After reading Keith`s thread about the pen blank vice & all the replies stating blanks were drilled on the lathe I got wondering if anyone used a jig on the lathe to help with the drilling?
I normally just hold a blank in a chuck with pin jaws, put a drill chuck in the tail stock with the correct sized drill fitted & drill the hole.
This works fine, but sometimes is not as accurate as I`d like. I have a couple of ideas I`d like to try on segmented blanks but it calls for very accurate drilling of the blanks once assembled, hence the need for more predictable accurate drilling.
So what techniques do you chaps employ?
I normally just hold a blank in a chuck with pin jaws, put a drill chuck in the tail stock with the correct sized drill fitted & drill the hole.
This works fine, but sometimes is not as accurate as I`d like. I have a couple of ideas I`d like to try on segmented blanks but it calls for very accurate drilling of the blanks once assembled, hence the need for more predictable accurate drilling.
So what techniques do you chaps employ?