Another nubie OOPS !!!!

[Sabaharr]

Last night I was turning a Cambridge pen out of red morrell burl. As you may know on a Cambridge the material gets thin, really thin. Well I guess I should have suspected it but the burl shattered once I got down to about where I wanted to go. Is there a way to avoid this? I am thinking, get it about half way and sand it down the rest, but thats a lot of sanding. Any advice?

 

[leehljp]

Sanding is an attitude for me! Most of mine are sanded the last mm or at least the last .5mm. (I do have one design that I don't sand, but it is not with burl.)

A way around the delicate burls is to turn a small amount, soak it with CA, turn down a little more, soak with CA.

 

[jthompson1995]

Also make sure you get good glue coverage when gluing in your tubes. If there is not total coverage, you are much more likely to have it blow out.

 

[jackrichington]

use thin ca inside the drilled hole..let soak in..then when you are turning later the ca will have soaked "out" thus lessing blowout