Very nice pen! I will be trying one of these in the near future. I am curious as to the actual thickness of the aluminum. I have used old house siding before but mine looks thinner than what you used.
Dale
Very nice John I am going to try this on one of my pens when I get a minute.
John is your blade on the table saw have square teeth on it???? All the blades I have all have the angled teeth on them and this is causing a non square end on the bottom of the cut.
Lin
With mine being a 9" blade and only a couple of places where to buy them in Canada there are none that have the FTG. I wonder if I took one to a saw sharpening shop if they could sharpen it that way for me??
Lin.
Wow john looks like I got you a lot of quotas by asking about the sled You sure deserve it those are some sick pens! I'm trying to fight being old by using some more resent terms like sick for good Ha Ha. Also looks like some are going to make your jig, It only seems take a question on this site and everyone get juiced up. great site, Thanks again for you help. I've made a jig and well upload a picture when I figure out how.
John is your blade on the table saw have square teeth on it???? All the blades I have all have the angled teeth on them and this is causing a non square end on the bottom of the cut.
Lin, I have many different blades that I use on my tablesaw and each one does certain things real well. For this particular segmenting blank I use a triple chip blade. It has 2 angle cutter and one flat top cutter. I use many different brands but Most of my blades are Freuds. There is no reason you can not use a ATB blade. I like to use thin kerf blades most of the time. The cut with a thin kerf ATB blade is very very close to being flat bottomed. If you use a full sized blade then the angle of cuts will be more pronounced. If you want a true flat bottom cut then you need a FTG blade. These are a bit more expensive. I can not help you with any Canadian dealers. Sorry. Just remember whatever kerf you choose the fill material needs to match exactly or you will have ugly glue lines. To have a blade ground to flat would be more costly than to buy one already done.
Lin
Very classy looking pen. Seems like a simple idea but looks like it would be very tricky to pull off.
Simple and elegant... I like how the aluminum segmenting doesn't try to do "too much"
Nicely done
Geo