A Home Shop Machinist's Quest for Craftsmanship

beautiful schaublin 70 lathe in black and white

Greetings

Welcome to my home shop machining and model engineering site.  Like the quest, this site is a work in progress.  Apologies for links that don’t work, incomplete sections, and the ample assortment of typos.  It will improve with age.

My interested in metal working started with high school machine shop (Mr Dittmar), too many years ago. Reconditioning machines, model engines, watches and clocks, tooling design, casting and some electronics are all areas of interest and pursuit.

I’ve written many articles for Home Shop Machinist magazine. Its a great team there and I would encourage others to write and submit their articles.  It’s a nice way to record knowledge and ideas for both sharing and posterity.  It ups one’s game as putting things in print creates pressure to do your best.

Professionally, I have business education and spent a lot of time in professional services such as corporate finance and commercial real estate. More recently I have become involved some manufacturing businesses and the day time gig is now fabrication and equipment design build

Personally, grew up on a small farm in Ontario north of Toronto.  I have lived in the North Toronto area (a deceptive name, its kind of smack dab in the middle of the “6”) for close to 40 years, married with four adult children who are out in the world making it happen.