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I will be teaching a Basic Hand Scraping Class at my shop in Tifton, GA on March 6-8, 2026. We have room for ten students in the class. During this three-day course, participants will have the chance to learn the basics of hand scraping while scraping in one of my new cast iron 18” Straight Edge castings – the project will be yours to keep at the conclusion of the class. If you are interested in this class or being informed of future scraping classes, please email me or send me a private message with your email address and I will follow up with information on this class including cost and what you would need to bring to the class.

For Sale: Brown and Sharpe No. 585 18" Height Gauge. $125. This is former US Navy equipment. Nice shape. Comes with wooden box. Can be picked up in Tifton, GA. Will ship to US addresses for the cost of shipping. Payment via cash if picking up or PayPal or Venmo if shipping.

Can you use a BIG punch press? If so, this one is available. Located in Tifton, GA, its owner wants it GONE. If interested, send me a message and I will connect you with the owner and you can work out a deal!

Needing to move this Landis Cylinderical Grinder along. For those that always chime in and say it is too far away, I have delivery options available through several Hot Shot drivers who I have worked with in the past.

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Checking the calibration of my surface plate today using a set of Federal electronic levels. These levels can detect changes in an angle down to 1/10 of an ArcSecond. You run a specified pattern on your plate (the union jack) and the software will calculate the deviation of the highest point to the lowest point and roughly map out the contours of your plate. The differences in the screen shot of the map produced by the software are GREATLY exaggerated to show the contours. In the end, the difference in the highest point and lowest point on my plate is 235.6 microinches (235 millionths of an inch), or 0.000235". The highest grade of a surface plate is AA, which for a plate the size of mine (3ft x 6ft) has to have a number under 300 microinches. This puts my plate at a AA grade! Pretty good! I do think I am going to shoot the plate with an autocollimator too though just to verify my electronic levels are working properly. I honestly was surprised the plate came out that good and I'm not sure I believe it. My levels are pretty old and I don't know when they were last calibrated.....