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Hi I'm Mike from Craft Supplies USA and today we're going to turn a safety razor kit and a matching stand.

Here at Craft Supplies USA, we offer a large selection of premium quality razors, stands and brushes in gun metal and chrome finishes.

Depending on your needs, we have razor kits for the Gillette Mach 3 and Fusion cartridges as well as the classic safety razor blade.

And our brushes are made with genuine high-grade Badger hair.

All of our razor kits and stands feature a threaded rod design, allowing you to disassemble the components for cleaning and refinishing, as well as trimming them to a shorter length.

For today's project, I'm going to turn a safety razor kit and a stand. And don't worry if you have one of the other projects because they turn the exact same way as well.

For today's project, I'm going to use these acrylic blanks because they're impervious to moisture, and if you use a wood blank, just make sure it's a dense exotic or it's been stabilized.

As far as our supplies go, we'll just need our blanks, a razor kit and stand, a 7mm drill bit, a barretl trimmer, bushings and some standard pen making supplies.

Before we start, I'd like to mention that all the supplies used in the video will be linked in the description below.

Now lets start by marking the blanks about 1/4" longer than the brass tubes, then cut them on the band saw.

Now I'll be using a set of pen drilling jaws so I can accurately drill on the lathe, but this step can also be done using a drill press.

With the lathe speed set at about 750 RPM, drill a 7mm hole completely through the blank,

making sure to clear the chips frequently.

Repeat this step for the other blank as well.

Now we'll prep the tubes for gluing by scuffing up the brass tubes with some 220 grit sand paper, so the glue will adhere better.

Now apply some thick CA glue to the brass tube,

then insert it into the blank, twisting it as you go, to spread out the glue.

Spray some activator onto both ends of the blank to cure the glue,

and then repeat these steps on the other blanks and we're ready to barrel trim.

Using a vice to safely hold the blank, barrel trim both sides of the blank until the brass shows.

Once the blanks have been barrel trimmed, let's go to the lathe and prepare for turning.

I'll be mounting a pen mandrel in a collet chuck for the most accuracy, but your standard morse taper pen mandrel will work fine too.

Now slide on the bushing and the blank,

and bring up the tailstock with a revolving cone center for support.

We'll start by roughing the blank to round using a spindle roughing gouge.

Once the blank is roughed down, use a spindle gouge to turn the blank to your blank to your desired shape.

I'll add a little bit of shape to this razor kit, but it's all up to your imagination.

Once the blank is slightly larger than the bushings, I'll sand the acrylic blank through 600 grit with traditional sand paper.

Then I'll wet sand using micro surface pads through 12,000 grit to remove all the scratches.

Now let's apply some plastic pen polish for a durable, glass-like finish.

Carefully take the blank off the lathe,

then assemble it with the threaded end caps and rod.

The assembly is easy because you don't have any parts to press in. Just simply thread it together until it's tight.

Now attach a safety razor blade of your choice and this razor is ready to use.

As for the stand, it turns and assembles the exact same way as the razor, so I've already turned it to match the safety razor.

Now you have a handsome shaving kit that cuts as good as it looks.

And don't worry, no beards were harmed in the making of this film.

Give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for the latest in woodturning. And if you'd like to learn more about our razor kits, click here.

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Building a New Clock - Duration: 5:26.

I am building a new clock. A Las Vegas clock. Now

there's two important measurements I have to take in order for this clock to

be built. One is a measurement of the minute hand and the second one is the

measurement of the overall shaft length. So let's take a look. I have let me use

this ruler. Alright I got to figure out the length I'll need for my minute hand.

Because if my minute hands under five inches I can use a standard

American Made mini quartz motor. If it's over five inches I'll use a high torque.

So I'm going to measure from the center of the mounting hole and I'm going to want

my minute hand probably to come right somewhere on the dice. Maybe into

the second dice. That looks to be about almost three and three-quarters inches.

So if I get a three and three quarter inch hand that's going to come right in

the center of the dice. Now since it's coming into the center of dice. The

hand shaft length must come through the material here which is about 1/8 of an inch and

also clear the dice. So let me turn this around. See if you can see this. So what

I measure is up to the top and so I have the clearance there. Now I'm probably

going to have to get one of the movement I'm probably use an MVT7290A

a because it has an overall height of an inch and a quarter. Which will give me plenty

of clearance over here. Now most of the time you're measuring on the shaft you

measured the threaded part and the overall length. Because the threaded part

you have to have enough thread to go through here to put down the hex nut to

tighten, to the secure it to the clock face material. But that's really not important

the overall length for this clock is important. With every

movement you get the hardware that you need to mount the clock. You get a rubber

washer, you get a brass washer, you get a hex nut and you get it

minute hand nut and a cap nut. So we want that to come about halfway there so

let's look at our hands. When you measure clock hands you're not concerned about

the hour hand. It's irrelevant! What you're concern about is the length of

the minute hand and you measure from the mounting hole to the tip. So that's a

little over just a hair over three-quarters that's gonna be perfect

for this clock so I have my hand measurement and I got my the movement

that I need. So let's put this together this is a AA clock motor

American Made here in America in California. First, I put the rubber

washer on we're gonna slide that through all right and you can see I got plenty

of clearance for the hands. Then I take the brass washer put it on. Then I got

the hex nut just drop that down because I had to get such a long shaft it'll

take me a little while to screw this down. When you're screwing this down just

make it hand tight and the reason being if you over tighten it you could slow

down the movement. So I just recommend just make it hand tight and then you're

in good shape. Now we have the movement there there we go. Now let's look at the

clock hands. First a hand that goes on is the hour hand and that's a press on. So

we just get that like that and just press it on. Okay

now that's perfect now we have the American made I shaft which is a very

secure way to secure your minute here. Now you'll have in your hardware two nuts.

You have a minute hand not and a cap nut. You want to use the minute hand nut if

you have a second hand. If you don't have a second hand the finishing look is

with this cap nut and I don't have a second

hand I know what a second hand on here. So I'm just gonna screw on. Okay it's

pretty good twelve o'clock. See nice clearance there! Okay I just want

to make sure my hands are parallel alright there they are parallel