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Creating beautiful turned pens starts with carefully preparing the turning blank. Pen kits includes a brass insert tube that has to be glued into the blank. Then the blank needs to be trimmed perpendicular to and perfectly flush with both ends of the insert tube. The trimming process is fundamentally important to great results, but until now, the tools available to pen turners for that job have left a lot to be desired. Woodpeckers Pen Mill Ci effortlessly cuts every exotic material pen turners use. And with 4 replaceable edges on the inserts, it will go through a mountain of pen blanks before you need to get another set of economical replacement inserts.

Woodpeckers Pen Mill Ci uses razor-sharp nano-grain carbide inserts mounted in a precision-machined milling head. These are exactly the same inserts used on our Pen Size Square turning tools. The special long-life carbide edges will shave through exotic hardwoods, acrylics, polymers, stabilized woods, cast hybrids and even non-ferrous metals with flawless results. When the edges finally get dull, fresh cutting edges are as simple as loosening two screws, turning the inserts 90 degrees and locking them back down. Not only do you have sharper, longer lasting cutting edges, the head is also significantly larger than any other on the market, which means after trimming a 3/4" square pen blank, there’s no annoying “halo” of material. 

Keeping the milling head perpendicular to the brass insert tube requires a pilot shaft that is carefully sized to fit the tube just right…neither too tight nor too loose. Woodpeckers Pilot-Reamers are cut on precision Swiss lathes to exacting tolerances. We offer the 12 most popular sizes covering virtually every pen kit on the market. In addition to keeping the milling head perpendicular to the tube, the noses of the Pilot-Reamers are fluted to carefully cut away any glue residue or brass burrs inside the insert tube. 

Competitive pen mills drive off the pilot shaft, relying only on the set screw to prevent the cutting head from spinning. The part that fits into your drill chuck on Woodpeckers Pen Mill Ci is part of the head, not the reamer. It has a 3-flat design that locks securely when you tighten your chuck. 

The 13-piece set includes the Pen Mill Ci and all 12 Pilot-Reamers.

Protected by US PATENT No. D910,098  11,154,941 & D955,452.

WARNING! This product can expose you to chemicals, including chromium, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov