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Home Shop Machinist Print + Digital Subscription

The Home Shop Machinist is our flagship magazine. Founded in 1982, we've been the best source of techniques, projects, and information for the hobby machinist. In each issue, The Home Shop Machinist presents interesting how-to articles, machine modifications, fun projects, accessories for your shop metalworking equipment, and shop improvement articles.

Your subscription includes digital access to the current issue PLUS free access to literally hundreds of the very best machining articles ever produced.

  • 1 Year $35.95 US|$45.95 Canada|$52.95 Foreign
  • 2 Year $67.95 US|$86.95 Canada|$99.95 Foreign
  • 3 Year $95.95 US|$122.95 Canada|$138.95 Foreign
  • 1st Class $50.95 US|$52.95 Canada|$80.95 Foreign

HSM

Home Shop Machinist Digital Only Subscription


Your subscription includes digital access to the current issue PLUS free access to literally hundreds of the very best machining articles ever produced during your active subscription term. Subscription does not include printed issues.

1 Year $28.95

HSMD

Home Shop Machinist Print + Digital Gift Subscription

If you know a hobby machinist then The Home Shop Machinist is for them. In each issue, we present interesting how-to articles, machine modifications, fun projects, accessories for your shop metalworking equipment, shop improvement articles, and more! It's a gift that gives all year long.

Subscription includes digital access to the current issue PLUS free access to literally hundreds of the very best machining articles ever produced.

  • 1 Year $35.95 US|$45.95 Canada|$52.95 Foreign
  • 2 Year $67.95 US|$86.95 Canada|$99.95 Foreign
  • 3 Year $95.95 US|$122.95 Canada|$138.95 Foreign
  • 1st Class $50.95 US|$52.95 Canada|$80.95 Foreign

HSMG

Home Shop Machinist Digital Only Gift Subscription


Your gift subscription includes digital access to the current issue PLUS free access to literally hundreds of the very best machinists articles ever produced. Subscription does not include printed issues.

1 Year $28.95

HSMGD

FoR 16mm Parting Tool Combo

FoR (Front or Rear) Inverted Parting Toolholder includes a fine, high-strength Crobalt parting tool. Operates with blade held upside down. Use in front or rear tool post. Model specifically set for tool posts on 16mm Diamond Toolholder.

  • Inverted blade design significantly reduces chance of jam-up and blade breakage
  • Minimal side overhang and no front overhang help maximize rigidity
  • Cutting takes place on underside. Swarf tends to fall out of groove rather than pile up on top of cutting edge
  • Lack of swarf on top of blade means coolant is free to get right in to cutting edge
  • Horizontal mounting of blade further reduces chance of blade pulling itself into cut and is especially advantageous when turning brass and bronze.
  • Simple to resharpen--only front face has to be ground.
Features/Tips
If backordered, shipping may take 2 to 3 weeks.

$160.00

In Stock

BC272PKG

FoR 20mm Parting Tool Combo

FoR (Front or Rear) Inverted Parting Toolholder includes a fine, high-strength Crobalt parting tool. Operates with blade held upside down. Use in front or rear tool post. Model specifically set for tool posts on 20mm Diamond Toolholder.

  • Inverted blade design significantly reduces chance of jam-up and blade breakage
  • Minimal side overhang and no front overhang help maximize rigidity
  • Cutting takes place on underside. Swarf tends to fall out of groove rather than pile up on top of cutting edge
  • Lack of swarf on top of blade means coolant is free to get right in to cutting edge
  • Horizontal mounting of blade further reduces chance of blade pulling itself into cut and is especially advantageous when turning brass and bronze.
  • Simple to resharpen--only front face has to be ground.
Features/Tips
If backordered, shipping may take 2 to 3 weeks.

$160.00

In Stock

BC285PKG

FoR 8mm Parting Tool Combo

FoR (Front or Rear) Inverted Parting Toolholder includes a fine, high-strength Crobalt parting tool. Operates with blade held upside down. Use in front or rear tool post. Model specifically set for tool posts on 8mm Diamond Toolholder.

  • Inverted blade design significantly reduces chance of jam-up and blade breakage
  • Minimal side overhang and no front overhang help maximize rigidity
  • Cutting takes place on underside. Swarf tends to fall out of groove rather than pile up on top of cutting edge
  • Lack of swarf on top of blade means coolant is free to get right in to cutting edge
  • Horizontal mounting of blade further reduces chance of blade pulling itself into cut and is especially advantageous when turning brass and bronze.
  • Simple to resharpen--only front face has to be ground.
Features/Tips
If backordered, shipping may take 2 to 3 weeks.

$150.00

In Stock

BC236PKG

FoR 9.5mm Parting Tool Combo

FoR (Front or Rear) Inverted Parting Toolholder includes a fine, high-strength Crobalt parting tool. Operates with blade held upside down. Use in front or rear tool post. Model specifically set for tool posts on 9.5mm Diamond Toolholder.

  • Inverted blade design significantly reduces chance of jam-up and blade breakage
  • Minimal side overhang and no front overhang help maximize rigidity
  • Cutting takes place on underside. Swarf tends to fall out of groove rather than pile up on top of cutting edge
  • Lack of swarf on top of blade means coolant is free to get right in to cutting edge
  • Horizontal mounting of blade further reduces chance of blade pulling itself into cut and is especially advantageous when turning brass and bronze.
  • Simple to resharpen--only front face has to be ground.
Features/Tips
If backordered, shipping may take 2 to 3 weeks.

$150.00

In Stock

BC235PKG

Rudy's Book Set

Buy the set of three and save! 284 pages of Rudy's plan sets from the past. Please refer to individual book ad for specific projects in each book.
Rudy's Fun With Engines and Other Things
Rudy's Model Stirlings Engines
Rudy's Working Steam Engines

$52.00

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RUDY3_PKG

Steam & Stirling Set

Get all four Steam & Stirling books at a discounted price! Flex your metalworking skills on such engine projects as a no-casting 1.5 x 1.5V steam engine, a walking-beam Stirling-cycle mill engine, an epicyclic steam engine, and seventeen more -- and enjoy two bonus sections that offer hobby-expanding related topics. Please refer to the individual book ad for number of pages and further details; all are hardbound.
Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4

$155.00

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SS_PKG

Building the Rio Grande K-27 Volume 2

By Kozo Hiraoka

NEW TITLE

Volume 2 will conclude the building of Kozo Hiraoka?s K-27, and also covers tools, transporting the model, and tips on operation. This book, longer than the first volume, contains a large supplementary section that includes many previously unpublished drawings and new text that describes the engineering that goes into designing a successful live steam locomotive.

$69.95

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K27V2

Building the Rio Grande K-27 Volume 1

By Kozo Hiraoka

Over 400 pages chock-full of drawings, color photos and detailed text. Hardcover book is based on long-running serial in Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading magazine, but layout is all-new with foldouts for larger drawings. Features material not included in magazine articles. Volume 1 contains first 27 chapters. Volume 2 to be released after serial concludes in magazine.

$69.95

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K27

Kozo's Building the New Shay

By Kozo Hiraoka

Back in Stock!

1920s prototype locomotive engineering in 3/4" scale (with instructions for scaling up to 1-1/2"). Fifth in a fabulous series.
Hardbound. 275 pages.

$59.95

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NEWSH

Shop Made Tools 2013

If you've ever spent time with an experienced machinist, you no doubt had "Why didn't I think of that?" moments. Years of machining result in an arsenal of tricks and tools, but why wait? With over 100 entries from a number of authors, Shop Made Tools 2013 has something your shop needs, whatever your level of expertise! Compiled from popular thread on The Home Shop Machinist and Machinist's Workshop bulletin board, it contains entries featuring items for lathe and mill, work holding, and more. 64 pages.

$9.95

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SMT

Shop Made Tools 2015

If you've spent time with an experienced machinist you no doubt had "Why didn't I think of that?" moments. Years of machining result in an arsenal of tricks and tools, but why wait? With over 100 entries from over 50 different authors, this second edition of Shop Made Tools 2015 has something your shop needs, whatever your level of expertise! A fresh set compiled from popular thread on The Home Shop Machinist and Machinist's Workshop bulletin board. Book features items for lathe and mill, work holding, and more. 64 pages.

$9.95

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SMT2015

The Machinist's Second Bedside Reader

By Guy Lautard

The Machinist's Second Bedside Reader takes up where basic texts on machine shop practice leave off. It tells you, in a comfortable, easy-reading style, many old and obscure tricks of the trade; helps you get things done better, faster, and easier in your shop; shows you how to make a number of useful shop tools, and introduces you to areas of metalworking you many never have thought of before.
Like the first book, the Second Bedside Reader is filled with more hints, tips, and projects. It contains full plans for:

  • an elegant between-centers boring bar
  • a poor man's jig borer
  • an overhead drive for your milling spindle
  • a toolpost fixture for rounding the ends of small parts
  • a fixture for cutting multiple-start threads
  • a simple shop-made sine bar and sine fixture for your milling machine
  • ..... and much more!
    Also included in full is "The Bullseye Mixture," Guy's story about precision metalworking, rifle making, friendship, and the recipe for case hardening that may not be the only Bullseye Mixture in life.
    Paperback, 277pages.

    $44.99

    Backordered

    MBRV2

The Complete Mini-Lathe Workshop

By Ted Hansen

BACK IN STOCK!

Turn your mini-lathe into a workhorse, with dozens of improvements and projects designed to broaden its capabilities. In this must-have, 132 page, spiral-bound book, we've assembled and updated material from "Additions and Modifications to Mini-Lathe" column in The Home Shop Machinist magazine. With projects only requiring a drill press and lathe, you don't need to complete an entire shop to get started.

$28.00

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CML

The Engines of Doug Kelley

Are you looking for a project to challenge your skills? Featuring four model engines from one of premier model engineers of our time, including never-before-published Nash engine. 120 page book is ring bound for workshop ease. Even if building a model engine is on "someday" list, you'll enjoy viewing Kelley's skilled craftsmanship.

$28.00

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EDK

The Machinist's Bedside Reader

By Guy Lautard

The first of the three-book Machinist's Bedside Readers. Guy Lautard's compilations of diverse technical information have sold tens of thousands of copies to machinists of every type around the world.
This book includes fully dimensioned working drawings and detailed instructions for several projects, including 15 practical machinist's tools and lathe accessories.
You'll also enjoy the machine shop anecdotes and the fascinating account of a little lathe made "from nothing" in a Japanese POW camp. Plus, you'll learn "The Secret of the Old Master, " in a heartwarming story by Lucian Cary.
Updated with new sources, The Machinist's Bedside Reader is ready to delight a new set of readers with an interest in this "best of all trades."
Paperback, 260 pages.

$44.99

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MBR

Building the CliShay

By Robert Maynard

Our clever little CliShay locomotive is beautiful - both mythical and historical - designed to be a blend of the very early, very real Shay and Climax locomotives.
Building the CliShay will get both your heart and hobby started.
Spiralbound, 112 pages

$17.95

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CLISHAY

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