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7pc Universal Barrel Trimming System: Steel Cutter

Item #: PKTRIMKIT
$35.95
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Rating 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

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7pc Universal Barrel Trimming System
7 pc Universal Barrel Trimming System Here’s a complete barrel trimming system. An essential step for making a quality pen project is to square the end of your pen blanks and pen tubes prior to final pen kit assembly. Our system includes cutting shafts that will fit into a drill chuck or lathe chuck – the shaft will clean the glue from the tubes and act as a pilot for the 3/4" squaring cutter. This complete system includes: • 7mm, 8mm, 3/8", and 10mm pilot shafts • 3/4" squaring cutter , allen wrench and instructions • Sleeve adapter for #PKPARK-PCL and #PKMONT-PCL pencil kits
Category: Barrel trimming system
  • Package Weight: 0.38 pounds
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Average Customer Review: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 18 Reviews

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5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Barrel Trimmer works.
Reviewer: Duane McGuire (Clinton, UT)
Submitted: 9.15.2009

By creating an end surface guaranteed to be perpendicular to the bored axis, this tool is essential for pen turning. It's hard to imagine how else you could achieve the same accuracy. Perfect.

4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Good tool for the money...
Reviewer: Karen Pike (Janesville, WI)
Submitted: 9.1.2009

I do about half of my pens in Corian and other solid surface materials. The cutter head seems to get pretty dull after just a few pens out of solid surface materials. In retrospect, I should have bought the carbide tipped version for the plastic pens. Maybe I'll do that so that I can keep this steel cutter just for wood, probably would be better and stay sharper that way. That being said - it is a great tool to assure the proper fit of the finished pen. I had used a belt sander in the past and wasn't always satisfied with the final fit of wood to pen parts. This tool has completely solved that particular problem for me.

1 out of 51 out of 51 out of 51 out of 51 out of 5 DEFINATLY NOT WORTH THE PRICE
Reviewer: Dan Arnold (Canon City, CO)
Submitted: 7.20.2009

I'm very disappointed in the one I got. It looked like it was used and had been laying in the parking lot getting run over for a month. It was duller than a butter knife and just wanted to split and blow out the blocks when I tried to use it. I had to sit and use a Diamond Whetstone on it for an hour to get it sharp enough to use. After working it over several times with a Diamond Whetstone I finally got it to cut like its supposed to and should have been in the first place. Then I found out the steel its made out of isn't good tool steel. It wont keep its edge and needs to be resharpened after trimming only 4 or 5 blocks. Unless they are really hard wood then its only good for a couple of blocks. DO NOT BUY THIS unless you are good at sharpening tools.

5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 A must have item
Reviewer: Matthew Crump (Kansas City, MO)
Submitted: 7.14.2009

Don't waste time trying to get by with just sanding the ends of your blanks like I did. You can get a much faster, cleaner end that is absolutely square with this set!

5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 great little kit
Reviewer: Tony Fredericks (Hayward, CA)
Submitted: 7.7.2009

I've used this for both 7mm and 10mm pen sets and it works extremely well. I recommend getting this instead of just the 7mm set as you can use it for several sizes and the price is very fair.

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