problem celluloid transparent

[jeanfran26]

Hello
I am a novice French turner
And admiring of this magnificent site,
turners, And of their works.
J have a problem with a blank
"WHITE MARBLE celluloid"
Bought at "Craft Supplies USA"
In places he(it) is transparent
And we see the tube
C is normal?
Thank you for advance for your reponce
jean francois

Bonjour
Je suis un tourneur français débutant
Et admiratif de ce superbe site,des tourneurs,
et de leurs Å"uvres.
j ai un problème avec un blank
"WHITE MARBLE CELLULOID"
Acheté chez " Craft Supplies USA"
A des endroits il est transparent
Et on voit le tube
Est-ce que c est normal?
merci d avance pour votre reponce
jean francois

 

[jaywood1207]

Welcome Jean. Yes this is normal for a lot of acrylic blanks. A lot will paint the tubes or the hole in the blank or both before gluing the tube in. I use fast drying spray lacquer with success but others use fingernail polish or model paints or even markers to colour the tubes.

 

[smoky10]

Jean, before you glue the tube in paint the inside of the blank, with that blank a beige,light brown, or white would be good.

 

[jeanfran26]

Thank you for l craftiness
I n have more that has to begin again
Thank you very much

 

[DocRon]

Jean. I turned one of these recently, and there is a picture in my photo album of it. I sprayed the tube with a white primer before gluing. Some of the paint came off with the CA glue, and if one looks carefully, one can see a small amount of the brass showing, but it is not very noticeable. It is a very pretty material, and my wife stole it immediately!

Might as well include the picture. []

 

[twoofakind]

Here is the one I turned from that material. I used white pearl nail polish.

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Andy

 

[smoky10]

If its the color of Andy's and Doc's pen then what I said is wrong, beige and brown won't work very well, [] but the white will.[]

 

[jeanfran26]

Your pens are magnificent.
Yes c is of the white
I am going to use some varnish has blanc.mais nails before he(it) needs that I rehearse(iron) a command(order)
J had that of it one.
Still thank you very much for
L interet that you have door has my probleme.
Jeans francois

 

[mick]

Jean I've also done as Ron and Andy suggested with that white blank. I've also tried painting the inside of the blank different colors. It makes a very interesting effect. The best one I've done was painted a dark purple inside. With the varying degrees of transparency it made the pens have several shades of purple as well as white. My wife named it "Purple Ice"

 

[Rudy Vey]

Vous devez peindre l'intérieur du plastique et le tube avec la peinture qui est de la couleur du plastique.