Pen Press/Drilling Jig

Drill and assemble your pens perfectly with flush fittings and a smoothly-operating mechanism! This dual-purpose jig takes care of both prep work and assembly. It holds your blank firmly in position for drilling, creating a precise, perfectly centered hole the entire length of the pen. Later, it smoothly presses your parts together without any bowing or misalignment. Notched jaws automatically center the blank for drilling, while two countersunk holes center the parts during assembly. Large clamping wheel provides slow, controlled pressure so you’ll never crack a casing again.

After all the careful work of turning, the worst possible thing is to have something go wrong during assembly. The Pen Press/Drilling Jig prevents this from happening in two ways. It ensures a straight hole to accept your mechanism without binding, and it pushes everything together with steady, parallel clamping action. The result is a smooth operating pen, every time. Includes 3 replaceable sacrificial wood blanks for the exit hole in drilling operations. Extruded aluminum base provides space for a shop made drawer. Feet are pre-drilled for mounting to an auxiliary base. Cast aluminum jaws are notched for vertical drilling and countersunk for horizontal pen pressing. Self-centering jaws allow for repeatable drilling of various pen blank sizes. Centered countersink in the jaws allows precise pen pressing without bowing and misalignment. Clamping wheel provides slow, controlled pressure when pressing your pen or clamping your pen blank.

Customer Reviews and Photos for: Pen Press/Drilling Jig Average Rating: (3.6) (18 customer reviews) Add your review...

1) Submitted by Jerry Durr, from Everett, WA on 1/22/2010 Customer Rating: This tool works great for drilling and works great as a drill press. This way you get two tools in one. Thank you Rockler, another great tool.

2) Submitted by Ken Salo, from Champlin, MN on 5/3/2009 Customer Rating: This works great to drill blanks, but it does not do well as a pen press. We bought an arbor press that does the job with a lot less effort (be careful, however, to watch very closely--the one ton press can put too much pressure on the pen piece and it will crack.). We also had a problem with ball bearings and set screws coming off. Rockler has good quality items and this is a bit disappointing.

3) Submitted by Randy Mitchell, from Sun Prairie, WI on 3/10/2009 Customer Rating: Very well built and easy to use. Jaws line up spot on and hold tightly. I love that it opens wider than 2" so larger pieces can be used. I wouldn't use it as a pen press because the threads on the crank are a bit fine, but I didn't buy it for that anyway. I highly recommend this.

4) Submitted by Jeff Levings, from Caledonia, OH on 2/21/2009 Customer Rating: I bought this product to save money from buying 2 pieces of equipment. As of right now I am pretty happy with it. I drill my pen blanks all at one time then remove the toll and put on my bench. Is a little tight trying to get fingers in between jaws when pressing smaller pieces.

5) Submitted by Robert Hollibaugh , from Orofino, ID on 2/13/2009 Customer Rating: I have just recently started making pens and pencils and have been using home made decices for assembly this is my first commercial press. l like the press and clamp. The only complaint I have is it is quite slow on the assembly side. I have tried spraying the threads with silicone and they are still hard to turn and slow to operate hopefully they will wear in, other than that I am well pleased

6) Submitted by Mark Lessinger, from Brocton, NY on 1/1/2009 Customer Rating: A bit clumsy to open and close the jaws when constructing and building a pen. Very hard to keep the jaws level and I have split a pen because I was unaware that the jaws were not level with each other.

7) Submitted by Mike McM, from Houston, TX on 12/28/2008 Customer Rating: General construction quality is very good, pretty robust design. The recessed pockets for using as a pen press can be a little deep, but not a show stopper for me. This is a HUGE improvement over the machinist vise I was using for drilling, and the hand clamp I was using for assembly. Better accuracy in drilling and better control in assembly, and both in a single tool.

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