Very nice work sir. The lathe is coming along nicely

I've been watching your series with my four year old. He is very interested in how you turn the wood into metal! We've since been watching endless Myfordboy videos of casting pours! I see a furnace in my future.

Those castings are starting to look semi-professional there Mr Allen. 👍

Those 15.88 mm bits are really popular these days 😂

Face plate came out nice there Mr Allen.

I suggest not so much the blue gloves as a “trademark”, but rather expressions like “a penance in search of a sin” in a Kiwi accent. Maybe work some New Zealand expressions and slang into your videos that many of us will have to google to understand.

I don’t mind longer videos with more “boring” details. When you get monetized and the big dollars start rolling in, you want your videos to be long enough to insert adds.

Nice!

Excellent trick with the auger following the slot. Cheers bro

Was really surprised how well the drill followed the groove. Looking forward to seeing the casting with the sand core.

What is the big tea bag-like thing you dipped in the shellac?

The bit followed the groove really nicely. Good to know. I am really bad at drilling straight free hand holes.

That’s a significantly better faceplate. The faced surface finish is impressively reflective.

Looking amazing. Have you used your new face plate to check the cross slide alignment? It should ideally be very very slightly concave. I think i'd try and sort out a more rigid toolpost. I was very surprised you got such a good surface finish with that much stick out on a lantern style holder. I found with my old treadle lathe that my hss tools needed to be very sharp. After grinding they needed to be honed on a stone. I mention this as i suspect the gingery lathe suffers from the same rigidity issues mine did. Sharp well ground tools really made the world of difference to finish. My first tool holder was a block of aluminium with a hole for a bolt and a perpendicular hold for a hss cutter held in with two bolts. Worked a treat. Look forward to your next vid!

Amazing Job!! the tool are sticking out too much, try to reduce that to have more rigidity and also use HHS bits its much more suitable to small lathes!! God bless you and your family!

I have the Gingery shaper build book... and I am looking forward to adapting and making one in my future.... I hope the rest of your lathe build treats you as well as what you currently have done, which appears to successfully be doing it's intended job! A good looking project!

7:40 , holy smokes......shorten up the stick out on that tool....... the vibrations you are getting must be tremendous......

well, you know the casting is solid anyway.........cheers, PB

new subscriber here, thank you so much Alan.......best wishes from Florida in the US.....Paul

The centre mandrel will be a lot easier to extract if you turn a low draft taper onto it. Much easier to knock out if it isn't parallel.

great job

hehhehe keep going!! One good trick to drill a hole parallell as possible on the drill press, is to rotate the piece as you go to cancel any uneven hole. Greetings from Brazil!

Castings are coming out way better now. 👍

woo! im here for it

Where did you get the groovy bellows that you used to blow loose sand out of the molds?

Second faceplate already! Nice :-)

As soon as I saw the title I thought “here comes a little yak shaving to advance the lathe project”. I’m excited over your new xy table and 1 2 3 blocks. You must feel like a kid at Christmas.

When i saw the title and thumbnail my first thought was "oh no, i hope he's not going to try milling in that nice drill press". Glad to see you're using it the right way. I found having an xy table on my drill press very useful for co-ordinate drilling. Still use it even after getting my mill as it's good for large unruly items.

There is a tool to clean those slots. It's basically just a small piece of flat bar with the end shaped like the letter "T". They work good but you can make one yourself by grinding a piece of scrap.

How NOT to do it. Can be almost as useful as "How to do it"!

Plan B sound good !

Commenting before watching. Wondering if the title “First Faceplate” is ominous foreshadowing.

Could it be that the faceplate is not mounted very solidly on the spindle and shifts a little bit while machining?

I'd be careful drilling out the centre. Drills will always make a hole slightly larger than their intended size. Might need a reamer to get it spot on. Then again might get away with it.

Cool, keep going!! Greetings From Brazil

The persuader, love it

More progress! Good to see.

Looking forward to seeing the first cuts on the faceplate. I cleaned an old one up recently and it's really nice to see the transformation from rusty lump of iron to shiny and accurate faceplate. Also looking forward to seeing progress on the tailstock. Your temporary tailstock should come in handy when boring that out.

You're almost there Mr Allen, keep going, It'll turn out great in the end.

I'd recommend getting some cheap thrust bearings for the leadscrew so you can do the nuts up very tight and reduce backlash. That's just a nice upgrade for any lathe. Having a faceplate on there is going to allow you to do lots more accurate milling operations so good idea to do next. Have you checked the spindle along it's length using a dial indicator? Might be worth double checking the accuracy before moving on with faceplates etc as otherwise any error will be replicated in everything you make. When you do make the faceplate it will be important to check it isn't concave/convex. That too will reveal either misalignment in the headstock or cross slide. Love seeing the progress!

I like the faceplate first idea. It sounds very sensible to face off the tailstock parts on the lathe.😊

Mr Allen, coming together nicely. Also, drill bit extensions are available from most hardware stores for relatively cheap, that would make those chamfer bits work in the drill press (sorry post drill on your side of the pond).

I see belts, that tells me its 100% compatible with a V8 engine.

It's looking real good.😂

Very nice work sir. Unfortunately it’s part of any kind of work. Repetition happens and you have to do it.

Olá amigo excelente trabalho!!! Lhe desejo muita saúde e cada vez mais sucesso!!!

This might sound like a bit of a back handed compliment. But although these videos don't have the production quality when it comes to video and editing of some of the bigger channels they really do make up for it in my opion due to how much more relatable they are. There's a few Gingery build video series out there, but this is the only one in a workshop that looks like mine, with tools that most of us have and show you suffering the sort of issues and frustrations that cause some of us to bench projects like this. I think it's this that has finally got me started on my own Gingery style lathe build a couple of weeks ago now after years of thinking about it. Also was good to gear that genuine excitment at the end! :)

Like you say might need the tailstock support again. I'd keep it for boring out the actual tailstock. I've bored out mine so i could fit a larger quill and had to find another matching tailatock for the job. No idea what the Gingery book says though.

Don’t be shy about tooting your own horn just a little. It’s quite the thing you are accomplishing!

Mr Allen, looking like your in the final stretch after conquering that headstock bearing issue. All this makes you a better machinist, it makes you think outside the normal way to machine things.