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monkeynutz
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Never seen so many shavings in my life... Used a 3/4" oval skew, sharp enough to shave with. Easter basket grass... everywhere... big clumps of it, shavings 12" long. Stuck to everything (static) and I spent more of my time snatching handfuls of it off the spinning mandrel than I did actually turning. Very hard to see through it to what I was doing.
Is this normal operations with acrylic? Any tricks to seeing better, getting the shavings to release from the work on their own a little better?
I also see that shaping with sandpaper is probably not gonna work with acrylics. Have to use the skew down to a gnat's hiney, and not go to the paper until the finish, I guess. Sure does polish up nice with MM, though.
Is this normal operations with acrylic? Any tricks to seeing better, getting the shavings to release from the work on their own a little better?
I also see that shaping with sandpaper is probably not gonna work with acrylics. Have to use the skew down to a gnat's hiney, and not go to the paper until the finish, I guess. Sure does polish up nice with MM, though.