Shoulda stayed out of the workshop today.

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So, I had a blank where one end was a burl cap, so I decided to fill it with resin. Went well until the other end shattered on the lathe. Unstable stuff. I did what I thought I was supposed to do, flooded the hole after drilling with thin CA, let it set up, added more thin CA, re-drilled it to clean out the excess, glue made it pretty much all the way on the tube. I grabbed the thick CA, made a collar just below the damage, made a cone on it out of tape, and filled THAT with more resin. Worked out well. Then it wouldn't separate from the bushing on that end. Did a bit of damage removing it from the bushing. Then the cap tried 3 or 4 times to turn sideways during assembly, causing some more damage. Had I not spent so much effort getting this one to assembly, I would have just removed the furniture and hit the barrel with a hammer. Shoulda just stayed upstairs today. The other half of the burl also shattered on the lathe.
 
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Hey,
sometimes they look like beautiful pens and sometimes their ugly enough to be modern art
but all the time they have a lesson for us,
It must look worst to you than it does to me cause' it looks good from here.
Mark
 

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Hey,
sometimes they look like beautiful pens and sometimes their ugly enough to be modern art
but all the time they have a lesson for us,
It must look worst to you than it does to me cause' it looks good from here.
Mark

I love how the pen turned out, it just put the frustration level to right at the breaking point to do such a simple, straightforward job. Tools wouldn't cooperate, CA was being difficult, things were shattering on the lathe. I'm already a relatively high-strung dude if I'm not paying enough attention to my state of mind. Just didn't need to get that aggravated.
 

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Allan, good save. I CA'd a two piece blank on the mandrel the other day. You talkin' about p**ed off! It was welded on that sucker! I did finally get it off. Your pen came out really nice.
 

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Allan, good save. I CA'd a two piece blank on the mandrel the other day. You talkin' about p**ed off! It was welded on that sucker! I did finally get it off. Your pen came out really nice.

Yikes! Actually, CA on the mandrel like that is easy enough to fix. Just heat the mandrel up a good bit. I have done that before. Took all kindsa craziness and a ruined bushing before I knew to add heat. Thanks on the pen, too.
 

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Sometimes you just shake your head and say "WHY?" I have a done that many times, look back and ask myself was it worth all the time that it cost me. But on the other hand I do not like the circular file and find a way to save everything that I can. So to you I say "nice save", the pen turned out just like it was meant to. A person once asked me how I come up with the designs that I produce. I told her that the wood tells me what it wants to be. She thought that was strange and I couldn't explain it to her. As a fellow turner I sure that you know what I mean.
 

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Sometimes you just shake your head and say "WHY?" I have a done that many times, look back and ask myself was it worth all the time that it cost me. But on the other hand I do not like the circular file and find a way to save everything that I can. So to you I say "nice save", the pen turned out just like it was meant to. A person once asked me how I come up with the designs that I produce. I told her that the wood tells me what it wants to be. She thought that was strange and I couldn't explain it to her. As a fellow turner I sure that you know what I mean.


I've said the same thing before. Setting out with a final size and shape for the work already planned is the exception that proves the rule.
 

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Some days your the windshield, some days your the bug.....seems like you got through it pretty good though. Even bugs get to bounce off once-in-awhile:wink:




Scott (I'm just a bug) B
 

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Some days your the windshield, some days your the bug.....seems like you got through it pretty good though. Even bugs get to bounce off once-in-awhile:wink:




Scott (I'm just a bug) B

Or sometimes the bug bounces off the windshield, gets sucked into the side window and stings some people before it dies. I try to be that bug when things get crazy.
 
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