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ed4copies

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"BLOW UP" the blank???

The biggest thing I got from this video is, even Ed Brown blows apart a blank once and a while.....

Believe me, the temptation was there to leave that on the editing floor. But, then I thought---it was almost done, why do it again??? YES, no matter how much you have turned, sometimes you break one!!! It broke right along the line of the pattern----NO THIS IS NOT a defect in the material, it is a defect in the turning technique!!!! I felt the vibration a couple times, should have gone to sandpaper, or called it quits---instead I turned a few thousandths TOO far, for this particular piece----we all do it!
 

PeetyInMich

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Feb 19, 2012
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Monroe Michigan 48162
We have all been there, I blew up a cocobolo cap end for an over under pen tonight, a little to aggressive with the gouge, it was glued up with epoxy that was starting to kick and the shrapnel looks like it had poor adhesion to the brass. The material on the cap end of that kit winds up pretty thin but, I blew it up way before I would have started sanding (60 grit gouge).
 
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