DaveTTC
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I'm Dave
I have loved woodworking since I was a kid. My first experience with a lathe was in year 8, I was 13. I think I made a bread board and later that year a bowl with a contrasting strip of dark timber off centre.
I bought a home made lathe when I was about 33. It n never got used. About 2 1/2 years ago (I was 39) I saw someone demonstrate making a pen on a lathe. I was first in the queue to have a go, I was hooked. They were amazing, I'd never seen a timber pen before.
Having moved to a small town, population of 900, with 3 carpenter / builders already well established I was out of work. This seemed to be an opurtunity. Get into woodturning. Within a few months a acquired another lathe and a couple of hundred pen kits. In a 1 week period I made my first 100 or so pens.
I did not get the shop I had hoped for and sales did not work out. My current goal is to set up a workshop where I can turn and sell from the same location.
My only experience with turning is those 100 or so pens, some varieties of fruit, a few bowls and 2 lidded vessels oh and some vases and 2 wooden mallets.
Aside from this I did my trade as a carpenter and joiner, am a volunteer fire fighter, president of the local mini rail, Vice President of the local business chamber of commerce, husband, father of 5 and pop to 1.
I enjoy spending time with friends and family, like gardening and am Im in the middle of an extensive renovation to our old home.
I have loved woodworking since I was a kid. My first experience with a lathe was in year 8, I was 13. I think I made a bread board and later that year a bowl with a contrasting strip of dark timber off centre.
I bought a home made lathe when I was about 33. It n never got used. About 2 1/2 years ago (I was 39) I saw someone demonstrate making a pen on a lathe. I was first in the queue to have a go, I was hooked. They were amazing, I'd never seen a timber pen before.
Having moved to a small town, population of 900, with 3 carpenter / builders already well established I was out of work. This seemed to be an opurtunity. Get into woodturning. Within a few months a acquired another lathe and a couple of hundred pen kits. In a 1 week period I made my first 100 or so pens.
I did not get the shop I had hoped for and sales did not work out. My current goal is to set up a workshop where I can turn and sell from the same location.
My only experience with turning is those 100 or so pens, some varieties of fruit, a few bowls and 2 lidded vessels oh and some vases and 2 wooden mallets.
Aside from this I did my trade as a carpenter and joiner, am a volunteer fire fighter, president of the local mini rail, Vice President of the local business chamber of commerce, husband, father of 5 and pop to 1.
I enjoy spending time with friends and family, like gardening and am Im in the middle of an extensive renovation to our old home.
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