Category: General

Machining Aluminum Extrusion

This started off as something that should have taken a few hours at most, and ballooned into a 2 week project, thanks to some unforeseen issues.

Indiscriminate photos #10

Some shots from  Hilton Head Island ,  the South Carolina Aquarium, and the Georgia State Railroad Museum.

Customized Camera Cage Screws

I recently purchased an excellent SmallRig cage for my Panasonic GH5, But the screw used to attach the camera to it didn’t live up to my expectations. Thus like any other home shop machinist, I made a custom one. The video shows how I took a standard button head cap screw and modified it to work with the camera cage.

Finally 4k Ready

When I started making YouTube videos regularly last year I really wanted to deliver in 4k, but my 2010 vintage computer (custom build), wasn’t up to the task. Thus, in July of last year i set out to rectify that issue. The Machine I came up with was able to burn through 4k content, with one small issue, it quickly ran out of space to store it. fast forward to today, and I now have the storage space issue fixed.

Jillian and I just moved into a new house, so I knew it was going to be a while till I could get the shop back up and running. With plenty of times on my hands I sat down and researched how much more  space & speed I would need to do what I wanted. What i untimely settled on is as follows: Continue Reading…

Camera Arms For The Workshop

This started out as what i though would be a long custom build, but because of a design flaw in my original project I took a completely different direction to save time and Money. In the video, I show how to rig up some simple articulating camera arms for use in the workshop. In a small or tightly packed shops camera arms can be of great benifit, as they allow you to do away with tripods that always seem to be in your way, or just not capable of getting the exact shots you want.