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using a tomahawk drift


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You really should drive the drift through the hole over a bolster plate, esentualy a plate if metal with a hole in it a bit bigger than the drift. I've always just used my hardie hole for large drifting. Its usualy about the right sise.

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heres an example of drifting out a hole so you can visualise it.

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I generally work the eye hole to the correct size with a bull pin and then switch to the hawk drift for the final shaping---of course that's because I have a stack of bull pins I have bought for US$1-2 and only the single hawk drift that cost me US$20...

I too drive the drift in over a bolster plate and then hammer on the sides with it on the anvil to expand and shape them.

Thomas

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