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First sucessful attempt at none wood. An Acrylic on a slimline in chrome

scouseroy

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I decided to get myself some carbide chisels as I have been really struggling sharpening traditional ones and that caused my first attempt at none wood to explode and have bits of corian everywhere,and a tiny corian light pull was all I could salvage from it .
so I managed to turn this today using my new tools and I'm really happy with the results so I'm keeping it for me!! finished with micro mesh and tcut cos that's all I had

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Well you have mastered acrylic, it looks really well finished:banana::thumbs:

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Nice one Roy, What tools where you struggling to sharpen? Skews and scrapers (all I used for the first part of my turning) can be sharpened with a tiny oil stone
 
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I like it Roy, welcome to the world of plastics, it sure does make nice pens .. :wink:
 
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I bought and have been using a 3/4 inch roughing gouge and was getting on fine with it but had a bit of a slip on the grinder and couldn't seem to get it back right so decided rather than spending more on more conventional chisels I would buy a little set of carbide tips and I love them,bit fiddley at first but they cut like a knife through butter and I believe I can use them to turn bowls so no need to buy a bowl gouge?am I cheating?:tongue:
mattyts said:
Nice one Roy, What tools where you struggling to sharpen? Skews and scrapers (all I used for the first part of my turning) can be sharpened with a tiny oil stone
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scouseroy said:
I bought and have been using a 3/4 inch roughing gouge and was getting on fine with it but had a bit of a slip on the grinder and couldn't seem to get it back right so decided rather than spending more on more conventional chisels I would buy a little set of carbide tips and I love them,bit fiddley at first but they cut like a knife through butter and I believe I can use them to turn bowls so no need to buy a bowl gouge?am I cheating?:tongue:
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Yeah they are very good,eventually they will need sharpening but all you do is lay them face down on a piece of sandpaper and rub back and forth,should be no problems with bowls.

To sharpen a roughing gouge,I use a jig that holds the butt of the chisel,set the angle by moving the jig forwards or backwards (using sharpie on the tool and moving the stone by hand to see where your removing metal,if its on the front of the edge,your increasing the angle,if its further back,you're decreasing it.

Start the grinder up,present the tool then just rock side to side.

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A lovely pen that takes you to the other side Roy... Come back soon :funny:
 
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