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Hi Folks,

There has been some interest in the engine turning aspect of the next Patron Series project, so I thought I'd shoot a video to give you a good look at the machine in action. No narration, just a chill-out sort of thing, and I will go through the process of using it in detail once I've completed the project prototypes I am working on at present. The plate material is fine silver, the pattern is a basketweave, and the component is the inner dial insert for the indicator project.

Do please enjoy!

Cheers,

Chris.


Direct links to the video -  

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/558483825/d1a7aa750f

Youtube: https://youtu.be/7yyrILbqgMQ

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Guilloche - Introducing The Straight-Line Engine

Hi Folks, There has been some interest in the Guilloché aspect of the next Patron Series project, so I thought I'd shoot a video to give you a good look at the Straight-Line Engine in action. No narration, just a chill-out sort of thing, and I will go through the process of using it in detail once I've completed the project prototypes I am working on at present. The plate material is fine silver, the pattern is a basketweave, and the component is the inner dial insert for the indicator project. Do please enjoy! Cheers, Chris. Also, be sure to check out this fantastic video of Jochen Benzinger (https://www.jochenbenzinger.de) describing and using both the Straight-Line and Rose Engines to create a watch dial for Yvo Staudt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFfLWvwN1Bk - Come for the #Guilloche, stay for the accordion! And, for an in depth #Guilloché masterclass on the Straight-Line and Rose engines, be sure to check out the peerless series from Roger Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBiiDpexmA8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_G8Vm1gyQ You can find the Clickspring Clips channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9UjDtkpr2I-5G51vMJZvnA ________________________________________________________ A very special thank you to Patrons: Sinking Valley Woodworks (http://www.sinkingvalleywoodworks.com) Glenn Trewitt Christopher Warnock Guy Loughridge Peter John Richardson Adam Slagle Bogdan Dan Niels Palmann Steven R. Crider Gary Levario Pete Askew Jeff Armstrong Rudolph Bescherer Jr Robert Petz Ralph McCoy Tim Bray Jim Popwell Bradley Pirtle Thomas Veilleux Alan Carey John A McCormick Olof Haggren Larry Pardi Andre van Soest Thomas Eriksen Michael Hardel Tim Ball Dominik Rogala Xanadu-King Eric Witte Peter C. A. Patrick Voigt Mark Coburn ________________________________________________________

Comments

Emersen Ziffle

What a great video and a truly unique machine. Thanks for sharing!!! Perfect way to to start my Saturday.

Magnus Knutsen

Beautiful video, do you know when the series is coming out? I cant wait haha.

Silver Hand Studios

Very nice. I have a similar Plant 14" SLE (I also had a 12" but sold it last year). Mine was made a bit later than this one, but the one you're working on has been very well maintained. Is it yours or do you have access to use it? ~Chris

Evan Foster

Wow, what a crazy machine! I had always wondered how patterns like that were made. I'm really excited to learn how to use one. Thanks for sharing this with us. I can't wait to see the project progress!

Plamen Dimchevske

I really do hope you present in the upcoming video, how exactly you square the stock " the process of using it in detail ", because it start to get to me, I can't imagine exactly how a work holding will work and be square to the axes of the travel of the cutting tool. Nonetheless quite enjoyable video, and an excellent teaser for the upcoming project. PS. Sorry if my english is hard to understand, it's not my native

Paul Grodt

Beautiful video. I can't wait to learn about the plate mounting process with the red stuff. I can't currently wrap my brain around that. But take your time making a detail vid :)

Damian Sutter

That's fine, I'll just do my own narration "G'day, Chris here and welcome back to Clickspring..."

Jason Monti

Wow! That's just so fascinating that someone figured out how to make a machine that does that.

Astro-Basti

Awesome Machine and work :)

Brad Thayer

What a beautiful old machine, brought to life and used to make wonderful art again. Great seeing you back making new things.

Nate Sorensen

What is the name of that pattern? Would it be accurate to call it guilloche?

Hogtown Pens

Wow so basically take a rose engine and flatten it out?!

Matt Waite

Very nice. Looking forward to more 👍 🇬🇧

Brad Thayer

Pretty sure it’s pitch, often used in engraving as a resilient but firm holder for work.

Paul Grodt

I get that is equivalent to pitch. I dont get how you could use pitch to mount a plate parallel to a working surface...maybe it has tilt calibrations? Hmmm.

Robert Oswalt

That is a truly fascinating machine. Thanks for sharing it with us Chris.

Silver Hand Studios

Guilloché is what the art in general is called (engine turning in English). That particular pattern is a basket weave.

Daniel Bohrer

More like a Squiggly Line Engine in this case I guess 😁 But wow, I've never seen something like this before, this is an amazing machine!

Noah Orr

Agreed beautiful old machine, thanks for the sneak peek. I'm super hyped for this project and I'm not even sure what it is!

d j

How to use a straight-line engine to machine Steampunk silicone wafers for your difference engine.

George Speake

50 years ago, while in college, I ran two Heidelberg (Windmill) Platen presses. It was then that I realized I loved watching machines work. Your videos are enchanting, not just for the beauty of your work results, but also for the beauty of your choreographed videography. Thanks and God bless!

PJ

That brings a whole new level of cool to incredible old machines and phenomenal machining. @¿@ Must take a bit of talent And patience to get the piece square and flat on the platen. Thanks for the chilled taste Chris, can't wait for more about it. ~PJ

Thomas McGinnis

What a great machine! I'm sure alot of effort went into making it look so 'simple'. Anxious to see how much of a 'pain' it was to set-up. Looking forward to the new series!

Andy Weir

Only Clickspring would put hours (days?) of work into a basket-weave pattern for the face of a micrometer. Honestly, I was surprised he didn't make the whole straight line engine from scratch just for this purpose.

Andy Weir

I don't think the work has to be square to the tool in this case. Because the end-result of the workpiece is a circular plate with a basketweave pattern on it, there's no immediate visual clue to pattern/workpiece alignment. So being off by a fraction of a degree won't matter.

Andy Weir

There's a clamp on the engine (you see him release it when he finishes the piece). I suspect you first mount the plate with pitch and let it harden. Then you position the block/pitch/workpiece chunk on the machine and use a squaring surface built into the machine or a framing square using the machine's ways as a reference point. Once the block is at the correct angle, you tighten the clamp.

Robert D

I am jealous of you having a Straight line engine. They really are so incredibly rare these days and such fascinating machines. Part of me wants one along with a nice rose engine and just see how much guilloche engraving I could do....

Graeme Brumfitt

That was just Bloody Awesome Chris! Nerve seen one in action before. TFS, GB :)

Plamen Dimchevske

Probably I didn't phrased my initial comment correctly. But, the tool leaves a very slight mark/tack from the bottom to the top of the workpiece, and from left to the right. Let's say that this big metal plate, on which the workpiece is stuck with that "clay" is our zero point. And bottom left is x = 0 and y =0. Now if the tool moves straight up and left, like on a shaper ( or otherwise unrelated to the current position of the workpiece ) , If the tool is set to take a 0.01mm in corner x =0, y=0, but current x=1, y=1 (let's say the workplace is square with length 1), and this corner is 0.1mm towards the base plate (I already used 2, or 3 names for this plate on which the material is sticked to ) that will result of clear mark in one corner, and noting in the opposite corner. Or the entire set up have something that it's not shown in the video, or I don't get. I hope that I managed to explain my confusion with this attempt.

Kerry Benton

Very cool... would love to see some other patterns it can make. I guess it would be fairly easy to make others, if needed. Pretty fascinating.

Tim Mullen

It's like a vertical shaper with a pattern matching arm. Very cool!

Thomas Richards

Fascinating machine, never seen one before. Thank you for showing this process

Evan Crawford

Such a fascinating machine! Looks too big for the shop though, is that a corner of the living room?

Benny

Amazing. Where do you find such things? At least now I know why chequer plate is so expensive :-)

Matt Syme

Wow, that is amazing. What a beautiful machine too. Looking forward to seeing more of this.

Bob Vines

Chris, is this fascinating machine a new acquisition or do you have a friend with one? Could you make a video explaining _how_ this machine is constructed and how it works?

Zachary Faragher

Stunning work as always, machinists have the coolest tools by far.

owl3764

I've no idea what that gizmo is, but glad you have it and know how to use it.

Justus Dehegovit

Everyone else: *tries to keep their sanity in the last phase of the pandemic* Chris: "So anyway, I bought this great new toy..."

Tim bennett

What a wonderful engine! Did you find it in Aus or is it from the UK? I don't imagine there's many around.

veritanuda

Yes it is from England. Harborne Plant. Est 1857 Birmingham England. It is on the plate. All the quality machinery of that era and later had identifying plates on them. We had a compressor from 1962 built like you just never would today and would easily last 100 years or more if looked after properly. It is very true. They don't build them like they used to. *sighs*

veritanuda

That was surprisingly pleasant to watch. I mean I conceptually knew how it was done I just never imagined the machine that did it. But of course the principle would be based off a sewing machine why I never considered that I am not sure. Thanks Chris. Really appreciate it mate

Mike Michelizzi

Beautiful work! I still can't work out how the zig-zag tool path ends up creating the basket weave pattern, but I'm sure it'll become apparent eventually.

Jeff Jones

Chris, what did/do you think of the machinability of fine silver? My entry into metalworking was through jewelry fabrication, so I've always been curious about applying machining techniques to jewelry work.

Steven Naslund

I wish someone had accurate blueprints or 3D models of these wonderful old machines. The work is beautiful but as a machinist I would be even more intrigued to try to reproduce that machine. Hopefully its design won’t be lost to the ages.

Will Josephson

I had no idea such a thing existed. Thank you so much for this. Can you speak a little on here about where you found a machine like this?

rolf redford

Amazing! Just wondering if there is anything spoken because seems no captions for now.

Leonard Solomon

That wondrous machine could not have come into better hands than yours. Use it in joy and good health, and thank you for showing it to us.

Jrandom Bob

That's utterly gorgeous.

Jrandom Bob

ISTR the last update was the paper was getting peer reviewed, so presumably that's still ongoing.

TOM

I know I know, you said "no narration" but what's the point of a clickspring video without your soothing voice? (just kidding)

ShamWerks

is this a form of "guilloché" ?

Jack Plant

This is going to be the most ridiculously over engineered indicator ever, I love it!

Tom Wazny

I think you would stagger the pattern after a set number of passes. It's the only way I see

Rene Schickbauer

Very beautiful machine! That being said, i myself have two left hands (and i'm sort of accident prone when it comes to handling machines), so personally i'd rather teach a computer how to do stuff like this for me.

Alex Topfer

wow, that looks time consuming

Drew Keats

Another fantastic video and what a teaser. Please do a follow-up explaining the setup and control of the straight line engine. It seems much more manual, and potentially error prone, than I was expecting. your content is always so engaging and relaxing. The world needs a heavy dose of de-stressing at the moment. Your channel delivers that in spades. The nightly news should be replaced by any of your videos!

Duncan Luddite

Sandra spotted your big print of Harrison's H4 on the wall :) Nice bit of inspiration.

Kevin Reardon

Nice toy! I love old machines. They usually were designed by brilliant people.

David Paterson

Very nice toy, - tool envy clearly apparent I had taken a bit of a break, trust you are well and raring to go now 'winter' has set in.

Axel

These were used by gunmakers to make patterns on ribs

Guy in a Garage

That's awesome Chris! And very expensive swarf ;) How do I find out more about the machine?

Spadge Fox

G'day Chris! Absolutely beautiful work as always, and what a great little teaser video for what's to come! Never heard of it before but looked into it now and what a fantastic little piece of technology.

George Speake

Some things are so beautiful and/or beautifully captured on video, that commentary is unnecessary. Thanks

Logan Newman

I've had to rewatch this several times to try to put the machine together in my head. I find myself zoning out, entranced by the music and visuals.

Kas Steel

Chris, when are you going to start holding classes?!!!

PeterT

I wonder what the other patterns are?