Meet the Press Buddy - With Jim Binnion & Chris Ploof

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• published: 27 May 2015
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http://tinyurl.com/plhq8ch In this video, Jim Binnion & Chris ploof give an in-depth overview and demonstration of the Press Buddy™ for the Bonny Doon Press. They also discuss the available ring mandrel kit as well. The Press Buddy™, designed and created by industry innovators Jim Binnion and Chris Ploof, is unique tooling that allows you to perform controlled forging and forming of metal—especially mokume gane billets—in an hydraulic press. This kit is made specifically to fit the working area of the Bonny Doon Classic press. With the Press Buddy, you can complete operations normally done on a power hammer or high-tonnage press quickly and effectively with a high degree of control over your metal. Imagine being able to take your mokume billet to workable sheets in a fraction of the time and with precise, repeatable results! No longer spend hours carefully thinning out a billet that you have already spent hours to create. And, that's not all. The Press Buddy can be used for a wide variety of metalworking operations--a variety that increases dramatically with the addition of accessory kits (available separately) designed to partner with the Buddy to enhance your creative options. Kit/Set Includes: • One precision-machined frame consisting of anodized aluminum top and bottom guide plates separated by two steel support pins. • One hardened tool steel flat lower die. • Two hardened tool steel upper dies—one flat and one radiused. The radiused die is used for drawing; the flat die is used to flatten out the material and reduce its thickness. • One steel press extension (pusher) with 5/16" bolt.