New to Homemade Tools - Paul Jones from California

Hello Everyone,

I have been following HMT for several years and now want to become a contributor. I am not a professional machinist but do enjoy building parts and improvements to my Unimat SL lathe. I bought the lathe in 1970 while working as an oceanographic instrument designer and prototype machinist as a way to pay for my undergrad education at the University of Washington. We needed the small Unimat for fine work because the next smallest lathe in the machine shop was a Hardinge HLV-H and rest were much larger in swing sizes. After college, I stored the Unimat and then forty years later decided to get it out and start using it again. I am glad I did because forgot how much I really enjoy designing and machining tools and parts.

I am looking forward seeing all the great work posted at HMT and having the opportunity to post some of my own work.

Best regards,

Paul Jones

Hi Paul,

Welcome!

Very glad to have you here. If you haven't already looked at it, you might enjoy perusing our Lathes subcategory.

When you're ready to share some of your own homemade tools, we'd love to see them. Please post them directly in the Homemade Tools, subforum. We'll add each one to the database, as well as to your builder page on the site.

Non-tool items should be shared in the Not a Tool, but Homemade subforum.

Ken