egnald
Member
For some reason I have a compulsion to fix the little blemishes and oops and stuff whenever I am turning. Sometimes I wish I could just "let it go" and start over fresh, but I just can't seem to make it happen.
Yesterday I received a box with some new (new to me) pen kits from Dawn at Exotic Blanks. The kits are a Magnetic Graduate Rollerball. I started on one to see just how they would work out. (I've become a big fan of the magnetic cap rollerball style and have been carrying a Zen with a magnetic cap for quite some time now).
I picked out a piece of Cocobolo that looked like it might have some kind of knot-like figure in it in one spot. As I started turning it a crack-like void was exposed around the knot-like figure. I first filled it with my standard Timbermate wood filler, but as it turned away, the void just didn't quite look right - the color was a little off and the filler didn't blend in nice and smooth with the void -- it looked kind of grainy. So, I used a pick to clean it out and applied black CA to fill the void. I will go back to turning it shortly, but in the meantime I thought, why don't I just start over with a different blank? I have plenty of Cocobolo. But here I am waiting for the CA to cure so I can give it another go.
It seems like I have to face a catastrophic and unrecoverable problem before I can give up on a blank. Am I alone?
Dave
Yesterday I received a box with some new (new to me) pen kits from Dawn at Exotic Blanks. The kits are a Magnetic Graduate Rollerball. I started on one to see just how they would work out. (I've become a big fan of the magnetic cap rollerball style and have been carrying a Zen with a magnetic cap for quite some time now).
I picked out a piece of Cocobolo that looked like it might have some kind of knot-like figure in it in one spot. As I started turning it a crack-like void was exposed around the knot-like figure. I first filled it with my standard Timbermate wood filler, but as it turned away, the void just didn't quite look right - the color was a little off and the filler didn't blend in nice and smooth with the void -- it looked kind of grainy. So, I used a pick to clean it out and applied black CA to fill the void. I will go back to turning it shortly, but in the meantime I thought, why don't I just start over with a different blank? I have plenty of Cocobolo. But here I am waiting for the CA to cure so I can give it another go.
It seems like I have to face a catastrophic and unrecoverable problem before I can give up on a blank. Am I alone?
Dave