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- Mar 2, 2018
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Your shop puppy reminds me of a day that still makes me feel kind of bad. I don't have a good way to access photos from here, so I'll have to post my shop dog some other time. She's a great dane boxer mix, and I got her a memory foam dog bed for the shop.Another lazy dog.
I had been trying to machine the top of a piece of railroad track for years, and I broke a lot of tools along the way while making a real mess of it. I finally got one of those carbide insert face mills. I went to town on the track, and that thing was just going to town like a champ, and leaving a beautiful surface finish to boot. Finally!
That's when I realized it was also throwing extremely wicked little blue C-shaped chips all over Her Majesty and her fancy new bed. Poor puppy!
Poor shop too, and poor beard. I was digging those chips out of my beard for a week. I really need to build some kind of acrylic enclosure before I use that tool on anything again. It makes a much larger and nastier mess than any other machining process I have yet encountered.
I finally got the railroad track anvil done though. About four years after I bought a real anvil, so I don't even need that one, or use it for anything. But the top is flat and shiny. So I win!