Working With Stainless Steel

Sea Monkey · 2010-03-20T11:45:51+00:00

I have a stainless steel rod that I bought with the intention of fitting it in to the steel base of a fly tying vice but it is slightly too thick so it's a case of either opening up the socket in the vice or reducing the thickness of the rod .I would prefer to leave the vice intact as it was pretty expensive (although I did consider using a piece of thinner rod in the electric drill and wrap coarse emery round it) so am looking for advice as to the best way to reduce the rod thickness .Other than a drill or angle grinder I only have hand tools .My understanding is that S/S is hard to work ?The length of the rod that has to be reduced is no more than 20mm and I estimate it needs to be reduced by 1mm all round .