Look what I made.

It's the mad scientist's laboratory from the old horror stories, except the thing on the slab is an old lathe. Machinists rescue dead machines and bring them back to life in the garage, and the night one finally runs is a big night.

It's the famous moon-landing photograph, but the astronaut is standing on a machine shop floor. The engineers who draw the parts rarely come down to where they are made, so when one does, he looks like this.

It's the old cartoon of the caveman inventing the wheel, except the wheel is square, because the drawing he was handed showed a square. Machinists make exactly what the drawing says, even when the drawing is wrong, and they are proud of it.

A jigsaw puzzle with one lost piece, and in its place a shiny metal piece he made himself. When something small breaks or goes missing, a machinist does not buy a new one. He makes it.