Source for sizing tool

Packard sells it, and you had the name right.

You might be disappointed. I got the chance to try someone else's and found it lacking. You are stuck with a true scraping action when using it. I use a parting tool a lot when doing spindle work -- I use a 3/8 beading and parting tool to hog off wood which I often find faster than using a roughing gouge (excuse me -- a SPINDLE roughing gouge). But, I make a peeling cut with it and with every other parting tool I use. You can't do that with the sizing tool attached -- it starts as a peeling cut but ends up a 90 degree scrape. BTW, on spinning top handles I turn beads with a 1/8 straight-sided parting tool if that is what I happen to have in my hand -- you would not be able to tell it from one cut with a skew -- believe me.

Anyway, for sizing I use a parting tool in one hand (the left) and a caliper (I have 5 or 6 cheap ones) in the other hand. For me it is faster than using a sizing tool. Further, I have enough so that I can set one for each major dimension I need to turn. That could get expensive if you were using the sizing tool.

Bill

Gerald Ross wrote:

It would appear that Craft Supplies no longer carries this item.

I have a good design for candlesticks that I want to make a lot of copies of and the sizing tool can help me 'get close' in a hurry with no worry.

So, thanks for the link (bedan and sizing tool ordered tonight) as well as the additional input from the others.

Bill

For some reason two copies showed up here. I guess I got yours and mine.

Hi Bill

Got a address here for the tool you're looking for