drill

Hi does anyone know where I can get a 25mm diameter wood drill with at least 100 mm depth? In UK or France. I'm looking for a drill as opposed to an auger or flat spade drill and a forstner bit on an extension would wobble too much. PG (in hope)

Well it may be old hat to some but i am giving it a go.... Some may know i like to play with bullet cases and have had reasonable success....but i am now trying to do bullet case pens from scratch.....using once fired brass cases and real bullet heads I have always bought things to make these...

Hi after having a bit of a tidy up in the shed I found some spent cartridges in my shed .243 and .270 Winchester magnum. Looking at the .243 I thought it looks the same lenth of the brass tubes from a slimline and remembering a utube video from Woody decides to drill out the primer first with...

Hi all, What size drill bits do you use for M14 and M12 triple threads ? Can you recommend anywhere to get specific sized bits and sets? Many thanks - Ben

Multi purpose end squaring blanks for different kits. Pic 1 overall location of the Sander, mounted on an old Woodfast lathe bed. Use the sander on the shaft of the old lathe for general purposes. Fitted a new velcro fastened 120 grit to the Sander using a sheet of non stick between in situ...

Seeing Pierre's WIP I thought I would follow suit and attempt one as well with some yew this could all end in tears. I was having a sort out of the area between my wood store and the garden tool shed and found some logs which I had not converted luckily they have all been covered and the sun...

I was drilling a 4.2mm hole, 25mm deep in to a piece of 100 x 100 x 10mm aluminium, I had just finished the last hole, when I just put the drill in to clear any the swarf is out and the bloody drill snapped just below the surface:vangry: Is there any way The drill bit is HSS-Co (5% Cobalt). Any...

I have somewhere for most of my drill bits except for the metric ones, so i spent yesterday sorting out all my drill bits and making a wooden drill block for the metric ones. Nothing special in as far as woodworking goes but it is surprising how long it took to drill it out and sort all the...

Last week somebody arrived at my mates shop with a container of rusted drill bits. "Do you want these or they go to the dump?" Stupid question! Well after a number of days dunking them in the electrolysis bath have got a number of bits as the pics show. Some have been badly abused and badly...

Are the Shakespeare Drill bit sizes 10.5 & 12.5 mm ? Dan has told me once but my memory is shocking. thanks John

Some steps in making or grinding a Step Drill. Peter.

Separate post to describe a simple ground high speed drill that was thirty plus years ago the only tool sold as a l cleaner, reamer for slimlines. This is my original one still a beaut snug (slip fit ) these days I square the ends of the blank with a disk sander. I clean each blank from each...

First time I have used the new Bosch Pillar drill to drill out the blanks. I have to say it was a lot easier than when I did it on the lathe, so I'm a happy camper now :-)

Gents, I know this topic has been covered before, and everyone has their own preference, but I am after some specific advice. I currently use my lathe for drilling my blanks and other than the faf of moving the tail stock every few cm, it does a reasonably good job, but on sizes above 10mm, I...

I'm thinking of buying a drill sharpener I quite like the look of the Drill Doctor 500x, has anyone got one or have any advice on drill sharpeners. Robin

As some of you know i have only done a couple of craft fairs. The first is best forgotten, the second was pretty good. I have a lot of people asking questions about pen making. So i thought i would make a small video of the process step by step. Obviously it is much abbreviated, 16 mins in...

Is there any kind of chart out there that give you the various drill sizes for types of pen kits. Regards Peter.

Has anyone checked the accuracy of their mandrel? I tried mine with a dial gauge and it was miles out!! I ended up throwing it away and made my own using an old 2 morse taper drill and a bit of round rod. I am lucky in that I have an engineering lathe as well as a wood lathe but I wonder whether...

When drilling these blanks there is always the risk of a blow out when the drill exits thru the bottom of the blank. FOR ME IT'S ABOUT 90%, NO MATTER WHAT DRILLS I USE. So I cut the blank much longer than needed and drill past the tube length. Then cut the blank to length and you end up with a...

I made two more very simple segmented pens with just two 45 deg cuts today I have included some photos of the blanks before turning because of the nature of these blanks they have to be made exactly to the length of the tubes so drilling has to be exactly right dead centre and straight I have...