theidlemind
Member
I've finally lived up to my end of the bargain (mostly).
I volunteered to beta test a new pen Smitty is going to carry and here are the results.
I went at this like I was a new turner with limited experience. I drilled, glued, squared, turned, polished, and assembled.
These components leave enough meat on the blank that unless you have a VERY translucent blank you won't have any problems with seeing the tube.
No back painting or tube painting required mostly.
Good components. The transmission is smooth, the finish is good, the twist is finial. I like them, and recommend them to anyone that turns the Sierra family.
And I ran the gamut on blanks. A couple of woodcraft cheapies, a couple of wood (curly ambrosial maple and buckeye burl), 3 homemade spacejunk blanks, and. Truestone blank.
Now it's up to Smitty to PCI one out. And if he has trouble I will repost this as a survey and let the members of the IAP decide which one he gets.
Thanks for looking.
I volunteered to beta test a new pen Smitty is going to carry and here are the results.
I went at this like I was a new turner with limited experience. I drilled, glued, squared, turned, polished, and assembled.
These components leave enough meat on the blank that unless you have a VERY translucent blank you won't have any problems with seeing the tube.
No back painting or tube painting required mostly.
Good components. The transmission is smooth, the finish is good, the twist is finial. I like them, and recommend them to anyone that turns the Sierra family.
And I ran the gamut on blanks. A couple of woodcraft cheapies, a couple of wood (curly ambrosial maple and buckeye burl), 3 homemade spacejunk blanks, and. Truestone blank.
Now it's up to Smitty to PCI one out. And if he has trouble I will repost this as a survey and let the members of the IAP decide which one he gets.
Thanks for looking.