I just finished reading the pdf file Getting Started in Penturning. That's a very interesting article. Thank you for the link. My wife is very interested and I'm hoping it becomes something we can do together. Unfortunately she is not interested in most of my other hobbies. But that's life....
Thank you for the warm Welcomes. I hope to get to know you all better, with time. My lathe should be here next week. The tools and accessories are ordered and should be in by this weekend. My Dad ordered me a ton of stuff from Woodcraft, that is most of my tool and blank order. I have a bunch of wood I've collected from work, over the past several days.
I'm picking up a Dust collector on Thursday as well as a new bandsaw. My old Belsaw drill press should work for now. That's an upgrade planned for down the road.
The lathe comes with a 10 inch tool rest, so I'm ordering a 4" and 6" in case I need them for the pen blanks. I've acquired three plastic containers for storing - cut and dry blanks. I've hermited away 20+ brown paper bags for storing fresh cut/found wood.
That's about it for now. I'm hoping it all arrives without any problems. I really want to get started...
Thanks again for having me. M
