I've had very little time to spend turning recently but I drummed up the courage to do a CA finish. Read quite a bit and watched plenty of videos so wasn't as daunting as I first thought!
Method - sanded blank to 600grit with lathe on then longitudinally with lathe off after each grit. I applied 5/6 coats of thin CA, then 3/4 coats of medium and one coat of thin to finish and hopefully even out any ridges etc. Sanded with Micro mesh pads from 1500 to 12000 with lathe on only. Then finished with the polish in the StickFast kit.
I'm pretty happy with the finish. Takes a bit longer than slapping on some friction polish but even on my first attempt it looks much better than FP.
Two issues I've seen in this pen both of which are only visible if the pen is inspected closely under bright light.
1) Several small scattered pits in the finish. I haven't really read much about those in other threads. I though I had put on enough coats to even out any grain holes. Any thoughts?
2) Very fine circumferential scratches. I was conscious of sanding through the finish so perhaps I didn't sand for long enough. With lathe at about 1500 rpm I sanded for about 5 seconds per per blank at the lower grits. A bit longer at the higher grits. Was this too short?
Thanks for any responses. Such a wealth of information on here [emoji106]
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Method - sanded blank to 600grit with lathe on then longitudinally with lathe off after each grit. I applied 5/6 coats of thin CA, then 3/4 coats of medium and one coat of thin to finish and hopefully even out any ridges etc. Sanded with Micro mesh pads from 1500 to 12000 with lathe on only. Then finished with the polish in the StickFast kit.
I'm pretty happy with the finish. Takes a bit longer than slapping on some friction polish but even on my first attempt it looks much better than FP.
Two issues I've seen in this pen both of which are only visible if the pen is inspected closely under bright light.
1) Several small scattered pits in the finish. I haven't really read much about those in other threads. I though I had put on enough coats to even out any grain holes. Any thoughts?
2) Very fine circumferential scratches. I was conscious of sanding through the finish so perhaps I didn't sand for long enough. With lathe at about 1500 rpm I sanded for about 5 seconds per per blank at the lower grits. A bit longer at the higher grits. Was this too short?
Thanks for any responses. Such a wealth of information on here [emoji106]
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