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Nicely done for your first go at it.
I don't think your wood shrunk, may have trimmed the blank too short.
To avoid being out of round make sure you dead center and live center points match statically and with the lathe running with the tail stock locked down
Turning between centers can resolve a lot of out of round issues when using a pen mandrel.

Les

[QUOTE="Les ELm, post: 227193, member: 677"] Nicely done for your first go at it. I don't think your wood shrunk, may have trimmed the blank too short. To avoid being out of round make sure you dead center and live center points match statically and with the lathe running with the tail stock locked down Turning between centers can resolve a lot of out of round issues when using a pen mandrel. Les [/QUOTE]

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