Welcome to Back Yard Machinist

This website is under construction and experimentation as of July 19th, 2011

I will eventually show pictures of my shop and equipment along with projects I plan on making soon. These projects will be well documented with pictures and explanations. Quite a few of the projects will be making tooling and attachments to help me use my machinery better. For instance, I plan on making new dials for my 12x36 Atlas lathe. 

One of my future hobbies will be faceting gemstones. This is something I have always wanted to try. I will attempt to make my own facetting machine. This is a machine with diamond laps which allows the grinding and polishing of gemstone facets.

Pictures of my shop

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I hope everyone comes back to watch my progress.