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I finally had the time to finish this off. I had some Lucite laying around staring at me like the Geico stack of money. All comments welcome, thanks for looking.
 

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chriselle said:
Beautiful pen Cris! You've got the threading down tight. What did you use? I'm on a thread fetish these days.
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Yeah, I was ready to remove this post due to your's. That guy is amazing, he did it in seconds. He must not have any kids. I used a 1/2" x 36 TPI for the threads. They are the single start, so a few more turns. I like the metric threads a lot, but alas, no cash, story of my life. I have to see what a 12 x 1.0 would look like and what other tooling I would need.
 
cnirenberg said:
Yeah, I was ready to remove this post due to your's. That guy is amazing, he did it in seconds. He must not have any kids. I used a 1/2" x 36 TPI for the threads. They are the single start, so a few more turns. I like the metric threads a lot, but alas, no cash, story of my life. I have to see what a 12 x 1.0 would look like and what other tooling I would need.
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Chris, Enco has the 12 x1.0 taps and dies pretty cheap, I got a set, some day soon I'll use them, Your Lucite looks very nice, I really like the way you contoured the grip.
 
cnirenberg said:
I used a 1/2" x 36 TPI for the threads. They are the single start, so a few more turns. I like the metric threads a lot, but alas, no cash, story of my life.
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Love the pen. Beautiful.

Is there some reference telling the size in thousandths the tenon needs to be be for the 1/2" x 36 die to cut proper threads on? I know that some of the taps have it stamped on them the exact hole size to be drilled, but often the dies do not.

Is it simply a matter of sizing the tenon at .500 if the die is a 1/2" size? Thanks for answering the question of a newbie.
 
Freethinker said:
Love the pen. Beautiful.

Is there some reference telling the size in thousandths the tenon needs to be be for the 1/2" x 36 die to cut proper threads on? I know that some of the taps have it stamped on them the exact hole size to be drilled, but often the dies do not.

Is it simply a matter of sizing the tenon at .500 if the die is a 1/2" size? Thanks for answering the question of a newbie.
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Dan,
I shoot for 0.485-0.490. Now I don't have a metal lathe so it's touch and go at this point.
 
Beautiful work Cris . I was thinking , that when I get back down there , you could lock those kids in a closet long enough for you to show me how that's done . :biggrin: :biggrin: Nice pen !
 
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