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Pat,Originally Posted by Pat Salter
I'm curious how much time there was from the time you drilled it and the time you turned it? I wonder if you need to let it set for a period of time after drilling. hmmm, just a thought.
btw, me too poor to buy ebony
About two weeks. but of all the ebony pens only 2 split of about 8.
All,
I'm thinking of turning water buffalo horn. Could be a ebony replacement.
Keith
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keep ebony away from heat as much as possible.
do not overheat while drilling, sanding, etc.
do not use finishes that generate heat (ca/accel.)
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I have just used Ebony for the first time AND it's in a pen. I can't talk too much about it yet. The pen is a gift in the "Pen in the Hat" exchange at another site and the recipiant hasn't got it yet. Don't want to ruin the surprize.
I have heard that Ebony can wait months before splitting and for no good reason........... split. Hope mine doesn't. I'll show the pen and explain what I did after it is delivered.
Bruce
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Corey,
I finish corian, you can also get a product called nairoc which is simply corian spelled backwards but not made the the same mfgs of corian, the same as I do regular acrylic. Wet micro mesh to 12000 then acrylic polish. Works fine.
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Keith - I've had some success using thin CA as a stabilizing method. A couple of coatings after finish turning the blank. I use CA as a finish on most of my pens too. just my .002
Hank
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Corey, I turned some of that black and white and had no problems with it. Only thing I didn't like was the black stripes turned away and left me with some very unremarkable wood. I got one out of five that looked good. They run like 3.50 a piece.
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Dick Sing was doing a demo on pen turning in Peoria Ill woodcrafters about 2 months ago. He was asked the same question about ebony. His suggestion was to use gorilla glue. It has enought give in it that ebony will not crack.
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I have seen all sorts of proposed remedies to the problem of Ebony cracking. To the best of my knowledge none of them have a 100% success rate. Death and taxes......Ebony cracks!!
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