Todd in PA
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I made my first Gatsby pen over the weekend. Acacia wood, and I put in two Alumilite stripes (also a first) just to see if I could do it. I tried to get a more finished surface using a skew as a scraper, then sanded 320 to 800. Then I followed the instructions in the library for CA finish ("CA My Way"), and then put 3 coats of One Step plastic polish.
This is 100% the best finish I've gotten so far (prior to that I just had some Shellawax cream to go over the sanded wood). But it's obviously flawed and has vertical cloudy stripes. So I'll ask advice from the community.
I don't have any accelerator, so I just waited between coats of CA. The early coats dried in a minute or two. The later coats took as many as 10 minutes. Perhaps I rushed. I also wet sanded and applied the OneStep straight away, when perhaps I should have let it cure an hour or a day? And lastly, I may have had the lathe speed to high and burned the OneStep. I actually got a whiff of smoke off it in one spot and stopped right away. If anyone knows why this happened, I can avoid it again.
PS. I have some CA with accelerator ordered from Amazon arriving Wednesday. Thanks for your help and advice.
~Todd
This is 100% the best finish I've gotten so far (prior to that I just had some Shellawax cream to go over the sanded wood). But it's obviously flawed and has vertical cloudy stripes. So I'll ask advice from the community.
I don't have any accelerator, so I just waited between coats of CA. The early coats dried in a minute or two. The later coats took as many as 10 minutes. Perhaps I rushed. I also wet sanded and applied the OneStep straight away, when perhaps I should have let it cure an hour or a day? And lastly, I may have had the lathe speed to high and burned the OneStep. I actually got a whiff of smoke off it in one spot and stopped right away. If anyone knows why this happened, I can avoid it again.
PS. I have some CA with accelerator ordered from Amazon arriving Wednesday. Thanks for your help and advice.
~Todd