Tiger
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Is there a step by step tutorial on making these? I couldn't find one but in case there is one it would really help.
My approach so far, I tried to first turn a metal workpiece between centres with both ends centre-drilled with a 60 degree angle. I haven't turned between centres on my metal lathe much I generally use the 3 jaw chuck for everything. After struggling to get the chuck off the lathe I found that there wasn't much room to cut the metal workpiece, i have a QCTP and it was just awkward, I had to extend the tailstock out a fair way but was not happy with the result. So I'm thinking the way to do it is turn the workpiece to the internal diameter of the brass tube, then put that into the Chuck and turn down for the required pen part (bushing size), then centre-drill the bushing end. Will this give me an accurate bushing or am I wasting my time?
My approach so far, I tried to first turn a metal workpiece between centres with both ends centre-drilled with a 60 degree angle. I haven't turned between centres on my metal lathe much I generally use the 3 jaw chuck for everything. After struggling to get the chuck off the lathe I found that there wasn't much room to cut the metal workpiece, i have a QCTP and it was just awkward, I had to extend the tailstock out a fair way but was not happy with the result. So I'm thinking the way to do it is turn the workpiece to the internal diameter of the brass tube, then put that into the Chuck and turn down for the required pen part (bushing size), then centre-drill the bushing end. Will this give me an accurate bushing or am I wasting my time?