DENZ-PENZ
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Hi, I am new to this forum.
I have been turning pens for about 5 months. I wanted to do some new stuff so I bought some olivewood that had been cut from a board(yea, I know all of it was a board to begin with;^) Anyway, I started cutting, drilling and gluing these blanks. When I got them turned down and started to assemble the pens I have run into a problem with the finial(cap?). I am having a HARD time getting the cap into the end of the tube, when it does go in it is cracking the wood blank on that end.
This is on a "comfort pen". I use mostly 7mm tubes but don't keep them separate from kit to kit, could this be my problem?
Thank you in advance, Dennis
I have been turning pens for about 5 months. I wanted to do some new stuff so I bought some olivewood that had been cut from a board(yea, I know all of it was a board to begin with;^) Anyway, I started cutting, drilling and gluing these blanks. When I got them turned down and started to assemble the pens I have run into a problem with the finial(cap?). I am having a HARD time getting the cap into the end of the tube, when it does go in it is cracking the wood blank on that end.
This is on a "comfort pen". I use mostly 7mm tubes but don't keep them separate from kit to kit, could this be my problem?
Thank you in advance, Dennis