jimr
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I hope I can ask this without getting to long and boring. Now that I have really got into pen turning I am noticing a problem that is bugging me. On several pens when I turn them down to finish diameters the wood thickness is not uniform around the entire brass tube. I think this is because when I use the barrel trimmer the surface of the cut on the end is not perfectly perpendicular to the length of the barrel. For me it is almost impossible to get the hole drilled perfectly parallel with the sides of the blank which makes it impossible to trim the blank ends perfectly perpendicular with the barrel. This results in the blank not being perfectly perpendicular with the barrel trimmer when I use the drill press to trim the ends. This results in the bushings not fitting perfectly against the trimmed blank when they are loaded onto the mandrel.
So far I have confused myself with this dissertation so if anyone can follow what I have described I would appreciate any comments, observations, recommendations or whatever.
thanks a lot
So far I have confused myself with this dissertation so if anyone can follow what I have described I would appreciate any comments, observations, recommendations or whatever.
thanks a lot