Munsterlander
Member
Trying to figure out if this is just an experience/skill problem (I'm approaching about 200 pens now) or if some blanks just can't be tamed.
I've had 2 or 3 pens that no matter how many times I wet sand with CA, finish with CA, MM 3 times, whatever, I cannot get some of the small cracks to fill or reraise or something. One is a piece of brown mallee, another one is asian ironwood. The asian ironwood has a place that kind of looks a slice was made into the wood (there wasn't, that's just what it looks like) and it sort keeps reraising on one side.
So do you guys who have made hundreds or thousands of pens just find a way to fix this or do you sometimes just give up on a particular blank?
I've had 2 or 3 pens that no matter how many times I wet sand with CA, finish with CA, MM 3 times, whatever, I cannot get some of the small cracks to fill or reraise or something. One is a piece of brown mallee, another one is asian ironwood. The asian ironwood has a place that kind of looks a slice was made into the wood (there wasn't, that's just what it looks like) and it sort keeps reraising on one side.
So do you guys who have made hundreds or thousands of pens just find a way to fix this or do you sometimes just give up on a particular blank?