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- toolholders, I numbered them and it helped
I paint a dot. Red is the one that cuts. Everything else is a lie until proven. Your numbers are more adult.
- what are you making that isn't a test bar
Hinge pins. They're on a door. The door shuts. I'm not dressing it up.
- the coffee can of former pins is full
Mine lives in a soup can. Same resume. If it fit, it left. If it didn't, it became a tool with a worse job.
- batch of hinge pins, the third one taught me
Eight hinge pins, 3/8, 1018, same length. First two were a rehearsal. Third one I forgot to rezero the compound after a grind touch-up and…
- finish looks like corduroy
Did. Nail doesn't catch. Still not a mirror. I don't need a mirror.
- finish looks like corduroy
Feed was the 0.008 I use for roughing because I didn't change the gearbox. Nose is basically a point. I am the corduroy.
- finish looks like corduroy
1.25 mild. HSS. Finish pass. The surface is ridges you can catch a nail on. Evenly spaced. Not torn, not shiny. Picture ate itself on the w…
- tap follower, so I stop leaning on the tap
Made a follower that sits in the tailstock and keeps the tap pointed while I turn the work by hand. It is a piece of rod and a center. It w…
- is this finish acceptable or am I kidding myself
Raised it. Less torn. Not a mirror. I can live with it. The collar is a spacer, not a trophy.
- is this finish acceptable or am I kidding myself
Ken you can't see it. Nobody can. I said that in the first sentence.
- is this finish acceptable or am I kidding myself
6061, HSS, about 800 rpm, light pass. It looks torn on the left side of the collar. The upload ate the photo again so you'll have to live w…
- parting blade walks off the line I scribed
Wider at the tip. I ground the sides until it wasn't. It stays on the line. I dislike how often the answer is the tool I already ground onc…