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Lovely pens Bob. CA finish looks good. Andrew likes to use Titebond polyurethane glue to cement his brass tubes in place and spends ages roughening them with coarse sandpaper. Like Jim he fills the ends of his tubes with raw potatoe and uses a wooden kebab stick to butter the inside of the blank with glue before inserting a glue covered brass tube rotating it as he does so. He hates using CA glue for tube cementation and avoids it wherever possible. Others seem to manage but his jerky hand movements often lead to the tube getting stuck half and half out ~ which is a waste of a good blank ~ he also gets more fractures like yours. As Jim mentions ~ always check the inside of the tube carefully for glue residue and remove ~ Andrew uses a parallel sided chain saw blade sharpener for this job (looks a bit like a round file) and works a treat. Keep up the good work and we look forward to seeing more of your pens in the future. Kind regards Fiona.

<blockquote data-quote="fionaspens" data-source="post: 40173" data-attributes="member: 309"><p>Lovely pens Bob. CA finish looks good. Andrew likes to use Titebond polyurethane glue to cement his brass tubes in place and spends ages roughening them with coarse sandpaper. Like Jim he fills the ends of his tubes with raw potatoe and uses a wooden kebab stick to butter the inside of the blank with glue before inserting a glue covered brass tube rotating it as he does so. He hates using CA glue for tube cementation and avoids it wherever possible. Others seem to manage but his jerky hand movements often lead to the tube getting stuck half and half out ~ which is a waste of a good blank ~ he also gets more fractures like yours. As Jim mentions ~ always check the inside of the tube carefully for glue residue and remove ~ Andrew uses a parallel sided chain saw blade sharpener for this job (looks a bit like a round file) and works a treat. Keep up the good work and we look forward to seeing more of your pens in the future. Kind regards Fiona.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="fionaspens, post: 40173, member: 309"] Lovely pens Bob. CA finish looks good. Andrew likes to use Titebond polyurethane glue to cement his brass tubes in place and spends ages roughening them with coarse sandpaper. Like Jim he fills the ends of his tubes with raw potatoe and uses a wooden kebab stick to butter the inside of the blank with glue before inserting a glue covered brass tube rotating it as he does so. He hates using CA glue for tube cementation and avoids it wherever possible. Others seem to manage but his jerky hand movements often lead to the tube getting stuck half and half out ~ which is a waste of a good blank ~ he also gets more fractures like yours. As Jim mentions ~ always check the inside of the tube carefully for glue residue and remove ~ Andrew uses a parallel sided chain saw blade sharpener for this job (looks a bit like a round file) and works a treat. Keep up the good work and we look forward to seeing more of your pens in the future. Kind regards Fiona. [/QUOTE]

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