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Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Shop Tips: Drill Bits
Tested: There are SO many drill bits to choose from. Here are the ones Sean Charlesworth uses the most, and how he uses them.
I always find it fascinating at how many choices there are in the tooling world. So much so that even a simple brief overview of different drill bits was still almost 10 minutes long. I do like the through and concise manner by which he explains using the different drill bits for different materials. It kinda reminded me of advanced fabrication with Ben Carter and his endless fascination of using the exact type of tool for the exact type of material and job. It a cool and chill reminder for me in as far as types of drill bits but I could definitely see this being useful to someone who is just starting down the rabbit hole that is the tools world. I know tested has more in their series but I wonder how many would be more similar in content to this this video cause I’d definitely watch a few more.
A scene shop for anyone that is not in technical theater, I believe is one of the most confusing rooms to be in. I say that because that was my truth at some points in my life. I was not brought up building structures, instead, my dad and I were always working on cars and engines. Drill bits are one world that has SO many options. This video does a really good job of giving an overview of a lot of different types of drill bits and their practical uses in a shop. I was always told that “if it is hard work, you are using the wrong tool” now I realize that this is an imperfect expression, but it does hold some weight. Drill bits are meant to make your life easier, but that is only if you are using the right one for the right job. Where I still get confused is simply by all of the different names so I will definitely refer to this video whenever I feel like names are getting mixed up in my head.
The thing that separates theater from so many other industries is just our stubbornness to actually use things the way they're meant to be used. I'm actual machine shops and mechanics shops and factories, there are right ways to do things. There are tolerances and precision tools and grizzled old people for whom feeds and speeds are practically muscle memory. In a scene shop, traditional manufacturing, however, gets flipped on its head, because we generally aren't looking for precision or long life from our cutters, we're looking to get the damn piece of scenery out of the shop as fast as possible, which means we can't rely on what the "right" way to do things is, we just have to do what we know. This is why I appreciate Ben's adfab class, because it exposes is to manufacturing techniques and precision that I am not used to seeing in the theatre world.
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I always find it fascinating at how many choices there are in the tooling world. So much so that even a simple brief overview of different drill bits was still almost 10 minutes long. I do like the through and concise manner by which he explains using the different drill bits for different materials. It kinda reminded me of advanced fabrication with Ben Carter and his endless fascination of using the exact type of tool for the exact type of material and job. It a cool and chill reminder for me in as far as types of drill bits but I could definitely see this being useful to someone who is just starting down the rabbit hole that is the tools world. I know tested has more in their series but I wonder how many would be more similar in content to this this video cause I’d definitely watch a few more.
A scene shop for anyone that is not in technical theater, I believe is one of the most confusing rooms to be in. I say that because that was my truth at some points in my life. I was not brought up building structures, instead, my dad and I were always working on cars and engines. Drill bits are one world that has SO many options. This video does a really good job of giving an overview of a lot of different types of drill bits and their practical uses in a shop. I was always told that “if it is hard work, you are using the wrong tool” now I realize that this is an imperfect expression, but it does hold some weight. Drill bits are meant to make your life easier, but that is only if you are using the right one for the right job. Where I still get confused is simply by all of the different names so I will definitely refer to this video whenever I feel like names are getting mixed up in my head.
The thing that separates theater from so many other industries is just our stubbornness to actually use things the way they're meant to be used. I'm actual machine shops and mechanics shops and factories, there are right ways to do things. There are tolerances and precision tools and grizzled old people for whom feeds and speeds are practically muscle memory. In a scene shop, traditional manufacturing, however, gets flipped on its head, because we generally aren't looking for precision or long life from our cutters, we're looking to get the damn piece of scenery out of the shop as fast as possible, which means we can't rely on what the "right" way to do things is, we just have to do what we know. This is why I appreciate Ben's adfab class, because it exposes is to manufacturing techniques and precision that I am not used to seeing in the theatre world.
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