Dan Mosley
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Well I tried out my hand at pen turning for the first time took a 1" blank of Mesquite- drilled it out - glued up - barrel cut it - put on mandrel - tightened up - turned and blew right into the brass sleeve.......................
Second attempt - put another one on and finished it out nicely - pictures show it on the mandrel during the finishing phase - which was 3 coats of CA glue - 0000 between each coat - then 4-5 coats of shellawax - took it off and used a padded clamp to put the kit together - it looked very very nice.......later i went back out to do another and saw that i had ruined the shaft end on the mandrel with my pointed live center - I thought I had just touched it to the end and was careful not to tighten it up but something went wrong......Dang.....
This morning I ordered another shaft for the mandrel from woodturners catalog along with a 60' live center to prevent it from happening again.
The tool I used was a freshly sharpened up Bedan - skew tip on the ends for a quick touch - seemed to be the easy way to get a very clean consistent cut.
Well what the heck its all in fun I guess - if you would have asked me before I would have told you im never going to turn pens - now im having fun so I guess ill be turning more pens soon.............................
Second attempt - put another one on and finished it out nicely - pictures show it on the mandrel during the finishing phase - which was 3 coats of CA glue - 0000 between each coat - then 4-5 coats of shellawax - took it off and used a padded clamp to put the kit together - it looked very very nice.......later i went back out to do another and saw that i had ruined the shaft end on the mandrel with my pointed live center - I thought I had just touched it to the end and was careful not to tighten it up but something went wrong......Dang.....
This morning I ordered another shaft for the mandrel from woodturners catalog along with a 60' live center to prevent it from happening again.
The tool I used was a freshly sharpened up Bedan - skew tip on the ends for a quick touch - seemed to be the easy way to get a very clean consistent cut.
Well what the heck its all in fun I guess - if you would have asked me before I would have told you im never going to turn pens - now im having fun so I guess ill be turning more pens soon.............................
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