Krash
Member
I need some advice on drilling.
Some of you may have seen my Ark of the Covenant pen made using an Atrax kit. It used 10.5 and 12.5 mm bits. I was very worried about the blank blowing up, especially since I have used brass before and it has given me issues with catching and separating. I was determined to keep it from happening this time.
I use a Nova G3 for drilling so I inserted the blank with the brass segmenting in the jaws in hopes that it would support it more. I used 8-10 drill bits, stepping up slowly. For the upper barrel, the last step was from 10.5 mm to 12.5 mm since I don't have anything between these. It got almost all the way thru but did separate the segmenting. It was a pretty easy glue up. The lower barrel drilled fine until the 10.5. It went thru fine but caught the brass when pulling back out. Complete separation. I fixed it but wonder what I could've done better.
So, you guys who have done this type of segmenting, do you have any suggestions or tricks for drilling?
Some of you may have seen my Ark of the Covenant pen made using an Atrax kit. It used 10.5 and 12.5 mm bits. I was very worried about the blank blowing up, especially since I have used brass before and it has given me issues with catching and separating. I was determined to keep it from happening this time.
I use a Nova G3 for drilling so I inserted the blank with the brass segmenting in the jaws in hopes that it would support it more. I used 8-10 drill bits, stepping up slowly. For the upper barrel, the last step was from 10.5 mm to 12.5 mm since I don't have anything between these. It got almost all the way thru but did separate the segmenting. It was a pretty easy glue up. The lower barrel drilled fine until the 10.5. It went thru fine but caught the brass when pulling back out. Complete separation. I fixed it but wonder what I could've done better.
So, you guys who have done this type of segmenting, do you have any suggestions or tricks for drilling?