Brooks803
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This has been the hardest thing for me to turn EVER! It's made from this stuff:
I believe it's called Parallam (link to the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallam). This thing was like turning a herringbone that hadn't had enough glue. Look at it the wrong way and a piece flies off, sneeze in the proximity and a piece flys off, turn the lathe off while it's on the madrel...a piece flys off (anyone notice a pattern here?). Hence the reason for the Oops bands. I only needed 1 but it looked uneven so I parted off the other side to balance it out. I used 2 whole bottles of thin CA just to get it turned down. I'd take 2 LIGHT cuts and then have to soak it in CA, it took a couple days to get finished turning. Put on my CA finish and polished it up with some PlastX. Thanks for looking!
I believe it's called Parallam (link to the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallam). This thing was like turning a herringbone that hadn't had enough glue. Look at it the wrong way and a piece flies off, sneeze in the proximity and a piece flys off, turn the lathe off while it's on the madrel...a piece flys off (anyone notice a pattern here?). Hence the reason for the Oops bands. I only needed 1 but it looked uneven so I parted off the other side to balance it out. I used 2 whole bottles of thin CA just to get it turned down. I'd take 2 LIGHT cuts and then have to soak it in CA, it took a couple days to get finished turning. Put on my CA finish and polished it up with some PlastX. Thanks for looking!
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