drill press slicking

[esantoro]

Is it all just good eyeballs, or is there a method or tool used to accurately drill down the center of a cylinder?

Ed

[gtwister09]

Ed,

This is what you want... A center finding gauge. Drac's Center Gauge. It is a standard piece of equipment for woodworker's. I have a couple of plastic and a metal one.

Manual method is to measure the dowel and divide by one half and make a mark. Turn the dowel 90 degrees and repeat the mark. Where they connect is the center point.

Regards,

Ben

[Jordan]

Ed, check out craigs list provo/orem utah, there is a delta mini lathe and custom cabinet listed today for about 275. It looks like a great deal, I would imagine a drill press attachment would suffice, but I am sure that deals like the lathe would also come up for sale occasionally in your area.

Edited October 23, 2008 by Jordan

[Bree]

Ed... really to be honest, you can get yourself a roughing gouge to break the blanks down to cylinders and you could cut your coves with strips of sandpaper!! It is dusty but it certainly can be done. If you need tools just get the basics... a roughing gouge, a bowl gouge, a skew chisel, a scraper, and a parting tool. You could probably get away with a gouge and a scraper!! LOL! All you need to do is put a few coves into the blank. EZ as pie to do.

[iwannabeacowboy]

I bought this the other day, for the first time I can even up multi layers before starting the burnishing process. Mounted it in my tabletop drill press. It also mounts on "fantastic leather burnisher". Works great. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/disp...temnumber=35455 Comes with 2 sets of sand paper, save one set for a pattern for cutting more.

Charlie

[TTcustom]

I made my edge slickers from cocobola but now seeing a picture of one I think it is time to make another one and incorporate some improvements into it!

If I was smart enough to figure out how to correct my error I would show you a picture of it. Well here goes nothing

[TTcustom]

I made my edge slickers from cocobola but now seeing a picture of one I think it is time to make another one and incorporate some improvements into it!

If I was smart enough to figure out how to correct my error I would show you a picture of it. Well here goes nothing

Ed I forgot to add that I just buy square blanks and draw a line from corner to corner. I drill down at the "X" and then horse rasp the corners off before turning it down. I glue a drill blank in to the wood with two part epoxy. I have been getting the drill blanks from Grainger's.com But I think even the hardware section at Home depot has them. I must admit that for the last one I didn't have a drill blank so I glued the drill I used to make the hole into the slicker. It needed sharpening or replacing anyway. hahaha

[Donovan]

Hey i'm new at leather working and i was wondering where i could find one of this drill press slickers?