schreiber
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Hey, y'all. I'm Jon from just outside of Austin.
I'm a brand new pen turner, so new in fact, that I'm still in the thinking about it stage. :wink: I've been studying up on what I'll need to get started.
I've been looking at the Jet 1014vsi lathe. Its price is attractive and amazon will ship it for free, looks like. Part of a small lathe's attractive price, however, would be (I imagine) that it comes supplied with just the most minimal gear required to turn something. I reckon I'll need decent aftermarket headstock and tailstock chucks at least. If anyone can point me in the right direction there, I'd be most grateful. Obviously I'll need cutters as well, so if anyone can mention a good line of good (but relatively inexpensive) high speed steel (this is what I want, right?) ones, then that'd be great too.
One of my dreams is to make a really fine silver overlay fountain pen. I play around with PMC (precious metal clay) some, so maybe the two hobbies can be combined.
I was sent here by a pen turner from Fountain Pen Network yesterday, and since then have been gobbling up info at this finer-than-frog-hair site.
That's about it for now. Thanks for looking, and best regards,
Jon
I'm a brand new pen turner, so new in fact, that I'm still in the thinking about it stage. :wink: I've been studying up on what I'll need to get started.
I've been looking at the Jet 1014vsi lathe. Its price is attractive and amazon will ship it for free, looks like. Part of a small lathe's attractive price, however, would be (I imagine) that it comes supplied with just the most minimal gear required to turn something. I reckon I'll need decent aftermarket headstock and tailstock chucks at least. If anyone can point me in the right direction there, I'd be most grateful. Obviously I'll need cutters as well, so if anyone can mention a good line of good (but relatively inexpensive) high speed steel (this is what I want, right?) ones, then that'd be great too.
One of my dreams is to make a really fine silver overlay fountain pen. I play around with PMC (precious metal clay) some, so maybe the two hobbies can be combined.
I was sent here by a pen turner from Fountain Pen Network yesterday, and since then have been gobbling up info at this finer-than-frog-hair site.
That's about it for now. Thanks for looking, and best regards,
Jon