Dave Crabbs
10-23-2004, 7:58 AM
Hi All,
I just started making pens and was wondering if this would work. I thought about making a gauge block to seat the twist mechanism. My idea is to press the mechanism part way on then, taking a hardwood gauge block with hole in it that slips over the mechanism and finnish pressing the mechanism. I have read about using a V block to do the same thing, but I'm a little clumsy and thought this would be easier then trying to hold three things at once. I made one pen that I needed to press the mechanism in a little farther and with my luck it went in a few frog hairs more than I wanted it to go :mad: . It retracts the point into the pen but not by much.
Any ideas as to this working or not?
Thanks
Dave
I just started making pens and was wondering if this would work. I thought about making a gauge block to seat the twist mechanism. My idea is to press the mechanism part way on then, taking a hardwood gauge block with hole in it that slips over the mechanism and finnish pressing the mechanism. I have read about using a V block to do the same thing, but I'm a little clumsy and thought this would be easier then trying to hold three things at once. I made one pen that I needed to press the mechanism in a little farther and with my luck it went in a few frog hairs more than I wanted it to go :mad: . It retracts the point into the pen but not by much.
Any ideas as to this working or not?
Thanks
Dave