Alan Morrison
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Black Palmira with Koa end caps on a Headwind kit from Beaufort Ink.
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Jim15
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Great work.
Larryreitz
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Nice job.
egnald
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Very Nice! - Dave
Painfullyslow
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Beautiful work!
howsitwork
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Alan
very impressive . Any issue with the palm splintering ? I'm struggling with it to be honest even after resin stabilizing and careful honing of skew a moments inattention and it sheds grain fibre .
very impressive . Any issue with the palm splintering ? I'm struggling with it to be honest even after resin stabilizing and careful honing of skew a moments inattention and it sheds grain fibre .
Alchemist
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Very nice work!
Alan Morrison
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Thanks Ian. I seem to be very lucky with any palm that I turned, none of which was stabilised. No splintering. Of late I have put end caps on either side of the blank, just to be on the safe side. I just use a round carbide cutter with light touches.
Alan
howsitwork
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I'm using the skew at a planing angle, very shallow cuts but , as said a moments inattention and it grabs.
I've not gone down the carbide router for pens yet . I have got one of the Simon Hope boring bars tips to make a deep angled boring gadget I have in mind.
Ends caps seem a good idea too , again not tried it yet.
all the best Ian
Painfullyslow
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@howsitwork I've made several black palm pens out of unstabilized wood. My best results were with a carbide skew at about a 45 degree angle. S
howsitwork
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Thanks Michael
thats what i me trying with a honed HSS round section skew chisel ( my favourite) . I usually use a 1/2" one but find switching to my 1/4" one useful some times. Even so a moments inattention grain " plucks" . but you can't use it to Scrape with it flat or frankly you're dead in the water !
I did hope the stabilising resin ( stickfast) might bind it together a bit more but sadly not .
More practice needed me thinks .
thats what i me trying with a honed HSS round section skew chisel ( my favourite) . I usually use a 1/2" one but find switching to my 1/4" one useful some times. Even so a moments inattention grain " plucks" . but you can't use it to Scrape with it flat or frankly you're dead in the water !
I did hope the stabilising resin ( stickfast) might bind it together a bit more but sadly not .
More practice needed me thinks .