Good Tools

I've written about this before, and today reinforces it. . . It's hard to remember regretting the purchase of a tool.  More than six months ago, I bought a buffing attachment for my lathe.  I cannot remember what my original purpose was in buying it, but it's laid on the garage floor, since then unopened in the Amazon box that it came in.

In July we went rented a house on the Delaware bay, and we became familiar with knobbed whelk shells.  The grandkids and I went shell hunting at low tide, and found these large shells in the pictures below.  The shells below were found by my grandson, Mikah, and given to me.  I only found live knobbed whelks.

Some 3 million pounds of knobbed whelks are taken annually in a Delaware Bay fishery.  They are apparently good eating, but I have no experience tasting them.

The buffing wheel attachment came with three buffing wheels, and three grades of buffing wheel rouge, and absolutely no instructions.    I played around with the wheels, and the rouges on the smaller of the two shells.  I scrapped off some of the heavier scale with a Phillips screwdriver.  Not sure, when I feel I've gone as far as I can with the buffing, I may put a coat of lacquer on it.

The pictures don't show the shine on the shell very well.  It really is a large improvement over when I started.

Anyway. . . always more to learn. . . 

🙂

Dave







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