In2Fish
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Good Day All
I was turning the finished pictured pen yesterday. the pen is made with materials I obtained on an amazon river expedition in Peru last year. i embedded a small amount of sand cured in UV resin, and had a few blowouts of the resin. I had to redo the sand segment about 4 times, so I decided to use some thin CA to help keep things in place. after I sprayed the blank with accelerator, the CA glue expanded wildly as showing in the 2nd pictures.
What caused the CA expansion? i've not seen that before. and i've been using CA in other woodworking projects for about 4 years.
I sanded it down, and continue to finish my pen which turned out nicely. This is my 14th pen and only my 2nd pen sale. I sold it yesterday for $40 in an auction to a group that's generally thrifty with their money, so I was very pleased. if it went over $40 I was going to donate the money over $40 to Project Amazonas, a US based humanitarian group that operates in Peru. https://www.projectamazonas.org/
The outer segments are mahogany, the inner segments are bloodwood, and the center band is the sand cured it UV resin.
I was turning the finished pictured pen yesterday. the pen is made with materials I obtained on an amazon river expedition in Peru last year. i embedded a small amount of sand cured in UV resin, and had a few blowouts of the resin. I had to redo the sand segment about 4 times, so I decided to use some thin CA to help keep things in place. after I sprayed the blank with accelerator, the CA glue expanded wildly as showing in the 2nd pictures.
What caused the CA expansion? i've not seen that before. and i've been using CA in other woodworking projects for about 4 years.
I sanded it down, and continue to finish my pen which turned out nicely. This is my 14th pen and only my 2nd pen sale. I sold it yesterday for $40 in an auction to a group that's generally thrifty with their money, so I was very pleased. if it went over $40 I was going to donate the money over $40 to Project Amazonas, a US based humanitarian group that operates in Peru. https://www.projectamazonas.org/
The outer segments are mahogany, the inner segments are bloodwood, and the center band is the sand cured it UV resin.