Once I became a hobbyist and lost all funding for tooling except what is left of sending a child and a wife through college, I have been making a fair lot of my own tooling.
I am very comfortable on the lathes but the mill/drill is a bit of a conundrum. So I bought a ghetto DRO. Makes everything better for me and cutting dovetails for tool holders is a lot easier. I was looking at some of the ones I went over sized with realized I screwed up consistently.
In this example I was a few thou out and ground a piece of keystock to shim between the post and the tool holder.
Now when I need a custom holder that will seldom be used, I can just use one of my rejects.
I'm getting better with fewer rejects but I'm thinking the rejects\shims may be better than using A36. Since the shims are hardened.
Steve
I am very comfortable on the lathes but the mill/drill is a bit of a conundrum. So I bought a ghetto DRO. Makes everything better for me and cutting dovetails for tool holders is a lot easier. I was looking at some of the ones I went over sized with realized I screwed up consistently.
In this example I was a few thou out and ground a piece of keystock to shim between the post and the tool holder.
Now when I need a custom holder that will seldom be used, I can just use one of my rejects.
I'm getting better with fewer rejects but I'm thinking the rejects\shims may be better than using A36. Since the shims are hardened.
Steve