A Texturing Tip
In the process of doing a jar in black birch (about as hard a hickory!) and decided to put pebble grain on most of the exterior. Given the needle scaler's effect, I was a bit sloppy in shearing/sanding out all the latitudinal surface marks from cutting and sanding figuring the scaler's impacts would wipe them out.
Wrong move, Mark.
All those lines persisted into the pebble grain, so I had to re-sand the piece down to 320 to get even texture in the pebbled surface.
If you go the surfacing route on your turnings, don't skimp on getting a truly clean surface before you start your "augmentation".
