About my finishing question

I just finished turning a spindle and tried "that" file while the lathe was running. Yup, it did give off a tiny tiny bit of dust and the wood didn't gleam near as much as when hand "rubbing" with it, so much for that experiment. I sanded it by hand afterwards (durn, I gotta remember you can do this before getting too exited with the parting tool...) and rubbed it down with another piece of wood. Sure enough, the spindle looked mirror smooth and it really accentuated the grain on this beech spindle. Slapped some linseed oil (diluted with turpentine) and waddaya know, the mirror smooth finish remained. I guess we are definitely talking burnishing and the results from using that particular file by hand now somehow seems purely coincidental. Oh, and you'll be happy to know I actually used the skew, succesfully for the first time, this time and not just as a scraper either :)

Thanks for yet another awesome lesson,

Bart. P.S. since there seems to be no way of ever stomping you guys, you don't happen to know where I put my yellow handle screw driver do you... :)

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