Max and I finally got around to recording our first episode of a brand new podcast! In our first episode:
- What’s happening in our shops (it’s getting cold!)
- High Speed Steel – the Scottish man’s cutting tool of choice, and also most dutchmen
- Quit spreading rumors about HSS bluing!
- Don’t feed the monsters: quit buying those end mills in the wood box
- Max’s tip: Do yourself a huge favor and buy a 3/8 HSS roughing end mill for your mini mill (a good quality one will last a long time!)
- They are not Titanium drill bits!
- Max untwists a drill
- We talk for 1/2 hour longer than we planned. Consider it punishment.
Youtube links:
- Mr. Pete’s tool grinding video, part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDr4rYLiAk
- That really old one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7g8yu2iYhY
Recommended Books:
L.H. Sparey’s Amateur’s Machinist. On Amazon here.
Here is a picture of the TIN drill Max managed to untwist:
We’ll get better at this, we hope. Please leave us feedback.
For now we are hosting it on my blog. You can listen to the episode directly here:
or download it directly.
Subscribe in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/home-shop-machinists-podcast/id1180854521
Be sure to check out and follow Max on his blog, The Joy of Precision and also his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMt_havo3BxZJscvRCOGcw
My Youtube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qMguQuG7N4CFwOP1jyo4A
thecogwheel 
Congrats you site and blog offers great content. Keep it up. Tom
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Thanks Tom! We appreciate the support.
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great podcast guys, keep it up! judging by the comments (or lack of) I may be the one listener you keep talking about! p.s. can you give us/me a link to the history of HSS you referred to a couple times?
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This way Max’s Christmas presents aren’t spoiled :). The HSS history was from various sources, I’ll try to write a blog post and include the links.
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I really enjoyed your first episode, and I’m looking forward to future ones!
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Thanks so much for the feedback! Max and I are working on the next episode as we speak – the holidays have limited our recording time, and you know we need a lot of recording time!
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I really enjoyed your first episode, and I’m looking forward to future installments!
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Next episode is coming soon!
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I am enjoying the podcasts, guys!
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Thanks! We really enjoy doing them.
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