Thanks Chris. I just bought a big chuck of aluminium (like, 30 minutes ago) to make a pallet for my rotary table. These little clamps are also now on my build list.
I'm quietly convinced that's because Chris rarely shows more than his hands, so we don't get a human for scale. I see him make tiny components, and only realize how small they are when he picks them up and I can clearly see the ridges of his fingerprints. Well done Chris. Love your work.
I'm amazed at how much high-quality work you put out in that tiny shop! Further proof once again that attention to detail and method with simple tools can outperform complex machinery in the hands of a skilled craftsman. I'd love to see some of your tool storage solutions in that shop. Everything must have a place, and there's only so much room to work with - I'm sure there are some interesting solutions you've had to come up with to fit everything in there.
I would also very much be interested in how you store/organize your tools and stock. And, a little side question: where do you keep unfinished projects, if you keep any?
Yes please, please show some storage solutions. One benefit from such small shops is that there is no room for clutter or mess: Everything has a place, and if it is not in it's place you can't work!
First I was stunned by how small your workshop is, then I remembered that you film there ... Holy shit! It boggles my mind how you get so excellent shots! If you haven't already made one, a video about your filming process would be awesome!
Given he lives in Queensland iirc he can go outside to do any hot work he needs to do. Plus given the climate the number of houses with a basement you could put a shop in likely approaches zero. 😄 Even Stefan before he moved his shop upstairs had a pretty small shop area given everything he had in it.
No way is your home workshop this small. I still remember where we started 7 years ago with making a clock and honestly it always kinda seemed to me like you are some super rich person that went somewhere into a pretty nature place and work on videos like these as a passion project. I am always amazed and speechless when I see how much genuine effort you put in both your work and the videos. I would honestly love any content you make :) It's always such a delight to see a new upload
I saw a bunch of other people mention this, but thought I'd throw my suggestion in the ring too, since you asked. A tour of any/all filming and lighting setups, camera stands, or rotary fixtures, gadgets, reflectors, flags, any equipment that you use that helps you to get the beautiful results you do would be a real eye opener and a masterclass to to the rest of us. That gear (to me) is as much a part of your workshop and channel, as the tools and projects that we see through the camera and screen. Looking forward to the rest of this series! Thanks, Craig
This is the kind of "peak behind the curtain" that I think will spark the imagination of other makers. Like many others I thought you had a much bigger and more complex shop. It's encouraging to see that you don't need a $100k machine shop to produce incredible results. Just an enormous amount of patience and learned skill.
Love it. Make more, please. You could still do a shop tour, you know. There's a lot of goodness in a very small space. It's supremely organized, and I think a lot of people would love to see the minutia, and how you cram all your stuff into a small space. Cheers from Manitouwadge, Ontario.
This might be a tricky one but, I'd like to see how you set up your filming equipment for different shots when making videos such as this and the Antikythera mechanism. Especially curious now that we know how tiny your workspace is
My jaw dropped when o saw the size of your space. Truly mesmerising you create projects of the complexity and quality you do not alone film them as well. You are truly a gift to us all.
I love videos that show any type of tools, jigs or accessories being made. I probably wont need them or ever use them, but I have to make myself a set now !
Excellent! I've missed the more instructive and narrated videos. Thanks as always for sharing your work. Like all of your videos, a sense of scale is so difficult. Your parts always seem much larger before you reveal their size and now I can see that your workshop is the same story.
Super helpful, please continue! Work holding is an art often overlooked and one of the most important steps. Nothing worse than an almost finished part slipping.
Goes to show you that you don't need a large shop to be awesome. Just a good mind and knowledge. I really appreciate the way you explain things. Thank you.
that beautiful little gem of a shop is *classic* clickspring! it's the the quality of the person, and his machining, that makes it seem infinitely larger to those of us who only imagine it.
Not too many things might be more interesting than your exquisite collection of tools! Please feel encouraged to the max to upload mor videos like this one!
The rose engine is such a facinating , complicated bit of kit. When I see some who actually knows what all the inputs do and can achieve a good result, it’s magical. I’d love an in depth tour of all the workings. Always glad to see you posting Chris 🍻
This is the most amazing metal worker channel I found on UA-cam. And his shop is, by far, the smallest. Now I feel so much better about my tiny office at home... 🥰
Hey Chris. I've been following you since a friend of mine turned me on to what was your first like, nine episodes of the skeleton clock build. Circa 2014-2015. We both find your work calming and extremely satisfying to watch. I started this video blown away by how small and efficient your workshop is, and -- then I thought about it and started laughing at myself. Your builds are ALL tiny, beautiful, and carefully engineered, why WOULDN'T your workshop be?! I love this already.
Thank you. Look forward to others like this. The size of your shop just proves you don't have to have a whole garage full of "stuff" to produce some very nice pieces of work.
I've never done any of the things you show in your videos but I think I've watched every single one of them with amazement. You just make it sound so simple when its clearly really complicated
I lack the necessary discipline you use to keep it all going in a tiny space. Once, long ago, I had my entire worldly goods with me on a bicycle tour - still couldn't find anything in the tent... You are a gold mine of resource and technique - thank you always.
I have been watching your videos for quite a while now, and I was blown away by the size of your work area. I just had this idea that the shop was a huge sprawling machinists' paradise. Much respect for the quality of work and videos you put out from such a compact space.
Brilliant idea for the eccentric screws! When I first saw these I thought it would be outside my ability but thanks to a great explanation I recon I could make myself a set of these :) Thank you
Thanks for the honest tour and the supreme quality you put on all your videos, even the "less important" ones. This sends out the greatest of all examples: there's no "less important" features or machine operations in a shop. All quality work requires one to focus as if there isn't another thing but the task ahead.
OK, Chris. I have to admit, I am completely shocked by the size of your workshop. I had the impression from your films that you worked in some kind of beautiful open Atelier with tons of natural light and windows and all the rest of it, and acres of open space between tools. To see it's all so nicely folded and packaged into a tiny room like that gives me hope for my own home shop. I don't need to buy that 40 foot shipping container after all!
I could not agree more. Please do a lot more of this kind of stuff. By this video here I have learned a very simple way of wedge holding work that is simple enough for the hobbyist machinist to make and use. Thanks Chris.
In my last machinist job I was the mighty bite king, they are so versatile! That was all I did was make parts flat and parallel. Rings, plates big and small parts of all shapes and sizes. I miss that job LOL
Wow, i always expected this shop would be something like Jamie from mythbusters has, like a warehouse absolutely full of tools, turns out its a garden shed that hardly fits a motorcycle if it's empty! I can't wait to see every bit of it in great detail, this is absolutely amazing!
I love seeing the various little tools that people create that make their process work smoother. It's even more interesting when the process depends strongly on these tools. I'm excited for this series.
Love the in depth explanation! I was amazed at the simplicity of turning out the screws. Had no idea how that was going to come together. Keep 'em coming!
I'm blown away by how small your shop is, from all your filming over the years and the amount you've got packed in there I'd assumed it was fairly large. Very cool work as always
Just wow! Couldn't have imagined that your shop is that small and highly impressive that you can get such high quality of work done in such a space and still have the space to set up your camera's. I would love to see how you store and organize your tools in such a confined space.
It's impossible to make good work without properly understanding the tools in your workshop (and the ones that should be). So more of these would be quite welcome! Nice work as always Chris, thanks!
That shop of yours is actually my dream shop. Everything is just one slide of the wheelie chair away, I'd never have to stand up or bend awkwardly over machines.
Great job, I would happily continue watching you make anything- knowing such skill and precision goes into even the most basic elements of your setup makes me want to see everything
It might be a good idea to offset the hole in the hexagon as well, so that you can adjust it a little more easily. Although, if you didn't need anything like that until now, you probably won't need it in the future. Anyway, I love your small workspace! That's the dream (at least for me) - compact and useful.
Thanks Chris. I just bought a big chuck of aluminium (like, 30 minutes ago) to make a pallet for my rotary table. These little clamps are also now on my build list.
Awesome, love yer vids mate :)
Which we shall get to see you make? Please!
Presso and Clickspring. You guys are artists.
The rest of us will expect a video series on that Preso.
Somehow you've made that tiny space feel 10 times larger throughout your videos, that alone is incredible
I'm quietly convinced that's because Chris rarely shows more than his hands, so we don't get a human for scale. I see him make tiny components, and only realize how small they are when he picks them up and I can clearly see the ridges of his fingerprints.
Well done Chris. Love your work.
Blew my mind! I imagined this being much larger! Very much larger!
I thought its 5 m x 5 m... Honestly.
But where are the windows? I could have sworn his mill was near a window...
@@Ryan6.022 there’s definitely a window in some of his videos with the engraving machine
Hey folks, Recorded some time ago, this new-to-UA-cam series is all about our favourite subject: Tools! Do please enjoy :)
I'm a little disappointed they were not polished.... lol
Thank you so much Chris!!
good to see you back mate.... it's been a while... 😉
Keep them coming!
Much enjoyment. More, please!
I'm amazed at how much high-quality work you put out in that tiny shop! Further proof once again that attention to detail and method with simple tools can outperform complex machinery in the hands of a skilled craftsman.
I'd love to see some of your tool storage solutions in that shop. Everything must have a place, and there's only so much room to work with - I'm sure there are some interesting solutions you've had to come up with to fit everything in there.
Also proof that when it comes to machining, Chris is second to none!
I would also very much be interested in how you store/organize your tools and stock. And, a little side question: where do you keep unfinished projects, if you keep any?
Yes please, please show some storage solutions. One benefit from such small shops is that there is no room for clutter or mess: Everything has a place, and if it is not in it's place you can't work!
I would like to see that too.
Chris, put me down for the Storage Solutions video as well. I need all of the help that I can get! 🤢
Mark from Melbourne Australia
First I was stunned by how small your workshop is, then I remembered that you film there ... Holy shit! It boggles my mind how you get so excellent shots! If you haven't already made one, a video about your filming process would be awesome!
I second this!
... and my axe
@@thespiritofyoink 👍
Absolutely need the Behind the Scenes episode showing how you do the filming!
That workshop ! You'd have to go outside just to change your mind 🙂
Keep these coming please Chris.
My wife commented "That's why he's so good at sticking to one task!"
There is an automated mind changer in the far right corner...
@@freddupont3597 Where do you buy them?
Mark from Melbourne Australia
Given he lives in Queensland iirc he can go outside to do any hot work he needs to do. Plus given the climate the number of houses with a basement you could put a shop in likely approaches zero. 😄 Even Stefan before he moved his shop upstairs had a pretty small shop area given everything he had in it.
Ok... The fact that Chris is making the Antikythera mechanism in a 🧹 broom closet has now made an already impressive project even more amazing.
It's like surgical!
It's amazing how he makes everything look so elegant. With that Kiwi 🥝 accent. Kinda like Christmas when he uploads.
@@melburn8514 too much brass.
@@whenvfx Kiwi? Sounds Australian to me.
Just checked his website, yep, he's an Australian
It's a pretty broom cupboard!! but definitely a broom cupboard. My work shop looks like a factory compared to the cupboard.
In my head your shop was at least 4x that size with a big table in the middle.
Amzing what you are able to do in that area!
Exactly what I was thinking all along!
That is the most organized and clean shop in the universe.
No way is your home workshop this small. I still remember where we started 7 years ago with making a clock and honestly it always kinda seemed to me like you are some super rich person that went somewhere into a pretty nature place and work on videos like these as a passion project. I am always amazed and speechless when I see how much genuine effort you put in both your work and the videos. I would honestly love any content you make :) It's always such a delight to see a new upload
Amen
OK, WTF, how do you make such amazing work in so small a space! This makes your work even more amazing!
And then manages to film in a way that makes everything look grand and glorious.
I find myself starting to hate Chris a little. That is just too much capability in one human being ;)
I saw a bunch of other people mention this, but thought I'd throw my suggestion in the ring too, since you asked. A tour of any/all filming and lighting setups, camera stands, or rotary fixtures, gadgets, reflectors, flags, any equipment that you use that helps you to get the beautiful results you do would be a real eye opener and a masterclass to to the rest of us. That gear (to me) is as much a part of your workshop and channel, as the tools and projects that we see through the camera and screen. Looking forward to the rest of this series! Thanks, Craig
Consider this a positive response, and please make more of these videos! :)
I refuse to belive this high end quality videos came from that tiny lovely shop. Man congrats, you are one of the best here.
I rather think THE best here.
@@Watchyn_Yarwood Old Tony?
Wow I knew your shop had to be small but that is a lot smaller than I expected. It's incredible what work comes out of this tiny space!
Dear lord, all the ultra high quality projects you've turned out over the years have come out of walk in cupboard...!!
Mind blown. 🤯
Please, sir, might I have some more please?
I'm request dozens more please?
Unbedingt
More!? You want more!?
More!?
Catch him!
Snatch him!
Hold him!
Scold him!
Pounce him!
Trounce him!
Pick him up and bounce him!
Ahhhh ok! I see what you did there!!
Any clickspring video is pure gold!! We just need more of them!!
This is the kind of "peak behind the curtain" that I think will spark the imagination of other makers. Like many others I thought you had a much bigger and more complex shop. It's encouraging to see that you don't need a $100k machine shop to produce incredible results. Just an enormous amount of patience and learned skill.
I absolutely love your short tool making videos. even if I don’t need the tool the principals of the designs help my creative process.
That's a seriously efficient use of space!
Love it. Make more, please.
You could still do a shop tour, you know. There's a lot of goodness in a very small space. It's supremely organized, and I think a lot of people would love to see the minutia, and how you cram all your stuff into a small space.
Cheers from Manitouwadge, Ontario.
Glorious indeed! I'll put my vote down for many more of these videos please Chris 😁
This might be a tricky one but, I'd like to see how you set up your filming equipment for different shots when making videos such as this and the Antikythera mechanism. Especially curious now that we know how tiny your workspace is
Thats actually really cool of Mitte-bites to do that with the design files. I love when companies are open like that.
Love this step by step that you do for us.
Even on short videos about easy to create parts.
I'm learning so much.
Thanks and please keep it up.
Holy cow! The size of the shop makes the videography even more amazing! Thanks for sharing Chris!
As always, I am speechless at the quality of both machining and filming that you achieve.
Yes, please continue showing more details of your gadgets and how to make. Thank you so much for sharing 😊
My jaw dropped when o saw the size of your space. Truly mesmerising you create projects of the complexity and quality you do not alone film them as well. You are truly a gift to us all.
I absolutely love how the size of the space is completely disproportionate to the quality of the products you make. You are indeed a master.
I was shocked at how tiny your workshop is. A Wardrobe seems spacious in comparison!
I love videos that show any type of tools, jigs or accessories being made. I probably wont need them or ever use them, but I have to make myself a set now !
Excellent! I've missed the more instructive and narrated videos.
Thanks as always for sharing your work.
Like all of your videos, a sense of scale is so difficult. Your parts always seem much larger before you reveal their size and now I can see that your workshop is the same story.
Super helpful, please continue! Work holding is an art often overlooked and one of the most important steps. Nothing worse than an almost finished part slipping.
Oh, yes please, Chris! I'm already slightly eccentric, but I'd love to know more about The Joy of Hex.🤭
Thank you, Chris!!! I’ll no longer complain about shop space limitations…
Goes to show you that you don't need a large shop to be awesome. Just a good mind and knowledge. I really appreciate the way you explain things. Thank you.
that beautiful little gem of a shop is *classic* clickspring! it's the the quality of the person, and his machining, that makes it seem infinitely larger to those of us who only imagine it.
Enjoyable as ever. Keep these short Tool Tours coming, they’re greatly appreciated. See you on the next one, mate! Stay safe. 🥰
And I thought Superman was the most incredible thing that came out of something the size of a phone booth. Absolutely amazing!
Okay! It looks like my trailer workshop will be good enough after all. Screenshoting this for inspiration and motivation. Thanks for the boost.
Not too many things might be more interesting than your exquisite collection of tools!
Please feel encouraged to the max to upload mor videos like this one!
The way you made the excentric screws is freaking brilliant.
The rose engine is such a facinating , complicated bit of kit. When I see some who actually knows what all the inputs do and can achieve a good result, it’s magical. I’d love an in depth tour of all the workings. Always glad to see you posting Chris 🍻
This is the most amazing metal worker channel I found on UA-cam. And his shop is, by far, the smallest. Now I feel so much better about my tiny office at home... 🥰
Youkve proven it is not about the space but rather what you do in it! Brilliant!
Hey Chris. I've been following you since a friend of mine turned me on to what was your first like, nine episodes of the skeleton clock build. Circa 2014-2015. We both find your work calming and extremely satisfying to watch.
I started this video blown away by how small and efficient your workshop is, and -- then I thought about it and started laughing at myself. Your builds are ALL tiny, beautiful, and carefully engineered, why WOULDN'T your workshop be?!
I love this already.
Amazing, especially what you produce out of a shop that size. I imagined a warehouse. Great video, and I would love to see more of the same!
awesome, can´t wait for the next one
Thank you. Look forward to others like this.
The size of your shop just proves you don't have to have a whole garage full of "stuff" to produce some very nice pieces of work.
I've never done any of the things you show in your videos but I think I've watched every single one of them with amazement. You just make it sound so simple when its clearly really complicated
I lack the necessary discipline you use to keep it all going in a tiny space. Once, long ago, I had my entire worldly goods with me on a bicycle tour - still couldn't find anything in the tent...
You are a gold mine of resource and technique - thank you always.
I have been watching your videos for quite a while now, and I was blown away by the size of your work area. I just had this idea that the shop was a huge sprawling machinists' paradise. Much respect for the quality of work and videos you put out from such a compact space.
I love this format! Please upload more of these. I think most of us would agree that any clickspring content is cherished
Crazy how clean you keep things, especially in the videos. My shop looks like a packrat in a tornado.
I would have never guessed you churn out your trademark high-quality work from.....essentially a closet. Incredible.
Brilliant idea for the eccentric screws! When I first saw these I thought it would be outside my ability but thanks to a great explanation I recon I could make myself a set of these :) Thank you
I am both shocked and even more amazed at your skill after seeing your shop. That is a highly packed bundle of awesomeness right there.
Thanks for the honest tour and the supreme quality you put on all your videos, even the "less important" ones. This sends out the greatest of all examples: there's no "less important" features or machine operations in a shop. All quality work requires one to focus as if there isn't another thing but the task ahead.
This is a quality representation of spacetime. 👍👍
The visual production of even simple things is just simply amazing. I would have never guessed the 'workshop' was literally one room.
OK, Chris. I have to admit, I am completely shocked by the size of your workshop. I had the impression from your films that you worked in some kind of beautiful open Atelier with tons of natural light and windows and all the rest of it, and acres of open space between tools. To see it's all so nicely folded and packaged into a tiny room like that gives me hope for my own home shop. I don't need to buy that 40 foot shipping container after all!
Thanks Chris. My to do list only ever get longer!
I will never ever use this for anything, but I am always amazed at what you do and how yo do it. Thank you very much indeed :-)
I could not agree more. Please do a lot more of this kind of stuff. By this video here I have learned a very simple way of wedge holding work that is simple enough for the hobbyist machinist to make and use. Thanks Chris.
Youre the type of guy to bring people a solution before they have even agreed what the problem is. Amazing work keep it up
In my last machinist job I was the mighty bite king, they are so versatile! That was all I did was make parts flat and parallel. Rings, plates big and small parts of all shapes and sizes. I miss that job LOL
Much respect for the work that comes out of that small space! Humbling, honestly!
Great stuff Chris, I look forward to seeing some more of these!
All of your videos cheer me up.
Terrific to have you watching mate :)
Wow, i always expected this shop would be something like Jamie from mythbusters has, like a warehouse absolutely full of tools, turns out its a garden shed that hardly fits a motorcycle if it's empty!
I can't wait to see every bit of it in great detail, this is absolutely amazing!
Holy crap. I need to rethink the efficiency of my workshop.
That’s astounding.
I could have sworn you worked out of a garage or shed, that small of space is mind blowingly small for amazing creations you churn out. Much respect
I love seeing the various little tools that people create that make their process work smoother. It's even more interesting when the process depends strongly on these tools. I'm excited for this series.
It is so good to hear your cheery and delightful voice! Thanks for the artfully done and comprehensively explained video, as always, Chris
Just that one view of your shop absolutely puts into perspective what you're dealing with. Thank you for sharing!
Genius. I never would have thought to offset a work piece in the lathe to achieve eccentricity. Thats just inspired ingenuity. Amazing.
I will never again complain about space limitations in my work areas. Holy beans, you're a wizard with that space!
Love the in depth explanation! I was amazed at the simplicity of turning out the screws. Had no idea how that was going to come together. Keep 'em coming!
Great to see that one doesn't need a large space to do amazing work..... time to rethink my shed!
Keep them coming. We keep watching!
I'm blown away by how small your shop is, from all your filming over the years and the amount you've got packed in there I'd assumed it was fairly large.
Very cool work as always
Don't stop now! These are great!
An elegant solution for a more civilized shop!
The size of your shop Blew my mind.. I'm looking forward to more of these
Всё гениальное - просто! Снимаю шляпу, перед коллегой!
Just wow! Couldn't have imagined that your shop is that small and highly impressive that you can get such high quality of work done in such a space and still have the space to set up your camera's.
I would love to see how you store and organize your tools in such a confined space.
now I understand, why your shop is always so clean... it simply has to be 🙂
Brilliant. One of your best. Please keep this series going.
I'm absolutely dumbfounded at how small your workspace is! All these years, it appeared you had a much larger area to work in. Bravo
It's impossible to make good work without properly understanding the tools in your workshop (and the ones that should be). So more of these would be quite welcome!
Nice work as always Chris, thanks!
If the title to this video was "shop tour" I'd have clicked immediately. Still happy to have stumbled upon your work, it's incredible.
Thanks for the suggestion, title amended! Cheers :)
That shop of yours is actually my dream shop. Everything is just one slide of the wheelie chair away, I'd never have to stand up or bend awkwardly over machines.
Nice, very nice. Sometimes one just simply need to make one's own tools. Because it is all about "Tools! Glorious Tools!
what a great way to hold us over for the 8 months it takes for an antikythera episode. i always thought your shop had a window
Great job, I would happily continue watching you make anything- knowing such skill and precision goes into even the most basic elements of your setup makes me want to see everything
It might be a good idea to offset the hole in the hexagon as well, so that you can adjust it a little more easily. Although, if you didn't need anything like that until now, you probably won't need it in the future.
Anyway, I love your small workspace! That's the dream (at least for me) - compact and useful.
I love it. I give Adam Savage three months befor he does this project for his shop and gives you a massive shout out. 👍Keep it coming.
Please don't stop these, this is great
thats awesome. keep them coming. getting a video every few months feels like an eternity in between