A few weeks ago when I got back to making pens, I bought a new mandrel since my old one had been under a leak and looked badly rusted. But I managed to clean off the Morse taper with fine steel wool and its fine, so I never opened the 2nd one and was planning on returning it.
Today I was doing my first full CA finish, and the instructions I'm using said to let it dry for 2 hours before the final coats. I was thinking of working on another pen, and could it would be handy in this case, to leave the pen in place while it dried, and switch to the spare mandrel. In the end I didn't - so I might still return it. The other option is to use the credit towards buying a different style mandrel
Are there any other reasons to have two mandrels?
Today I was doing my first full CA finish, and the instructions I'm using said to let it dry for 2 hours before the final coats. I was thinking of working on another pen, and could it would be handy in this case, to leave the pen in place while it dried, and switch to the spare mandrel. In the end I didn't - so I might still return it. The other option is to use the credit towards buying a different style mandrel
Are there any other reasons to have two mandrels?