Square Knurling with no Knurling tool?

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Published 2024-05-11
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.

Spindle Indexer video;
   • Making an indexing attachment for the...  

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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

All Comments (21)
  • @billdoodson4232
    Do I have the patience to cut 120 grooves like that? Errrmmm, NO. Hats off to you Jonsey.
  • @paulpisters668
    I’m a sucker for knurled knobs. When I was a child I loved the knobs and switches on my father’s Pentax camera.
  • @alankeith7866
    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!
  • @aguycalledlucas
    That camera stand went from being expensive to now costing a fortune
  • 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.
  • @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
  • @Dogfather66227
    Definitely a solid take-away in this one! Thanks for posting.
  • @JB-68
    this knob is amazing, simple but amazing !
  • 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
  • @mudnducs
    Very nice, very clean work. 🙂
  • @K_Shea
    Looks exceptionally beautiful and functional, that's not always an easy feat.