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I am new to the EEE Ultrashine....I understand it is to be used as a final SANDING product...can I use a friction polish such as Mylands or Huts Crystal Coat OVER the EEE Ultrashine?.....what products are compatible with it? thanks...[?]
 
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Originally posted by JAB1
<br />can I use a friction polish such as Mylands or Huts Crystal Coat OVER the EEE Ultrashine?.....[?]
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I can't speak with any authority, but that's how they told us to do it at the penturning workshop at WoodCraft...

-Rick
 
EEE is Tripoli, more commonly know as Jewelers Rouge, in a solution of liquid wax. Jewelers Rouge is somewhere between 900 and 110 grit when compared to sandpaper grits.

It will leave a thin coating of wax on the wood after it has dried and buffed. Any finish that is not a waterborne can be used as a finish over it because the was is soluble in the thinners for all finishes except the aterborne finishes such as Enduro.
 
I appreciate all the feedback. Russ, If I understand your reply, I can use anything as a finish over the EEE as long as it has been dried, buffed and as long as it is not a water soluble finish....correct?
 
Woodcraft instructors encourage the use of almost every finishing product on the store shelves for finishing pens...and use them all on each pen...could it be a "sell the products" encouragement from the store managers? I've sat through two different penturning classes (not a student...just a watcher) at Woodcraft stores and couldn't believe all of the liquids used on each pen to finihs them....then the sticks and waxes. Rant over.
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Originally posted by rick_lindsey
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Originally posted by JAB1
<br />can I use a friction polish such as Mylands or Huts Crystal Coat OVER the EEE Ultrashine?.....[?]
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I can't speak with any authority, but that's how they told us to do it at the penturning workshop at WoodCraft...

-Rick
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Varies by store. The class I took used only 2 products -- HUT friction polish and caranuba wax.

Originally posted by its_virgil
<br />Woodcraft instructors encourage the use of almost every finishing product on the store shelves for finishing pens...and use them all on each pen...could it be a "sell the products" encouragement from the store managers?
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I know I am no expert, and I know my eyes aren't the best, but I cannot for the life of me tell the difference between 3200 MM and EEE. I think it's a good product and it has it's place. I really wish they would come out with a similar product with White Diamond.
 
The wooodcraft class I took used only mylands friction polish, not even he wax and sanding sealer. They also had most of the class use a pen mill with a handle and trimmed the ends by hand rather than a drill press. They let me use a drill press. Of course they did ok that night because after the class I left with a lathe, and all kinds of stuff to make pens. And have almost worn out my Lathe in the last 6 months.
 
Sanding Sealer, Behlens Woodturners Finish, something called Solarlux (UV Protection),Friction Polish, HUT PPP sticks, and finally Carnauba wax. I suppose things differ store by store but it still seems that they were trying to sell products.
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Originally posted by polarbear1
<br />The wooodcraft class I took used only mylands friction polish, not even he wax and sanding sealer.
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Originally posted by hughbie
<br />since your talking EEE.........is EEE and tripoli the same thing?
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The ONLY difference between EEE and tripoli powder is the wax concoction that the EEE uses.

I do not use this product since I do not use friction polish.

You can buy a $10 padded Micromesh kit that will sand/polish bare wood a LOT more effectively than EEE, IMO, FWIW.
 
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