small HF tools

[flyrod444]

Here is a picture of a HF tool I made using a long 7/32" allen wrench. It works great on Christmas ornaments and hickory nut HF's. It is only good around 1 1/2" of the rest and then it starts to flex, but for getting the ball of an ornament thin under the rim it is perfect. I heated it with a tourch to bend and then tempered it in oil. It holds an edge good and cost me next to nothing to make.
Jack

 

[jerrye]

Pardon the ignorance, but around here HF means Harbor Freight. What does your HF mean?:dontknow::help:

 

[gator]

Pardon the ignorance, but around here HF means Harbor Freight. What does your HF mean?:dontknow::help:

Hollow Form - Usually a vase or such with the neck smaller than the body and hollow inside.

One of them there "Dark Side" terms.

George

 

[flyrod444]

Jerry,
I use HF for Hollow Form. I have seen it used for Harbor Freight too.
Jack

 

[CarvedTones]

Can you zoom in on the grind? I have a cheap 12 piece carving chisel set that has a few decent gouges and a few pretty worhless tools - square shafts with really blunt grinds on the end of them. I figured they are blanks.

 

[rbdoby]

Jack,

Now that you've cleared up the "HF" question for those of us who have not fallen to the dark side I have another question. How do you chuck up a hickory nut in the lathe? I've got several hickory trees in my yard, I might want to try this.

Rick Doby

 

[PChristy]

Great job on the tool and the turnings:icon_thum

 

[CarvedTones]

Jack,

Now that you've cleared up the "HF" question for those of us who have not fallen to the dark side I have another question. How do you chuck up a hickory nut in the lathe? I've got several hickory trees in my yard, I might want to try this.

Rick Doby

I am guessing it doesn't involve a vise. :rotflm: :rotflm: :rotflm:

 

[flyrod444]

The hickory nut turning was done by one of my high school students. He used a set of pin jaws on a vicmarc chuck to hold the hickory nuts. Walnuts work will too. Andy, I tried to take a picture of the grind, but it is beyond my camera's ability to focus that close. It is ground like a round nose scraper.
Jack