DAVIDMANUEL
Member
First me: I'm in México, and there is very few penturners. I haven't meet any yet, even by internet.
This is bad to make penturnig friends, but good for to sale pens. For everybody my pens are very beauty and original and i make good sales.
I made a corn cob pen. It's nice, and in México everybody likes corn, and we eat corn (in several forms) all day. Also, ancient mexican mythologies tell us that men was made of corn. In fact corn start to grow in México 10,000 years ago.
BUT, I don't know why, my corn cobs are very hard, when i work with the rough they don't reduce their diameter, i spend about two hours working whit rough and skews until i can start to sand.
My best choice have been to work at maximum lathe speed
Is it normal? many people says that corn cobs are so soft, but for me are harden than stabilized woods.
some body knows what is happenig?
thanks.
This is bad to make penturnig friends, but good for to sale pens. For everybody my pens are very beauty and original and i make good sales.
I made a corn cob pen. It's nice, and in México everybody likes corn, and we eat corn (in several forms) all day. Also, ancient mexican mythologies tell us that men was made of corn. In fact corn start to grow in México 10,000 years ago.
BUT, I don't know why, my corn cobs are very hard, when i work with the rough they don't reduce their diameter, i spend about two hours working whit rough and skews until i can start to sand.
My best choice have been to work at maximum lathe speed
Is it normal? many people says that corn cobs are so soft, but for me are harden than stabilized woods.
some body knows what is happenig?
thanks.