Drill Master Rotary Tool set

I am often asked if my mini diamond drill bits specially selected for drilling sea glass or semi-precious stone will work with a standard electric drill motor, usually not. Most standard drill motors do not have enough RPM. The most popular and best known rotary drill motor is DREMEL. However, The Drill Master Rotary Tool Set is a great alternative at much lower price. You can buy a Drill Master 80 piece Rotary Tool Set for under $20.00 bucks.

The one concern you may have is that this rotary drill motor does not have a variable speed selections. It has one setting at 16,000 RPM. This setting is adequate for jewelry artist, hobbyists and  general handyman use. A big plus is that Drill Master Rotary Tools Set comes with 80 piece set of all the accessories that you would need. Following is a more complete descriptions

 

New Drill Master Rotary Tool Kit + 80 Piece Accessories Fits Dremel   My Drill Master 80 piece rotary tool kit includes accessories that are perfect for cutting, grinding, polishing, sharpening and drilling on all kinds of projects!    The rotary tool has a spindle lock to easily change the collet and a has 16,000 max RPM. This versatile kit is a perfect set for any hobbyist, woodworker or handyman to help finish the project! Uses: cutting, grinding, polishing, sharpening, and drilling and more! Has a spindle lock for easy collet changes!   Rocker style on/off switch 1mm, 3mm, 3/32", 1/8" collets 16,000 RPM   0.7 Amps/ 120 ACV  (for countries that do not use 120 AC Volts, you must use an adapter).   Cord length  3 ft. 2in.   ALL ACCESSORIES AND ROTARY TOOL IN THE PICTURE ARE INCLUDED!   This rotary tool kit is intended for light projects. Please see my other rotary tools for more of a heavy duty rotary tool. Thank you!   Accessories Included (1) Mandrel for cutoff wheels, (4) Polishing cloth wheels, (1) Mandrel for polishing cloths, (1) Carbide burr, (4) Drill bits, (4) Piece collet set, (2) Sanding drum wheels, (4) Sanding drum sleeves, (1) Mounted nylon brush, (2) Wire brush wheels (steel and brass), (1) Grinding stone, (10) Aluminum oxide mounted grinding stones, (25) Cutoff wheel discs with mandrel, (20) diamond burr bits.   Drill Master Rotary Tool Kit + 80 Piece Accessories

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Mason Jar lighted lamps

 

 

Mason Jars lamps

Mason canning Jars have become very popular, not for canning green beans or peaches, but, have caught the imagination of lighted bottle artist. You can now buy Mason canning jars in a wide array of colors, as well as a wide choose in size. For our discussion we went to focus on Mason jar lighted Lamps.

Mason jar lamps are a growing craft trend and seem to be growing. I expect the lighted mason Jars will be a very profitable item comes this fall craft shows. I would think that you could easily get between $20.00 and $30.00 dollars for a pint size Mason jar lamp with a shade.

The creative imaginations  with crafting a Mason Jar lamp is that you can fill the Mason jar with any quirky thing that you have around the house. How about colored buttons. marbles or beach stones, sea glass, wooden spools, maybe beans, just about anything that you would love to have displayed in your lamp. Here are a few important safety tips to keep in mind.

Do not over load you Mason jar. Do not place anything over 1 lb. inside the jar.

Use a low watt light bulb.

Be sure your lamp socket and card meet safety standards.

Hobby Lobby www.hobbylobby.com has great selections of Mason Jars and small shades. They also have a colorful pamphlet  “Mason Jar Light Kits”  that you may want to pick up the next time you visit there store.

 

 

        

 

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Drill holes in glass blocks or wine bottle with diamond drill bits with a hand held drill motor.

Before you start to drill the hole you should use some Silly Putty to form a donut. Place the donut over the spot where you want to drill the hole. On a glass block I find a place just off the center line where the two halves of the block are joined. Fill the donut hole with water... During the cutting process the bit will begin to heat up. Make sure the hole in the donut is full of water. Have a little cup of water nearby in case you need to add a little water. Place your wine bottle or glass block on old towel and position between your feet on a hard cement floor. See if you can start drilling by tipping the drill bit a little on its edge you will have to apply a little pressure to get your drill bit to starting cutting. Once it start to cut you can than bring it straight up Remember; Diamond coated drill bits can heat up very quickly. Pump your drill up and down every few seconds. Drilling the hole will take a few minutes because it is difficult to drill through thick glass. Glass blocks are manufactured with a slight vacuum inside. You will often hear a slight hiss when the drill bit breaks through. Wash the glass block inside and out to get the glass dust out of the block. Let it dry before you start to decorate. Remember you don’t need a lot of downward pressure. Set your drill motor at low speed. To learn more about drilling glass block or wine bottle go to google search.

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directions for making a bottle lamp

 

Directions for making your Bottle Lamp

 

 Drill hole in bottle using 3/8” Diamond drill bit. (for Deco Teeny,teeny bulbs)

 Rinse bottle and dry thoroughly

 Place plastic snap-in grommet on lamp cord.

 Feed lamp cord through drilled hole towards bottle neck. Push plastic grommet in drilled hole.

 Pull cord approx. 15” past top of bottle and tie a knot in cord. Pull cord back            through bottle until knot is about 1 inch from grommet inside bottle. You should have approx. 2” of wire at top of bottle.

Insert Deco Teeny,Teeny bulbs through top of bottle. Terminal end down. Cut end should extend about 2” from top of bottle.

Carefully feed lamp cord wires and Deco lights wires through threaded nipple/adapter.

Carefully insert nipple/rubber adapter into bottle .Bottle adapter should be flush with top of bottle. Check to see if rubber adapter fits firmly in neck of bottle.  If too lose you will have to compress the adaptor to enlarge it. Hold the bottom nut with a wrench and tighten down top nut. It should not fit supper tight as you may have to take it out if it is not a good fit.

Again, Feed lamp cord and light wires through nipple/adapter and now insert into bottle. If a little tight add a few drops of soap. If using a harp  place it  on top of brass check  ring, add hex nut and  Tighten.

Run lamp cord and light wires through socket base and screw on to nipple.

Wiring the 3 terminal socket.  The ribbed wire from the lamp cord is connected to the Brass screw, the other lamp cord wire and one Deco  light wire are connected to the silver  screw, and the other Deco  light wire is connected to the black screw. (Make   sure all wires are secured). Carefully slide socket shell over socket base and  click into place.

Use a 15 watt max. Bulb. (Insert socket reducer if using a candelabra type bulb).

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Note: we do not assume or imply any responsibility for the proper assembly or use of this product.

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$125.00 dollar whiskey bottle lamps

 

$125.00 whiskey bottle lamp

 

$125.00 was the lowest price I seen for a BayRum whiskey bottle lamp. The top price was $149.00 for a similar bottle lamp. Where was this?

 

Several weeks ago I attended a Tampa Bay area outdoor Art show. This was not an Arts & Craft Show that we are all familiar with. This was a rather high end juried Art show with lots of jewelry, Paintings, etc.. I would guess that there were about a 100 or more artist displaying their art work. The one booth that caught my eye was an artist displaying Lighted Whiskey Bottle Lamps. I could not believe the price she was asking for her Whiskey Bottle Lamps. Most often lighted wine or whiskey bottle lamps sell between $25.00 and $40.00. Keep in mind that this was a juried show with small rental space at $450.00 for the two day weekend show.

I spoke briefly with the artist. She was pleased with the show and said that she had sold eight whiskey bottle lamps. She sold only whiskey bottle lamp and did not show any wine lighted wine bottles.

What made here whiskey bottle lamps so attractive was that they were mounted on top of wooden cigar boxes. The cigar boxes made an eye catching solid base for here lamps. The lamp shade often would complement the color on the cigar box label. The lamp socket was a push threw 3-way light socket. A white lamp cord went up from the cigar box to the socket. Her lamps had not additional decorations on them.

I enjoyed visiting for a short time with the whiskey bottle lamp artist and was impressed with here work.

 

 

 

 

 

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Mini diamond drill bits for sea glass

 

Mini Diamond TWIST drill bits vs Mini diamond SOLID core  bits

 

Over the last several years that I have been selling mini diamond drill bits to Creative Jewelry designers I have found that the diamond twist bits are just a tad more popular than the solid core bits. Your favorite type would more likely depend upon the kind of material you are drilling. The thickness and the hardness of the material you are drilling would influence the type of diamond drill bits that would work best for you. It’s a good idea to try both types to see which ones last longer and gives you a nice clean hole. Sea glass is often much harder than beach stones or pottery shards to drill.

Mini diamond TWIST drill bits work much like an auger. This type of drill bit will lift the fine silicon dust out of the hole as you drill. You should still lift the mini bit out of the hole just a tad as you drill. A touch n’ go technique is recommended. The thicker the piece of material you are working with the more I would suggest using the twist diamond drill bits.

The mini diamond solid core bits have very fine diamond segmentations at the very tip of the drill bit. This gives you a little less diamond cutting surface. When using  solid core diamond bits you need to lift the drill bit out of the hole every few seconds to clear out the glass dust and to keep water in the hole. Solid core mini diamond drill bits will usually have a longer shank with just the tip doing the work. The shank size is usually the same size as the diamond drill bits. I always insert the shank as far up into the collet that I can.  You want just enough of the tip to penetrate the thickness of the material you are working with. These needle thin mini drill bits can bend or break very easy.   I just cut away the bent shank and continue to use.

As a general rule the thicker the material the slower speed you would want to use.. I find that the middle setting on my Dremel rotary drill motor works just fine.

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Lighted wine bottles Deco Teeny,teeny bulbs

Lighted wine bottle & Deco Bulbs

Designing lighted wine or whiskey bottles is a great and enjoyable craft and very often can generate a little extra money.  Very often an eye-catching attraction to a lighted wine bottle is the warm glow of the lights that come from the bottle.  At one time I would use a string of 35 multi-colored incandescent standards Christmas type light bulbs placed inside a regular size wine bottle. They had an attractive effect.  However, I soon found out the in a very short time the lighted wine bottles became too hot to touch. A major concern to those selling lighted wine bottle at their local craft show was some child or adult would be startled when touching the bottle which could cause an injure of some kind. I often through that there would be some liability on my part when selling bottles that got too hot to touch.

I am now much more comfortable using Darice’s Deco Teey,teeny bright bulbs.

 

To find out more about using Darice Deco light bulbs  try google search.

 

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