Someday I'd like to acquire the goods necessary for making pens, but I have not been able to find a basic enough description of each step, and piece of equipment necessary.
The part about inserts, and rams, and mechanics gets lost a bit.
It seems the order is:
get a pen blank (the square piece of wood) drill through with a vertical vise to hold the blank in the drill press.
Now I don't know many drill presses with enough vertical travel to make it in one pass, so I assume you have to adjust the table up with the bit in the piece to keep it on-line.
Then I don't know what you do...
Glue some brass tube in?
Put it on a manderal in a vise?
Thanks Alan