The Most Valuable Tool In The New Shop

[@WillStelterbladesmith]

Thanks Huel. Use code: STELTER for 15% off your first order + a free starter kit: huel.com/Stelter

[@highlander723]

Hey Will I heard about you taking over the old workshop. I wish you the best of luck in your business. Good luck my friend

[@misterquintus]

Good luck with the new production business, if you are looking for product ideas might I suggest Swiss army knife compatible blades, the custom SAK scene is growing and it'd be great to have an option other than tearing up Spyderco knives. A Fit To Survive collaboration perhaps?

[@drinkmorecocacola]

I get hard off of machine restoration modification repair videos.

[@botiwasboughtbythischannel4623]

Make pasta with the roller.

[@nicgurkweitz389]

I was gonna say make figures or shapes out of aluminum foil and pass them through the mill.

[@arickirsch5527]

Sick pasta maker

[@stuartdoyle4373]

That's why it's an Italian machine.

[@nunyabiznis3595]

dammit you beat me to it.

[@Worrsaint]

On the feed side, instead of a tray, add a fence. It will help you feed square to the rollers but shouldn't be in the way.

[@rileyh212]

I think a fun thing to put into the rolling mill would be a replica hand with bones, just as a safety demonstration.

[@HighlandTimber]

Like a ballistic gel hand with fake bones in it!

[@mtnbkr8480]

Those anatomically correct body pieces are very expensive, hire a homeless person for 8 hours and tell them you'll pay them double if they finish in 4 hours. Then go sit in the office and wait for the screaming to start. PS. Don't forget to set-up the cameras. ✋️➡️👋

[@poisonadder1]

@@mtnbkr8480 A cheaper alternative would be a leg of lamb or pork or some other lump of meat with bones in. The cheapest would be a whole chicken but they have much more fragile bones.

[@mtnbkr8480]

@@poisonadder1 Cheaper sure, but where's the fun in that.

[@patbullard9276]

@@HighlandTimber. Clear Ballistics makes exactly that thing for use in firearms training.

[@seanthompson6720]

you can make croissant dough which is basically a Damascus pastry

[@thebeaubriscoe]

From this day forward, I will forever refer to croissant dough as damascus pastry..... Thank you.

[@seanthompson6720]

@@thebeaubriscoe million layer croissant challenge

[@ronjones-6977]

Baklava for days.

[@TheRaptorJezuz]

A DAMASCUS CROISSANT :O That would be a cool paperweight/sculpture I guess

[@theprojectproject01]

I wanna see someone make ladder-pattern croissants now

[@MangeDT]

With the way the two cardan joints are set up (45 degrees out of phase), the velocity of the top roller will occilate slightly. With the small angles on the joints it will not be a large occilation but it will occilate. To fix this, you can unbolt the two halves of the joint and mount them so that the two hinges of the middle part are parallell with eachother. Search for "double cardan shaft" for how they should be oriented to give a constant speed output.

[@petermartin3206]

I was just about to say the same thing

[@jblaxlinde7998]

Hello Will, the waves in your thin strips is caused by the out of phase cardan joint, it's easily fixed and should make the strips come out flat, unbolt the centre flange rotate the flanges relative to each other so that the individual universal joints line up "eye to eye" and bolt it back together... Probably 30 minutes in all...

[@MARKMRAK]

Try to heat up glass bottle and flatten it out. Maybe come up with cool looking decorative glass tiles

[@s1gne]

You could make perfect schnitzels with that machine. They should be the size of a dinnerplate.

[@mentiras_xox]

Should clarify that you mean Viennese schnitzel. German schnitzel are usually significantly smaller, in my experience at least.

[@s1gne]

@@mentiras_xox , yes a Viennese veal schnitzel. German schnitzels are usually pork, right? I'm from the Netherlands, nearby but we don't have a Dutch version of schnitzels. We do have thin pancakes but not like those French ones, those are crap... eh., crepes ;)

[@ronjones-6977]

As a lifelong abalone diver, I am thoroughly impressed with your idea. I need one of those machines.

[@mentiras_xox]

@@s1gne Sure there's something about the meat but most importantly: Vienna schnitzel is bigger than Germany schnitzel

[@thorwaldjohanson2526]

German schnitzel can be very big too.

[@LReBe7]

Hey Will, just because I care about your safety: add an emergency stop on the other side as well. And maybe swap it for a slightly bigger one that you can easily operate with your knees.

[@pinkerbot]

YES!

[@zacharyelliott7161]

Because this is a good idea I am going to tell youtube to show this comment more love.

[@oregoncouger]

Ideally a full width bar. Both sides.

[@TheBloodypete]

And for the love of everything, cover those axles with a guard!!!

[@David_Dutton]

I was literally about to make this comment! There needs to be a guard over those axles, especially as there's where the controls are!

[@TheBloodypete]

@@David_Dutton exactly, and that top one is such a clothing trap too!

[@rodkinney3146]

Probably worse than the rollers to get caught into. Would be violent

[@spyder7758]

what he said ^

[@gillieshooter4742]

at the same time it can be difficult to see if the rollers are moving, depending on ambient noise it might be safe to be able to SEE those big ole knuckles spinning. (so a cover with a window)

[@PBRJOHN684]

I'm a metal caster in the UK and I have 35 Kilos of the first ever bars of Aluminium, Brass, Bronze and Copper I cast when I first started (they way from 800 grams to about 3 Kilos). I am prepared to send them out to Bozeman if you're interested in flattening one of each? so I could send you about 9 kilos of the soft Metals if you want!

[@rockyallen907]

He will love your channel. I’m not sure if you know this or not but the universal joint” the red thingy “ is out of phase. The top roller will spin faster and slower four times each rotation. looks like it just needs to be unbolted rotated one or two bolts and bolted back together. It’s a very minute difference in speed but it may affect finish quality. Think of them as opposing C. The one attached to the roller should be a mirror image to the one attached to the gearbox.

[@MangeDT]

Yes i noticed the same thing. I magine it is the result of someone disassembling and reassembling the double cardan joint in the past without really knowing how they work.

[@WilliamMoser]

It should have been error proofed, or marked with scribed/angle ground lines at least.

[@Devildog1833]

fun things for the roller steak, bananas, water bottle, hot dogs, cucumber, make some guac, maybe a ballistic dummy hand to show what could happen if you mess up?

[@tfemby]

Omg yes on the guac idea! He needs to "review" the rollers like he does with the scam knives and finish up the review by making guac. It'll probably be a satirical bit in a video but it'll be a good callback to his other series.

[@Bob_Adkins]

Nice machine. The rollers are exquisitely made, and any damage will be embossed into your work. So keep it to soft metal, probably no harder than 40 RC. If a hard pair of tongs or pliers get caught, your rollers will be damaged and will have to be re-ground and polished. I hope they're through-hardened, not case hardened!

[@markfergerson2145]

Yeah, I was wondering if they needed a polish. There’s a brown area that might be grease, might be rust.

[@soupleigh]

"Gold in them there mills" is comedy gold. Thanks for the laugh - never apologize for jokes!

[@preciousplasticph]

You need the emergency stop both sides if people work both sides

[@kevinfurness2639]

I would put a large bar across so you can just bump it with you leg an not have to look for the switch if the bad thinks happen, just like on a fire exit

[@bill7320c]

So happy to see the old shop back in use. God Bless you Will!

[@cyberwolf6667]

Even steady pressure, fantastic! Even grain patterns without shocking the steel, Damascus should be phenomenal. Can’t wait to see what you make

[@PilchPlays]

I would suggest having a feed tray with built in adjustable width guides to help ensure the part is feeding in straight.

[@liensmie2640]

I have a german made one of a similar size that we use a lot. Very nice machines. We have rougly the same control setup, but i chose to have pedal control only. Do keep an eye on the rollers, they are usually induction hardened or case hardened and might develop cracks over time due to the difference in hardness on the surface and interior. I also had a table mounted on both sides of the rollers, but removed it on the side we feed from as it just got in the way.

[@StoutJacob]

You could make pasta with the rolling mill

[@NOLAfugee]

Probably all it takes is to use food-safe oil.

[@ReyArteb]

would it stay the same width like the metal? .......for science!

[@stompingpeak2043]

Why though? Just use a food one.

[@erikcourtney1834]

That red “doo dad” on top in a “double cardan joint”.

[@devoncanfield2058]

Not to "um technically" you but, technically that is just a double U-joint system as it does not have the center yoke, and the joints are not aligned going in and out.

[@constantins.2981]

@@devoncanfield2058 Both of you are correct, a U-Joint (Universal-Joint) is sometimes called a cardan-joint, hooke-joint, spicer joint or cross joint. In this case its a just two cardan joints bolted together, with an offset of 45 degrees (they can baisicly be at any offset angle, it only chanches the rotational variances.)

[@devoncanfield2058]

@@constantins.2981 a double cardon joint specifically refers to a double joint with a common center yoke and carrier. That allows the input side to match the parabolic speed of the output, which reduced vibrations within the assembly. That doesn't maintain a common speed within the input and output. An offset double joint system does not reduce these vibrations, but it does reduce the parabolic speed difference from input to output. Double cardon has matching parabolic speed difference, offset single joint has opposite parabolic speed difference, which is what's required for this assembly, where the top drum has to spin at the same continuous speed as the bottom.

[@constantins.2981]

Definatly add a two channel DRO and have a scale on both sides aof the rollers as you will be able to trim in an angle of the top roller

[@fredericraymond2487]

Put a metal handle on a old hammer and then rolle it! Love the work and seeing the shop been put to good use.

[@HeavyForge]

Rolling mills are incredibly handy! I used Gabe’s (anchorage forge/anchorage brewing) to make a sword billet. Hopefully you make it to his shop one day. Im excited to see that beaudry!

[@whoshotashleybabbitt4924]

“This machine is Italian. Maybe that’s why it has horses on it.” Story checks out 💯

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

I'm going to convert my pasta machine to do the same thing.

[@avoirdupois1]

Congrats on the shop acquisition! Looking forwards to seeing what you do with that!

[@MiGWar82]

. . . . . Your ability to ignore that frackin piece of paper just flyin over landing on your foot and just staying there was wild. I was screaming in my head over it

[@entropy11]

Gotta love a new Stelter equimpent teardown and rebuild video.

[@CrayFishHandMade]

SO nice to see you in your natural environment Will, all that's missing is some collaborations !

[@garychaiken808]

Great job guys. Thank you 😊

[@-Mike._.Salis-]

You could drill holes in the trays (somewhat like the welding table ) and put pins in order to feed the material perfectly straight every time

[@Da5idc]

On the safety side, the cutoff switch should be under the middle of the rollers - if you get your right hand in the roller, no way you will be able to get to the button

[@paulrapp6]

Will, Try about three or five stacked slices of soft white bread through the rolling mill. Should come out very thin (duh) and rock hard. Probably hard enough for knife handle material (but too thin would be my guess). Maybe thin white spacers? On another note: I’m happy to see you making use of the old shop! Wonderful that it is not just sitting there gathering dust.

[@robsdeviceunknown]

Dang. Props to Nolan. that guy knows his stuff for sure.

[@NSA-admin]

Glad to see you in alexes old shop. Love that place. And the power hammerhead shark.

[@mrscary3105]

I miss the vide of you guys as a team... so fun, but I am glad to see the shop in great hands.

[@justinbanks2380]

That is the best reason to do maintenance on a machine. I'd actually do all the maintenance on schedule like I'm supposed to if I could find precision metal (or something else valuable) in it while breaking it down, cleaning and rebuilding

[@saginawdan]

Looking forward to seeing what your products will be. 👍

[@Kleiner_Lutz]

I expected will's most cherished machine in the shop to be the automatic filing machine that saves him from hand filing everything 😂

[@michaelplantz268]

I love Will's very technical descriptions. Really helps you understand the tools he's using.😜

[@grantsanders4478]

I love the trouble you have explaining things, it's fun to see you mid sentence realise that you don't know what to say next. Unprofessionally professional.

[@elkins192]

As someone who actually quite likes tools and machines... I HAD NO IDEA A MACHINE LIKE THIS EXISTED...AND I AM AMAZED BY IT!!

[@jeremyringma]

The complications arising from having a machine that works in thirds of a mm and then trying to work those numbers back to decimalized inches but the standard way of dividing inches is using different highly composite numbers as the denominator instead of just sticking with single base is exactly why the French came up with the metric system.

[@A1BASE]

I’m not sure how it increases in length but not width? Seems like magic.

[@ezforsaken]

Flat a rubber duck (squeaky one).

[@timm1139]

You beat me to it... I'm sure Marty wouldn't mind if Will "borrows" one of his toys, right?

[@LittleAussieRockets]

I reckon a cheep crescent wrench would be pretty cool to feed through you're rolling mill.

[@אסאעובדיה-ס9ק]

Will your videos are a delight to the senses (: Straight to the point and extremely interesting content thank you

[@daveb8598]

After rolling some hot steel for a while, roll a cheese sandwich through for an exactly sized grilled cheese.

[@robert.brokaw3829]

Another big toy for the boys. Stay safe.

[@PANNARALEJ]

It fills me with joy to see the shop go to you.

[@MPMx92]

I enjoyed "gold in them there mills."

[@markfergerson2145]

Bronze and brass should be interesting given that they work hardened. Can you get it through without cracking or crumbling?

[@workingwithiron]

What a tool!! So many ideas went through my head watching that! Definitely would love to see timascus round bar cut a coin off the end and roll that through. Timascus spear would get a lotta views i think. Enjoy!!

[@elizabethalferd4247]

Makes sense the machine is Italian, that what they used to make their pasta!

[@danielstellmon5330]

When I was a kid pressing pennies through a press with a pattern was popular. I would like to see a you roll a penny with a press pattern to stamp something "Stelter manufacturing" related.

[@user-ve5ei2xe8h]

From Billet to knife blank in just "one" step. Nice.

[@et_9554]

can't wait to see what you can do to various damascus patternsand if it's possible to combine metals using the roller

[@Dustins_Woodworking]

Maybe you can get all the toothpaste out of the tube with the rolling mill.

[@Robot.Prophet]

A ballistic gel hand will of course be primo content. Also, a second emergency stop button on the other side might be a good idea if it can feed from both directions. EStop is only useful if you can reach it.

[@MasterBrentMessmer]

beautiful machine. make sure you add in safety guards and a couple of E-stops

[@Anino_Makata]

I wonder how clean of a mosaic damascus pattern you can get out of a mill like this. Maybe not for the initial welding process, but truing up patterns before tiling and perhaps the final ferry flip. In my head, the even pressure applied throughout the bar would be useful. The stretching down the length might cause some distortion that should be taken into consideration pre-forge, though.

[@mannsdan]

OMG I want one even more now

[@martylawson1638]

Check the manual, but I don't think the two U-joints are clocked correctly. This would cause the top roller to speed up and slow down slightly 2x per revolution and I'd expect it to cause wavy bars. Look at the drive-shaft under a truck, that's how you want them lined up.

[@ricvanesh9445]

could you feed it a spring to see if it unravel or squish down?

[@spyder7758]

Steel Wire Rope or cable, or heavy guage copper stranded wire. See how homogeneous it becomes when crushed at different temperatures

[@hulkthedane7542]

To roll; an already dead squirrel...... Congratulations with the new machine 👍👍

[@fama5736]

Seems you forgot a spring in the large adjustment wheel, possibly you cut away just didn’t see it going back, I wouldn’t take it apart again as there are close tolerances on those parts and would look into replacing the oiler system they really need that lubrication every time you use it Continued Success Fabrizio

[@usefulemptiness2410]

That's a nice thing! Suggestion one: Add a motor and similar controller to the thickness wheel too. That would open up for som nice distal taper when you crank out long sharp things for the aspiring cutters out there. Suggestion two: If you can't replace the rollers for home made ones with a preferred pattern... ... maybe try to screw on some makeshift add-on profiles? (rolling die?) Hmm... Distal taper and most of the profiling at a single, quick and very exact station? Suggestion three: If #3 would work, shorter pieces could have a variable pattern spread on one turn of the mill. A nice feature when you produce shorter daggers with runes and other intriguing patterns pressed in to the blade. Suggestion four: Roll something Mr Steele left behind. Good video. Keep 'em coming!

[@johnsweeney4257]

Get your u-joints in phase! Sorry...first thing I noticed.

[@jonahreed5441]

I think making some mokume-gane would be neat to see!

[@azurefog]

Try wetting leather and embedding copper or brass wires and/or rivets at one go. Make your own bonded leather reinforced knife sheaths on the same machine that made the blanks. Also, Damascus leaf.

[@Epikification]

From the last vid, the steak knife is a solid move. I was looking at your cheaper offerings and had no idea what the Japanese carving chisel thing was and had to google it.

[@entropy11]

14:00 how do you feed in a quarter at a little bit of an angle. It's round, Will

[@geremywinters8186]

Will, you mentioned thin parts getting wavy, try phasing the cardan shaft, it should stop the waves.

[@Ghost-lu8cu]

Looks like a perfect panini maker. Should try it.

[@justinbanks2380]

12:21 never had there been a more appropriate warning sticker. That thing will grab your fingers or anything else you feed into it and crush it like nothing and keep pulling through

[@r0llinguphill483]

Feed a superball through the rolling mill

[@chadevjen7091]

That’s wicked! I’d like to see what it does with Cork or some rubber.

[@RayTheMickey]

Depending on how wide the material is , you will have a crown in the material due to flex in the rolls. You should test how much deflection you get. Maybe .002"?

[@Laheyfinegoods]

I bought my own rolling mill as a silversmith and it saves a crazy amount of money not having to buy sheet goods.

[@justinbanks2380]

Amazing how it can change the thickness without making wider too, like have no idea how it manages that without some kind of rails keeping from spreading out

[@kathleenhoward9901]

From Paul in Oregon Those Dodads are universal joints.

[@jeffwhite6343]

Cell phone, hotweels, bad chef's knives, pockt knives, decks of cards, box of crayons.

[@jeffwhite6343]

Lego men

[@jeffwhite6343]

Flashlight

[@jeffwhite6343]

A barbie doll

[@otterconnor942]

I've eaten black huels for 3 years now. What I recommend is adding creatine, whey protein, and fiber; if you planning on consuming a significant amount of it. Creatine helps with better hydration, the whey protein helps with a creamy melted ice cream consistency, and fiber to get it out the other end.

[@eRogue7]

Do you have any recommended ratios to start off with? Like how much Whey protein vs how much fiber, etc..

[@otterconnor942]

@@eRogue7 it really depends on activity, gender, and age. I'm tall, moderately active, 26yo male, and I drink 2 huels per workday, in each one I add in this order: 7 ice cubes, 1 11oz chocolate premier protein box shake, 2.5 grams of creatine, 2 tsp of benefiber, 2 scoops of chocolate black huel, fill water up to the huel bottle mesh, and shake. I also eat a small amount of nuts, fruit, meat, and cheese; totaling 300cal. Additionally I drink 50 oz of water and 32 oz of lightly sweetened black tea. On weekends I usually eat Japanese, BBQ, and Mediterranean. I also take some multivitamins, and heart and joint supplements. I've developed this based on how my body responds to food, and you should obviously experiment to see what your body responds best to. A balanced diet requires variety, and your body will tell you what it needs.

[@AnthonyDanna-h9f]

I work at a machine shop that makes these exact “calanders” as they call them, some weighing up to 100,000 pounds, amazing machines when they get that large

[@32bitginger]

You should absolutely feed a jam donut through the machine!

[@handyandy345]

I believe the drive U joints should be in phase but possibly not necessary for the speeds it is turning.

[@F0XD1E]

Also extremely shallow angles. It's basically straight.

[@jakeminogue]

Could be the source of the wavyness in the rolled bars, the top roller varying in speed (even extremely subtly) while the bottom is constant.

[@ShaqarudenGames]

Are just doing the read out of the height or are you going to have some sort of electronic system to set the height for you?

[@nateh2652]

Bullets! Complete cartridges! (With or without the primer)

[@matthewsizemore114]

Instead of having to remember the movement to rotation of the wheel, add a digital readout. Would not only add to consistent quality but improve production time

[@Anino_Makata]

I also wonder if its possible to cold-weld non-ferrous metals with this. Like roll stacks of copper and nickel together to form mokume gane without a forge.

[@K10SHIMAA]

a handful of rivets or nails, maybe use cardboard as a spout to feed them at the same time so they pressure weld going through

[@uberogg]

my idea for the roller, a half-melted beer bottle, see if it can make a plate of glass without making a mess

[@jacobblomdahl557]

I'd love to see some steel pushed through that has a pattern on it. Maybe a knurled cylinder, or diamond plate steel, or expanded sheet metal? I think a 2x4 would be fun to see too, just to see it get destroyed like in the power hammer.

[@Mica.307]

I think that having an infeed table would be advantagious so that you could set up jigs on the infeed to keep longer stock straight on entry and going threw. something like the table on a drill press maybe.

[@mattelliott720]

Would an infeed tray matched up exactly tangential to the bottom roller keep any oscillations or waves from being introduced into the outfed metal by accidental variations of the infeed angle throughout the "squish"?

[@pupyasko1233]

have you ever had a squeeze bottle / tube of something and you just couldn''t get the last little bits of product out? well, no more ^^ this is to say: stuff to feed through - ketchup bottle (or other condiment of your choice) - toothpaste