woodscavenger
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Lately I have had some nasty tear outs near the finishing stages of pens on some woods so I have turned to grit gouges (60-100 grit spandpaper) to finalize dimensions. All of the pens have turned out well....until tonight.
I was working on a walnut pen with birch dowel inserts that come out with endgrain on each side. I have one posted in my album. Anyway I had a skew cut that was a littel too agressive that popped one of the dowel plugs out. I grabbed it and glued it back in. Let the CA cure and I decided to finish things of with the grit gouges.
Remember I said I had endgrain birch mated to soft easy to sand walnut. Well by the time I figured out what had happened I am now the happy owner of a beautiful walnut and birch inlay cigar pen with a VERY oval shaped top tube.[B)][:0] I am going to keep it as a shop pen to remind myself of what not to do!
I was working on a walnut pen with birch dowel inserts that come out with endgrain on each side. I have one posted in my album. Anyway I had a skew cut that was a littel too agressive that popped one of the dowel plugs out. I grabbed it and glued it back in. Let the CA cure and I decided to finish things of with the grit gouges.
Remember I said I had endgrain birch mated to soft easy to sand walnut. Well by the time I figured out what had happened I am now the happy owner of a beautiful walnut and birch inlay cigar pen with a VERY oval shaped top tube.[B)][:0] I am going to keep it as a shop pen to remind myself of what not to do!