TBC for pens
eliot feldman
I recently purchased a Wall Street II pen making kit and see that the ends of the blank are to be turned to 0.474 inch diameter and that the drill size is 27/64'', which is on the large side. So the usual set up requires two identical .474 bushings on the correct mandrel, etc.
I don't have these bushings.But I have a good verniers caliper. And I can't see any reason in the world not to just do it between centers. For that, supposedly, you need four additional tools: two little bushing-like inserts at each end of the blank, one 60 degree dead center cone at the head stock , and one 60 degree live center cone at the tail stock.
Naturally, I have the live center cone, but not the other three. And now I don't see any reason in the world not to make one wooden bushing-like insert for the tail stock end and a wooden morse taper insert with the same size tenon to fit into the head stock spindle for the head stock end .Then I would turn it between centers.
That's what I am going to do. I don't see the need for all this stuff!
