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I am looking to make some of my own tools

Now I have some new sickle sections from a combine to try. These would be used for the actual cutting tool. After cutting and grinding them to a desired shape, I will be attaching them to a piece of .375 d. cold roll steel with a 1/4-20 bolt. All that is fairly stright-forward. I've done quite a bit of tapping in my earlier incarnation as a machinist. What I would like to find is a piece to fit in my tailstock that would hold the wooden handle while I turn it to shape. The piece would be hollow so I can drill out the hole for the piece of cold roll steel. I have heard of something called a cup center but am unsure if this is what I need. I want to use this method as I do not have a drill press. I would be drilling in from the end of the tailstock thru this piece. Even if I can only get the hole to a depth of an inch, it will be in the center of the handle and parallel to the major axis of the handle. Any suggestions about what it is I need will be appreciated.

Thanks,

-Kevin

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Kevin
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after you turn the handle, put a drill chuck (on a morse taper) in the tailstock, center the drill bit on the end of your handle, and run your lathe at very slow speed while you crank the tailstock in to advance the drill...leave your spur center in the headstock as the drive...or you could do this in reverse, with drill chuck in headstock, spur in tailstock.

Mike

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mike nelson

Drill the hole in the rough blank first. Hold it between centers with the cone of the tail center in the hole. Turn the handle concentric to the hole, instead of trying to drill a hole centered in the finished handle.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

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Arch

Assuming the handle blank is square, chuck it up in your chuck, turn the handle with the tool end to the tailstock, remove the tailstock, set the lathe at the slowest speed, then simply push a drill bit into the dimple left by the tailstock center. Instant hole.

James Johnson

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JRJohnson

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