Homemade 18 x 3/4" boring bars

[Gary Conklin]

As you'll remember (http://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=118667) I recently visited Scott Smith where we welded up my captured hollowing system.

Well Fri. night I finally was able to get some time to make my 3/4" boring bars(my 1/2" bars are a mix of homemade and Kelton tools.) Here are my 3/4" bars.

http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/data/1677/medium/Boring_Bars3.JPG
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/data/1677/medium/Boring_Bars2.JPG
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/data/1677/medium/Boring_Bars1_3_.JPG

[Steve Schlumpf]

Gary - your new bars look like they should work out real nice! Let us know what you think after you have used them for a little bit!

Looking forward to seeing some of your hollow forms real soon!

[neil mackay]

At 18" I prefer mine to be around 1" but they should do the trick, you might get a fair bit of twisting from the offset tooling. So a extra handle to counteract that might be needed.

[alex carey]

those are some nice boring bars, looking forward to what they help make.