Half way there...

[mattyts]

After spending yesterday drilling,glueing and facing off a set of 8 fountain pens,today I turned the cap barrels for them,decided to do them this way to save time in not swapping bushes around (For fountain pens,I turn 1 barrel at a time to eliminate run out or play)

Turned with a round nose scraper start to finish then sanded from 150 to 400 grit and finished with a mixture of friction polish and renaissance wax which ended up giving them a very deep sheen which isn't fully highlighted in the photo.

Onto tomorrow....

 

[bellringer]

One question why do you use a round nose scraper

 

[PhillH]

Looking good :up:

What are the woods?

 

[mattyts]

One question why do you use a round nose scraper

I find it the fastest to cut and leaves a finish that can go straight onto sanding without the need for a skew chisel or similar.

It is also the easiest to sharpen.

 

[mattyts]

Looking good :up:

What are the woods?

Thanks Phill, from L to R, Yew,Red oak,Purple heart,Walnut,Oak,Red Burr and an unknown wood,was labelled up as Australian something.

 

[Doug]

Looking good so far Matty

 

[Woody]

Well done Matty looking good mate

 

[Jimjam66]

All's good so far! Can't see anything going wrong from here. A bevy of beauties in the making.

 

[Jim]

Well done Matty, you can see the sheen very well at the back of each barrel in the second image my friend ..

 

[mattyts]

Ended up finishing these just now...will wait till tomorrow for assembly so I can measure them up and adjust if need be!

 

[edlea]

Great on going job Matt ..looking good.

 

[fionaspens]

lovely work - lovely finish - look forward to seeing the finished results. andrew

 

[paulm]

They are all very good Matty, I look forward to seeing the completed set.

 

[Penpal]

Sheen is fine the sign of good finishing IMHO is the overall effect you set out to achieve compared with the result looking ready to go Matt.

Peter.

 

[stevenw1963]

Looking good Matty