CA finish - incompatable woods

[BobRad]

Are there any woods that are not suited to a CA finish?

 

[bitshird]

Some times Ancient Kauri just soaks it up, and some woods that are extremely oily will cause the CA to fog or blush, it may not happen for a few months. I've had it happen the worst on Brazilian Ebony, and on some Padauk that wasn't cured long enough.

 

[monophoto]

My understanding is that one of the advantages of CA is that it builds to produce a high gloss.

In my [limited] experience, cherry does not respond well to CA. It finishes, and it looks nice, but it appears to soak in rather than build a thick, glossy coating. I can't comment on how well it ages.

 

[Reece]

I've heard people say that cocobolo can be difficult to finish with CA due to the high oil level, but i haven't had any experience with this yet.

 

[Pens By Scott]

I haven't had any problems (yet) with Cocobolo and CA, but I use Medium CA and an accelerator.

 

[DrPepper8412]

I always have a huge issue with the walnut burl I use

 

[ToddMR]

Dry woods just take more layers. I like to personally use 2-3 coats of Thin CA first then the Med CA. I had great results when I did a Padauk mini bullet PSI kit a month ago or so. The pen still looks great with a nice shinny finish. I don't think I have done CA on cocobolo yet. I recently had good luck finishing a BOW pen too. I personally think using the accelerator followed by the thin ca helps. I could be wrong, but at least I have been lucky thus far with it.

 

[mick]

I've not run into any woods that can't be finished with CA...some just take a different approach

 

[PenMan1]

Are there any woods that are not suited to a CA finish?

Most of the woods I turn when drinking are not suited to a CA finish:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

Seriously, use CA acelerator or acetone to clean all oily woods (cocobolo, HRB, BOW, et. all). Additionally, with these woods, I omit the BLO.