G'day ;-) (another Australian)

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Hi all, greetings from Melbourne (ish) Australia, I've recently decided to look into pen making as a new creative hobby/possible side business after being given a box of pen kits, and subsequently buying a wood lathe to complement my (quite small) metal lathes...

So I've fallen down the rabbit hole fairly fast, and have a few feeds/nibs incoming to start making kitless fountain pens from alumilite resin and various woods..

Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have some results, in the meantime I just drool at other people's :)

All the best, and happy new year


Tom
 
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skiprat

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Hiya Tom, welcome from Wales.:)

I'm guessing your smallish metal lathes are for watchmaking?
With skills like that, you'll have no probs churning out some pretty special pens in the very near future...:biggrin:
 

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Welcome to IAP, Tom !!!!!! . You can show your watches here, if you like ... I would be very interested in seeing some examples of your crafting !!!!
 

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G'day Tom, from South Australia

Welcome to the IAP family, I'm sure you will enjoy and flourish among such a tremendous amount of skill and knowledge, from a single place.

Please be aware that, one of the IAP main "rules" is, no pics, didn't happen...! we like pics.

Best of luck,

Cheers
George
 
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Some pics of my "latest" timepiece... which I finished over 12 months ago, but still need to do some modifications to ;-)

Sterling Silver, bronze and carbon fibre case, with a sterling silver dial (sculpted by Simon Fairweather), titanium hands and chapter ring.
Swiss movement with 5 day power reserve.

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