tables with circular pattern

Engine turning. Easy to do with homemade tooling and carborundum powder. I've seen it done with a #2 lead pencil, applying the abrasive to the eraser and chucking the pencil into a drill press. You set the stops to a little less than the diameter of the eraser.

- - Rex Burkheimer Fort Worth TX

will snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

yeh thats the one! I just put engine turning into google images and thats what it is. Cheers.

Jewelling.

yeh I'm trying to find some online videos of it.

You got leads on engine turning.

Another term used for the same effect on gun parts is "jewelling"

You can scale the tool to the work at hand. I have done small items with cratex abrasives or blue pen erasers, larger sheet metal parts with sandpaper onna stick or 3M roloc style abrasive pad discs in a drill press.

Key to getting it to look good is the even spacing. Even pressure from spot to spot helps too.

Cheers Trevor Jones

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