book mentioning machining

My favorite murder mystery author is Dick Francis, and his novel High Stakes features a machinist as the protagonist. He was a champion steeplechase jockey and always sets his stories around horse racing, where either the victim or the accused has something to do with racing. Good reads, hard to put down, worth re-reading every 5-6 years. YMMV, IMHO, etc :-).

The Professor in the Machine Shop - Not your book though.

I thought it might be " Trustee from the Toolroom " by Nevil Shute but checked it out from the library and reread it. It is a good read, but not the story I am looking for.

But by all means post the title of all the books you enjoy that mention machining.

Dan

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Jim, thanks for that link. I was just going to skim it but ended up reading the whole page :)

I watch for what others consider essential (or not) in space-limited shops.

This guy used to be based near me and I've been in his  floating forge boat which is quite compact

but it works well and he has all he needs. Now that his kids have left school he's not constrained to the local area so he and his wife travel the waterways of the UK. There are some other floating workshops in the area as well, usually as with Brian a boat to live on and another boat used as a workshop.