Rope Knurling
This week is my last welding class,so following that I can get back to my project of making a knurling tool. Here’s a piece to inspire all those making knurling tools, a lovely rope knurl from Jon Bower. This is
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Knurling tool slots
I’ve finally finished machining the slots in the end of the knurling tool arms. It’s been a slow process as each pass of the milling cutter only took of 0.5mm and I had to machine both sides of the slots
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Nice bit of knurling
I’ve told a few people that I’m making a knurling tool and some of them look at me with a puzzled expression and ask what knurling is. I’ve been trying to find a good example of this and have noticed
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Tags: Czech and Speake, knurling, Lavatory Roll Holder
Knurling Tool Work in Progress
Some pics of the knurling tool in various stages of being built. The next steps are to saw the other two slots and then machine or file the slots square. I think that I should be able to mill the
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Machining square things in a lathe
This week I decided to start some work on a caliper knurling tool, based around the ideas in the Workshop Practice book, Making Small Workshop Tools. After sketching some plans, the first thing I needed to do was saw up
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Tags: knurling, Steel
“how to knurl a bent steel bar”
“how to knurl a bent steel bar”, this was the search that one of the Workshop shed readers had made against the site. Well, I’m afraid I don’t have any complete solution to that problem but here’s my independently thought
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
