I have large acrylic blanks, it's a mix of burl and alumilite poly resin, i infused the root burl with resin in a mold.
the blank is about 6 inches in diameter and about 10 inches tall. at the outside of the cylindrical blank is only resin, so i would like to turn a vase and for that I have to remove a huge amount of resin only.
I tried nearly everything from bowl gouge, to roughing gouge to scrapers and so on.
The worst tool is the bowl gouge, when the pressure against the blank is too much, the tool shatters and I getvery aggressive tear outs in the resin.
I don't have much experience with turning acrylics.
Does someone have some tips how I can remove the material fast and accurate ?
thanks
Maik
the blank is about 6 inches in diameter and about 10 inches tall. at the outside of the cylindrical blank is only resin, so i would like to turn a vase and for that I have to remove a huge amount of resin only.
I tried nearly everything from bowl gouge, to roughing gouge to scrapers and so on.
The worst tool is the bowl gouge, when the pressure against the blank is too much, the tool shatters and I getvery aggressive tear outs in the resin.
I don't have much experience with turning acrylics.
Does someone have some tips how I can remove the material fast and accurate ?
thanks
Maik