WoodRiver
Professional Pen Turning Mandrel - No. 1 MT
$29.99
WoodRiver® Professional Pen Turning Mandrel allows you to switch between small turning projects of any length with a simple loosening and tightening of a nut. The professional pen turner's mandrel is self-centering ensuring no more off-center turnings and/or spacers for short length...
Details
WoodRiver® Professional Pen Turning Mandrel allows you to switch between small turning projects of any length with a simple loosening and tightening of a nut. The professional pen turner's mandrel is self-centering ensuring no more off-center turnings and/or spacers for short length projects. A totally new concept, this mandrel features a collet that ensures that the shaft is always exactly centered on your lathe. Because the collet body is hollow, the amount of mandrel shaft extending from the collet can be varied for turning everything from key chains to larger pens. The locking nut and collet work like the collet in your router, just loosen the nut and slide the shaft in or out to the length you need, then tighten. The small end of the collet body features a 5/16" thread that allows you to pass a bolt through your headstock and, with the mandrel shaft removed, the collet assembly can be used as a 1/4" collet chuck!
Features:
- Precision machined to eliminate off-center turning
- Collet chuck action
- Easily tighten with knurled nut
- Collet assembly can be used as a 1/4" collet chuck
- Adjustable mandrel can be used to turn a single pen section and avoid harmonic vibrations
- Taper: #1 MT
- (1) 1/4" collet
- (1) Collet nut
- (1) Mandrel shaft with washer and nut
- Bushing sets must be purchased separately
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Reviews
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Instructions?
I’ve never used a similar mandrel before, so instructions would be helpful. It looks well made, but I can’t get it to stop wobbling. Flopping around is more like it.
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Mandrel
Use this to make pens, pencil, and other small turned projects.
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must have
this item is a must have
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Mandrel Review
Nice mandrel for pens etc but it should come with at least 3 7mm bushings.
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Good tool
Should come with a wrench
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Works very well
Very easy to use. I do think that it should of had a set of bushings with it but I would say it is worth the money.
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Works Great
This works great. I bought this to use with my small wood lathe, which only accepts MT#1 attachments. Recently acquired an old metal lathe that I set up before setting up the wood lathe. Found a MT#3 to MT#1 adapter in the tooling I received (couldn't believe the luck!) with the metal lathe and tried to use this with the metal lathe (which has a MT#3 spindle). Found that this product did not work with the adapter. Looking at the problem, I had to shorten the MT (about 3/8") on this product to use in the adapter. Other than that minor problem (which is why I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars), this has worked great. Still works fine in the wood lathe, but if you buy this then upgrade to a larger lathe with a MT#2 in the spindle, beware that the adapters may not work unless you shorten the MT on this product. If you do have to shorten it be sure to debur the outside. Just to be clear, I did try this product in my wood lathe before shortening it and it is fine because the spindle hole is open ended. This will only be an issue if you get a larger lathe and need to use a MT#2 to MT#1 adapter (MT#3 are not typically used on wood lathes).
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Must have mandrel
A must have M/T when using different size mandrel's.
