The Column Front casting was next.  I machined up the pattern in two pieces and located them to each other using some cut-off nails.  The bo...

I've started making the Gingery shaper.  The first step was to model it up in CAD so I can see how everything goes together and to ha...

I finally got the grease caps done and installed on the truck.  They turned out pretty good.

To machine up the castings, first I had to do some things. I needed something to hold the bit. I had made a boring bar for boring out the he...

  My next project is to make grease caps for the wheels of the fire truck. We only have 2 and one of them looks like they pumped too much gr...

I made some upgrades to my Gingery Lathe.  First thing I had to change was the tail stock.  When I bored it out, I did not get a good bore a...

My dad, after having it for about 40 years, gave me his lathe (he's 79 now). It's a Craftsman 6" lathe, model #101.07034 from t...

Made some more progress today. First I cut off the sprues and runners and then set it up on my CNC for machining. This is after the first cu...