sorcerertd
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I hadn't turned any of slims in a long time. Definitely not my best work, but I'm happy with them. Believe it or not, these are both eucalyptus.
That tighter grained blank was just labeled eucalyptus. The blue band was a leftover piece from a piece of dyed box elder burl. I was originally going to use gunmetal, but liked the brighter chrome better on it.
The longer one was supposed to be a euro, but I turned the ends to the diameter of a slim. I used my Rick Herrell offset sanding jig to shorten the bottom barrel down to where the diameter fit the euro tip, but calipers told me the top end was just not going to work with the euro top so it's now a hybrid. I could have sworn the tips were the same size for the slim and the euro and only the top was different. Guess I'm going to have a euro with a slim tip some time in the future. Anyway, that one is figured eucalyptus with a band of brown mallee.
That tighter grained blank was just labeled eucalyptus. The blue band was a leftover piece from a piece of dyed box elder burl. I was originally going to use gunmetal, but liked the brighter chrome better on it.
The longer one was supposed to be a euro, but I turned the ends to the diameter of a slim. I used my Rick Herrell offset sanding jig to shorten the bottom barrel down to where the diameter fit the euro tip, but calipers told me the top end was just not going to work with the euro top so it's now a hybrid. I could have sworn the tips were the same size for the slim and the euro and only the top was different. Guess I'm going to have a euro with a slim tip some time in the future. Anyway, that one is figured eucalyptus with a band of brown mallee.
