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Remember that I have been away from the addiction for the past 7 years. I have to get a sharpening rig for my tools too. That was at the top of my list before I had to step away and now that I am doing pens again, it is more critical than ever to get one and set it up. I can get new cutter blades for my carbide tools but I have to get a sharpening rig ASAP.
That being said, I wanted to ask something that I have experienced on the last couple of acrylic blanks that I used. The blanks were at least 7 years old and possibly older before I got them. My tools need to be sharpened very badly. So, the issue was a bit of chipping. Instead of getting the lovely ribbons of material as I was turning them, it was often more like a dust. I was turning them at about 1800 rpms too. The purple slimline chipped very badly at near the tip and was done to the tube. I had to use CA glue and some of the dust material to fix it which was extremely hard. But, you can barely tell that I had that huge "chip out" by the tip. My wife loves it because the colors are so amazing in this blank. It was an Acrylester material.
The Music pen had a few chipping issues too but I was pretty much able to sand them out. The colors in this Music blank are beautiful in my opinion. I usually like to trim them down so that they are a bit slimmer but because of the chipping and powdering issues that I was having when trying to turn these, I decided to leave them a bit fatter than I like. They are still pretty but not to my liking.
Any ideas about how to fix these problems when I do Acrylester or other acrylics moving forward?
That being said, I wanted to ask something that I have experienced on the last couple of acrylic blanks that I used. The blanks were at least 7 years old and possibly older before I got them. My tools need to be sharpened very badly. So, the issue was a bit of chipping. Instead of getting the lovely ribbons of material as I was turning them, it was often more like a dust. I was turning them at about 1800 rpms too. The purple slimline chipped very badly at near the tip and was done to the tube. I had to use CA glue and some of the dust material to fix it which was extremely hard. But, you can barely tell that I had that huge "chip out" by the tip. My wife loves it because the colors are so amazing in this blank. It was an Acrylester material.
The Music pen had a few chipping issues too but I was pretty much able to sand them out. The colors in this Music blank are beautiful in my opinion. I usually like to trim them down so that they are a bit slimmer but because of the chipping and powdering issues that I was having when trying to turn these, I decided to leave them a bit fatter than I like. They are still pretty but not to my liking.
Any ideas about how to fix these problems when I do Acrylester or other acrylics moving forward?