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For a work holder you can use a dowel with a plate on top with shellac. Round the borrow of the dowel and you can but it up against a divot in your bench pin. You will have no less range in a cut...
I am sorry to have asked such an irrelevant question Mr. Coggan, it seems such things as graver geometry are truly unimportant. I did not mean to imply your work is dependent on any one tool, or that...
Azteca, You can buy the smallest, cheapest one. I bought the lindsay fixture that fits into the chuck and grind away. You have t watch the heat with HSS gravers though. I dont know if the link will...
Looks good.
Some of the separation of the petals gets a bit even. That's where just a little final shaping w the graver would help.
Overall effect is pleasing.
I wonder if the 'rough' surface is also helping stop the spread of any cracks as they start to form. With a high polish, once a crack starts there's nothing to stop it until it hits the other side. ...
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For a work holder you can use a dowel with a...
For a work holder you can use a dowel with a plate on top with shellac. Round the borrow of the dowel and you can but it up against a divot in your bench pin. You will have no less range in a cut...
Chujybear 05-19-2013, 05:21 PM