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davebradwell wrote: the right size drill must be quicker - if you want a 0.7 hole just drill one rather than drilling a smaller hole and enlarging it a bit at a time...
Philip Hall wrote:davebradwell wrote: the right size drill must be quicker - if you want a 0.7 hole just drill one rather than drilling a smaller hole and enlarging it a bit at a time...
It might be argued that I carry this to extreme lengths by having drills from 0.3mm to 1 mm and beyond in 0.1mm steps already mounted in pin vices and Archimedean drills. And a second set on a separate bench where I do most of my metalwork. I have intermediate sizes as well as sets of broaches, some marked with permanent marker at a precise dimension I often use.
It saves me a huge amount of time not having to root around for a drill size and a pin vice. Of course, I didn’t buy all twenty - odd of them at once; I just seemed to accumulate them in old tool shops and the collection and method of working just evolved.
I also keep a fair old stock of spare drills and buy the commonly used (and broken!) in decent quantities. This causes its own problem when I forget to replenish them. Not forgetting the increased prices!
Philip
Was it Iain Rice who mentioned most workspaces are about 6 inches square?Will L wrote:I doubt I am alone in being space constrained. To illustrate this I have started a thread called "My Workbench" elsewhere so you can see what I mean and perhaps share your environment with the rest if us.
Hardwicke wrote:Was it Iain Rice who mentioned most workspaces are about 6 inches square?Will L wrote:I doubt I am alone in being space constrained. To illustrate this I have started a thread called "My Workbench" elsewhere so you can see what I mean and perhaps share your environment with the rest if us.
Will L wrote:Philip Hall wrote:davebradwell wrote: the right size drill must be quicker - if you want a 0.7 hole just drill one rather than drilling a smaller hole and enlarging it a bit at a time...
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Depends on who your addressing, for a professional builder with a nice big workshop I'm sure this makes sense, but me building for my own amusement, given the size of the space I work off, I would have difficulty to find space for the model among all the tools. I'm not the tidiest of workers which doesn't help but I doubt I am alone in being space constrained. To illustrate this I have started a thread called "My Workbench" elsewhere so you can see what I mean and perhaps share your environment with the rest if us.
As it happens I do keep one pin chuck with a 0.5mm drill in it more or less permanently. That with a set of broaches gives me most of the holes I need and still leaves me room to work.
Hardwicke wrote:When I was considering moving my studio from parsons Cross to central Sheffield a few years ago one of the metal workers/jewellers had a lovely table made for them in return for some jewellery they made for a furniture maker. Basically a table with sides on it, with places to store all your files, snips, drills, materials, etc. and a semi circular cut out in the middle of the table that you sat at. Pinned to this was a canvas sheet so any bits you dropped (we all do) were caught in it. it was brilliant an beautiful.
Will L wrote:A classic Jewellers workbench. I sometimes feel that my methods have more in common with the average jeweller than some model engineers.
davebradwell wrote:An interesting feature of the jewellers' bench is it's height - is it really 960 high? Certainly when working on my normal office table at 750mm I get shoulder ache so years ago put an offcut of hardboard (ex etched brass delivery packing) on a bed of box files and it's all still there as it cured my problem. Could find a lower chair, of course!
DaveB
Paul Willis wrote:It does look as though that is the height that jewellers really do work at. It's really much looking at eyelevel at the piece they are working on, whereas we modellers tend to look down on our models.
Paul Willis wrote:[
I am not going to change my workbench in the near future, just to make it look smarter. But it doesn't stop me going down the rabbit hole of looking at what is available. And I found this. The equivalent of the supercar and Bentley combined into one for the discerning jeweller. Scroll down...
https://www.benchalist.com/en/goldsmith-workbenches
Absolutely falls into the price category of "if you need to ask, you can't afford it"
Cheers
Paul
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