Thanks to the newer technologies readily available today such as digital video cameras, do-it-yourselfers can now afford to have a very good education on topics previously only available to a very select few.

Seeing how something is done is so much easier than reading about it in a book. Our video/DVD store features productions from craftsman that visually show you step-by-step “how-to” attain skills quickly and easily.

How to Anodize Titanium & Niobium

Introduction to Pewter Smithing

Make a Micrometer Boring Head For Your Taig Lathe Or Micromill

Machining Operations on the 7x10 variable Speed Asian-Made Mini-Lathe

Making Gears The Easy Way

Merv's Merv’s Consew 206 RB-1 Basic Operation

Merv's Upholstery Collection (6)
 

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$25.00 - VHS

$30.00 - DVD

Here we cover all basic grinding techniques in order to produce a professional lathe tool bit. Learn about the basic 6” grinder and what to look for. We will show you how to make a basic left cutting bit as well as many others including a 60 degree threading bit, grinding a radius tip, and lots of other tools. By avoiding the mistakes often encountered by reading about it, you can watch and learn as we show you the step-by-step process required to create perfect faceted tool bits.

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running time 1 hour 27 min.

$38.00 - VHS

$43.00 - DVD

This video was produced as a result of the most ambitious project undertaken by the author. It features Jose F. Rodriguez's shop-made model maker's variable speed milling machine. The video is a complete basic milling operations course, but rather than boring the viewer with dozens of unrelated procedures, you get to see Jose produce a dovetailed tool block for his quick change tool system that he designed for the 7 x 10 variable speed mini-lathe.

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running time: 4 hours

$38.00 - VHS

$43.00 - DVD

Have you forgone the pleasure of building a small, geared engine simply because the thought of having to cut your own gears sends a shiver down your metalworking spine? Even if you can muster up the nerve, you realize that so called involute gear cutters cost an arm and a leg... You next need a set of eight cutters to enable you to cut the entire range of teeth for 12 to infinite rack. The cost in cutters alone can reach well over $200 before you even begin thinking about arbors to hold them. It’s no wonder many of us will simply go to the nearest gear vendor and pay $50-$60 for a pair of small brass spur gears.

In this video, you will learn the secrets of the HOB. You will not only learn how to use a hob, but you will also learn how to build one from scratch right on your small to medium sized lathe and small milling machine.

For a cost of about $3 in raw materials, you can make a hob that will not only enable you to easily make any number/tooth spur gear as well as a worm and worm gear, you will be amazed at how simple gear making can be! You can make any diemetral pitch hob by simply following the diemetral pitch chart that comes with the video. The video shows a 1/10” pitch spiral and straight hob being made and then used to make gears of various diameters. You will not need to compute anything. All basic diameters for gear blanks for gears of any numbers of teeth will also be included within the info sheets that come with the package. If you'd rather use a calculator to figure out diameters, easy formulas are also included. Once you have used a hob to cut a gear, you'll wonder why you ever used anything else!

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running time: 4 hours

$25.00 - VHS

$30.00 - DVD

Couldn't you just kick yourself for having missed these great events? No need to worry any further... Three years worth of this shop along with the sights and sounds, and almost the smells have been captured on video to enjoy and your leisure.

Examine and enjoy these spectacular marvels of model engineering up close and "in your face", in glorious detail. Marvel at the intricate linkages and movements of these amazing creations. These shows are not only for models... There are also numerous tool and machinery dealers there, as well as a large "live steam” train layout and you can enjoy it all as if you were there yourself when you view this video.

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running Time: Approx. 2 hours

$25.00 - VHS

$30.00 - DVD

Watch Jose as he builds a fully operational and capable boring head. In this almost two-hour video, you will learn in full detail how to make a boring head with micrometer adjustment feature with very little material and equipment. In fact, although Jose uses his homemade milling machine to build it, it could be easily built using the Taig lathe plus milling attachment.

You will see the dovetailed components being built from layout to finish. The unit takes 1/4" shank shop made or commercial boring bars. The idea was to make a miniature version of a commercially available full size boring head complete will all the regular features included, but only about half the overall size. Small machines such as the Taig Micromill and Sherline milling machines will vibrate when a full-size boring head is installed with the head laterally offset even a small amount. This unit is small, compact, but extremely strong and stiff. This will be evident at the end of the video during the actual cutting test, boring out of an existing bore on an aluminum work piece. The head itself is adjustable in thousands of an inch with its graduated screw and its male dovetail is kept snug or fully locked during cutting by three gib screws.

This unit has a real brass gib rather than the usual practice of slitting the female dovetail to create a pseudo gib. All in all, for the cost of a pacetk of cigarettes you can build a great addition to your tool shelf that will perform for you for a lifetime!

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running time: Approx. 2 hours

$55.00 - Complete series, 3 VHS tapes

$70.00 - Complete series, 3 DVD’s

In this three-part video marathon, you will witness the seemingly impossible! Observe Jose as he builds a fully operating and capable 80-pound variable speed Milling machine with existing Taig micro lathe components and readily available stock aluminum material. A commercial heavy duty X & Y milling table is utilized to complete the project.

This is definitively not a "toy" but a complete milling center that will out perform just about anything in its class. For a total expenditure of less than $300, you too could have a tool that will perform better than milling machines that cost more than twice as much. This video will take you through every step from its initial conception and planning to beyond its very successful conclusion in painstaking detail so that you will be able to easily duplicate this achievement!

As an extra bonus, you will be treated to a full narrative and visual step-by-step presentation on the building of a 60:1 geared dividing head that, with the addition of a simple shop made indexing accessory, will allow it to divide anything into as many as 21,600 equal divisions and for that matter, any other number divisible into that. You will also learn how to easily cut perfectly fitting dovetailed sliding joints with the simplest of equipment. These two items alone would be worth the price of this video set.

See how to produce a professional quality engraved dial with nothing more than a small lathe (Taig). You will see each component being worked, fitted and assembled as the unit is magically transformed more and more into a "real" milling machine. The final two hours or so are devoted to a full battery of milling operations performed on real components that make up part of the geared dividing head, including other milling goodies. During the filming of the final milling tests, cuts were routinely taken on 6061-t6 alloy to depths of over 90 thou with a common imported 1/4" diameter four flute end mill. We do not recommend that you routinely cut to those depths, but it sure is nice to be able to do so when required.

This is a definite "must" for anyone who has grown tired of using alternative milling methods but either is not ready to invest the big bucks for a commercially available bench top milling machine, or simply not satisfied with what’s presently available out there.

The milling machine’s specifications and features include:

• Table dimensions 5-1/2" x 12" with two "t" slots
• "T" slot is 1" wide and stud size is 5/8"
• X axis travel is 9"
• Y axis travel is 5"
• Z axis travel is 8" from highest position to the surface of the milling table
• Lead screw to spindle center distance 5"
• Adjustable x and y table stops
• No more than .005" backlash on all three axes
• Head stock locks to prevent possibility of downward drift during heavy cuts
• Re zero type dials on the x and y movements
• Heavy duty Taig spindle and dovetailed head stock with provision for collets either proprietary or ww
• ½" drilling capacity
• End mill capacity with Taig blank arbor holder is ½"
• Fly cutter capacity is 2-1/2" diameter
• All slides graduated to .001"
• Variable speed permanent magnet dc motor with controller, 500 to 1500 rpm
• Six step machined pulley system giving step less, overlapping, no load speed ranges of145 to 4900 rpm
• Full array of milling accessories available. Spindle accessories mount directly to the threaded 3/4-16 spindle or insert into the tapered spindle bore and are locked with a draw bar.

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running time: Approx. 12 hours

$28.00 - VHS

$33.00 - DVD

Are you tired of avoiding machine projects simply because you do not own or have access to a milling machine? Learn some of the secrets to successful milling techniques utilizing your existing lathe as well as a drill press. You might think Jose is crazy, but he'll show you how to mill on a drill press! Jose, as well as none other than Rudy Kouhoupt, have been doing just that very thing for years now with good results in finish as well as dimensional accuracy.

You will also witness the Taig Micro Lathe being put through its paces milling a work piece held on the cross slide as well as with the vertical milling accessory. See the Taig with the externally mounted modified micro drill press to convert it into a miniature 3 in 1 machining center. See the 7 x 10 Minilathe in conjunction with the Taig vertical milling accessory performing milling cuts with hardly an effort. the presentation is finished with the 8" modified drill press performing milling on a rough block of stock held on a great little shop made milling vice. This is the only drill press with a micrometer operated locking spindle. See it being used and you too will marvel at its simplicity. After viewing this tape, you should be well on your way to the pleasures of milling without having to own a milling machine.

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running time: Approx. 2 hours

$28.00 - VHS

$33.00 - DVD

Finally, the mystery of thread cutting has been made simple enough for the first time user! In this two-hour recording, you will see and learn the easy way to cut with taps, dies, as well as perform external and internal single point threading operations.

Learn the secrets of that "dreaded" threading dial as well as how to avoid using the dial altogether if you choose to do so. The perfect companion to have when you are ready to produce extremely true running threads for all your projects!

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running time: 2 hours

$38.00 - VHS

$43.00 - DVD

See the Taig Micro-Lathe perform some of the most unorthodox machining techniques the most thought were impossible. Learn how to make 60-50-40 hole indexing plates and how to use it on the Taig. Get that tail stock set to within a few tenths in a couple of minutes with a simple shop made test bar and TDI. See a heavy-duty motorized cross slide drill rig that will perform any radial drilling as well as milling job. See a 50 division graduated dial being engraved with the use of a simple device. Turn the Taig into a miniature 3 in 1 machining center.

Would you like a graduated carriage lead screw for your Taig? After viewing this production, you will be able to make one in one evening. Learn to make and use several flex shaft milling and grinding units for both the cross slide and the vertical milling attached. How about auto feed for the carriage and cross slide? These are just some of the fun subjects that will be covered in this new and unique production.

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running Time: Approximately 4 hours

$28.00 - VHS

$33.00 - DVD

Would you like to be able to see for yourself what can be done on a Taig micro-lathe, with just minimal tooling and expense? Are you somewhat undecided about acquiring one of these small but very capable tools and somehow wished you could just see one being put through its paces before opening your wallet? Well, wait no more! Finally there is a production that will answer most of your basic questions about this lathe. Initial setup hints will be discussed, during a thorough tour of the lathe and its basic components. This will be followed with a complete hands-on demonstration of all the basic machining operations possible on this tool.

These will include:

• Facing
• Turning
• Grooving
• Cut off or parting cuts
• Chamfering
• Center drilling
• Drilling
• Reaming
• Tapping
• Thread cutting with a die
• Boring cuts
• Milling and much more!
• Basic Taig Micro-Lathe Techniques

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running Time: Approx. 2 hours

$38.00 - VHS

$43.00 - DVD

This has been a hot topic in recent months on the internet, various metalworking newsgroups and mailing lists. Now all of your questions, doubts and anything else you may have been wondering about this tool will be answered in a four-hour, no holds barred presentation. The production begins with a full tour of the tool, followed by a complete machining presentation that should put to rest any fears or reservations you may have had about this tool once and for all! Not only will you be shown just about every basic machining cut a lathe is capable of, you will also see a complete "milling on the lathe” demonstration adapting the Taig vertical milling slide to the mini-lathe's cross slide.

This is an extremely informative presentation that will also double as a perfect machining mini-course.

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running time: Approx. 4 hours

$38.00 - VHS

$43.00 - DVD

This video just had to be to done in order to show most beginning micro machinists (and even some not-so-new), that if you simply cannot yet afford to add a "real" milling machine to your shop, you can still perform just about every type of milling operation in the book by using a small to medium drill press, after learning about some of the special modifications you will learn on this tape.

That's not to say that you should forego ever obtaining a milling machine. Instead, the goal of this video is to show you that you simply don't have to wait for years until the funds for that 1000-pound monster are raised. There are no special camera effects, cut-aways as work pieces are substituted. You will see Jose performing the following: end milling, side milling, cutting shoulders, slots, slitting cuts, spot drilling, drilling tapping basic indexing on 5c spin jigs, and X & Y coordinate locating with wigglers and edge finders and much more! Shop made tools will be shown as well as construction information.

You will also learn the simple but very effective tricks used to transform this 40 pound weakling into a capable milling tool. You will see the author's special micrometer spindle/quill feed, accurate to .001" and locking feature he built into this tool and how it is used. Don’t avoid those projects requiring milling. Learn right now how it was done and begin milling in less than a few days with the help of this new video. All in all, probably the best video on this very "taboo" subject of milling in the drill press!

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running time: Approx. 4 hours

$25.00 - VHS

$30.00 - DVD

Featuring the Preac Miniature Precision table saw. Jose's jump to Micromachining came after almost two decades of designing and building scale reproductions of existing pieces of antique period furniture. Just like in the real world of fine full size cabinet making where accuracy is everything, Jose will teach you how to scale and produce accurate and realistic cuts, joints and other detail that will make the difference between a “toy” miniature and a Reproduction true to the original.

The table saw is the workhorse in any wood working shop and so it is in the miniature shop as well. Accuracy is also proportional to the scale you are reducing the original to. It is therefore extremely important that you not only have a tool capable of such accuracy, but know how to properly coax that level of accuracy out of it.

In this production, you will learn all about this saw and how to make every cut required for most work cabinet making situations as well as simply how to do it MINI style.

By Craftsman, Jose F. Rodriguez
Running Time: Approx. 1.5 hours

How To Anodize Titanium & Niobium

$30.00 - VHS
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$41.00 - VHS
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Merv's Upholstery Training
2 x 3 hour Productions

$59.95 - VHS
+ $3.95 Ship to US

$59.95 - VHS
+ $10 Ship Int'l

$59.95 - DVD
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$59.95 - DVD
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Merv's Upholstery Secrets

$29.95 - VHS
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$29.95 - VHS
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$29.95 - DVD
+ $3.95 Ship to US

$29.95 - DVD
+ $10 Ship Int'l

Merv's Upholstery Repair

$39.95 - VHS
+ $3.95 Ship to US

$39.95 - VHS
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$39.95 - DVD
+ $3.95 Ship to US

$39.95 - DVD
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Merv's Upholstery Group - 4 x Productions

$109.95 - VHS
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$109.95 - VHS
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$109.95 - DVD
+ $3.95 Ship to US