one of a kind homemade jackknife with 14 picks

by **Chucklz** » 15 Mar 2004 21:01

If you do even a quick online search, you will find a wide variety of gagues, and even gague stock so you can keep your picks all roughly the same thickness.

by **joecool2727** » 16 Mar 2004 0:04

So do you all have grinders or access to grinders or what? Has anyone had any experience with dremels?

by **UnLock** » 16 Mar 2004 0:11

I just purchased a table mount grinder that has 2 stones (course, medium) for $45.00 Cdn. It sure does make grinding metal a lot easier and quicker than a Dremel. The Dremel is very useful for the more detailed sections of the pick. If you plan on making your own picks you should seriously consider picking up a cheap grinder as well as a Dremel.

by **plot** » 16 Mar 2004 5:02

i havn't tried making my own picks, but i have experience with dremels. they are very nice and very easy to use... there is no pressure, you just guide the dremel to where you want something cut and hold it there. it relies on spinning very fast, instead of on torque, to cut/grind/whatever, so you can do very fine work very easily. you can use it as a pen to write stuff on metal if you have the right tip for it actually. that's how simple they are to use, and they very good on small detailed stuff (perfect for making picks)

they also are fairly inexpensive. i think i got my cordless dremel for 45$ (USA) a few years back... goto lowes or home depot or somewhere like that and look for them. I think wal-mart has a dremel section now too actually...

by **Chucklz** » 16 Mar 2004 11:46

I have a dremel, grinder, and a belt grinder available to me. By far the belt grinder is my favorite. Basically Its just a belt sander. No big deal, and its very easy to use.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/D ... mber=38300

by **UnLock** » 16 Mar 2004 12:05

The grinder I bought was this one http://www.canadiantire.ca/assortments/ ... nt=primary and it was on sale last week for $45.99. Not bad at all.

by **Mad Mick** » 16 Mar 2004 12:51

I have (amongst many other tools) a bench grinder with coarse/medium stones for roughing out shapes, a Dremel with the drill press attachment and a multitude of stones & discs etc., and some oil stones for finish work. Finally, the polishing heads used with the Dremel give you an excellent finished surface.

by **Kung** » 16 Mar 2004 15:14

I use a dremal and an angle grinder for my picks, wish i had the money to buy a bench grinder whould make things alot more easy oh and a vise that is the best thing i got for making small things

by **joecool2727** » 17 Mar 2004 0:19

Considering how many picks you can make for so little money once you have these tools it would save a lot of money.

I have access to all of these tools that you guys listed above but theyre in my woodshop class and im afraid the teacher wouldnt approve of making picks. But a friend of mine might let me borrow his dremel so ill try that.

by **joecool2727** » 18 Mar 2004 0:23

Kung, what do you use the flat piece of metal on the left for and the other thin one on the far right that looks sorta like a toothpick?

by **FunkyGuy** » 18 Mar 2004 23:12

I use a dull file that I found in a toobox in my gaurge heh Im happy to have long, thin picks, acual shapes are outa question, but I may buy a dremel because they seem cheap.

by **Kung** » 19 Mar 2004 15:16

Joecool, the flat piece is for the master thumbwheel locks its .02 thick kinda like a sesamee decoder but differnt. :shock:

and the toothpick like one is for pokeing tubular pins with my ground down allen wrench.

by **technik** » 20 Mar 2004 8:48

Kng, so you used different sized gauge for you picks? which size d you prefer most (thin enough but strong enough?)

by **UnLock** » 20 Mar 2004 11:11

technik wrote:Kng, so you used different sized gauge for you picks?

Good question. I would assume they are different sizes/thickness as all the feeler guages I've looked at all have different thickness blades. Although the difference is very minute, there is a difference but that shouldn't make it a problem. Then again, there are some guages that do have incredibly thin blades that would seem useless to turn them into picks.

Hopefully Kung or Lockpickroy could clarify this for us.

by **Kung** » 21 Mar 2004 23:39

yeah they all are differnt in thickness but only the ones under .20 are kinda to thin i just made them into slim line picks of my favorite picks and the .02 can be used for thumbwheel locks so they all kinda have a use

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