Don't forget to reverse paint your worthless wood casts!!!

[Carl Fisher]

Chalk this up to learning something new on every pen.

This pen taught me the need to reverse paint or paint the tubes on worthless wood casts. I didn't even think about it because it was 90% wood but lesson learned.

The other thing is that I need to vacuum up my shop floor because it took me a while to find some of the major pieces to recover from this blowout and to always keep shavings handy from the material you are turning to fill in what pieces you can't find.

 

[reiddog1]

Thanks for the heads up. I have some ww blanks I was going to drill today. You saved me some headaches.

Dave

 

[Justturnin]

Great looking pen there Carl. I to have learned the Reverse paint on WW on a very nice blank. I still have it but I can't use it becasue I want to cry......

 

[Carl Fisher]

I think I painted that black/silver oak blank on the panache because it was quite a bit higher resin to wood ratio. This one I thought I could get away with...but I was mistaken

 

[76winger]

Nice save Carl!

I'm assuming the reverse painting wouldn't have prevented the blowout, but it's worth doing so the brass doesn't show through the acrylic portion. Is that correct?

 

[Carl Fisher]

The reverse painting was only for the brass that is showing. I really didn't think it would get that thin where the resin was but there in is the lesson

The blowout was me touching up a burr from the CA with my carbide tool. It must have bit in a bit harder than I intended and it blew out at the joint of the resin and wood.

 

[jasontg99]

I made that same mistake on my first WW.