimpse of and they spend the majority of the video laughing at me who doesn't get it.

Love the appearance by an old 9.6v Makita!

100% Friday afternoon, our gaffer used to disappear off to a "meeting" wed break out the homers Monday morning was always a stand off, we knew and he knew and we all got on with it.

Makes me wonder: Do you get in some kind of relaxed, meditative state watching the Haas doing its thing? Because i certainly did... Oddly relaxing...

We call it a “fringe benefit “

Blue collar tax! Love it ! I will be using that one next time while working on a government project ;)

used to cnc stuff for a living in what seems like a previous life, i'd have an actual cnc, with a screen to run simulations of my questionable programs, and also an older emi-mec turret lathe with plugboard control, and an old but excelent Ward or Herbert capstan lathe for second op's. also nice brass candle sticks and hash pipes 👍

It's not stealing it's training autodiadactily on company time

Freedom for Canada!!! 100% support!!!

Hell yeah!!! Been a full supporter all things Fukkin Around and About

Excellent call on the BEST possible machining vise, Kurt!! Another fine Minnesota product (although sound in idea & purpose, their "Chipmunk" is overpriced a bit IMO). Machining is the only thing I've ever done here in Minnesota...4 generations now...me being #3. Gotta tout those locals, don'tcha knooo?

I love the videos man! They give me project ideas to work on in my grandmother's basement. Hopefully I won't blow it up! Keep up the good work and giving me a distraction from the horrors of entropy.

Start safe…. Then push the limits. Lovin it!

Love it whenever you drop one of these types of videos. I also love the French Canadian slang thrown in from time to time, being from Quebec myself. My Québécois girlfriend gets a kick out of it. Thanks for sharing!

I know that my grandpa had some sticky fingers at the mine shop. I know because some of my tools that I got from him have said mine labels. But my grandma said his boss said he could do it as long as he snagged some for him too 🤣

The USB and the etch-a-sketch is great. I think I'm going to give a kid one and just a phone charger just to see what happens

Some have lost jobs or made jobs out of such shenanigans. Love the work.

Thanks for the new word! I had to look it up! Perspicacity. Tis a rare quality to possess indeed .

Pencil holder that's also a sharpenerrrrr

As a wood man(college lecturer) this makes me want to be a metal butcher and yes you need to sell these so I can buy one preferably with a built in mouse trap for when my students are constantly stealing my pencils

Well shit my pants and blame my parents, I learned a new slogan today. Stupid like a fox will last forever in my vocab. This channel is the gift that keeps on giving.

We run a tube project a lot at my shop, and my boss wrote the milling operations so that the top half of the mill does a roughing pass and the bottom half of the mill does the finish pass. I'm always amazed by the little tweaks he does to get more life out of the tool while making a nicer part

No no no. You need to check out the Helical chipbreaking end mills. They are reasonably priced, and we run the 3/4 chipbreaker at 10k rpm, 2" LOC and .15 - .20" radial stepover at 150-180ipm all day long. The material removal is incredible and they cut so quietly and last so long. You CANNOT beat it. This is in a cat40 taper machine too. But using dual contact, milling or hydraulic chucks. ER collets wont hold the tool at those depths. Edit: they are not corncob roughers. They just have a chipbreaking notch every so often.