Homemade Boring Bars

[NCTurner]

As you'll remember I recently visited Scott Smith where HE and Rob and I welded up my captured hollowing system.

Well Fri. night I finally was able to get some time to make my 3/4" boring bars(my 1/2" bars are a mix of homemade and Kelton tools.) Here are my 3/4" bars.

 

[PChristy]

Nice job Gary - let us know how they work for you

 

[MrAudio815]

Very Nice Looking Gary~!

Now lets see some of your turnings...And what size is the smaller steel?

And what do the handles look like?

 

[WoodWrangler]

Looking good. Funny thing seeing this, my neighbor was over this evening as we plan to make the goose neck bars for my system. We were planning to bend the 3/4" stainless, but I'm doing a little homework to see other designs. You probably know more about all of this than I ... so why not just bend the 3/4"?

 

[NCTurner]

The smaller steel is 3/8". These bars are inserted into the "D" bar of the Captured hollowing rig.


Why bend the 3/4" when you can bend and tap the 3/8" much easier. The 3/4" is your support bar mostly just to stop the chatter from over extending the bar, the further out the thicker the bar needs to be to prevent flex, flex=chatter. Chatter=bad words being said.