robutacion
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Hi Folks,
I'm trying to figure out if I prepare my shorts of all sorts into blanks/barrels that will be drilled and rounded, would you be interested...?
The idea came after I prepared a few hundred blanks for the vision-impaired people that will put some of my shorts large stock into some good use, I've done Slimline and Sierra barrels but I could do any other sizes you may use, including the slight longer barrels for the single tube pens but slightly longer than the Sierra.
The length is about 4mm over the brass tube size so that you have sufficient "meat" for trimming, the same goes for the barrel diameters that can vary depending of specific requests or what I think is sufficient to allow the turning of "fat" barrels or barrel design that require a certain diameter.
I know that the 2 kit types I mentioned above are the most used or at least they were, there are many new kits on sale that I have never worked with so I would have no idea of what ideal dimensions they will require but that can all be sorted, no problem
I'm considering a price of AU$1 or USD$0.68 per barrel for non-burl wood, burls will be probably AU$1.50 or USD$1.02 but I'm yet to lock on the burl prices, shipping not included.
One of the great aspects of this particularly for overseas folks is that the total weight of these semi-processed barrels/blanks compare with the unprocessed shorts is minimal therefore attracting a fairly low weight and shipping costs. As an example about 200 Slims and 100 Sierras total weight processed of 2.8kg when the 300 un-processed shorts would weigh over 10kg. (total weight depending on wood species).
As I said, this is only an idea and something that I could use the many boxes of shorts that I have been putting aside for many years, I gave hundreds as gifts with orders, also.
So, what do you think,...?
Let me know,
Cheers
George
I'm trying to figure out if I prepare my shorts of all sorts into blanks/barrels that will be drilled and rounded, would you be interested...?
The idea came after I prepared a few hundred blanks for the vision-impaired people that will put some of my shorts large stock into some good use, I've done Slimline and Sierra barrels but I could do any other sizes you may use, including the slight longer barrels for the single tube pens but slightly longer than the Sierra.
The length is about 4mm over the brass tube size so that you have sufficient "meat" for trimming, the same goes for the barrel diameters that can vary depending of specific requests or what I think is sufficient to allow the turning of "fat" barrels or barrel design that require a certain diameter.
I know that the 2 kit types I mentioned above are the most used or at least they were, there are many new kits on sale that I have never worked with so I would have no idea of what ideal dimensions they will require but that can all be sorted, no problem
I'm considering a price of AU$1 or USD$0.68 per barrel for non-burl wood, burls will be probably AU$1.50 or USD$1.02 but I'm yet to lock on the burl prices, shipping not included.
One of the great aspects of this particularly for overseas folks is that the total weight of these semi-processed barrels/blanks compare with the unprocessed shorts is minimal therefore attracting a fairly low weight and shipping costs. As an example about 200 Slims and 100 Sierras total weight processed of 2.8kg when the 300 un-processed shorts would weigh over 10kg. (total weight depending on wood species).
As I said, this is only an idea and something that I could use the many boxes of shorts that I have been putting aside for many years, I gave hundreds as gifts with orders, also.
So, what do you think,...?
Let me know,
Cheers
George