While Chris was away traveling the world, Jon got a tour behind the scenes at Veritas, a tool making company based in Canada’s Capital. From the first all metal lathe ever made to building CNC machines at home, this episode is all about tools.

• Control Plane We mentioned the macOS app, Control Plane, in the last episode, unfortunately it is no longer under active development
• Cycloid Drawing Machine An advanced take on the Spirograph, by Joe Freedman
• Making It Podcast A trio of makers talk about creativity, design, & making things with your hands
• Jacques de Vaucanson
• Vaucanson’s Metal Lathe A nearly 300 year-old machine that “made everything”
• James Watt Micrometer What is thought to be the world’s oldest surviving micrometer, reputedly crafted by James Watt
• The Perfectionists A book we talked about back in episode 23, that shares some parallels with the Vaucanson video above
• Lee Valley A much loved Canadian company, founded in 1978 by Leonard Lee, Lee Valley came up in our very first episode of Off Hours
• Veritas Tools Founded by Leonard Lee to craft products for Lee Valley, Jon recently got a tour around the manufacturing facilities of Veritas Tools in Ottawa
• Beamer Lasers Veritas employs a Beamer FXL22 to inscribe their tools
• Mitutoyo Precision measuring tools
• Mitutoyo Surftest A tool to objectively evaluate surface finish
• Surface Plate
• CMMs A look at an automated Coordinate Measuring Machine in action
• Maudslay’s Lord Chancellor A bench micrometer crafted by English Industrialist, Henry Maudslay
• Autocrib Small scale, automated inventory management employed by Veritas to help manage CNC bits & other small equipment
• Remstar A vertical carousel system for inventory management, particularly handy for small parts like those used in watchmaking
• WALL-E’s Wall A clip of WALL-E’s vertical carousel system in the Pixar film, WALL-E
• “Guns. Lots of guns.” The “inventory” scene from The Matrix
• Rolex 904L Stainless Steel This short video, now over a decade old, offers a brief glimpse into a small fraction of Rolex’s inventory system
• TE-CO Tour A a look behind the scenes at TE-CO with NYC CNC
• Terry Fox
• Tapmatic Deceptively simple, but effective tools that make quick work of tapping threads in a manufacturing environment
• Flexarm Maker of pneumatic tapping arms, like the ones Chris mentioned
• Busy Bee Tools
• Walther-Trowal Makers of industrial scale tumbling polishers
• Haas
• Fanuc
• Matsuura
• Hurco
• Göckel
• Makerspace North Chris gave a talk, alongside Rich Loen, on how to make your own CNC machine recently at Makerspace North