Beginner's pride

**Frank&Earnest** · 23rd March 2007, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by

Everyone else has covered everything pretty well but EEE is not a finish but an abrasive.

The finish will dull quickly unless you actually apply a finish. Yeah, I know, a bit Irish.

Thanks . Now that it is off the lathe, and a snowball chance in hell to remount it unless i glue on a sacrificial foot to be removed after finishing, would you recommend going through that trouble or would you think that a couples of wipes by hand would be enough? And what finish would you recommend? I have the leaflet for Shellawax but for some totally irrational reason the conservative in me is a bit dubious of the concept of mixing shellac and wax in the same concotion.

By the way, thanks everybody for the compliments

now I will try to really earn them...

Cheers
Frank

**Cliff Rogers** · 23rd March 2007, 03:53 PM

Rub on by hand & buff off with one of these.

http://www.ubeaut.com.au/sdmops.htm

**Frank&Earnest** · 23rd March 2007, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Rub on by hand & buff off with one of these.

http://www.ubeaut.com.au/sdmops.htm

SOLD!

Unless I see contrary advice, i plan to buy the 150mm and fit it to the grinder, which would give me a good surface for carvings etc.

While i am at it, any suggestion on how to optimise my grinding facilities? I have 2 standard 150mm units, one with the medium and coarse wheels it came with, the other with a cloth wheel for honing and a medium one that could be replaced by that buffer, plus a finer wheel /larger wet stone machine. Can't see much use for the coarse wheel, is it worth replacing with something else?

Cheers
Frank

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