[Jewelry making - Article 00168] - Re: [Orchid] Disc cutter

[Elaine Luther]

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    Not to be discouraging -- but that sounds like a terrible amount of
    work to make a tool that's of limited use anyway. I mean, it only
    cuts out circles. 

    Why not build an hydraulic press -- now _that_ would save you some
    money. And still be an interesting engineering project. 

    And you can use it to cut circles plus about a million more things. 

    To make it challenging, make sure you make the top and bottom steel
    plates exactly like the Bonny Doon presses, complete with threaded
    holes on the top platen, so you can use all of their accessories. 

Elaine

Elaine Luther
Metalsmith, Certified PMC Instructor
http://www.CreativeTextureTools.com (TM)
Hard to Find Tools for Metal Clay

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