Mike,
The cutting tool I use costs about 50 cents. Take a piece of dowel about 3 inches longer than the shell. Choose a dowel close to the interior diameter of the hull. Drill a 1/4" hole at 90 degrees to the long axcess of the dowel. Drill it so it is a little above where the finished length of the hull will be. Insert an exacto blade through the hole horizontally. You want the blade's cutting edge tilted downward toward the hull. This tilt is about 15-20 degrees. Insert the dowel in the hull and turn it as you press into the hull. If the dowel stops the cut before you get the correct shell length, rasp off the lower end of the dowel until you get the length required. I can cut about 100 hulls to length in about 10 minutes this way. Takes about as long to describe the tool as to make it.
Last edited by Jerry V Lape; 04/28/10 02:20 PM.
