Hartville Tool Sale Demo

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Magicbob said:
I got a call from Hartville Hardware asking me if I would do a couple of pen turning demos during their annual tool sale. Now, I couldn't say no could I?

I am meeting with them next Tuesday and will have more details then.
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Maybe some of us can come and heckle you from the peanut gallery:

"Hey the blanks on backwards"

"Why are you turning in reverse"

""Who picked out the ugly kit"

"Your skew is skewed"

Have FUN!!!
 
Update:

The Tool Sale is Nov 20-21
I'll be "ON" at 2:00 each day.
I will be turning, assembling and giving away 2 Sierra pens each day, not sure of the blanks completely yet, 1) Corian, 1) deer antler, 1) acrylic, and 1 undecided.

Please stop by and offer any tips, comments, encouragement, or heckles.:biggrin:

Events - Tool Sale

BTW, I'll be the large, disgustingly good lookin man behind the lathe.:eek:
 
Magicbob said:
Update:

The Tool Sale is Nov 20-21
I'll be "ON" at 2:00 each day.
I will be turning, assembling and giving away 2 Sierra pens each day, not sure of the blanks completely yet, 1) Corian, 1) deer antler, 1) acrylic, and 1 undecided.

Please stop by and offer any tips, comments, encouragement, or heckles.:biggrin:

Events - Tool Sale

BTW, I'll be the large, disgustingly good lookin man behind the lathe.:eek:
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Want me to send ya an alabaster blank?
 
Alabaster turns much like a very VERY dry cedar, actually... MAKE SURE YOU USE A DUST COLLECTOR! At least the alabaster I have here at the moment that I like working with. I have some Italian alabaster as well, which turns quite a bit more like ebony. It's beautiful, but very difficult to work, I'm having problems with it. I'ld send you some of this New Mexico Alabaster ... it's got some lovely orange and cream colors in it.

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My issues with using it normally is that it is some fairly fragile stuff, and it won't take a CA finish very well. I tried doing a CA finish on it, and the CA sloughed right off. I have no idea what I may have done wrong, and I plan to try again sometime, but these pics are with NO surface coat whatsoever ... just plain polished stone. PlastX worked beautifully, since it's such a soft material.

If you want to finish an alabaster pen, just take it up to 12,000 grit micromesh as you would an acrylic, and then polish just like acrylic. Before pressing the pen together, take a power drill with a small slotted rod and chuck in a piece of 500 grit sandpaper and ream the seating areas in the barrels. You do NOT want a tight press seal in your brass barrels, the stone WILL crack. You want a loose hand press for the parts, and either epoxy or CA them in place.

DO NOT DROP. Alabaster will shatter.
 

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So after thinking about the dangers of turning antler, I have decided to turn 2 corian, 1 acrylic, and 1 bowling ball. The bowling ball is cut from an old hard rubber ball, stinks like crazy, should get some attention.
Stop by and say hi
 
I'll be there on Saturday, Bob. I was hoping for Friday too, but some genius scheduled a meeting I need to attend.
 
Friday went well, man was that place packed.
About 60 people watched the demo.
Corian part went well, but when turning the acrylic blank, I had a blow out, first one in a long time. Oh well.....
Today I'll explain and turn another Corian and then an old bowling ball.
Here's to better luck today
 
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