Fibonacci
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I just decided to get into pen turning a little over a week ago when I saw that lathes were on sale.
These are my first two, bloodwood and purpleheart. Unfotunately, the picture was taken soon enough after turning that the purpleheart wasn't really purple yet. It darkened nicely over the next day.
Unfortunatley, I have only been able to make one more since then, and I made the mistake of turning a blank that had been fully encapsulated in wax, so it looked great last night, and has a huge (to me) crack in it this morning.
I guess I will try some gap filling techniques. No point in wasting the blank, right?
EDIT: How long do people recommend for letting a blank acclimate to a new climate? Being in the bowels of the California desert, it is really dry here most of the time.
These are my first two, bloodwood and purpleheart. Unfotunately, the picture was taken soon enough after turning that the purpleheart wasn't really purple yet. It darkened nicely over the next day.
Unfortunatley, I have only been able to make one more since then, and I made the mistake of turning a blank that had been fully encapsulated in wax, so it looked great last night, and has a huge (to me) crack in it this morning.
I guess I will try some gap filling techniques. No point in wasting the blank, right?
EDIT: How long do people recommend for letting a blank acclimate to a new climate? Being in the bowels of the California desert, it is really dry here most of the time.