turning oversized tenon from scrap ebonite

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turning oversized tenon from scrap ebonite

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I plan to turn down an oversized tenon from a big chunk of ebonite. Any reason I can't cut this off and use it just like a delrin tenon (i.e., epoxy the ebonite tenon into a different ebonite stem)?
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Why wouldn't You just turn the tenon on the piece You are making the stem from? Norm.
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Why don't you just use delrin if you're not doing an integral tenon? I don't see an advantage of ebonite if you're not making it integral in the first place.
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Re: turning oversized tenon from scrap ebonite

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why not turn the tenon on the stem I'm using:
-because I drilled it for delrin but screwed up the mortice and had to re-drill the mortice oversized

why not just use delrin:
-I could do, but I don't have it on hand, whereas I DO have the ebonite and turned down the tenon to fit.

in other words, I don't see this as a new standard I'd use again and again, just wondering if there is any reason NOT to do it.
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Go ahead, it will be fine for the situation you are describing. If I recall correctly Michael parks makes all his tenons from Cumberland.
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why not turn the tenon on the stem I'm using:
-because I drilled it for delrin but screwed up the mortice and had to re-drill the mortice oversized
I have done that and figured the piece was cursed and saved it for another use later, when the curse wore off, Norm.
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It's no issue, go ahead and do it.
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