dthayer
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Our son has been a drummer for a few years. (And is pretty good if I do say so myself! :biggrin: ) He was the kit drummer for his middle school jazz band and now he is the kit drummer for his high school steel drum band.
He goes through drumsticks something fierce and the floor around his kit at home has more wood chips than my shop! I have been saving the broken ones to use for blanks (they are good maple but don't have any real grain or features to speak of) but hadn't turned any yet.
So I figured he might like a pen made from one of his old sticks. Then I got to thinking (oh oh -- that's always dangerous)... I thought it might be cool if the finished pen still had the original markings. I made a pen using a Slimline kit but I didn't really like the way it turned out -- it was too bulbous since I still used the original band -- and the logo smeared a bit when I tried to add some finish. It just didn't look good but he still said he liked it.
So... try number 2... I decided to just use the tubes, mechanism, and refill from another Slimline and see what I could come up with. Here is the result:
It's not perfect because I couldn't get the alignment right since I don't have the right kind of chucks or mandrels (but they are on my Christmas list!!
) but I kind of like it and he thought it was awesome. That's really all that counts!
(PS: If anyone wants some round maple blanks, let me know! )
He goes through drumsticks something fierce and the floor around his kit at home has more wood chips than my shop! I have been saving the broken ones to use for blanks (they are good maple but don't have any real grain or features to speak of) but hadn't turned any yet.
So I figured he might like a pen made from one of his old sticks. Then I got to thinking (oh oh -- that's always dangerous)... I thought it might be cool if the finished pen still had the original markings. I made a pen using a Slimline kit but I didn't really like the way it turned out -- it was too bulbous since I still used the original band -- and the logo smeared a bit when I tried to add some finish. It just didn't look good but he still said he liked it.
So... try number 2... I decided to just use the tubes, mechanism, and refill from another Slimline and see what I could come up with. Here is the result:
It's not perfect because I couldn't get the alignment right since I don't have the right kind of chucks or mandrels (but they are on my Christmas list!!
) but I kind of like it and he thought it was awesome. That's really all that counts! (PS: If anyone wants some round maple blanks, let me know!
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