[Jewelry making - Article 00706] - Re: [Orchid] "Orchid in Print" Book Series Announced

[Trevor F]

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>         I use two flex shafts at my bench. .... 

    Me too, but in my case it's one SR motor (reversible) for regular
    stuff and grinding/polishing (for which it is sometimes quite useful
    to have the option of reversing) and one L motor (low-speed) for my
    hammer hand-piece and to run the #30 hand-piece I have permanently
    mounted in one of those Foredom drill press rigs. It adds up to a lot
    of versatility within easy reach. 

    On the subject of great flex-shaft tools I'd have to mention the
    sleeveless sanding drum I got from Lee Valley Tools
    (www.leevalley.com, item #27K10.01) which I find indispensable for
    larger and/or rapid sanding jobs and heavier work such as repolishing
    your burnisher or sharpening your scraper. You load the drum with
    squares cut from regular sand paper sheets and fix them in place with
    a simple cam system. Quick, easy, cheap and you can get a much
    flatter surface than with most other flex-shaft based sanding
    accessories. The only down-side is you should only run this thing at
    lowish speeds (there's that L motor coming in handy again) and you
    need a hand-piece that can accept 1/4 inch shafts. I use the colleted
    Foredom 44T which is, of course, useful for many other things as well
    as being a fine general purpose hand-piece. 

    Another cool flex-shaft tool is the hand-piece holder such as you can
    see at the bottom of this page at SmallParts.com
    (http://www.smallparts.com/products/descriptions/ft-e.cfm). That
    holder is useful in and of itself but I actually find that I use it
    even more as an easy height adjust for the "Universal Work Holder"
    (see Rio Grande, p.258, item F, 113-089). I've always known this thing
    as a "jeweller's vise" but the point is that if you remove the
    screw-in handle you'll find that it's threaded base perfectly fits the
    5/16 UNC threaded, height-adjust shaft of the hand-piece holder. I
    suppose if you've got a Benchmate you've got most of this ground
    covered already but I don't so it's a pretty useful tool combo for me.

Cheers,
Trevor F.

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