petercharlesfagg
Established Member
Recently I have been posting in a thread concerning Forstner bits, their usage and speeds etc.
Looking around the internet there are many hundreds of different designs of cutter available BUT only some of them are safe from a woodturning point of view.
The central section or point is sometimes shown and advertised as being important but if it is threaded it can be potentially dangerous.
Most lathes do not stop on a sixpence (That dates me!) and if drilling at a fast speed the whole drill will be drawn inexorably into the end of the wood and eventually possibly the jaws of a chuck etc.
If you consider purchasing such a drill bit, as I am, please remember to grind or file off the threads so that you have a clean point that can be withdrawn from any project reasonably quickly.
Regards, Peter.
Looking around the internet there are many hundreds of different designs of cutter available BUT only some of them are safe from a woodturning point of view.
The central section or point is sometimes shown and advertised as being important but if it is threaded it can be potentially dangerous.
Most lathes do not stop on a sixpence (That dates me!) and if drilling at a fast speed the whole drill will be drawn inexorably into the end of the wood and eventually possibly the jaws of a chuck etc.
If you consider purchasing such a drill bit, as I am, please remember to grind or file off the threads so that you have a clean point that can be withdrawn from any project reasonably quickly.
Regards, Peter.