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The Machinist's Bedside Reader: Projects, Hints, Tips and Anecdotes of the Trade by Guy Lautard

THE MACHINIST'S BEDSIDE READER is a book for machinists and gunsmiths. Both professional workers and amateur machinists should find it useful as well as entertaining. Although the prospective reader should understand that it was written more with the amateur or hobby machinist in mind, even men with many years in the trade will find ideas herein that will make them say, "That alone was worth the price of the whole book!"

Maybe I ought to clarify what I mean by an "amateur machinist". I do not entirely like the term, because to some it might suggest an inept bungler in metal. The term 'model engineer' is the common British term. In Britain a machinist is often called an engineer, a machine shop an engineering works, and so on. Thus someone who builds small scale replicas of full size machinery (locomotives, traction engines, etc.) is called a model engineer.

The other name, which I am inclined to favour, is home shop machinist. Inasmuch as he may build models, make tools, fix or make stuff for his car, build an airplane, or a telescope, or a rifle, or whatever, 'model engineer1 does not say it all. "Home shop machinist" is suitably descriptive, and it is the term most often used hereafter in this book.

Now, as most who buy this book will know, there is a wonderful little magazine called Home Shop Machinist, (see Appendix for address). Well, we don't want to steal their thunder, so let's do it this way. If we're talking about guys who are home shop machinists, we'll use the abbreviation hsm. If we're talking about Home Shop Machinist magazine, we'll write it out, or put it down as HSM.

There is another matter I want to get straight. This book isn't intended to be the be-all and the end-all. You aren't going to agree with everything I say. You may regard as routine something to which I give considerable space. Another might think I didn't elaborate enough on the same point.

I'm not a professional machinist. I never served my time as an apprentice. There are lots of things I don't know. However I have, over the years, acquired a fair amount of knowledge through dedicated effort, voracious reading, listening to advice and instruction from as many machinists as were willing to share their know-how, and through doing it myself, always with the goal of making a first class job of whatever I was doing.

The purpose of this book is to share with you some of what I've picked up about this best of all trades. So if I say something you don't agree with, or which reveals a lack of knowledge or experience on my part, remember these lines from "The Secret of The Old Master" by Lucian Cary (which see elsewhere herein):

"What's your trade?" he asked.

"I'm a toolmaker."

"How old are you?"

"Twenty six."

The old man looked at him sharply.

"They used to say it took twenty years to make a toolmaker out of a good mechanic."

"I'm still learning."

"So am I. Buy Book at Lowest Price on Amazon

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