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Spectraply
- Thread starter flexi
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Morse
Graduate Member
Very nice Mark.
Must try some spectraply.
Easy to sand and finish?
Dave
Must try some spectraply.
Easy to sand and finish?
Dave
alan morrison
Fellow
That's starting to look like SEGMENTATION. Mark!!!
Hi Dave, yes Spectraply is coloured laminate bonded with resin, so all the voids/ soft spots you would normally get are hardened with the resin. It can be a bit tougher to shape and sand with high resin content, but does Polish extremely well...on a side note the actual original Spectraply factory burnt down a few years ago. Others do manufacture similar products(I have used some from a gunstock company) just check it's resin level....
Tom.1946
Graduate Member
Very nice Mark as said early bird gets the wood.After buying a small quantity of theseI thought it best i might turn one...my first for 2025 a gold Solano.
Any ideas why my emoji's seems to be turned off
Hi Tom, you can only use the ones on the forum....middle set of 3 dots in the banner bar will bring them up???
Gadget-UK
Fellow
Damn. Now I will have to turn some as that looks awesome Mark 
You only have yourself to blame!Damn. Now I will have to turn some as that looks awesome Mark
That one sold straight away, need to do a batch more!
Curly
Graduate Member
flexi I'm pretty sure it was the Dyamondwood plant that burned down. They used birch veneers impregnated with coloured resin to resemble a solid wood. Spectraply is a different company that came a bit later useing various coloured veneers in combinations.
Pete
Thanks Pete, with age comes memory loss....I think...
Curly
Graduate Member
....or confusion.... 
Pete
Pete
Adal6
Graduate Member
Nice pen Mark
Scots Dave
Full Member
Stunning when I first saw it I thought you had taken the time to laminate all the individual layers of veneer yourselfAfter buying a small quantity of these
my work is nowhere near that only been turning 2 months and still working on slimline pensWe all start on slimlines because there a better budget, but are actually one of the hardest pens to turn properly....they are thin(or should be 8) the wood thickness is thin, grain orientation is important as is drilling correctly to allow that.....once mastered your away!!
alpha1
Fellow
In the begining of my journey I only ever turned one slim line and did not get on with it at all. I bought a more expensive rollerball kit and found it so mutch easier to turn that I never went back to a slim line.