Thread: an upgrade to a solid rough out tool

Is he taking orders yet? I've been dropping hints about the same ('cept for the Sorby clamp. I see no need for that... ) but I'm either too subtle or he's just ignoring me. Probably the latter; Hughie strikes me as a cluey bloke.

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Hi Skew,
Nah! havent been avoiding you just moving house over Christmas and my mind is elsewhere...

The 25mm shaft I have not yet throught it through. It just started out as a thought after I planned doing a 10mm with the 20mm shaft. But by the look of the feed back, the 10mm is sorta dead in the water and 12mm HSS tool bit around 100mm long is a goer.


So here we go I am looking at a 25mm shaft with a length of 400mm and around 120mm of 12mm dia tang.Overall 520mm
The tang is longer and bigger due to the forces that it will have to survive.... I know you guys will give it heaps

Size conversion for the imperialists 16" = 404mm, 12mm near enough to 1/2", 120mm = 5", over all around 20.5" and a ferrule of 32mm dia x 30mm long or so.

As to price dunno, have yet to price the shafting and HSS and work out my machining time etc. Will knock one up first to test it and then finalized all the sizes etc

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Have you sent him a PM yet?

What for?

Originally Posted by hughie

So here we go I am looking at a 25mm shaft with a length of 400mm and around 120mm of 12mm dia tang.Overall 520mm
The tang is longer and bigger due to the forces that it will have to survive.... I know you guys will give it heaps

Perfectissimo! That would (will?) tie with the roughing gouge as my #1 user.

I'm interested....
Can you make the hole in the end 18mm?
That is big enough to hold a 1/2" square & still have a 3.5mm wall thickness.

I'm interested....
Can you make the hole in the end 18mm?
That is big enough to hold a 1/2" square & still have a 3.5mm wall thickness.

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Cliff,
Sorry, yes it will have a 12mm HSS supplied by 100mm long

Cliff,
Sorry, yes it will have a 12mm HSS supplied by 100mm long

But will it have an 18mm hole?

A 12mm Square tip only needs a 17mm hole.

To use a 1/2" tip requires an 18mm hole.

To use a 1/2" tip requires an 18mm hole.

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18mm it is, I gotta learn to read the whole post....mutter,mutter

So here we go I am looking at a 25mm shaft with a length of 400mm and around 120mm of 12mm dia tang.Overall 520mm

The tang is longer and bigger due to the forces that it will have to survive.... I know you guys will give it heaps

Hughie - Yep, per my earlier PM, that's sounding very much like what I'm after.

Put me down for a prototype if you like.

Thanks

Neil

That is 3 of us... anybody else?

Think I might jump in on this too if you'll have me

Hey... and about me...?

You can do all the hard work for me, hughie! I don't mind to stick to making the handles, only. I had a good go at making new tools recently, so is time for me to focus on wood/timber creations for a little while, instead!

Look at the size of this Bedan, that I re-shaped from my original copy of the Ci1, just last week ! (the 16mm HSS bar) that I drill and tap(ish) once.

Cheers
RBTCO

Gentlemen all the more the merrier,come one come all.

To get a reasonable price on steel I have to buy in 6.5m lengths. If I could afford to buy it by the tonne prices would be reasonable, any body want 500 ripsnorting hurricane hollowers? The Aussie $ is not doing us any favours of late as the steel is imported.

Ok so far we have Cliff, DJ,Skew,NeilS and RBTCO. Thats five, I am gonna make around 10 anybody esle interested?

Me!

My lathe is still sitting on its pallet, but I'll put my hand up for a Ripsnorter please!