Jenny Brandis
16th June 2006, 01:19 PM
As some of you may already have read, I recently bought a Scroll Chuck and Pin Jaws with the intention of using them to hold the very small blanks for lace bobbins, only to find that the pin jaws were a fraction too big even when fully closed. Back to the drawing board.
The saga continues
It was such a small fraction that I was very frustrated until I was opening a sticky jar when the lightbulb went off! Ah! grabbing the shears I trimmed a 15 x 25 mm piece off the grip stuff (looks sort of like dripped plastic in sheets) and wrapped that around the end of the blank.
Success, it gave enough extra dimention to fit and because of its gripping ability it is very secure, even with just 10mm in the pin jaw.
I have now made two bobbins using this method and am very pleased with myself.
The new Jet Mini lathe has a rather wide (for me) tool steady and I wanted it to be smaller so that it would fit between the pin jaw and the end stock without rubbing. What to do.
Options:
Get someone to cut the ends off the existing one
Get someone to make a new one, with narrow head
Make my own
Up went a branch on the lathe, reminder to self - buy a better gouge, rough shape it to round. Make a cut down with the parting tool at the headstock end to mark of the offcut, 100 mm up to mark off the end of the stem and start gouging - reminder to self - BUY A BETTER GOUGE
Once the stem was shaped and the right diameter, cut it off the lathe and go to the bandsaw - scarry!
DH came to the rescue there and trimmed the large unshaped bit to my specifications.
I now have a tool rest that works for me. The next one I make will be wider as I overdid the 'smaller' idea but it does work!
Now back to the lathe.:)
The saga continues
It was such a small fraction that I was very frustrated until I was opening a sticky jar when the lightbulb went off! Ah! grabbing the shears I trimmed a 15 x 25 mm piece off the grip stuff (looks sort of like dripped plastic in sheets) and wrapped that around the end of the blank.
Success, it gave enough extra dimention to fit and because of its gripping ability it is very secure, even with just 10mm in the pin jaw.
I have now made two bobbins using this method and am very pleased with myself.
The new Jet Mini lathe has a rather wide (for me) tool steady and I wanted it to be smaller so that it would fit between the pin jaw and the end stock without rubbing. What to do.
Options:
Get someone to cut the ends off the existing one
Get someone to make a new one, with narrow head
Make my own
Up went a branch on the lathe, reminder to self - buy a better gouge, rough shape it to round. Make a cut down with the parting tool at the headstock end to mark of the offcut, 100 mm up to mark off the end of the stem and start gouging - reminder to self - BUY A BETTER GOUGE
Once the stem was shaped and the right diameter, cut it off the lathe and go to the bandsaw - scarry!
DH came to the rescue there and trimmed the large unshaped bit to my specifications.
I now have a tool rest that works for me. The next one I make will be wider as I overdid the 'smaller' idea but it does work!
Now back to the lathe.:)