Number of images: 9
Created on: Tuesday 05 June 2007
First pix shows the working environment including my "pen presses", the anvil and wood and the 4" drill press vice. Already have plans for a real press, doing it like this stinks :-).
Pix six is another of the working environment with the stuff used to finish this pen sitting on top of the anvil.
Pix ten is the one of the pile of ebony blanks my roomie got for me off ebay for a special project I am still trying to figure out how to do :-). Might spring one of them to either do one of the slimlines or customize the rosewood. Or something :-).
Pix eleven is the tool I use to deburr the tubes, it is from the metalworking side and works like a charm. Cheap too, I think I paid $4 for it with 3 or 4 blades from Enco on sale. Somewhere I have the same tool that the pen vendors sell for the same purpose, but this one is much easier and quicker.
The finish on this is amazing (to me anyway). Compared to the first pen I did out of the same material, the first one is a smudge and a dull smudge at that - hard to think it is the same wood! Did the same thing with this one with one exception. As usual I sanded 220, 320, 400 and 600 grit and then, just for jollies I decided to try using the Brasso as it seems like a close cousin to EEE Ultra Shine. Wonder if I should wet sand rather than dry sand? Finished it up with 3 or 4 coats of Shellawax.
I wasn't sure that the Brasso would work, but figured that since I was experimenting and $$$ are tight over the house hunting issues I'd give it a try and just see what happened. There are some whitish areas in some of the grain which might be residue, but I see a little of that in the other two but no where near as much. Not sure if this is a characteristic of rosewood or not having used up 6 of the blanks I got from PSI and having no real idea yet just what goes with rosewood.
I might be able to clean it up by wiping with alcohol or acetone after using the Brasso, assuming it isn't a characteristic of the wood. Results amazed me and if the EEE Ultra Shine is a better suited to wood formulation, then that stuff has got to be bloody STELLAR!
I think I'm in love with this tiny little critter!
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