Cleaned up some newbie mistakes

[RetiredJake]

I had a bunch of pens I made in Tucson when I first started, they were pretty ugly after reviewing them 6 months later. So, the last couple of weeks I started taking them apart, cleaning up the profiles, matching the diameters to the hardware, and getting them, hopefully, concentric to the tube center. Wound up trashing a couple, had about 4 or 5 tubes come loose when removing transmissions, and wound up with pretty sore hands from all the hammering to get them apart. The attached foto shows a portion of them that I finally got around to photographing today so I could put them in my database. In total, I repaired about 30 pens.

Jake

 

[1080Wayne]

Review them again in a years time , and you will probably find a new bunch of problems to correct !

Someone sells a modified vice grip clamp to hold the body while hammering . Two sided turners tape will also help .

 

[GaryMGg]

Photo shows a batch of nice looking pens.

 

[jmbaker79]

Looks good!... I need to do the same sometime soon luckily it isn't 30, I don't think, and they are mostly sierras so the single short barrel should go fairly quick!

 

[corian king]

Very nice group of pens.

 

[Lucky2]

That's a nice looking collection of pens, but, I disagree with redoing all of your old ones over again. I think that you should save a few of them, just so that you can always go back and look at them just to see how much your penturning has improved.
Len

 

[RetiredJake]

Photo shows a batch of nice looking pens.

Glad you think so, some of them will be coming your way as service pens.

Jake