CA Finish chipped at edges.

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I just finished a curly maple cigar pen, I scored the finish (I thought deep enough) between the edge of the wood and the bushings, but when I tried to take the bushings off, the CA finish chipped in a few places, one fairly large right to the wood it looks like, and goes down the length of the pen about 1/4". Can this be repaired, and look perfectly normal, or must I sand down to wood and refinish again? I think I know what the answer is. Darn I wish I could have afforded a bunch of delrin bushings from Fangar before he ran out. By the way I did try a search for this info here, but didn't find anything, maybe I didn't use the right search criteria.

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Yeah, I did that before I got the Delrin bushings from James. I would clean up the bushings as good as you can and then wax them with TSW, Renessance or some other wax. Put it back on and fill it with thick CA. Hit it with accel., and sand down. Hopefully the wax with help the CA not stick to the bushings. Some here will put wax paper between the bushing and work. But yeah, it does work and it looks the same as if nothing happened.[:D]
 
I actually didn't think it was that thick, it was 0.015" thick where the chip came off, measured on the chip itself. Had a heck of a time putting the finish on that day, kept going on rough, so I would sand smooth to 15000MM, then try again. When I finally got 2 good coats in a row, I stopped and hoped it was enough as I had sanded so much. I guess I got a lot on it. LOL

Sheldon
 
After many variations applying CA, I have found what works best for me. After sanding the blank to 600 or even 1000 grit, I apply 4 coats of thin CA, low lathe speed, using a folded 1" X 10" piece of wax paper. I put a couple drops on the spinning blank while running the paper back and forth. <u>I stop as soon as I feel any resistance</u>, turn off the lathe and turn it by hand for a few seconds. This process produces such a smooth finish that I can go right to the Micro-Mesh which removes very little material. Of course this will not work if you are trying to fill voids, etc.
 
Sorry, forgot the topic! When I use so little CA (see above reply) the bushings come loose with just a tap or two on a hard surface.
 
Well I waxed to bushings with some car wax, then I started to do what Tanner suggested. It was working very well, and you couldn't see the repair like he said, but then I noticed that the blank was now oversized beaus of the thick finish, so I took a skew to it and brought the blank to a hair undersize, and then went ahead and finish as per normal, about 4 coats of CA, then sand to smooth, then MM to 12000 to make sure I didn't take off all of the CA, very easy to tell this way and only takes a couple of minutes. Then I put about 6 coats of CA/BLO finish on and the pen looks awesome. I scored the edges of the blanks and bushings with the skew, a few taps with the pliers on the bushings and the bushings just slid out. Another thing to remember now. Good thing they say the average human only uses 5% of their brain, otherwise I wouldn't have room to remember all this. LOL.

Sheldon
 
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