Fibonacci
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I got an "artificial" blank in that box of stuff from Buzzz4 a little while back and just tried turning it.
I originally thought it was acrylic, but it smelled like fiberglass when I drilled it and shot off long stringy fibers as I turned.
Any idea what material is really was? It is a milky white with red and blue swirls through it. I think it also had some pearl or metallic sheen to it.
It really is a sad story. I started turning with the skew, because the general consensus seems to be that a sharp skew is the way to go for acrylic (at the time, I was assuming it was acrylic). It was working great. I stopped a couple times to sharpen the skew based on some advice that I had been given.
Once I got down close to the final size, I decided to switch to my scraper, since that is usually when I destroy a blank with the skew and I really liked how this was looking.
The first touch of the scraper shattered a chunk out of the side.
I went back to the skew to get some more practice, and the rest of the blank came out great, polished up nicely, all that.
Not sure what the moral of the story is, but I am over my fear of plastic type blanks. I would like to know what that one was, but now I just need my own drill press too.
I originally thought it was acrylic, but it smelled like fiberglass when I drilled it and shot off long stringy fibers as I turned.
Any idea what material is really was? It is a milky white with red and blue swirls through it. I think it also had some pearl or metallic sheen to it.
It really is a sad story. I started turning with the skew, because the general consensus seems to be that a sharp skew is the way to go for acrylic (at the time, I was assuming it was acrylic). It was working great. I stopped a couple times to sharpen the skew based on some advice that I had been given.
Once I got down close to the final size, I decided to switch to my scraper, since that is usually when I destroy a blank with the skew and I really liked how this was looking.
The first touch of the scraper shattered a chunk out of the side.
I went back to the skew to get some more practice, and the rest of the blank came out great, polished up nicely, all that.
Not sure what the moral of the story is, but I am over my fear of plastic type blanks. I would like to know what that one was, but now I just need my own drill press too.