What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

After the deposits came in for the new run, I got my hardwoods ordered, and re-upped on other shop essentials such as glue, drills, dremel collets, diamond bits and sanding drums. I didn't want to alarm anyone so I didn't mention this yet, but my belt order failed. The Red Label Abrasives website kept telling me I had to enter a different shipping address, even though the one I kept trying to use was the same as the one I used for my last order, and unfortunately, by the time I got to the belt order it was already after 5 pm on Friday. I was stressed because these guys have been my one stop shop for belts that work with my machine for the last four years, and I don't know what I'd do without them.

All I could do was send them an email letting them know what had happened, with a screenshot of my order and ask them to put it through manually for me. Checked my email a few times today and although a rep emailed me earlier in the morning to say he would do that for me, I ended up calling later after I never saw that come in. The person who answered the phone was Tony, the owner, and he informed me that they had been bombarded with emails from people who had tried to place an order over the weekend for Canada shipments. He told me he'd get the invoice out to me in a few minutes, and he did! So that is done and paid now, and Red Label Abrasives deserves a long overdue post in the GB&U. Then it's off to the shop again to keep filling those MagnaCut orders I have blanks in stock for.
 
Clip arrived. Thanks jbmonkey jbmonkey !

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Customer specs. Still awaiting word one thing though. He wanted the handle half an inch shorter than this which will be more work and money to make a handle with a g10 insert so I texted him to see if he’ll go with this for a bit of money off
 
Never knew until recently that this was actually a thing! (F letter drill size)

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Now when I prepare pin stock I will no longer have to remove several thousandths of an inch of thickness when I chuck it up in the drill to rough up the surface. A quick pass will be all I need to get the glue grabbing goodness I need and they should fit perfectly right away.

Crag the Brewer Crag the Brewer tagging you since you mentioned in another thread you thought I grind pins for adhesion rather than size. It was both, but hopefully not any more!
 
David Mary said:
Never knew until recently that this was actually a thing! (F letter drill size)

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Now when I prepare pin stock I will no longer have to remove several thousandths of an inch of thickness when I chuck it up in the drill to rough up the surface. A quick pass will be all I need to get the glue grabbing goodness I need and they should fit perfectly right away.

Crag the Brewer Crag the Brewer tagging you since you mentioned in another thread you thought I grind pins for adhesion rather than size. It was both, but hopefully not any more!
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10 should last you quite awhile....? I hope.
idk what kind of availability you get, but when you order more (and if you don't like these) There is a type of drill bit called "screw" size which stands for screw machine drill bits, also sometimes called "stubby".

They are much shorter. Close to half the length of a jobber. I like the shorter versions as they don't walk as much.
If you are centerpunching, using center drills, or pilots, maybe it wont matter as much.
_but it's nice to have options. Good luck. This should save you a ton of time and aggravation. :D
 
Thanks Crag the Brewer Crag the Brewer ! I usually don't drill blanks any more since they are water, laser, or plasma cut and come to me will the holes already, so the walking thing isn't an issue there. And with handle material I actually stack my scales and the blank together and clamp them in the drill press, with the blank on top, which gives the drill a channel to stay within, so walking isn't an issue there either. But I will keep your suggestions in mind if I do decide to profile and drill blanks again for any future runs.
 
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