Turning a Cube on a Lathe - A Different Turners Cube
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2023
- This is a fun little project, everyone (with a lathe) can do at home to impress the neighbours ;)
I saw this idea some time ago and found it very interesting as a little exercise in turning. So I decided to share this with you. Depending on the size, this will make a cool looking key fob or just sitting around useless on your desk.
I hope you enjoy this little episode.
Feel free to comment and let me hear your thoughts and suggestions.
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I really like how it looks like it shouldn't be made on a lathe but the technique is actually quite simple. Love it.
Yes, absolutely fascinating!
Simple if you know what you are doing.
It probably took as much time setting it up as running the lathe.
@@markdaniel8740 sure, a non-machinist like me couldn't do it. I meant simple as in quite basic techniques used in smart ways.
I guarantee its more setup than runtime. Especially with it being aluminum that cuts like butter, SFM is high AF @@markdaniel8740
If someone gave me this thing and asked me if you could make it on a manual machine. I probably would have said no.
That were my thoughts too, when I saw this thing the first time :)
Well, you could make it on a manual knee mill…
did you watch the entire video?@@Advanced_pack
A CNC machine wouldn't do you much good either, no idea how you would do it on there... 😄
@@TheFlyBullet magic
My degree is in Chemistry. I worked in an R&D lab for a while, but enjoyed teaching chemistry and physics more. Although my knowledge of how the world works is key to who I am, I wonder if being a machinist wouldn’t have given me more satisfaction.
Lol, I just quit my cnc machining job to pursue a degree in chemistry. Guess we are R and S enantiomers
Get a bench top machine and go crazy any time you feel the need! They come in a wide range of prices. If you know a machinist ask questions and I’m sure you’ll get some help. Used machines are cheaper but if you have that friend it shouldn’t be a problem. Good luck!
When You are a machinist You will Spend 99.9% of your time making stuff for customers and that IS Not Always fun in fact ITS called Work ;)-
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That’s the first time anybody has told me a chemistry joke. The last good one I read was on a toilet stall wall in the chem dept when I was in grad school.
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Yes, as a machinist, you would!!!
This is just incredible. Each time I stopped to say “Wow that’s cool” it just got cooler. Hats off to you
Thank you so much! I really do appreciate that!
Insane, I was looking for a long time to understand the shape made. I think i see little rounded pyramids in the corners. Very cool piece to show off your skills
Yes, it isn't that easy to get :) Rounded pyramids is a good way to describe the corners. They just occur when turning every side round to a specific measurement.
the corners are essentially tetrahedrons ... 4 sided ... if you call the bottom the face inside the cube ... it is a neat way to make a cube from round stock ... I wonder what ne would have to do to make say an 8 sided one ... be a nifty idea for making your own dice sets
The precision is incredible
Nice job.A backstop in the lathes spindle would also help for this sort of turning.
Thanks for your comment! I didn't thaught about the backstop at all. I actually made one recently but just hadn't in mind that this could help here :D Thanks for your hint ;)
I must be missing something. How would that help? He’s already using the chuck as a backstop.
Once the first 2 sides are turned there cube can slide into the chuck a bit and not touch the chuck face.Check at 10min 15 secs.
So the Lathe Spindle Backstop could be used from the start to the end as it would still make contact with the part giving you the same reference for all six sides.
@@localele1 Yes, I totally forgot about using the stop. It would we helpful and I keep it in mind for the next time :)
@@WeCanDoThatBetter As a test and learning exercise it is great but I made quite a few on my little CNC milling machine which can make them quite easily.
Still I got to enjoy the process and then learn a few things by converting it to a milling machine.
Also put them back through and milled a hole right through them.
Gives a literal meaning to the phrase "squaring the circle" 😃
Haha :D Everything's possible ;)
Even your rough passes look so polished! And the final form is something hard to comprehend in 3D-space. 2D makes it easier. :D
Thank you very much for your comment! I really do appreciate that!
that'd be a vicious slug for Taofledermaus
Now that's a portfolio piece if ever I saw one!
Thank you for the adventure and the exemplary film-making.
Thank you very much for your kind comment! I really do appreciate that!
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Outstanding! Very well done! I like how simple it actually ended up being.
Thank you very much!
Mesmerizing! I like the pattern on the corners!
It's still fascinating for me too! Thanks for your comment :)
I love you set up! I am a woodturner but always loved metal lathes. My metal experience is in silver and goldsmithing but by trade I am a woodworker/remodeler. One day I was installing 2 custom glass door slabs that where doweled together to make one big sliding glass pocket door. I had to go MacGyver on it because the hard ware wouldn't work right. Long story short I needed a custom pin with a notch in the middle and my goldsmith teacher was like ok, and grabbed a piece if brass pipe the right diameter and melted bronze to fill it, then he threw it on the lathe and made it for me right there. this was 24 years ago and I was just 22, so it blew my mind. I was fascinated ever since. For some reason I am a natural born woodturner with zero failures. serious just jinxed myself but it is truly unbelievable. I would turn cremation urns out of a single piece of wood so the grain would continue into the lid. seamless. I would turn them down to 3/16ths thick hollow turn on dry wood end grain. It took a long time. I miss it. Ill by the tools again someday when I'm done with more important shit.
Simply beautiful! 🥳
Thank you so much! :)
Nicely done. Enjoyable viewing, thank you.
Thanks for your kind comment!
This is both madness and brilliant. I love it.
Thank you :)
Absolutely brilliant. I'll be giving it a go
looks great, thank u for sharing! 👍
Thank you very much for your comment!
I’m going to try making that in the morning. Thanks for the inspiration! That’s so cool.
Thanks and good luck!
Soooo satisfying!!
Very nice job.
I had to go to the garage and make one for myself.
It turned out okay considering I had to just eyeball some of the precision measurements
Thanks for the idea.
Spectacular project my friend 👍
Thank you very much!
Wow, very impressive and time consuming process 😮 cools very amazing 👌😍🔥🔥
Very nice! I never have seen such a thing before.
Wow! Brilliant!
Thank you! :)
Amazingly Beautiful ! , You have done that Perfect
Thank you very much! I really do appreciate that!
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Fantastic !
Hugs from Brazil.
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Amazing piece.
Thanks a lot!
Really nice machining mate!! Pro tip... wash aluminium parts in liquid hand soap and water while you wash your hands after the scotch bright and it comes up a real treat 😉
Thank you very much for your kind comment and the tip for washing the aluminium part. I will definitely keep that in mind!
this is very interesting.....Thank You from the US..Paul
Thanks my friend!
Wow. That’s brilliant
Thank you very much! :)
i've been having this shower thought just yesterday
i knew you can turn a cube in a lathe! i knew tis possible!
thats amazing
Took me a while to understand hahaha. Amazing!
Very enjoyable 👏👏👍😎
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Nice job!
Thanks!
Amazing!
Thanks!
what a fun little guy
Thank you very much!
Never thought I'd see this type of thing made on a manual lathe. Laser cut perhaps yes, possibly on a CNC machine. Kinda makes me want to get my hands on a small bench top lathe like this and take a whack at making something like that myself. And perhaps work up a few other pieces.
That hurt my brain. I loved it!
Haha :D Yes, it's mesmerizing!
Shout out to how well on center you have your tool set there. No nipple at all, I really gotta work on that lol
Thank you very much! :)
Nice project, saw this type of cube in the forum a while ago.
Perhaps it was the same place where I had seen it :) Thanks!
@@WeCanDoThatBetter Yes, i think so, too.
I love the cooper sheets for the jaws. I need to make a few of those for myself! :D
Thanks for your comment! I made a video about making the copper jaw protections. You find it on my channel.
I have same, but in aluminium.
I don't know why I expected this video to be in similar to the the one This Old Tony made.
Haha :D Ok, the title is misleading, sorry for that ;)
Tricked me thinking the corners were knocked off ... Great job anyway 😂
If you make a drawing of this piece, I am sure more than 50% of the engineers, machinists will be confused that what this part is?
Absolutely great work. I wll surely add this as a task for my upcoming students of engineering.
Nice!
Amazing work. Interesting what can be accomplished if you know how. Now your challenge is to duplicate that on a three jaw chuck... That is all I have and would like to see if you can do that on a three jaw... Thumbs Up!
Absolute skills
Thanks!
amazing.
Thanks!
I need to make one of these now...
very cool
Thanks!
Yes,very different.Thank you.
Thanks! :)
the tweezers are adorable
Now that's Awesome....
Thanks!
Wow, so nice, so unnecessary, I love it!
A threaded hole, a pin and a nice base would make a geat display.
Thanks for your comment! That's a good idea, I think I will make a little stand for it.
@@WeCanDoThatBetter Please make a short video or at least a photo of the result.
I can't believe he just actually got that thing that accurate with a damn hammer...
This was so cool I went out and made a couple myself. My wife stole one for a paper weight at work. Everyone asks me what it is. I tell them idk but I made it lol.
nice turn😇
Thank you very much! :)
Exquisite! I would love to try this on the woodturning lathe but I don’t think it has the precision.
Thank you very much! I think this will work in wood too. I have no experience in turning wood. You have to work accurately but I guess, it's doable.
Sehr sehr cooler Zeitvertreib, jeder geht mit dem Sommerloch anders um :-) BTW: Ich weiss, der Servomotor kann recht Fix anhalten, aber ist das auf Dauer gut für Riemen, Riemenscheibe, Lager & Co?
Genau, ne kleine Fingerübung :) Ja, mit dem Motor hast du recht. Bin mir da auch nicht sicher, ob das so gut ist. Ich hab es so eingestellt, damit der Motor auch über den Not-Aus schnell stoppt. Leider lässt sich die Bremse nicht wirklich feinfühlig einstellen an dem Controller...
@@WeCanDoThatBetter evtl. lässt sich der Weg bzw. Abstand des Magneten zum Hallsensor etwas großzügiger gestalten, damit der Motor beim Auschalten erst Drehzahl reduziert bevor er anhält. Ich hatte mit dem Servo-Motor auch experimentiert, erst an meiner Drehe (Motor zu Klein, Drehe zu groß) Jetzt sitzt er in meiner kleinen Metabo-Bandsäge aus den 70ern ...
I really admire you!!!Can you make “reversing tapping heart” for thread ? Same brand “Tapmatic” , we can use it for proxxon mini milling, I also have a similar one!
i think a hole through the center of each face would also look pretty cool
Yes, that would probably look good.
Nice job! Can't do this using collet chucks? Or can you? Thanks for posting and take care!
Thanks for your comment! When you start with a round bar, I think you need an independent four jaw chuck to make it square. When you already have a square stock, it might be possible to clamp it in special square collets.
Better than ThisOldTony's April vid for sure
:D Haha, I'm humbled! Thanks ;)
that thing is so confusing to just look at even, the reflective surfaces make it really hard to tell what the geometry of those corners is lmao, very impressive
it reminds me of stepping on lego pain
Haha :D It actually feels a bit like this in your hand.
I realised your saw blade jerks at each cycle, do you know why is that....and great to see a self centering 4 jaw chuck. 👍
Hi and thanks for your comment! There are some teeth missing in one spot on the bandsaw blade. That's why you here the sound. The rest of the blade is still ok, so I just kept on running :)
I just want to hold it. It is such an interesting shape.
Thanks! Yes, it is really satisfying :)
You end your video with, thanks for watching. Let me answer with, thanks for showing.
Thank you very much for your kind comment! I really do appreciate that!
Cylinder ^3. 😂 Good job mate
Thank you! :)
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Thank you!
that made my brain do a 360 when them corners got cut in
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I know nothing about machining except what I learned from this old tony but that loose mat under the lathe chuck scares me
Because of the danger of being sucked into the lathe chuck? Since I have it there, not a single time it got grabbed by the chuck. But yes, doesn't say that this couldn't happen. It is there to protect the bedways from chips and does a good job. I'm not the only one with such a cover. But being cautious using a lathe is always a good thing.
I was curious how you were going to get square inside corners in the pockets. But its just an optical illusion.
I want one :)
Good
Thanks!
Neat
What lathe is this? Couldn’t quite see in the video.
Could you please specify the dimensions of the square and the diameter of the circle
What lathe is this?
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Hi. Wie immer, du hast das wirklich schön gemacht.👍👍👍
Sag Mal, hast sonst noch mit Maschinen zu tun, oder nur Zuhause Hobby mäßig?
Wie ich zum Beispiel. Früher ja, mit Maschinen gearbeitet, jetzt leider nur Hobby mäßig. Leider, weil ich manchmal Bock habe auf richtig große Maschinen.
Wünsche dir alles gute und bleib gesund.
You can make holes inside, and even a sphere
Yes there are some complications we can think of for the future.
l bought 4" four jaw at little machine shop, & a self centering 4" four jaw chuck too, novice here.
Who said you can’t make square items on the lathe? Nice work. 😃
Exactly :) Thank you very much!
Make a little fence to slid stuff against. Really night and day in the finishing.
Thanks for the hint!
I bet you could make an incredible D20
Goods
The only thing I was thinking during the entire video was: I need a lathe now
Go for it, but choose another one ;)
How is the surface finish so good? I thought small, less rigid machines couldn't do it.
Thanks for your comment! Aluminium isn't that hard to machine even on a small lathe like mine. The surface quality depends on the type of aluminium and the right cutting tools. I used special high strength aluminiums AW7075 which gives nice shiny surfaces und used sharp polished inserts for cutting.
@@WeCanDoThatBetter amazing! Thank you!
How do you center a piece with that chuck with four independent teeth?
Ah I shoulda kept watching, that’s effort
Haha ;)
Я в восторге
and made 4 nice, impressive.
Thanks!
I learned from Stefan to use IPA as cutting fluid for aluminium, try it and you will love the result
Thanks for your comment! Oh yes, I've seen him using it too. Should buy some and try it out.
@@WeCanDoThatBetter I didn't had IPA in house, but did had some ethanol/glycerine as handsoap from the covid period and it was also a nice result
@@mslucass Good idea, thanks! :)
Personally, I would have kept the machine finish instead of sanding and scotch-briting it, but this still looks really cool!