Drill Press For Pen Blanks. For about 15 years i drilled all of my pen blanks (not that much however) on a dedicated drill press. The jaws on the drilling center move in and out. I am using a sharp bit and drilling at about 2,000 rpm.
Centered countersink in the jaws allows precise pen pressing without bowing and misalignment.
The fixture i will describe below will take up more room on the bench but you may want to cut finger notches in the pen blank v block as you need to be able to hold the pen blank and push it in to the running drill bit. In this instructable, i challenged myself to making a pen without a lathe or a drill press. But don't rule out your benchtop drill press just yet. The center you now have will work for every subsequent pen blank, no matter what its size, up to i use this to center drill pen blanks, how ever it has a lot of flexability in it when using the drill press, some times drilling off center. Drilling straight and accurately through pen blanks can be a challenge. Centered countersink in the jaws allows precise pen pressing without bowing and misalignment. A wide variety of drilled pen blanks options there are 62 suppliers who sells drilled pen blanks on alibaba.com, mainly located in asia. Top 7 drill presses for woodworking review 2020.
