smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
Only machinist I know that might have been able to do that was a Danish fellow I worked with who taught me a couple of valuable lessons. He had gone through an old world traditional apprenticeship in Denmark and had worked several years as machinist on a merchant marine vessel.Gunsmith buddy said years ago his first project was to turn a mild steel sphere into a perfect cube of an exact dimension using only a vise, micrometer, and file.
He told me, 'Number 1, good setup equals good parts. Don't get into a rush on your setup. Plan it out, visualize the whole setup and part making right to the end and you won't paint yourself into a corner.
I've never been a fast machinist, but I've always been the one called on by the boss to fabricate his 'brain children' and to remake the parts that "the faster machinist" screwed up.