Pen #3 w/ Casting from Chris

Cody Killgore said:
Yeah that sounds hard...I'm not sure it would be enough material for a pen. I could quickly forge it into a small square bar for you :dunno:
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Do you think there is enough to forge it down to a 2.5"L x 0.75" roundish bar?
 
It could actually be smaller than 0.75" round. Finished size is about 0.50" so maybe even just over 0.625"

Sorry about thread jacking.
 
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It will be close. Next time I crank up the forge, I'll give it a shot. If it works, I'll send it to ya

:drinks:
 
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justturnin said:
DAMN CODY!!! That thing is sick. Nice work. WOW

Only advice I would give, and this is for Cigars. Where the blank meets a rounded edge like in the center band on the lower section, it looks really nice to roll the wood as well to match the contour of the kit. That way you don't have a square edge hitting a rounded edge.
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Ya know...I've been sitting here looking at this pen and wondering. How would you go about rounding the corner of the wood? I'm using the standard bushings and I'm thinking that could be challenging. Even if I was good enough to somehow get some little tool to round that edge up against the bushing, it seems like if I put superglue on it....it would just end up a sharp edge again. Unless I could just chuck up the one barrel with some type of jaw that wouldn't mar it up.
 
I turn between centers. I use the bushings to take it down to almost finished then I remove the bushings and go straight between centers for my final passes. That will clean up any out of round. As for rounding the corner I do it with sandpaper when sanding the blank.
 
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Yeah, I've been wanting to turn between centers. I just ordered some center bits and am planning on making some bushings. I'm just not sure what type of tooling goes in the drive side of the lathe. I'm not sure my grandfather has one. There's the one that goes on the other side that has a 60 degree taper but it just seems to be things with jaws and the pen mandrel holder for the drive side. Is there a certain kind to get for the drive side. Seems like I need 2 of the 60 degree cone pointy things but I wasn't sure if there is a different type meant for the drive side vs the other sise. Sorry, I no zero turning/lathe terminology. LOL
 
Cody Killgore said:
Yeah, I've been wanting to turn between centers. I just ordered some center bits and am planning on making some bushings. I'm just not sure what type of tooling goes in the drive side of the lathe. I'm not sure my grandfather has one. There's the one that goes on the other side that has a 60 degree taper but it just seems to be things with jaws and the pen mandrel holder for the drive side. Is there a certain kind to get for the drive side. Seems like I need 2 of the 60 degree cone pointy things but I wasn't sure if there is a different type meant for the drive side vs the other sise. Sorry, I no zero turning/lathe terminology. LOL
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Need a 60* dead center to go into the headstock.

Like this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MT2-Carbide-Tipped-Dead-Center-Atlas-Emco-Logan-South-Bend-Lathe-/171138697970?pt=BI_Tool_Work_Holding&hash=item27d8a94af2
 
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justturnin said:
Need a 60* dead center to go into the headstock.

Like this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MT2-Carbide-Tipped-Dead-Center-Atlas-Emco-Logan-South-Bend-Lathe-/171138697970?pt=BI_Tool_Work_Holding&hash=item27d8a94af2
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Awesome. Thanks :good:
 
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