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I found a local wood turning club in Barrow-in-Furness last night. It's above a church and I think I was expecting a small stuffy lecture room and that would be it. I was pleasantly surprised to find a large quite busy friendly place with almost every woodworking bit of machinery I could think of including over a dozen lathes. Mainly small Jet lathes. What I thought odd was that nobody was using BLO/CA or just CA to finish pens or other work. I asked but the preferred method seemed to be sanding sealer then wax. Specifically Microcrystalline Wax. I must admit so far I have tried a honing compound I got at Axminster Warrington last time which doesn't seem to produce the results I would expect. I have tried the BLO/CA method without too much success also. Would be interested to know what others are using.

[QUOTE="Wrongway, post: 169837, member: 949"] I found a local wood turning club in Barrow-in-Furness last night. It's above a church and I think I was expecting a small stuffy lecture room and that would be it. I was pleasantly surprised to find a large quite busy friendly place with almost every woodworking bit of machinery I could think of including over a dozen lathes. Mainly small Jet lathes. What I thought odd was that nobody was using BLO/CA or just CA to finish pens or other work. I asked but the preferred method seemed to be sanding sealer then wax. Specifically Microcrystalline Wax. I must admit so far I have tried a honing compound I got at Axminster Warrington last time which doesn't seem to produce the results I would expect. I have tried the BLO/CA method without too much success also. Would be interested to know what others are using. [/QUOTE]

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