Metal spinning tools
 

I'm an amateur woodturner looking into hand metal spinning as
an extension to my craft. I've pretty much established that my
Jet can do the fairly small items I'm considering, once I've
purchase a modified toolrest, but acquiring tools is another
subject. The only manufactured spinning tools available for a
home craftsman that I can locate are a limited selection of
tools produced by Sorby. Can anyone point me to a custom
toolmaker familiar with hand spinning tools, or should I just
go to my local machinist and hope for the best?
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Regards,
Eric Fretheim

Beautiful! That's just the sort of thing I've been looking
for. Should have thought of Yahoo. Thanks.
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Regards,
Eric Fretheim

David Billington wrote:
If you haven't already found it join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/metalspinning/ if you don't mind
yahoo group. Look through the archives and ask. There has been some
recent info on tools and the archives have quite a bit.

Eric Fretheim wrote:

I'm an amateur woodturner looking into hand metal spinning as an
extension to my craft. I've pretty much established that my Jet can
do the fairly small items I'm considering, once I've purchase a
modified toolrest, but acquiring tools is another subject. The only
manufactured spinning tools available for a home craftsman that I can
locate are a limited selection of tools produced by Sorby. Can anyone
point me to a custom toolmaker familiar with hand spinning tools, or
should I just go to my local machinist and hope for the best?
--
Regards,
Eric Fretheim

If you haven't already found it join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/metalspinning/ if you don't mind
yahoo group. Look through the archives and ask. There has been some
recent info on tools and the archives have quite a bit.

Eric Fretheim wrote:

I'm an amateur woodturner looking into hand metal spinning as an
extension to my craft. I've pretty much established that my Jet can
do the fairly small items I'm considering, once I've purchase a
modified toolrest, but acquiring tools is another subject. The only
manufactured spinning tools available for a home craftsman that I can
locate are a limited selection of tools produced by Sorby. Can anyone
point me to a custom toolmaker familiar with hand spinning tools, or
should I just go to my local machinist and hope for the best?
--
Regards,
Eric Fretheim

Eric Fretheim wrote:
I'm an amateur woodturner looking into hand metal spinning as an
extension to my craft. I've pretty much established that my Jet can do
the fairly small items I'm considering, once I've purchase a modified
toolrest, but acquiring tools is another subject. The only manufactured
spinning tools available for a home craftsman that I can locate are a
limited selection of tools produced by Sorby. Can anyone point me to a
custom toolmaker familiar with hand spinning tools, or should I just go
to my local machinist and hope for the best?
--
Regards,
Eric Fretheim

I haven't done spinning, but have looked into doing it. In fact, my wood
lathe is converted from what was originally a metalspinning lathe--a
Spinmaster:

http://www.token.crwoodturner.com/shop/

The tools I've seen in textbooks are just steel shafts, with hardened
tips ground and polished to various shapes.

Buy a 36" length of 1/2" oil-hardening tool steel, cut into 3 pieces,
and make your own tools with long wooden handles.

I *am* a custom toolmaker, by the way.

Ken Grunke
La Farge, WI USA

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Thanks for the advice. I'll keep your URL on tap in case I run
into trouble...
I checked your gallery out. Very nice work!
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Eric Fretheim


Ken Grunke wrote:
Eric Fretheim wrote:

I'm an amateur woodturner looking into hand metal spinning as an
extension to my craft. I've pretty much established that my Jet can
do the fairly small items I'm considering, once I've purchase a
modified toolrest, but acquiring tools is another subject. The only
manufactured spinning tools available for a home craftsman that I can
locate are a limited selection of tools produced by Sorby. Can anyone
point me to a custom toolmaker familiar with hand spinning tools, or
should I just go to my local machinist and hope for the best?
--
Regards,
Eric Fretheim


I haven't done spinning, but have looked into doing it. In fact, my wood
lathe is converted from what was originally a metalspinning lathe--a
Spinmaster:

http://www.token.crwoodturner.com/shop/

The tools I've seen in textbooks are just steel shafts, with hardened
tips ground and polished to various shapes.

Buy a 36" length of 1/2" oil-hardening tool steel, cut into 3 pieces,
and make your own tools with long wooden handles.

I *am* a custom toolmaker, by the way.

Ken Grunke
La Farge, WI USA

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:44:47 -0600, Eric Fretheim
wrote:

I'm an amateur woodturner looking into hand metal spinning as
an extension to my craft. I've pretty much established that my
Jet can do the fairly small items I'm considering, once I've
purchase a modified toolrest, but acquiring tools is another
subject. The only manufactured spinning tools available for a
home craftsman that I can locate are a limited selection of
tools produced by Sorby. Can anyone point me to a custom
toolmaker familiar with hand spinning tools, or should I just
go to my local machinist and hope for the best?
I made a basic forming tool by cutting a rod on an angle and grinding
it to resemble the back of a teaspoon then polished it smooth. Another
possibility is to mount a small ball bearing race in a split in the
end of a rod. In both cases, the rod needs to be long and stiff enough
to provide leverage to generate the required forces.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

See http://www.jamesriser.com/Machinery/...olForging.html



"Eric Fretheim" wrote in message
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I'm an amateur woodturner looking into hand metal spinning as
an extension to my craft. I've pretty much established that my
Jet can do the fairly small items I'm considering, once I've
purchase a modified toolrest, but acquiring tools is another
subject. The only manufactured spinning tools available for a
home craftsman that I can locate are a limited selection of
tools produced by Sorby. Can anyone point me to a custom
toolmaker familiar with hand spinning tools, or should I just
go to my local machinist and hope for the best?
--
Regards,
Eric Fretheim

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