Gingery?

[seanz]

Anyone here had experience with the Gingery series of DIY metal working books?
I've done a forum search and the threads that mention home forges etc... are from long ago. Sadly the formite that seemed keenest on the home forge has passed over the bar.

This is the series I'm talking about.
http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/series/index.html

Start with a homebuilt forge and end up with a machine shop.....sounds like fun.
:cool:
But has anyone here done it? Tried it? Know someone that tried it?

[crawdaddyjim50]

Lindsay's books are good for the concept and using found materials to accomplish the job. Some of their stuff is eccentric engineering at best. The forge stuff is pretty good. There are a couple of websites that go into the forge design and build pretty in depth. If I had my old computer I could pull the URL's but it is unavailable at the moment.

I have the forge but of a different design. I have seen the homebuilt lathe and it aint so much. Better and easier to buy one.

Jim

[Brian Palmer]

Steve Redmond built a Gingery lathe and documents it here:

sredmond.com

Brian

[oldsub86]

The real point of the books is to have you teach yourself the techniques. You will likely end up wanting better equipment if you continue but you will learn a lot doing the projects described by Dave Gingery.

And no, I have not built any of them but I have read the books and thought seriously about trying it.

There is a Yahoo group.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gingery_machines/

Randy

[seanz]

Steve Redmond built a Gingery lathe and documents it here:

sredmond.com

Brian

That's a coincidence, I did a search on Elver (a generous fella was giving away plans) and found the Redmond site and that's how I learned about Gingery.
Now the WBF circle is complete.
:D
The books do sound like fun.........maybe I'll break rule #9: No ordering books over the internet.