a trip to the bone yard

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So the other night I was turning that gray material - rhino plastic (polyresin) - and I kept getting little pits and blisters, but only in one spot on the middle of the barrel. No change in pressure or angle or anything I could think of made a difference. So I turned the lathe off and SMASHED it. Boy that felt good. :) THe next night I was turning the brown acrylic, and had the barrel nearly finished. I was turning the end of the barrel to size in the collet chuck and the barrel just split in half. I must have been too aggressive with the skew. Oh well. Happens. :) So I used the brown section and put it with some purple russet potato skin lookin plastic. They don't go together too well, but I'm thinking that whoever gets it (a student) won't mind too much.











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watch_art said:
The site where the photos are hosted crashed last night. :(
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That would be the reason I always load the pictures directly to the forum thread on any of the forums I post in.

They are always there for people to see even if the poster has moved on to other things or the hosting site closes down.

Please don't take that as lecturing, just a suggestion.
 
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Curly said:
...Please don't take that as lecturing ...
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Now close your book, take out a pencil and two sheets of paper, and write an essay on the proceeding lecture, comparing and contrasting the information you just received with your experiences in the "real world." :biggrin:
 
I'll write my essay with one of my fountain pens. :biggrin:

THe site that crashed was fountain pen network.

We don't know what's going on (I'm a mod over there) and a lot of people (on facebook) are kind of quietly freaking out.

:tongue:

Hopefully it'll be back up soon.
 
watch_art said:
I'll write my essay with one of my fountain pens. :biggrin:

THe site that crashed was fountain pen network.

We don't know what's going on (I'm a mod over there) and a lot of people (on facebook) are kind of quietly freaking out.

:tongue:

Hopefully it'll be back up soon.
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Hope so. I haven't been on there in several days... didn't know it was down. I can imagine how the users there must feel. Some of those folks have ink in their veins and nibs for fingernails. :tongue: The withdrawal must be killing them.
 
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I was wondering why it wouldn't open no mater what I did. :eek: Hope it is back up and running without losses soon.

Do I need to make a teachers pen now?
 
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