by Phil Kerner | Jan 6, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
Continuing on with the "build your own tools" series: Here's a drawing for a toolmaker's vise from 1960.This one happens to be from my apprenticeship at Anson Tools and Gages here in Erie, PA. Agian, the same rules apply: I've held this for 40 years, and at last I...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 6, 2016 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
Here's another project for yourself, your shop, or your students. This is the actual drawing of the v-block pictured above. It was drawn in 1969 in the title block says it was from the National Tool, DIe & Precision Machining Association. I believe that some time...
by Phil Kerner | Jan 4, 2016 | Members Only: The Tool Room
As a history buff and as someone who loves music, I've always marveled at the incredible talent that sometimes busrts on to the scene in a profound way but in a very short time runs out of gas. Every once in a while, Simon and Garfunkel get together...and they still...
by Phil Kerner | Dec 30, 2015 | DRAWINGS / REFERENCE MATERIAL, Members Only: The Tool Room
One of the first things you used to build as an apprentice "back in the day" was a set of parallels for yourself. Remember, back in those days we couldn't buy cheap Chinese stuff so you ended up making a lot of stuff yourself. Building a set of parallels is a nice...
by Phil Kerner | Dec 28, 2015 | Cutter Grinding and Sharpening, Legacy, Members Only: The Tool Room
The year was 1981, and in the midst of my apprenticeship at Anson Tools & Gages it was time for me to move to our cutter grinding department. Back then, tool & die shops usually resharpened their own tools, especially since carbide was just so expensive which...
