Make how many sleeves you like they can be parked on a stand weigh little punches are heavy bulky and tend to be used for other things often where you do metal work mine gravitate this way, punches extend a long way out as well ie the handles do standard sets of punches dont cover the range needed in Australia one firm had their punch set modified to overcome one problem. When you can machine like William the sky is the limit, I watched a mate make a firing pin for a revolver recently that had to be tough and tiny and intricate and precise.He just came off machining a barrell for a rifle with accuracy over 1 1/4 mile for competition shooting.
I use my sleeves on the lathe for other pens using my standard mandrel that allows the standard set up ie non removal from the headstock and the tailstock speeding up the process, use of my design mandrel saver.I tend to multi function if I can at each station in my workshop. Dedicated drill press for pens X and Y accuracy micro adjusters, vee jaws all fun things they get so many repititions then every glued up pen blank gets a square face.
In time I will tire of making pens.
Peter.
