newbie home made pressure flaker

[dmathis992]

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I'm new to it but here's my home made pressure flaker

[mullet]

Can't see it.

[dmathis992]

Yeah... It won't post I'm on a phone and can't figure it out. Anyway it's a steel pen case that I took all the ink out of drilled the tip wider to slide in my copper wire with a hole on top for a bolt to hold the wire in place and for easy feeding to resharpen. And has a parachord wrap up and down it for over all width and comfort.

[Chippintuff]

Dalton, make sure each photo is no more than 250 kb. If necessary, edit them to that size. Then click the "reply" button. Below the text box you will see the option for attaching photos.

WA

[dmathis992]

Ok heh I had to edit it to lower size and find have the option to go to already shot photos so I had to take the edited photo email it to myself and download it haha.

[Tower]

I'm a little concerned about its durability. Is it made from a zebra pen? 

[dmathis992]

No it actually came from one of my art sets pretty hard to bend even with pliers but getting some hickory soon to remake it and shape it to my hand.

[Tower]

Get a 3/4 oak dowel rod at your local lumber store & use the same design.   It will work perfectly & cheap to build.

[Chippintuff]

Here is the one I use most of the time notching. The wood is an oak dowel from the hardware store. The copper cap is the end off a plumbing device used as an air cushion in plumbing water lines. The nail is a horseshoe nail. The dowel and the copper cap are the same size, so I had to trim the dowell down to fit inside the copper. A piece of masking tape keeps it together. This thing is very durable.

[dmathis992]

Sounds good on the oak.

@ chip those are nice I'm gonna try to get some points made today when it stops snowing.

[Chippintuff]

You should move to TX. It was 81 degrees at my house Saturday. A front moved in last night, so it was 38 degrees this morning.

WA

[dmathis992]

I'm actually fairly new to missouri.I moved here about 7 months ago from Bakersfield,Ca and actually met a woman from the same area I'm from here and expecting a baby in september. I'm used to 75 year round heh.

[dmathis992]

Well after one week not too bad .Couldn't get the other notch in. Don't have a notcher yet. If you can see what I'm doing wrong any advise would be appreciated.

[dmathis992]

Forgot to add the pic.