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I have not turned acrylic before but have a couple of pen blanks. I understand that it is advised to knock the corners off before turning. Can I do this using some 120g on my proedge, or would I be better to put a piece of ply onto a face plate and a fix a disk of abrasive to that, making a disk sander?

It is on a jet mini so the disk size would be limited to 10" diameter.

The third option would be using a bandsaw, in which case what blade is recommended?

[QUOTE="Bigblackdog, post: 167211, member: 783"] I have not turned acrylic before but have a couple of pen blanks. I understand that it is advised to knock the corners off before turning. Can I do this using some 120g on my proedge, or would I be better to put a piece of ply onto a face plate and a fix a disk of abrasive to that, making a disk sander? It is on a jet mini so the disk size would be limited to 10" diameter. The third option would be using a bandsaw, in which case what blade is recommended? [/QUOTE]

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