@jkopel.bsky.social
Making things in the pnw. Mostly metal, sometimes art, lots of machines.
I’m still not not here.
16.07.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Got mill?
26.03.2025 14:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s definitely cheaper!
20.03.2025 16:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yup. I’m way too old for hand scraping. 😂
20.03.2025 16:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I will never get tired of this texture.
#machinescraping
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#machinist
#manualmachinist
#homemachinist
#maker
#precision
#shoplife
Beautiful!
16.03.2025 05:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You also have to be slightly crazy.
15.03.2025 05:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sometimes the most expensive tools are the ones you get cheap. 😂 I know this from bitter experience
14.03.2025 20:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0This would be a very unsatisfying replacement for your mill. It is cute though.
10.03.2025 22:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That’s beautiful! I’d love to see a whole wall of them.
09.03.2025 05:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You get to see the coolest stuff! 😃
07.03.2025 07:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No the back side is open and cored out to reduce weight. It also has threaded holde so you can insert handles sticking out the back. It's a really nice design. 👍🏻
05.03.2025 02:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It is called an Armor MIll from the Aircraft Machinery Corporation of Burbank, CA. 😃
01.03.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That wave spring is cool. Is it spot welded together or something?
01.03.2025 06:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It may be a while before I go back to #metalsmithing, but I’m still making things out of metal. I bought the raw casting for this straight edge 6 years ago and I’m finally getting around to machining it. Next up, scraping.
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#machinist
#manualmachinist
#homemachinist
#maker
#precision
#shoplife
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18.02.2025 05:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Now that is clever. 👍🏻
09.02.2025 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don’t know if this place will ever be as well populated, but it is nice not to have ads for now!
09.02.2025 19:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They are very useful for certain things and a pain in the butt as a general purpose milling machine. Happy to provide some tips on use if you need them. 👍🏻
07.02.2025 21:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes it’s on the list! 🙄 Unfortunately it’s the only orientation the works.
07.02.2025 21:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes it’s a really nice machine!
07.02.2025 07:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This horizontal mill is one of my favorite tools for box making. After owning it for 10 years I’m finally getting around to adding digital scales so I don’t screw up so often. 🙄
#machinist
#metalsmith
#metalsmithing
#jeweler
#boxmaking
#boxmaker
#metalbox
#metalboxes
#silversmith
#silversmithing
I don’t think I had seen this one before, it’s lovely!
06.02.2025 20:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you Michael.
06.02.2025 17:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m so sick of being a set of eyeballs to push ads at.
06.02.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Weird indeed. I am never really sure what I get out of it, but I keep posting something somewhere so it might as well be here. 😃
06.02.2025 17:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks! I’m not 100% yet but so far I like it.
06.02.2025 17:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looks great Jason I’m jealous of how you can have so many separate spaces.
06.02.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Starting over
06.02.2025 06:12 — 👍 32 🔁 0 💬 8 📌 0
