workinforwood
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You'd epoxy your floor, so why not epoxy your pen? This is so easy it's rediculous. This is loctite 5 min epoxy...the faster it sets the better, because that means less dust and of course hopefully no dust at all to settle onto finish. Simply mix up a small batch, turn little pen part baggy inside out, insert finger into bag, dip in finish and apply to slow spinning pen. One coat goes on like at least 5 coats of thin CA. Turn off lathe. Don't worry about small ridges, it'll level itself out perfectly with a few seconds. Slowly spin lathe by hand half turn every few seconds and continue this for about 30 seconds total. Walk away. In ten minutes you can remove mandrel and start a new pen, or you can wait about 2 hrs and the pen will be set enough for some wet sanding. If you are really lucky and had absolutely no dust settling..then simply cut pen from bushings, clean up ends like you always need to and assemble. Sure my photography is crap as always <it's the camera of course>, but you can see this pen on the lathe looks like it was dipped in glass. 1 coat applied properly is all it takes. Newbies will especially be inpressed...I'm no loctite spokesman, but I'm giving it 2 thumbs up.
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