emackrell
Member
So there I was last night, sanding a lapis trustone Jr Gent blank on the lathe. All of a sudden the blank starts to look discolored near the cap end. I stopped the lathe and found a small patch of trustone that had somehow lost its color. It looked like I had sanded right through the color, which of course should not be possible with trustone. What's left looks like the cloudy heavy plastic they make chair-mats for office chairs out of.
I was using abranet at the time, not applying much pressure, and there was still lots of material above the tube. Still is, in fact, it's just not blue any more.
Anyone ever had this happen to them? Any ideas on what I might have done to get this reaction or how it could be prevented? The pen was going to be a Christmas gift for my Dad. If I can figure out how to not have this happen again I'll retry with another blank -- but trustone is kinda expensive to risk another blank just on spec.
Sigh Eileen
I was using abranet at the time, not applying much pressure, and there was still lots of material above the tube. Still is, in fact, it's just not blue any more.
Anyone ever had this happen to them? Any ideas on what I might have done to get this reaction or how it could be prevented? The pen was going to be a Christmas gift for my Dad. If I can figure out how to not have this happen again I'll retry with another blank -- but trustone is kinda expensive to risk another blank just on spec.
Sigh Eileen