Hi Mark,
Thanks for the response. When I did a Google search on Bullseye Pick,
Ron Fournier site was one of the ones that came up. His prices were also
lower than Eastwood's, though slightly higher than Covell's. However,
Covell is located in California, which means I would have to add on CA
sales tax, making the price difference about a wash for me.
Covell also offers a blunter derlin plastic tip, which he recommends for
use on aluminum. Sounds like Covell and Fournier are kind of in
agreement
on this point.
Roland (the Dudley version)
> Hi Roland,
>
> While I haven't actually used one of the Bullseye Picks either,
> a couple
> of years ago my brother and I when to Michigan and took a
> metalworking class
> with Ron Fournier. The class was great! The only problem I had was
> that
> Ron was so darn good at metal working that when he would show us how
> to do
> something it looked way too easy and we would then flounder around
> mangling
> the metal until Ron would lay on his magic touch and then the metal
> would
> start to cooperate.
>
> Anyway, during his discussion on tools Ron talked about the
> Bullseye
> Pick and showed a short demonstration on it. He liked it for pretty
> much
> the same reasons that you mention. However, he did suggest one
> modification
> to the tool which was grinding the tip into a larger radius (more
> rounded,
> less sharp and pointy tip). He suggested that this decreased the
> sharpness
> of the peak in the metal that the tip would create and spread the
> lift over
> a larger area. His had a tip that was about a 1/8" to 3/16"
> radius.
>
> At the time we took the course Ron didn't sell Bullseye Picks
> but he
> does now. URL: http://fournierenterprises.com/bullseye.htm
>
> HTH,
>
> Mark Watson
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