CA/BLO Finish

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Maybe someone here can offer a suggestion. I currently have had my pens finished with medium thickness CA glue and BLO...usually about three coats of each. What I seem to be getting is a nice looking hard matte finish, which I like. (I like to use my pens, not worry about them getting one tiny little peck in the finish.)

What I'm wondering though, is if there is a way or method to get that hard, mirror-shine finish like you get with acrylic pens, but on a wooden pen. I'm not talking about super-porous woods like Padauk and Walnut, I mean average-pored woods like rosewood and cocobolo.
 
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I tried the search several different ways, and all I found was people talking about using that technique. I couldn't find where the technique itself was posted. Can someone give me a link?
 
Here's what works for me and on all woods...even on antler.
http://www.penturners.org/content/DonWardCA.pdf

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What I'm wondering though, is if there is a way or method to get that hard, mirror-shine finish like you get with acrylic pens, but on a wooden pen.
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What are you doing after the CA? I use a combination of the two tutorials that Don and Jim referred you to.

For me, I found the best way to get the high gloss finish is to buff the pen with white diamond polish and a buffing wheel after going through all the MicroMesh steps. This includes the open porous woods like purple heart and padauk. For those woods, I use several coats of thin CA as a sanding sealer.
 
I'm using Russ Fairfields CA/BLO finish lately and like it a lot. I don't have a buffer set up so what I do to get that mirror like finish is to buff the finished blanks out on the lathe using Hut Plastic polish. I get a slick mirror like finish on almost all my pens.
 
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