7mm Pen Barrel Cleaner

Well... Not what I thought, BUT that was my fault. Everyone can always use a backup 7mm trimmer. I'm sure I will get alot of use out of it... I meant to get a combo kit...lol... Again, my fault.Everything I have gotten from Rockler has been worth the money paid.

I recently (Mar. 27, 2009) retired and built myself a hobby shop. I equipped the shop with a new table saw, planer, drill press, new router table, compound miter-saw, cabinet makers work bench, dust collector, and a small wood lathe. A metal lathe and small mill will be my next additions. One of my first non-repair lathe projects was a starter set of five slim-line pens. The combo mill is another great tool to get me going in creating some fine looking pens. I was not sure how to use it, so I first tried chucking it into my drill press but that seemed too aggressive on a scrape piece of ¾ stock so I turned a quick handle for it out of some 1 dowel stock and tried it by hand and it worked perfect. There was not the aggressive cutting of the drill press mode plus I had absolute control over how much or how little I took off. The integrated barrel cleaning shaft kept the cutter perfectly aligned so that I got a perfect right angle cut every time. I would highly recommend this combo mill for anyone considering taking up pen making as a hobby or as a semi profession.