| Project by Paul Jenkins | posted 12-21-2014 05:07 PM | 1512 views | 7 times favorited | 4 comments |  |
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I think this conforms to the project posting rules, as there is a heavy wood component to it.
My wife is a big fan of carbide turning tools, but they’re expensive. In Australia, $200+ for the full size things. While it cost me a bit of elbow grease and time, the actual components (cutter/screw/metal/wood/ferule) set me back closer to $20. I spent a bit more than that getting the tooling (tap, drill bit, epoxy, cutting fluid) but they’re all reusable. Factoring it all in with how many cutters I bought, metal lengths, etc the “worst case” per tool is $50.
And it gets better – traditional 7th year wedding anniversary gift is copper, so I got away with making her the chisels thanks to the copper ferule!
You can watch the project video on youtube
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TheDane
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#1 posted 12-21-2014 07:02 PM
No doubt about it … these certainly qualify as a woodworking project!
Nice job on the handles!
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Julian
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#2 posted 12-22-2014 02:23 AM
Making carbide turning tools is definitely worth the time. Big savings.
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#3 posted 12-22-2014 03:43 PM
I’m just getting ready to do this myself. Great job on yours. I already really like the video editing.
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#4 posted 12-22-2014 09:02 PM
@ToddJB Thanks. Video (both recording and editing) isn’t something that comes naturally to me (after all, they say I have a face for radio and a voice for newspaper) so some positive feedback is always awesome.
@TheDane Thanks – being my first post I wasn’t sure if there was a cutoff for percentage-of-wood in a project ;)
@Julian at 10% the cost of the brand name ones, the wife how now requested a full range of sizes and species. I’m not sure I’ve done myself any favours, but hey, at least I don’t have to worry about sleeping on the couch for awhile ;)
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