Square Knurling with no Knurling tool?

Want to create Square Knurling but have no Knurling tool? Today I show a technique for creating square knurling on a shop made hand wheel that does not require the use of a knurling tool.

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:25 Making a hand wheel
1:47 Making the nut
2:15 Knurling
2:44 Square Knurling
3:17 Indexing head
3:50 Clean up surfaces
4:08 Cutting the horizontal grooves
4:57 Cutting the radial grooves
5:42 Facing/Deburring
6:09 Decorative recess
6:32 Parting off
7:55 Laser engraving
8:02 Finished knurled handwheel

[billdoodson]

Do I have the patience to cut 120 grooves like that? Errrmmm, NO. Hats off to you Jonsey.

[paulpisters]

I’m a sucker for knurled knobs. When I was a child I loved the knobs and switches on my father’s Pentax camera.

[alankeith]

That came out fantastic!!

I'm sure Artisan Makes is proud of your hacksaw skills...😁

[chiparooo]

Beautiful! Reminds me of the knurl look of camera lens grips. Thanks for sharing!

[martinnorbeck]

Good to grab with oily hands. Easy to reef down. A little heavy for the app. Jammed up blades are no fun. I like your work. A little light oil constantly applied to the kerf would make parting of a little safer. I mounted my blade upside down and reverse spindle and let gravity help a touch of light oil and feed in slow. Nice work on the Math to result in even no. of spaces. great, short and inspiring. Thanks for your time.

[lionelchevalier]

Hello, you say you have learned but what is important is to share your knowledge, this channel is the pure product ^^
Thank you for distiling your knowledge, I have come to watch this channel because it is above all a very good quality knowledge tool, it allows me to do my technology monitoring,
good luck, thank you for all your work

[lawmate]

Beautiful work. I had a job a few years back making 2000 stainless rods that were 8mm dia, with a 100mm section in the middle knurled like this. I built a fixture for my lathe. It used a single wheel cut knurling tool to put the axial grooves in and the fixture held it vertically, above the part. Then i used a helix knurl cutting wheel that looks like a gear with straight teeth. I mount the wheel horizontally and held it so it could freely rotate. The teeth would cut the radial grooves and as the carriage traversed, the wheel would follow along like a pinion. The cycle time to do 100mm of knurling in 1 shot got down to 1m30s, which was good for 2000 parts

[officialbritishtaxpayer]

Those Manfrotto Magic Arms are wonderful for holding cameras and the knob version is better than its predecessor - it had an over centre handle that was tricky to tighten up after a few months of use. Your new handle is a great improvement - well done Jonesey!

[andrewdolinskiatcarpathian]

Beautifully executed. The end result looks great. Well done indeed 👏👏👍😀

[Dogfather]

Definitely a solid take-away in this one! Thanks for posting.

[PioneerRifleCompany]

Great example of some of the universal uses of a threading tool. :)

[K_Shea]

Looks exceptionally beautiful and functional, that's not always an easy feat.

[aguycalledlucas]

That camera stand went from being expensive to now costing a fortune

[SmeeUncleJoe]

I did a spline shaft in the same way. A lot of people don't realize that if they turn their lathe cutting tool 90 degrees in it's holder, they have a shaper, as the old school scraping machine was called. I laid out the pattern by taking the female part and tapping it on the end of the aluminum blank and that put the dented pattern onto the shaft I needed. I then aligned my tool on a low RPM speed setting, but obviously not under power, to stop it from turning, while taking a scraping pass along the length of the shaft.

[JB-]

this knob is amazing, simple but amazing !

[GaugeLiveSteam]

I'm going to use this idea for little finger wheels for very small taps

[ypaulbrown]

thank you bought one of those came clamps
that you are using on the articulated arm [made by Manfrotto in Italy]
all the way back in were marketed by a company in the
USA called Tekno, the distributors of French made Balcar Strobe lighting ...
Tekno called them 'Super Clamps' and they sure were....it was probably
10 more years before Manfrotto started marketing their product here...
Tekno also sold their light products....cheers, wonderful video...
Paul....in Florida ...I think I paid $29 for the 'Super Clamp' back in 1977...
that would be $150 today...I used for many years as an advertising photographer...

[CandidZulu]

On small "table top machines" like Unimats, Proxxons and Sherlines, this is the only type of knurling I would consider. The forces from normal knurling operations are tremendous on the lead screw. If a scissors type tool is just a little off center line it will produce a large force on the lead screw too. The lead screw on these lathes is normally made from a small diameter soft piece of steel with a V form thread..

[SuperJaXXas]

Very nice, I'll have to give it a go!

[MachiningandMicrowaves]

Looks splendid. I think I'd have to anodise it and dye it bright blue because, well, Reasons. You've given me a crazy idea about scripting some G code so I could create an insert and mandrel, then fit the workpiece in a collet on my new CNC mill 's spindle, and mount the tool in the vice. That should make it a very quick job of doing the shaper cuts and the turning. Might even be able to fit two tools in a gang mount to do both operations without re-orienting the tool. Zero fun though, your way is much more satisfying