Dougs web site

[olderdan]

Doug, I have for the first time visited your web site and what a revelation to see the machines you have restored over the years, they look like new. We are all familiar with the superb tooling you produce and I must admit I thought you were using newer machinery, how wrong I was.
I whole totally agree that the quality of old machines is not matched by what is available today, no aluminium or plastic just super solid cast iron and made by firms that were proud of their products. I am sure the Clausing will be a fine machine when finished.
Regards
Olderdan

[Toolmaker51]

Doug, I have for the first time visited your web site and what a revelation to see the machines you have restored over the years, they look like new. We are all familiar with the superb tooling you produce and I must admit I thought you were using newer machinery, how wrong I was.
I whole totally agree that the quality of old machines is not matched by what is available today, no aluminum or plastic just super solid cast iron and made by firms that were proud of their products. I am sure the Clausing will be a fine machine when finished.
Regards
Olderdan

Doug's abilities are outstanding.
His machines and tooling are well maintained, vintage equipment.
In combination they produce first rate work.

This is rather opposite to what corporate accountants understand, usually overriding those who are expected to do the work.

Another common notion stems from the "those are old!" or "why do you use such old machines?", and my favorite "why do you insist on such old equipment?".
They're always dumbfounded when I mention "used machines build brand new machines everyday".

There is one more coincidence about machinery and tooling. While it doesn't apply universally, 'our' favorites very often carry actual name of proprietor(s).
Lodge & Shipley, Kearney & Trecker, DeVlieg, Starrett, Brown & Sharpe, Peck, Stow & Wilcox [PEXTO], Mitts & Merrill, Clausing, Axelson,...there are hundreds more. PEXTO, by the way, began business 1785. Every time I hear of a company thinking a name change will 'align' itself with an intended market, same vision of a nitwit in a cubicle materializes.
That counters every intuition I have. A dependable brand should be the carrot and stick, NOT the market. Anything else is is selling out.

[Frank S]

For those who may not know who we are talking about this is Doug's web site https://rossbotics.wixsite.com/machiningtechniques
It is a rabbit hole that you will enjoy. You can find all of the tools he has published here on HMT buy clicking on Homemade Tools built by rossbotics - HomemadeTools.net

Talking briefly about PEXTO A lot of folks knew them best for their sheet metal machines IE shears slip rolls and form brakes But I know them as well for their Monkey wrenches, stillson Pattern pipe wrenches and the many types of pliers they made In fact if I were to dig deep enough in my many tools boxes I am quite sure I would find more than a few tools in there withe the PEXTO oval logo stamped in them.

[belen]

For those who may not know who we are talking about this is Doug's web site https://rossbotics.wixsite.com/machiningtechniques
It is a rabbit hole that you will enjoy. You can find all casino bonus codes the tools he has published here on HMT buy clicking on Homemade Tools built by rossbotics - HomemadeTools.net

Thanks for the link!

[Frank S]

Thanks for the link!

Watch out it is a deep rabbit hole but well worth the dig

[stillldoinit]

Doug, very nice work and thumbs up on your machines. I am still in the process of getting my stuff from northern Illinois to Buffalo N.Y. where we recently moved to.
Here is how my stuff moves cross country.
Bill Anderson