Originally posted by Dario
<br />Does this include all prep work? I mean, I mill my own pen blanks too should that count?
Of course milling your own blanks counts!
you have a choice to buy a ready made blank and get started with drilling tubing milling.
If you mill your own wood blanks, csat your own resins whatever is needed to turn raw material into a pen should count.I even counted time trying to come up with different ideas for laminating, materials,methods techniqes.
The the physical turning of the pen on the lathe is a mechanical excercise.
Even the finishing aspect can get to be mechanical when you start doing things by instinct learned from experience.
I can be working on a pen while watching TV or standing in the shower.
Lou and I make pens on the phone all the time.