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Emperor in rattlesnake - SteveS - 04-25-2016

I've had the blanks too long to recall what type of rattler it was.





Re: Emperor in rattlesnake - Arlin Eastman - 04-25-2016

Very nice buddy.

Re: Emperor in rattlesnake - Gary G™ - 04-25-2016

Good combination

Re: Emperor in rattlesnake - chips ahoy - 04-26-2016

SteveS said:


I've had the blanks too long to recall what type of rattler it was.







Dead is the best kind. Beautiful job on the pen.

Mel

Re: Emperor in rattlesnake - pprobus - 04-26-2016

chips ahoy said:


[blockquote]SteveS said:


I've had the blanks too long to recall what type of rattler it was.







Dead is the best kind. Beautiful job on the pen.

Mel

[/blockquote]

+1 on all points!

Re: Emperor in rattlesnake - Bob Atchison - 04-28-2016

It was the best kind of rattlesnake.....dead!

Re: Emperor in rattlesnake - Tapper - 04-29-2016

SteveS said:


I've had the blanks too long to recall what type of rattler it was.







For someone who is not yet a turner, how did this work?

Thanks,

Doug

Re: Emperor in rattlesnake - SteveS - 04-30-2016

First I took the castings to the belt sander to get a roughly circular shape and remove a lot of material quickly that would have otherwise taken time to turn away since the resin is very brittle. I used a combination of my Ci1 Easy rougher to get it to about 0.12" over the final diameter since it is very easy to get "pock marks" from tear out from the scraper. For the finishing I used the skew until it was pretty close then used 150 and 220 and finally 400 grit to smooth out the shape and remove the coarse scratches. Lastly I used automotive scratch remover with an old sock to polish out the sanding marks and get a mirror smooth surface.

Re: Emperor in rattlesnake - Axehandle - 04-30-2016

My guess is that it is from a half grown Northern Pacific Rattler. Color and pattern fits and your location corroborates that as well.

Re: Emperor in rattlesnake - SteveS - 05-01-2016

I bought it from a non-local guy on penturners.org so the snake could have come from anywhere.