Thread: Rubberset #3 clone, strike two...

Good Irish boy like me is really liking the green one, great work mike., also are you thinking to maybe add some weight to replicate the metal,ones? Some buckshot or dimes in the handle? Tc

If you haven't sanded them yet, you really did good! I don't see any "spray" marks. When I sand them, I go 120, 220, 320, 400, then wet sand 600, 1k, 1500, 2k, and finally 2500. I sand at 800 RPM and keep it wet, wet, wet. Did I say keep it wet? It's much like final grinding a razor. If your fingers are getting hot, the material is also getting too hot. Sanding at high RPM is wrong, and just burns through good sand paper. Once I get the sanding done, I go to 1800RPM and using headlight Polish to achieve that glass like finish. Haven't found anything else that beats this process, other than continuing to sand past 2500 with micromesh. But it's just not necessary. My process leaves the slightest hint that the handle was hand spun, and I like that.

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Good Irish boy like me is really liking the green one, great work mike., also are you thinking to maybe add some weight to replicate the metal,ones? Some buckshot or dimes in the handle? Tc

Thanks TC. I'm Irish as well, and planning a great shave Thursday.
The wood handles would benefit from some added weight, maybe under the knot for sure. The plastic ones weigh in pretty close to the aluminum original I think. The original one I worked with was a hollow casting and surprisingly light.
Only thing I didn't think to do was weigh it dry while I had it.

I bought one of those easy cutter carbide tipped turning tools at lee valley, I use the round rad bit for the body and the finisher for the top and it just shaved off material like dust at that higher speed. Thanks for the wet sanding tips. Never gone wet on the wheel before and would have gone dry by default.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Thanks TC. I'm Irish as well, and planning a great shave Thursday.
The wood handles would benefit from some added weight, maybe under the knot for sure. The plastic ones weigh in pretty close to the aluminum original I think. The original one I worked with was a hollow casting and surprisingly light.
Only thing I didn't think to do was weigh it dry while I had it.

My Grandmother's maiden name was Mclenigan Green beers on the 17th???

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

My Grandmother's maiden name was Mclenigan Green beers on the 17th???

Green beers, Jameson, and Corned beef!

Camp clan on my Grandmother's side. The rest of me is German. Can I have a 1/4 mug of green beer?

Bit more work on my jig project. Brought it home to try to incorporate onto the lathe to avoid all the questions at work..

Started with a better indexer I made out of garloc gasket material
Then beefed up the jig itself and mounted it on a 3/4" block of machine steel and mounted it all on the lathe bed on my cross vice.


Turned out pretty consistent angle wise..

Can try it on nicer materials next while I wait for my knots to arrive from Germany..
Cheers.

Awesome!