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Jr Gents

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dotslad

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Jr. Gents in acrylic.
Trying to get the hang of turning acrylic on the wood lathe as I no longer have a metal lathe done this using a roughing gouge and then a bullnose scraper best result so far,
Anyone who can give me a few tips I would be grateful
 

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Gav

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Lovely pen, like the blank.

For acrylics, and this is me, I rough out with whatever gouge comes to hand first, and then use my skew for the final cut, very carefully and I get a decent finish with few chatter marks.

Then I use wet and dry through to 2000 grit (probably don't need to go that high, but I enjoy this bit) and then T-Cut.

If I feel a blank is particularly fragile, I'll leave some extra on and do some more wet sanding with 240 grit to get the final shape, just in case!

That's me anyway! :banana:
 
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Very nice Ian looks like your doing very well mate one very nice pen me ol cockier all I do is turn with the same tool as I use for wood that is a continental spindle gouge the tip to remove most of it then the wings to do my finishing cut sand to 600 grit then T cut job done
 
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