Home to cool an inspirational projects

Sunday 22 February 2015

Homemade Captive Ring Tool



Make your own captive rings on a lathe using homemade tools from an old screwdriver!
 drilling hole through screw driver





 cutting though to the hole from the edge of the screw driver to create a hook




 shaping the hook profile

sharpening the cutting edge

 cutting a ring, there are several good videos that explain in good detail how to do it on youtube





here is the finished result quite smooth after a bit of sanding, my technique needs to be practised a bit.


watch the video here

No comments:

Post a Comment