First Acrylic with new advice.

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This is a pen i justed turned to see if turning up the speed on my lathe helped me turn acrylics easier, i guess it did it took me 1/3rd of the time to turn this one. I got this AA blank from woodnwhimsies. It is a chameleon blank, it think it is pretty cool. I turned this with 1/2 bowl gouge and 1/2 skew turned at 3100 rpm. after turning just went straight to mm. mm to 12k then polished with hut plastic polish that i forgot to shake up at first(i do this alot). Thanks to Ed and alphageek and rubypenturning for the advice!
 

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Very nice, good choice of material (AA) for learning.

Keep turning, nothing beats experience!!
(Keep eyes covered!!!)
 

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Excellent .... Glad you got good results so quickly with the feedback. Keep up the great work.

You went from skew to MM? Excellent job - that tells me that you don't have a problem sharpening your skew and have excellent control of it!
 

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I really like turning acrylics now that it is so much easier. And I believe that gold plating on pen kits match pretty much everything.
 

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I really like turning acrylics now that it is so much easier. And I believe that gold plating on pen kits match pretty much everything.

Woohoo! Another one turns to the darkside (LOL.. see my avatar)...

I love wood, but acrylics are more popular for my sales.

As for the gold plating, I suggest you find a girl (or more than one given your age :biggrin: ), and ask their opinion. Nearly every acrylic I make gets a 2nd opinion from my wife. A womans point of view can be key as they are MUCH pickier on average than us guys. There is several colors that I make that my wife says goes WAY better on chrome than gold.
 

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James, you will find, if you sell your pens at shows, most people KNOW what they want--gold or chrome color. I started selling only gold (1995-2000) and by the time we quit (2007ish) I was selling mostly chrome. Popular color pieces I tried to show in both gold and chrome. Then we also had some black ti, etc----you can't carry everything and somebody will want something you don't have---that's when you start talking "custom" to them. Have FUN--that's most important!!
 

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Alpha geek:I think acrylic sell better already because i sold the pink pen from that acrylic you gave me and i had to order more because someone else wanted one for their wife too.

Ed: I am going to start doing the farmers market with my cousin. I am getting some upright racks for my pen (2). and also i think i will have a custom sheet there with spaces for easily custom order pen.
 
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