harold hall

I have made two more videos available showing my grinding rests in use. They are for Slitting Saws and Dovetail Cutters. Links to them can be found here, http://www.homews.co.uk/page224.html If you have bookmarked the page having links to my grinding rest videos, note that the links have been...

Whilst it was my intention to publish one video a week, I have decided that I would like to bring the process to an earlier conclusion. Primarily so that I can spend the summer without the need to spend time updating my website for each one, and advertising the video on around 15 forum...

Regarding my videos we now come to what I think are the most important for many as they show my grinding rests being used for sharpening workshop tools. I say important, as it has become apparent that some have made one but are not fully sure how to use them. This is not unreasonable, as I...

My video this week is for a small boring head which I made to suit my lathe milling head ( http://www.homews.co.uk/page158.html ) It should also be suitable for any of the small milling machines, for which to my knowledge, there are few, if any, suitable commercial heads. A link to the video...

The video I am making public this week is a back stop for the lathe. Whilst one of the lesser used lathe accessories I find it invaluable for the occasional project, often making a task easier, or more accurate, especially when identical parts are being made. A link to the video can be found on...

When drilling a part, supported by parallels in the drilling machine vice it is probable that, like me, you have had the problem of keeping the parallels away from the drill as the drill breaks through. The device in this video virtually eliminates the problem, except if any part of a holes...

I have recently been adding metal working videos to YouTube to backup articles on my website. For a very small number of forums I have posted a thread for each one as I made it public. However, with over 30 forums having links to my website it has been quite impossible to do this for every...