At your suggestion, I'm using high feed end mills. They are incredible! The axe head? Not so much.

By AvvE

14 thoughts on “Axe from scrap rail”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michel Garneau says:

    This is so OMG funny, watching as a red seal machinist here in Canuckistan

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Charles Russell says:

    "I'm doing it not for no reason". never ending one-liners!

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars m3sca1 says:

    yikes the learning curve is steep here!

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SomethingElse says:

    We high feed mill everything, and my day is most just watching that fckr run for hours. The .75 insert mill gives you about 10 seconds warning before the inserts explode and send the whole took straight to hell, so you've got to baby sit that thing real close.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars S Smith says:

    Easier to buy a new axe or pay a professional machine shop to make it for you.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars mike M says:

    The CN is going to be pissed when thry find out theyre missing a few feet of rail in that snowy hoth hellscape….

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hola! Weareallbeingwatched says:

    On the other channel he shows you how to make a howitzer out of a hydraulic ram using nothing but a plasma cutter and a stick welder in Ukranian.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars EthosAtheos says:

    That milling machine is a treble blacksmith.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ben cooper says:

    Let's see your kinky boots 😉

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Shaune Micheal says:

    I'm no machinist, but is that chatter?

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jesse says:

    Any plans to do a part two? You got so far!

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Devin Clark says:

    It's it just me…. But when he goes to start a new cut is anyone saying to themselves "please don't break!"

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lucas Ward says:

    "we are the british army and were here to take your land"

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Edge Precision says:

    Wow my machine is almost as clean as yours! Can I make one suggestion? When you mill from both sides with a feed mill. Don’t try to go all the way thru. Go down enough to leave a thin web. If you go thru the material gets thin and bends away from the tool and will twist up and go thru the flutes breaking/chipping them. Because of the big tip radius/lead angle. It’s better to leave say about .06” of material (with your tool size) than cut thru in one cut with a standard endmill. Don’t ask how I know this. Been there done that.

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