Cursed Soft Bushings

[ograywolf]

Anybody ever taken the cursed soft bushings from the suppliers and had replicas ground out of very hard tool steel at a machine shop? Seems to me that it might be cost effective if you do a lot of the same pens.

 

[alamocdc]

This subject came up not long ago. Could be hard on the tools.

 

[ograywolf]

You are right. Had to search using "tool steel bushings" to find the thread.

 

[Bill Collier]

I thought the same thing about the soft bushings but I decided to use calipers instead. I'm glad I went that route because I discovered that some of the bushings were slightly off of the finished dimentions of the corresponding metal part that they were designed to match. Using calipers to measure the metal part first and then using that measurement as the finished dimention of the wood ensures that the fit is dead on.

 

[woodscavenger]

Just learn not to nail the bushings. Sneak up on them.

 

[dubdrvrkev]

I like to keep a nice layer of CA on them so I have something to sand away before I get the dark dust onto my blanks. []