robutacion
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Hi peoples,
This afternoon, trying to keep my body and head busy with something rather than, a mild food poisoning and the flu that got me by the "curllies" since last Saturday, I got 2 of the nastiest shorts I had from this bunch of blanks and decided to make a pen sample, double barrel style.
These shorts were covered with wax (superficial, only) basically to keep them all together, more than anything else so CA soaking had to be done after the blanks were glued to a wood stick and turned enough to get them round, taking the tape and the wax with it, after that CA soaking was easy as per normal.
I did take pics of the blanks being wrapped with masking tape, to make sure they would keep together for the drilling, and some pic from it after drilled. This is always something that I suggest people to do, when dealing with fragile type blanks...!
There is not a lot more to explain, after the half a dozen of CA coats, right to the final polishing, the question is, WHAT IS IT...???
I have used these specific shorts, in an attempt to give them the credit they deserve, as may be a perception that, having soft spots makes them useless/unworkable. I could easily have put these barrels in one of many dozens of pen kits I have but, I don't sell pens and I have more already made that I can poke a stick at so, making the pen "samples" either in this double barrel style or straight as normal, is more than sufficient to give an idea of how the wood would look like.
Nothing too important, really, I just though in make a little sawdust...!
Let me know, if you know what they are...!
Have fun...!
PS: Sorry for the surface dust particles, I never saw it...!:frown:
Cheers
George
This afternoon, trying to keep my body and head busy with something rather than, a mild food poisoning and the flu that got me by the "curllies" since last Saturday, I got 2 of the nastiest shorts I had from this bunch of blanks and decided to make a pen sample, double barrel style.
These shorts were covered with wax (superficial, only) basically to keep them all together, more than anything else so CA soaking had to be done after the blanks were glued to a wood stick and turned enough to get them round, taking the tape and the wax with it, after that CA soaking was easy as per normal.
I did take pics of the blanks being wrapped with masking tape, to make sure they would keep together for the drilling, and some pic from it after drilled. This is always something that I suggest people to do, when dealing with fragile type blanks...!
There is not a lot more to explain, after the half a dozen of CA coats, right to the final polishing, the question is, WHAT IS IT...???
I have used these specific shorts, in an attempt to give them the credit they deserve, as may be a perception that, having soft spots makes them useless/unworkable. I could easily have put these barrels in one of many dozens of pen kits I have but, I don't sell pens and I have more already made that I can poke a stick at so, making the pen "samples" either in this double barrel style or straight as normal, is more than sufficient to give an idea of how the wood would look like.
Nothing too important, really, I just though in make a little sawdust...!
Let me know, if you know what they are...!
Have fun...!
PS: Sorry for the surface dust particles, I never saw it...!:frown:
Cheers
George
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