Former Workshop Tour

[sethile]

Stumbled on this great tour of Former's workshop. Lots of interesting tooling I've never seen before including very unusual chuck jaws that he uses for hold a mostly shaped pipe by the shank to drill the mortise and likely face the end of the shank:






and a shape duplicating machine.



Would love to see some of these tools in action!

The entire set of photos can be seen here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1175866216 ... sterFormer#

[jogilli]

scott

thanks for posting.. i'm always on the lookout for shop photos...

james

[Alden]

Very cool ! I love studying shop photos for ideas

[d.huber]

This was great to click through! That chuck he uses is pretty cool.

He's not the first person I've seen photos of freehand drilling with the shaped pipe in hand. How do you do this without having the pipe ripped from your grip?

[wdteipen]

This was great to click through! That chuck he uses is pretty cool.

He's not the first person I've seen photos of freehand drilling with the shaped pipe in hand. How do you do this without having the pipe ripped from your grip?

Spoon bits and luck from what I've heard.

[andrew]

You can do it with a spade bit, but it takes a REALLY good grip on the stummel, low rpms, nerves of steel and a decent pilot hole. I still end up having to clean up the chamber a lot with sanding. Spoon bits are better (so I've been told).