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05-18-2007, 01:37 PM
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| Newly Customized Moose  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Truro, Nova Scotia
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 |  First Pen On another thread Rolf said Quote:
Anyhow at the end of it I had the attached walnut slimline pen. It may not be the greatest pen in the world and the finish certainly isn't that good but I got a great sense of achievement from producing it ... 
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05-18-2007, 01:53 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Arthur, WV
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| Ian, Congrats on the learning experience. Good job on the pen. Steve
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05-18-2007, 02:22 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Pretoria, South Africa
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| You did good Ian! It's always nice to learn something new, will you be buying a lathe? |
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05-18-2007, 02:38 PM
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| Newly Customized Moose Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Truro, Nova Scotia
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05-18-2007, 02:44 PM
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| Grumpy Old Moderator  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Galaxy far, far away
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 | Nice job Ian. One of these days I'll try my hand at this.
__________________ Kevin Scrollsaw Patterns Online Making holes in wood with an EX-30, Craftsman 16" VS, Dremel 1680 and 1671 A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson |
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05-18-2007, 02:51 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: sunderland. england
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| Nice one Ian 
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05-18-2007, 03:23 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Jersey
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 | Ian, I'm jealous now! My daughter comes home from school with stories about "what happened on the lathe" every day, now you are showing us what you did. No fair. Just curious though, how did you find a workshop? Where was it held? I have never seen an advertisement for one in my area. Oh, one more question, did you get covered in shavings? My daughter totally cracks up laughing whenever she tells me her lathe stories. I wish I had a picture of it.
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05-18-2007, 04:26 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lemoore, California
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 | One year I made about 30 pens for Christmas presents. I was using a Grizzly 40" lathe, not the best. But the pens were appreciated. I made twist pens and click pens, along with matching pencils. It can be expensive, but the end result is amazing!
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05-18-2007, 04:34 PM
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| Master Scroller  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan
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| Looks great Ian. Jet just had a sale and might still have on for the mini lathe with variable speed control and an indexing pin for only $200. It's plenty big for making small bowls, pens, stoppers, tops and what not. I can hook you up with instructions for a supergloss supertough and easy finish. I was just playing around with a pen the other day. Typically they call it a cross pen because you simply cut an x pattern into the pen and replace the cut section with wood the same thickness as your saw blade, basically 1/8 thick. I had one I made before, but I think it's kinda boring myself, so I had an idea where I replaced the two little triangle area's with a white colored wood, then drilled a hole through the center and drove in a pencil. Yea, that's right, I sanded the pencil round and jammed it down in, so that's the eyeballs, the lead is the pupils. I sliced and diced in a triangle to be a nose and I call it a totem pen. The picture doesn't show how great it is because you kinda need to be holding and turning the pen a bit to really see the face, but I think it's a real hit. My wife and kids sure think so. I personally thought the pencil idea was real genious.
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05-18-2007, 04:54 PM
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| Newly Customized Moose Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Truro, Nova Scotia
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| Hi Mia, Not too many chips/shaving from pen-turning - pen blanks are really quite small I was in a much bigger mess after planing a poplar board down yesterday evening!The workshop was at Lee Valley tools. http://www.leevalley.com/home/Seminars.aspx?c= They're a Canadian company so not much use to you I'm afraid. They have quite a range of seminars and workshops in their stores - mainly woodworking and some gardening. Diane has been to a couple in Quebec I believe. If the one I went to was typical then I'd highly recommend them to anyone who has a LV in the area. As far as the company itself goes, I've always found their customer service here in Halifax great - very knowledgeable friendly staff, no questions asked return policay, and if you ask something they don't know, they'lll call you back when they have found out the answer! There prices aren't always the cheapest but they have a huge range of products including all kinds of neat tools/gadgets .. It's worth getting on their mailing list just to browse their catalogues IMO - the catalogue covers are some of the nicest I've seen from any company ..Sorry if this sounds like a Lee Valley ad ..lol No connection at all with the company other than as a very satisfied customer..
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