Making My Own ADJUSTABLE CRESCENT WRENCH! Part 2

[@cadeaugh]

Im rather enjoying these tool series. The blades are cool but these show you branching out into machining which is a whole different beast and I am learning alot from these videos as well as blade vids. Thank you for the diversification. I love both styles of videos

[@Sokattash678]

Same! It is very fun seeing Alec learn and grow through each tool!

[@TheStevedie]

I second this!

[@gregiep]

Jamie has created a job for himself, where calling his boss obscene names helps his boss’s business. Well done, my lad.

[@venom_ftw9316]

I thought it was just Brits being British

[@JuanPalomoM]

Good to see this channel going back to “Alec makes a thing, and then another different one” Good job on separating the company from the “short” YT passion projects!

[@Amehdion]

This tool making series really helps you to appreciate the wonder of mass production. If we had to produce these using the methods shown here they would be $300-400 tools instead of $60.

[@samstirling4279]

Jamie - always the voice of reason

[@bird197196]

The knurling, and threading of the lead screw is going to be fun 🤩 to watch.

[@OddJobEntertainment]

I would think you knurl it first and then just cut the threads. I've seen other people do knurling and it's pretty simple with the right tools.

[@bird197196]

@@OddJobEntertainment that’s exactly how it’s done. Just like 👍 in the order that I described it. 😂

[@OddJobEntertainment]

@@bird197196 I see now. I understood it as more marveling at the difficulty of doing them as opposed to a set up of how to do it. Either way, it is going to be good content.😄

[@boelwerkr]

Very very early versions of that tool had a square hole for the jar, made by a sharper or broach. It got round when drop forging got more accurate.

[@just_bram1128]

I believe the slot you milled in the beginning of the video was actually made using a keyway broach, if you make an adapter this is something you would be able to do yourself on a hydraulic press ^_^

[@1984wodka]

I was looking for this comment before posting my own ;-)

[@daniel_charms]

I've seen people do this on a lathe, mounting the work piece in the chuck, the broach on the slide and then using the power feed for moving the broach.

[@schwig44]

@@daniel_charms jesus, I knew ramming a broach from the back with a shop press wasn't the way to do it (and done it anyways), but that takes the cake.

[@Robenbuilds]

When you have the tools for a project like this it must be so much fun to try and problem solve and figure out the different steps! I really enjoy watching these projects!

[@SRFriso94]

1:00 Alec doing his best impression of the opening of The Lion King. You can't unhear that.

[@BlackringIII]

Fine lapping paste might be a good option for tuning that fitment!

[@Fabrice1970]

Always loved your videos but I have to say that I was enjoying way more the ones you did in Montana…

[@davidkelly1638]

Watching you make tools is pretty cool, I would love to see you progress through making tools for different trades. Like a woodworkers tools series

[@TheBigburcie]

I hope I'm not the only one who finds it incredibly satisfying to watch the chop saw slice through the steel block and the end mill shaving off those paper thin curls of metal to leave behind that swirly finish.

[@christopheraberle3706]

Jamie I don’t know what else to say I’ve been doing this for 6 hours….. best line I have ever heard on this Chanel …. Cheers To you sir and keep at it !!!

[@michaelgatford6194]

REALLY enjoying this project Alec. Please make a multi tool next!

[@Palestrike]

YES please! I suggested it on the discord, too!

[@dukkiegamer1733]

Man I just love that you show the whole process, all your solutions that you came up with. Even the ones that turned out to ruin a days work.

[@schalkvisagie1113]

Really miss the knife making, forging, struggling, problem solving, longer videos. Been watching for years just want the old ways back more. Don't get me wrong as you have been my motivation for years now on making cool stuff.

[@supermario5826]

1:56 good job jamie ^^

[@matthewb8229]

One of the things I truly enjpy about being a home garage mechanic, is the problem solving that occurs as a job is being worked. I think mechanics, machinists, trades people really are some of the most clever or imaginative, real world problem solving human beings.

[@davidelliott8324]

Good thing Jamie keeps coming up with ideas to save the day lol

[@p1mason]

This video inspired me to find out how the dynamic jaw is made for a mass produced wrench. Turns out a blank is forged to rough shape and then cold pressed through die to bring it down to final dimension. I'm suddenly blown away by how much something like a cheap wrench can ONLY exist because of specialised tooling and mass production. Makes your copy that much more impressive.

[@GiladBarad]

Alec I dare you to make a sword without any power tools

[@noahhall3124]

I second this 😁

[@samfletcher93]

Double dare you.

[@RobertDoornbosF1]

Should'nt be too hard, they did it 100s of years ago, with less knowledge and worse tools

[@yourgamersource123]

Triple dog

[@tomaspeszeki5128]

@@RobertDoornbosF1 not sure about the knowledge part man :)

[@jackreeves3001]

Very enjoyable! It's amazing the amount you have learned since you got the lathe and mill. Thanks for sharing your time and talent! KANSAS USA

[@ego73]

Yes, Alec! These tool videos are great, a combination of smithing AND machining. I'll NEVER tire of them; keep them coming!

[@howizee]

Making the round cuts just reminded me of "all these squares make a circle."

[@ewitsthatthing6929]

I love his little drawing

[@destinhall5631]

I work at a children's museum and we recently ordered a belt grinder from you Alec. Going to be awesome using it to fabricate various exhibits!

[@jakebrooks6269]

Hey man I love seeing you work though problems and stuff! It's awesome to see you improve and learn during the making process! Keep it up!

[@mpkuin]

Glad you've recovered well from covid! The MewTwo one would be an awesome card, symbolising the first mew two raids!

[@Benja.____]

More than 2 days of work for a 10 min video. Worth it

[@m1n1m4n345]

would love to see some more 30 part blade smithing videos

[@T.I.M.5]

Well done Jamie. Great suggestion

[@waverleyjournalise5757]

A day doesn't go by when I don't marvel at the absolute god tier pieces of engineering that make up a mill.

[@dpmakestuff]

I know it'd be so very extra... but you should set a stone in these tools you're making! Just a small stone in one of the non-hammer surfaces.

[@dtnicholls1]

If you haven't done it yet, the way to cut that is to mount an Acme thread boring bar in a 4 jaw chuck in the lathe and mount the moving jaw on the tool post and cut it just like you would single point a thread. The tip of the cutting edge on the boring bar when it's spinning will describe a circle. Adjust the 4 jaw to make that circle the same size as the lead screw plus the clearance you want. IE if your leadscrew will have a diameter of 13mm make the boring bar go 13.1 or 13.2. You can make the boring bar by silver soldering a piece of HSS to a piece of round bar, with the cutting edge of the HSS placed such that the cutting surface goes through the centre line of the bar. You can mill a groove into the end to make it stronger or just solder it to the end and grind it to the correct point and take light cuts. When it comes time to make the leadscrew, use the same boring bar on the tool post and it will all match perfectly, even if the angles are a tiny bit off.

[@derekmcdonald2168]

Jamie is seriously the coolest haha I’d love to have a friend like him

[@stookinthemiddle]

Heyy Alec! Would LOVE to see you try and forge some musical cymbals :D much love from Scotland

[@lukedorey]

I'm loving the Jamie alex banter

[@notold37]

Love watching you make these precision tools, brilliant work Alex 👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘Cheers from Melbourne Australia

[@DEATER155]

Should’ve had the 3 jaw at 90 and a longer end mill set to rotate the 3 jaw

[@dementious]

Something I noticed between Alec and Linus (Tech Tips) is that they both love dropping stuff. Great content, 10/10

[@Renaissance_sheepdog]

Love these projects alec!!

[@SchysCraftCo.]

Awesome to see a new video on This build series. Can't wait to see more videos soon my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God bless.

[@brianmoore1164]

One of the reasons I love machining is all the different ways to approach a job. I was certain you would use a corner rounding endmill for the circular part of the movable jaw. Your solution was quite inventive.

[@lazar2175]

A ball endmill was quite fitting there, but he probably didn't have one.

[@resurgam_b7]

Wow, work holding in this video was... inspired :D Loving the choice of project though, it is fascinating to me to watch someone hand make a normally mass produced item and to go through the process of discovering how to make it.

[@sudo_nym]

Good job Jamie was there to offer his machining expertise! 😂

[@soupsock9743]

You should try and make one of these tools (a new one) without any reference, just what it’s like off of memory. Maybe vice grips or something

[@Simba.C.253]

I love how you make various tools in your own version out of damascus, so I was wondering if you could try to make a damascus ball peen hammer. It would be quite the challenge and I would be intrested to see how you would do it.

[@TheChrisOfManyHats]

Nice work on rounding that bolt! For future round projects, I would recommend a ball end mill. Which is a round end mill. 🙂

[@MrMbhiltz]

Jaime i dont know what else to say ive been working on the same thing for 6 hours.... bout the realest ive seen alec... hahah the pain was real. Sorry, but it is amazing so far. Good work

[@mmartian1969]

Done the Zippo, the ratchet, now the adjustable wrench. Maybe next should be a channel lock? Although a Yankee screw driver would be extremely challenging.

[@Ecconia]

Am I binge watching Alec too much, when you notice that his glasses changed right away? (At 4:50 or so) Oh well he held the work piece right in front of his face, so that made it much more obvious than in the couple of scenes before. I wonder how this random glass change came to be. Maybe just testing them? I really enjoy these advanced tool making videos, even if it feels a bit more distant to hammer swinging. But it is nice to learn about the tools and how they can be made. "Jamie I don't know what else I meant to say" - that sounds as if Alec responded to his wife Jamie :D (true desperation) Made my day! Am I paying to much attention to trivia stuff? Very great video.

[@dan__________________]

The chuck on the mill can be rotated to make the work piece perfectly round by rotating the jaw from say 90 degrees to 270 degrees.

[@jpool4324]

It made me happy to use the adjustable hammer to remove the other adjustable hammer from the fit up!

[@PheelTheJoy]

You'd think snap on made their wrenches like this for what they charge. This is such a cool project, good work!

[@ecalzo]

Brilliant .. loved that one ..

[@boelwerkr]

If you look up "Franzose Rollgabelschlüssel" you will find other constructions. I really like the type where you twist the handle and the head has two mouths. They really grip hard.

[@homemadetools]

Nice work. We shared this video alongside part 1 on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

[@Worrsaint]

For cutting that round you should have use a form tool in a fly cutter. Watch how gear teeth are made on a mill with a fly cutter. Instead of the gear profile, you would have a flat end with a partial hole the diameter of the round section on the end. Cut part of the round, rotate your part a little and cut more until you are all of the way around.

[@DaleKallio-jk9wo]

If you do some research into the crescent wrench I'm sure you'll find there are commonalities between the universal mill and the manufacturing procedure for the Crescent wrench however the crescent wrench went through iterations where casting became the methodology for achieving the tolerances required

[@paulus842000]

Brilliant. When you milled the round part of the ajustable spanner in the chuck, you should of had a center on the other side of the round to stop it flexing.

[@stevendelvecchio3721]

Love your problem solving skills sir.

[@nicholasviney5975]

Jamie giving technical advise and jargon " 2 on the other side D head" lol

[@jeremiahpitts710]

Corner rounding end mill, I'll see if I can link to some for you. Also if you get some 01 or w1 it would be possible to make your own cutters. I have done it for steel and brass. Right heat treatment and you can do steel

[@bcegaming8716]

I love what you do man, and i hope to get somewhere just like what youre doing. I do have 1 thing about this video... i know youre from across the pond and speak a bit differently, but what youve made is an apprentice wrench. Not because its easy to make, but because its easy to strip nuts. All and all great craftsmanship you should give it to Will.

[@dunc71]

for that reason maybe it shouldn't be given to the apprentice...

[@marclucas5100]

Has to be the most expensive adjustable jaw wrench in the world.

[@michaelgatford6194]

It's a unique one of a kind piece.

[@TheStevedie]

I'd like to see this tested against mass produced ones to see how well it holds up....I'd be surprised if it wasn't number 1 honestly.

[@shootymcshootfacekoff7972]

@@TheStevedie I mean, the only major differences between the wrenches is the steel used and manufacturing methods, so in terms of how well it would hold up is entirely dependent on how tough the materials and differing design bits, wouldn’t be surprised if handmade held up a bit better as it’s custom fitted, but I don’t think it would be too too much of a difference as tools like this are hyper optimized.

[@sige4rdo320]

At this point, better put some engravings onto it, maybe even fitting a gem or two... :D

[@gaskamp2]

@@sige4rdo320 "Engravings -- Provide no tactical advantage whatsoever."

[@stingsbaseball1]

Alec please do a video about all of the worst injuries you’ve had. 1. I’m interested 2. I think it could be educational for those wanting to get into the trade.

[@snake2261]

Drill the hole, then broach out the slot, if you had a shaper.

[@Gantzz321]

don`t know why you ran the mill back and forth on the part when you could have rotated the part against the mill and gotten a PERFECTLY round piece instead of a piece the had a ton of slice cut off it to make it seem round. but not really round

[@firefly2472]

and dont use the center of the dril but the side.

[@schwig44]

'cause that's how you blow up your spindexer. Dividing heads are meant to divide the work, not feed it through the cutter. That's what a rotary table is for. What he could have done was use way more divisions (precise amount could be figured from tool and part parameters) so taking off the corners would actually be manageable by hand. It would likely require some faffing around to reposition the work inside the spindexer after making the first batch of passes so that the divisions now line up halfway between the cuts, but definitely possible.

[@TheUncleRuckus]

Exactly, doing it the way he did just created a shite ton of tiny facets.

[@kameljoe21]

@@schwig44 Could he have used a corner rounding end mill?

[@schwig44]

@@kameljoe21 potentially, but you run into the same issue if you're planning on using the spindexer to feed the work through the cutter. The cutter itself isn't really a factor to this part of the discussion. Don't matter what cutter you're using, if you crank the handle of your indexing head to feed the work through the tool, then you are risking blowing up your spindexer, or at the very least loading the gearing inside way past what it was designed for, which will likely violate the tooth profiles of the gears themselves, which means they no will no longer spin a complete revolution smoothly, which means all your dividing accuracy is gone. So it may still index your part for you, but you won't be able to use it for every project you could have if you did not use it as a rotary table. Or again, you just start rippin teeth off those gears entirely and you're SOL. Dividing heads/spindexers have high-precision, low-load gearing in them. They're meant to turn basically each other and a tiny load by the exact same amount per meshed tooth pair. This requires a bunch of fine teeth. Compare with the gearing you would find in a hand crank rotary table attachment for a mill, where the teeth are still high precision for repeatability, but the thickness of the teeth is much greater, in order to handle to load being transmitted through them.

[@patrickretsel7048]

Jamie in the collaboration for the win….good on you today brother….😎

[@oneshotme]

Looking good!! You're getting there with it! Enjoyed your video and so I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@CALORIEWARSCW]

OMG I was just waiting for you to ping it then storm off.. cracking job 👏

[@darink300zx]

You may have mentioned this already but are you making this for metric or standard nuts and bolts?

[@joeltham1979]

If it's adjustable surely it would tackle both metric and imperial nuts and bolts. 🤔 were you joking?

[@ToreDL87]

Knew the rotary table was gonna come out for this one 😁

[@davidgosling8542]

Excellent safety glasses with side shields. Still, at least you have hearing protection!

[@jimcorbett3764]

The term, 'pick your battles' keeps popping into my head.

[@adamdax]

Great work can't wait for the next episode !

[@9GoZi6]

would be nice to see you review a metalworking studdy book(s) that you maybe use in a video with your opinion or maybe shortcuts/tips to have people that watch your channel and trying metalworking that will maybe encorage more people use your ad

[@bafeljajo6389]

This damn impressive Alec! I would like to see you make a sword, or something, in a milling machine. As much of it as possible.

[@lukeb3930]

Can i say alec, in my opinion this is my favorite project you have done since will headed out! Excellent choice and so satisfying to watch! Those adjustable wrenches are often so horrible and i have a feeling yours will be better than anything available on the mass produced market. Makes me wonder if there are other tools that are annoyingly mediocre that you could manufacture

[@RapNu]

Cant wait for part 3 :)

[@martijnvanlaar1779]

Very very cool, i think its a cool challenge for you to make a stanley no.4 plane

[@TylerBrigham]

Alec doing manual 4 axis work 👌

[@thedeloachsdoyoutube8377]

And Jamie to the rescue! Make On my Friends

[@ericrodriguez8230]

In aviation, there is a tool called “Safety Wire Pilers”. It’s simple and yet complex. It’s just a suggestion for series. Always good content! Keep it up!

[@420Under1]

can we get a highlight video of Alec dropping the things he is working on ... it would be funny and get loads of views

[@indrajeetroy6464]

Jamie is just killing it recently 😂😂

[@harrym711]

A colab waiting to happen is this channel meets Adam Savages Tested. The need to do a bud series together

[@skatergamer8122]

I Know you would have a grand time making a balosong knife (butterfly knife)

[@owensparks5013]

Not in England he wouldn't.

[@18wheeler77]

Should’ve used some of that sanding paste that they use to fit gun slides to the frames.

[@alexharrington352]

For your next tool project you should try make a vise grips that’s be a fun and difficult project

[@peterlippens7240]

Good to see that Alec is still forging hammers

[@wtflks]

its nice whenever guys in america think they really need more precision, they allways come back to the metric system

[@GaisaSanktejo]

I could be wrong, but that discrepancy could have been due to flex in the metal, if true, some "tail support" could have resolved much of the errors... Looking great so far, keep up the good work!

[@ajithbhaskaran672]

Make a south indian long weapon called AARUVA in Damascus...❤️❤️❤️.it will be surely interesting

[@ngarmy6602]

I love your videos, and you talking joking but profesional ❤️👍💪👋👋🙏👏

[@gunpowderHVA]

idk what else to say I've been doing the same thing for 6 hours 😄😄

[@jeremyhamilton3106]

Love the content, I am trying so very hard to find an anvil. I am trying to make my own little setup to get started blacksmithing. It has been such a strong desire and passion of mine. I’ve been reading every book I can get my hands on and studying while i try to out together the basics I watch all your content as well as Black Bear Forge and Torbjorn Ahman and a few others? My question is today is my birthday and will you send me an Anvil? Lol seriously any advice for someone just starting out? Love the content ✊⚒️

[@mattsimmons3259]

Really enjoyable

[@cats_are_awesom]

Petition for more and longer videos