ca finishing

I am trying to achieve a high gloss finish on a wood pen. My procedure thus far is: (a) make a little puddle of BLO in a rag (b) put some medium CA in the puddle (c) apply to the pen blank at 3600 RPM. (d) repeat the above steps 5-7 times. The above gives me a nice satin finish, but not a...

Hello again, I have a repeating problem in several of my pens: There are small scratches on them. Hope you can see it in the picture attached. Also, the CA finish seems to be of different thicknesses on the same pen. Some parts are "glassy" and shiny, while other still feel "woody", with...

I am curious if anyone has a recommendation for polyethylene gloves to use with CA finishes. I currently use the food service, very thin, polyethylene gloves that I found on Amazon. They work fine; however, I would like to use something a little thicker, and have not been able to find them...

I've been doing CA finish on my pens with positive results. I normally just use a paper towel folded repeatedly to apply. If you've done CA finishes this way you know that the paper towel acts as an accelerator for the glue. Do any of you use alternative applicators... ones that don't begin...

Thank you all for having such a great community! I am learning quite a bit from you guys, including the fact that I want to do so much more than I thought about. I am hoping someone here has had the same problem I have. When applying my second through whatever coat of CA finish, I seem to get...

So, after finishing the upper barrel perfectly, at times my lower barrel will just about be complete when the dreaded lifting of the CA happens ruining the blank. Usually I skew off the 9 coats of medium CA then sand. This is painfully slow and introduces sanding marks etc. So....has...

Greetings to all. My name is Dan and I go by The Biz Doc which represents my day job helping entrepreneurs with their businesses. My real passion is turning pens and I am fairly new to the art. Another IAP member, The Parson and I turn pens together, regularly and are interested in segmenting...