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turning jewelry beads
My sister-in-law makes jewelry and loves cocobolo. She has asked me if I
could turn some small beads for necklaces. The beads need to be no larger than 1mm, and must have a hole drilled in them for the necklace filament. Does anyone have any suggestions for me before I start? Any help would be appreciated. Tom |
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Tom wrote:
My sister-in-law makes jewelry and loves cocobolo. She has asked me if I could turn some small beads for necklaces. The beads need to be no larger than 1mm, and must have a hole drilled in them for the necklace filament. Does anyone have any suggestions for me before I start? Any help would be appreciated. 1mm? Wear a jeweler's loupe. How'd you plan to hold the spindle? Oh yeah, light cuts. Dave in Fairfax -- reply-to doesn't work use: daveldr at att dot net American Association of Woodturners http://www.woodturner.org Capital Area Woodturners http://www.capwoodturners.org/ PATINA http://www.patinatools.org |
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MARGRET HUNTRESS wrote:
My sister-in-law makes jewelry and loves cocobolo. She has asked me if I could turn some small beads for necklaces. The beads need to be no larger than 1mm, and must have a hole drilled in them for the necklace filament. Does anyone have any suggestions for me before I start? Any help would be appreciated. I hope you mean 1cm! I made some a while back. I turned a dowel between centers, small enough to fit in the 1" jaws and through the headstock. Then with about an inch protruding, face off and drill a hole the length of the intended bead. Then turn the bead and part off with the skew. Sand the parted end as necessary. Before you start, clean up all the shavings under the lathe or you stand a good chance of loosing most of these fiddly little blighters. I oiled and buffed them off the lathe by threading them on to a straightened out paper clip with just the ends bent up to keep the beads on. This made them reasonably convenient to handle. -- Derek Andrews, woodturner http://www.seafoamwoodturning.com http://chipshop.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toolrest/ |
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On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:52:10 GMT, "MARGRET HUNTRESS"
wrote: My sister-in-law makes jewelry and loves cocobolo. She has asked me if I could turn some small beads for necklaces. The beads need to be no larger than 1mm, and must have a hole drilled in them for the necklace filament. Does anyone have any suggestions for me before I start? Any help would be appreciated. Funny enough, my wife just asked me to turn some beads for her. I'm using offcuts from pen blanks and things like that. Nothing as small as 1mm, though. That's a mighty tiny bead. Probably take a #60 drill for the holes, I'd imagine. I'm wondering, though, that at 1mm you'll even be able to tell that they're cocobolo. The hardest part for me is holding the bead after I part it off, so I can sand the end that was toward the headstock. I sometimes use the bit itself, but more often than not, the bead slips on it. Maybe a dowel or piece of drill stock sanded to size is in order. -- Chuck *#:^) chaz3913(AT)yahoo(DOT)com Anti-spam sig: please remove "NO SPAM" from e-mail address to reply. September 11, 2001 - Never Forget ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Hope this helps a little.....
Step 1. Replace sister-in-law! Step 2. Go to fridge and get a beer! New project...... George "MARGRET HUNTRESS" wrote in message news:uXzze.56$ZN6.21@trnddc02... My sister-in-law makes jewelry and loves cocobolo. She has asked me if I could turn some small beads for necklaces. The beads need to be no larger than 1mm, and must have a hole drilled in them for the necklace filament. Does anyone have any suggestions for me before I start? Any help would be appreciated. Tom |
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Tom wrote: My sister-in-law makes jewelry and loves cocobolo. She has asked me if I could turn some small beads for necklaces. The beads need to be no larger than 1mm, and must have a hole drilled in them for the necklace filament. Does anyone have any suggestions for me before I start? Any help would be appreciated. Forget turning them instead use your belt sander. You build a box that will sit over the belt and then toss in some small cubes of wood, turn it on and go for a beer. When you come back the cubes will be small perfect spheres. Or so I've been told :-) -- Remove no & spam to email meet me at: http://peterhyde.bravehost.com/ |
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Great idea. Thanks.
Tom "Derek Andrews" wrote in message ... MARGRET HUNTRESS wrote: My sister-in-law makes jewelry and loves cocobolo. She has asked me if I could turn some small beads for necklaces. The beads need to be no larger than 1mm, and must have a hole drilled in them for the necklace filament. Does anyone have any suggestions for me before I start? Any help would be appreciated. I hope you mean 1cm! I made some a while back. I turned a dowel between centers, small enough to fit in the 1" jaws and through the headstock. Then with about an inch protruding, face off and drill a hole the length of the intended bead. Then turn the bead and part off with the skew. Sand the parted end as necessary. Before you start, clean up all the shavings under the lathe or you stand a good chance of loosing most of these fiddly little blighters. I oiled and buffed them off the lathe by threading them on to a straightened out paper clip with just the ends bent up to keep the beads on. This made them reasonably convenient to handle. -- Derek Andrews, woodturner http://www.seafoamwoodturning.com http://chipshop.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toolrest/ |
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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 21:43:50 -0400, "George H Hughes" wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier and more time efficient to just have a beer while ordering beads on the web?? Hell, those kids in China are going to go blind whether you buy their stuff or not.. *eg* Hope this helps a little..... Step 1. Replace sister-in-law! Step 2. Go to fridge and get a beer! New project...... George "MARGRET HUNTRESS" wrote in message news:uXzze.56$ZN6.21@trnddc02... My sister-in-law makes jewelry and loves cocobolo. She has asked me if I could turn some small beads for necklaces. The beads need to be no larger than 1mm, and must have a hole drilled in them for the necklace filament. Does anyone have any suggestions for me before I start? Any help would be appreciated. Tom mac Please remove splinters before emailing |
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Peter Hyde wrote:
Forget turning them instead use your belt sander. You build a box that will sit over the belt and then toss in some small cubes of wood, turn it on and go for a beer. When you come back the cubes will be small perfect spheres. Or so I've been told :-) Or your could go for 6 beer and make really small beads You may need to sober up before trying to drill the holes. -- Derek Andrews, woodturner http://www.seafoamwoodturning.com http://chipshop.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toolrest/ |
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On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:48:10 GMT, Derek Andrews
wrote: MARGRET HUNTRESS wrote: My sister-in-law makes jewelry and loves cocobolo. She has asked me if I could turn some small beads for necklaces. The beads need to be no larger than 1mm, and must have a hole drilled in them for the necklace filament. Does anyone have any suggestions for me before I start? Any help would be appreciated. I hope you mean 1cm! So Tom, Did you, in fact mean one centimeter or one milimeter? -- Chuck *#:^) chaz3913(AT)yahoo(DOT)com Anti-spam sig: please remove "NO SPAM" from e-mail address to reply. September 11, 2001 - Never Forget ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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