This just really has not been my week for finishing pens. I am working on a Cigar Pen in Curly Koa (a really pretty piece too I might add), and had finished turning it on Tuesday and started applying finish.
I put on a coat of BLO (boiled linseed oil) and came back with a coat of CA (cyanoacrylate or super glue) which gives the pen a really hard wearing finish which is needed to protect the pen from the natural oils present on our fingers. Normally, I use three coats of CA then polish it out using about 9 progressively finer grits until it is like glass.
I went out this morning to put on the final coat of CA when I found that I had evidently left a drop on the pen with the previous coat. That meant I had to sand that section back down to the wood to get rid of the drop.
So, instead of finishing this Curly Koa and starting on a new acrylic blank that I have ready to go, I will be re-finishing this one. Oh well, such is life.
Till next time -
