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Strange thing

Garno

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Gary
I was turning a Slimline pen earlier when something very peculiar happened.

One of the blanks suddenly looked dark as the lathe was spinning with the other looking very pale, I turned the lathe off and had a look at the blank and it looked like burr, except it felt like cork.

I carried on turning it down to size without any problem.

I then started sanding with 80# Abranet and noticed that very small bits were detaching themselves inside the dark bits of the blanks.
I thought I could sand it all plain and moved onto 120# Abranet and a larger bit worked itself loose, this time all of the way to the tube. (1 x 2mm)

Looking at the blank it now shows that many minor holes have now appeared with only the one going all of the way to the tube, On the other blank there is no damage at all.

I have made the pen without a finish and stopped sanding at 120#

I will post some pics tomorrow along with a SL pen done in Aspen and also with whatever I make tomorrow.

is it possible for a blank to rot from the inside?
 

flexi

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mark
Ah the joys of wood,.... Yes it could be rotten on the inside or just a punky piece of timber.... I have flooded some with CA and turned, flooded, turned, flooded, sanded... Many ways to achieve a reasonable result :whistling::whistling:
 

TVS

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I turned some like that yesterday Spalted woods as Mark said thin CA
 
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