Kaspar
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Dream Cutter now shipping -
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Got one of these today. It's a new twist on an old idea, and is some what "experimental." Metal lathe experience and safety conscious use is recommended. I've been following its progress since I saw it on Youtube. (Updated video showing the present version doing several operations here.) As I understand it, the first production run was completed about two months ago, but there were other matters that had to be hashed out before they could ship.
Not sure how useful it will be for pens, but among the immediate possibilities it looks like an easy way to do tapers (short, or over pen barrel length distances) at any angle for one thing. And it looks like it will give metal lathe users some of the free hand fun of the wood lathe, but with more precision. And it looks tailor made for making spherical or ovoid bottle stoppers very quickly.
Too busy playing Christmas concerts for the next little bit to play with it now. I will try to get up a review in a month or so.
Dream Cutter Website -
Got one of these today. It's a new twist on an old idea, and is some what "experimental." Metal lathe experience and safety conscious use is recommended. I've been following its progress since I saw it on Youtube. (Updated video showing the present version doing several operations here.) As I understand it, the first production run was completed about two months ago, but there were other matters that had to be hashed out before they could ship.
Not sure how useful it will be for pens, but among the immediate possibilities it looks like an easy way to do tapers (short, or over pen barrel length distances) at any angle for one thing. And it looks like it will give metal lathe users some of the free hand fun of the wood lathe, but with more precision. And it looks tailor made for making spherical or ovoid bottle stoppers very quickly.
Too busy playing Christmas concerts for the next little bit to play with it now. I will try to get up a review in a month or so.
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