I have a small machine shop for personal use. It is a hobby with little thought to making any money from it (but then again....). As an engineer I truly like building things. Also machining, particularly things one has designed, is a sure way to improve ones design skills.

I have a 14" Goodway lathe, SuperMax knee mill converted to CNC, horizontal band saw, TIG welder, D-bit grinder and a multitude of hand tools. Also a fairly complete Sherline "combo machine" converted to CNC and set-up for travel. Finally, I've converted a bench mill and bench lathe to CNC for use at our winter digs in Benda, AZ. I also have enough projects to keep me busy for many many years.

In 2020 we bought a house in Prescott Valley. That allowed me to move the large equipment into a two car garage. We're not there for extended peroids yet, still traveling most of the year, but it is set up and functional again.

• Winter Shop in Brenda In 2020 I decided to build up bench top CNC machines for use at our winter digs of Brenda, AZ. My Pandemic project was then to convert a Precision Matthews PM728 bench mill and a Precision Matthews PM1022 bench lathe to CNC.


• PM728 Benchtop Mill CNC Conversion
  


• PM1022 Benchtop Lathe CNC Conversion
  


• Traveling Sherline Show - We sold our Oregon house and started full time RV travel in June 2018. The large shop equipment was put into storage. But I needed some capability while traveling. To this end I built up the Traveling Sherline Show. For various reasons it wasn't suited to full time travel, but the process was a success and I still have it. Here is a description of the set-up.


• Traveling Sherline Show
  


• CNC knee mill conversion - I've completed retrofitting an older Supermax milling machine for CNC. I started the conversion in 2000 and basically finished it in 2004. Yes I'm slow but a lot of stuff got in the way. :-) I've divided the description of the conversion into two parts, mechnaical and electrical. Those links are below:


• Knee Mill CNC Mechanical Retrofit
  


• Knee Mill CNC Electrical Conversion
  


• Heat Treating Oven - I've wanted a heat treating oven for some time. In the past I've always "borrowed" one when needed, but in 2014 I finally got around to constructing one. The following links to my build log


• Oven Build Log
  

Projects

It seems most of my time is fitting out shops rather than making things in the shops. However, besides the bicycles documented separately, I have a few projects that aren't building more machine tools. Here are a few notable projects.

• Pool Cue Sticks - Since I started playing pool again, after 50 years, building a cue seemed like a good project. Here's the journey.


• Pool Cues
  

• Model Engines - I've wanted to build model engines since I was very young. I've now stared down this trail.


• Model Engines