phillywood
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OK, I have read on IAP some of the members use thin CA Glue to Glue the pen tubes into the blanks. Today I was without the pain and therefore tried to make two pens all by myself without the my mentor(mrBurl) around so I can show off on Thurs.. Oh well it didn't go the way I wanted it. Here what happened,:
1- Drilled the blanks on the Band saw(correction Drill Press, sorry)( thanks to el_d). the turned out very close except that my pen blank vise (that supposed to square everything out) didn't do a good job on the second blank and it came out off center, a little.
2- Sanded the tubes rough with and paper to make them adhere better.
3- Put a thin run of thin CA over the tubes and few drops in the blank( don't worry I had wax in both ends of the tubes , not to get any CA in the tubes.)
4- held the blanks in the left hand and push the tubes in by the right hand(righty).
Left them sitting and went inside and fooled around in the kitchen for over 1/2 hr.
I come out then put them on 7 MM mandrel and put them on the lathe. start turning and first the bank on the left as soon as I got about 1/8" thickness close to the final edge blew on me. so since the blank was Mesquite and i had extra piece left from the same blank i didn't worry about it.
So, I go to the next blank, I am not sure what kind of wood it was since Lupe was nice enough to send it to me when I first started so I thought I ask him for IDing it after I was done.
OK, here this one goes.
first one on the left on the mandrel started to slip then when I figured that it was the glue that didn't adhere well, i took off the mandrel and wen t to finish the second half of the blank and Bam it spilt in half and came off the tube so when I bent down to pick up the pieces I figured out again it was the CA that didn't hold.
Now, Can anyone tell me what I did wrong here or just because CA didn't hold well this was meant to happen, or the blanks blowing put were caused by another culprit?
Sorry didn't get chance to take a pic. since banks were completely off the tubes.
1- Drilled the blanks on the Band saw(correction Drill Press, sorry)( thanks to el_d). the turned out very close except that my pen blank vise (that supposed to square everything out) didn't do a good job on the second blank and it came out off center, a little.
2- Sanded the tubes rough with and paper to make them adhere better.
3- Put a thin run of thin CA over the tubes and few drops in the blank( don't worry I had wax in both ends of the tubes , not to get any CA in the tubes.)
4- held the blanks in the left hand and push the tubes in by the right hand(righty).
Left them sitting and went inside and fooled around in the kitchen for over 1/2 hr.
I come out then put them on 7 MM mandrel and put them on the lathe. start turning and first the bank on the left as soon as I got about 1/8" thickness close to the final edge blew on me. so since the blank was Mesquite and i had extra piece left from the same blank i didn't worry about it.
So, I go to the next blank, I am not sure what kind of wood it was since Lupe was nice enough to send it to me when I first started so I thought I ask him for IDing it after I was done.
OK, here this one goes.
first one on the left on the mandrel started to slip then when I figured that it was the glue that didn't adhere well, i took off the mandrel and wen t to finish the second half of the blank and Bam it spilt in half and came off the tube so when I bent down to pick up the pieces I figured out again it was the CA that didn't hold.
Now, Can anyone tell me what I did wrong here or just because CA didn't hold well this was meant to happen, or the blanks blowing put were caused by another culprit?
Sorry didn't get chance to take a pic. since banks were completely off the tubes.
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