finishing

three questions on finishing.... 1. What is everyone's favorite plastic polish? and 2. When do you use it? (after 12000 MM as a last step, or after 6000 MM then buff etc....) 3. What do you apply it with/buff it with?

Ok, I know I've seen it somewhere, but for the life of me, I just can't find it anymore. Can someone show me an example of a shoe-polish finish? I'm wanting to say what I saw was a bowl someone turned then dyed with black shoe-polish.

I would like to find out what techniques folks are using to finish the swirl blanks ankrom et al sell. Here's my method: 1. After turning, sand with 320 abranet. 2. Stop lathe and sand lengthwise until all circular scratches are gone and you have lengthwise scratches 3. repeat 1-2...

ok...I screwed up and used black sandpaper on my ww swirl blank. I prefer it because the 400 and 600 grit paper seems to work better than the stock rolls you get from pen kit suppliers. Well, after trying to skew down the blank a little bit trying to scrape off the stain, it is still there...

Reality...I'm a fairly new turner, focusing on burls, celtic knots and wothless wood crack blanks. Turned a few with my standard rykon midi lathe setup that turned out pretty good, then noticed a host of problems form out of round (OOR) and dullness on the ca finish and painful hours of...

I am very new to pen turning, I have only turned one pen so far, I've got about $100.00 worth of products coming mail order tomorrow.:biggrin: Here's my problem: I turned a Tycoon pen, used purple heart, which after I had the blanks cut and tubes glued in I was told purple heart doesn't...

I'm having a hell of a time getting small scratches out of acrylic blanks. After shaping and a final sand with 600 grit sand paper, I move to micro mesh. After going through all the pads with water (about 30 seconds on the most course then about 20 seconds on subsequent finer grits) I have...

Newbie here, but I've done about 10 CA finishes so far. I haven't yet tried the BLO step, but I will. Instead, I've used a spray accelerator. My question, when removing the bushings from the completed blank (with the CA finish applied) it is necessary to "break" the bushings off of the...

Greetings. I am new to the site (and turning) and appreciate the quality of advice and attitude I have seen here. I am having trouble removing sanding dust from Leopardwood. I have read related posts on this site and others, and have yet to try everything, but want to get additional advice...