Hello all,
Today I decided to make some wood pen blanks for some Sierra pens. I found a suitable piece of Burr Elm and prepared it for the brass tube only to find that
the tube would not completely enter . I took the blank back to the drill thinking that all it needed was a cleaning out. Still it did not fit. I measured the drill bit and the tube and both were correct. Again I reamed out the hole in the blank and tried again, still no joy. Again everything measured correctly. The hole was perfectly straight as was the tube. I just could not work this out.
To prove a point I selected a piece of London Plane and using the same drill bit I drilled another hole. This time the tube fitted well. This means to me that something was happening in the wood, but I have no idea what it could be. Some sort of tension/structural release maybe. No idea at all.
Has anyone experienced this phenomenon?
Today I decided to make some wood pen blanks for some Sierra pens. I found a suitable piece of Burr Elm and prepared it for the brass tube only to find that
the tube would not completely enter . I took the blank back to the drill thinking that all it needed was a cleaning out. Still it did not fit. I measured the drill bit and the tube and both were correct. Again I reamed out the hole in the blank and tried again, still no joy. Again everything measured correctly. The hole was perfectly straight as was the tube. I just could not work this out.
To prove a point I selected a piece of London Plane and using the same drill bit I drilled another hole. This time the tube fitted well. This means to me that something was happening in the wood, but I have no idea what it could be. Some sort of tension/structural release maybe. No idea at all.
Has anyone experienced this phenomenon?