Mr Finch
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Having shown off the bog wood blank on a thread the other, SWMBO asked me to make three slimlines and three stylus in the wood.
Drilled (and lost two blanks) and glued them last night and went to turn them this evening. First one went bang, leaving me with one intact. Ok...
Mounted the second one. That went bang too.
Third one seemed to be ok until I got to round. the lighter oak seems to be rather punky and started pulling too. I have left that one covered in CA to see if it will harden.
So, what to do with the intact parts? Obviously I couldn't put them together as the grain wouldn't match and they would just be weird. Then I remembered that in the stuff I got from my Dad there were some (about 20!) keyring kits. That'll do:
Not the world's most inspiring keyrings, but I like 'em!
As a bonus, we contacted the eBay seller Michael18000 (michael18000 on eBay) to ask his advice and within a couple of hours we had a response from him saying that he would put more in the post tomorrow. Now that is service I didn't expect! :)
The first batch we got from him were really black and solid and made some great pens from it. Yes, I still lost two blanks but I think that was down to inexperience at the time.
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Drilled (and lost two blanks) and glued them last night and went to turn them this evening. First one went bang, leaving me with one intact. Ok...
Mounted the second one. That went bang too.
Third one seemed to be ok until I got to round. the lighter oak seems to be rather punky and started pulling too. I have left that one covered in CA to see if it will harden.
So, what to do with the intact parts? Obviously I couldn't put them together as the grain wouldn't match and they would just be weird. Then I remembered that in the stuff I got from my Dad there were some (about 20!) keyring kits. That'll do:
Not the world's most inspiring keyrings, but I like 'em!
As a bonus, we contacted the eBay seller Michael18000 (michael18000 on eBay) to ask his advice and within a couple of hours we had a response from him saying that he would put more in the post tomorrow. Now that is service I didn't expect! :)
The first batch we got from him were really black and solid and made some great pens from it. Yes, I still lost two blanks but I think that was down to inexperience at the time.
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