Quote Originally Posted by cudarunner View Post
I went looking as in the back of my head I could recall something about having to use OR Highly Recommended to use Carbide when turning a certain man made material.

I found this;

https://www.woodturningz.com/downloa...structions.pdf
Thanks, Roy-So far I have only made razor scales with the inlace acrylester. As I recall, it felt just a bit softer and "gummier" than acrylic as I was working it up through the belts. I can see getting a 12-inch blank of this to use half for razor scales, and the other half for a matching shaving brush. I will probably invest in some carbide, but am pretty cleaned out at the moment lol!

In fact, once my skills are up to the expensive tropical woods, I would like to make matching sets with cocobolo, ebony and similar tropical hardwoods: shaving bowl, straight (or DE/Mach III-type razor handle), and brush, all of the same material.

My son the duck hunter is now also wanting to turn duck calls. This may morph into a family thing!