Your Age & Join Date & post count

[edicehouse]

I really think there is a direct relationship between age and activity on the site.

The reason being is making pens is generally an older person hobby.

Younger get so distracted and try to find a different forum/website.

These are just my thoughts. Not sure what to do with the data collected, but figure it would be a nice topic/survey.

Please mark how old you are and post your age/join date/ post count.

 

[edicehouse]

edicehouse
40 years old
June 2011
2800 + posts

 

[liljohn1368]

JP Wilkinson
47 yrs old
July, 2015
1150 plus post

 

[rd_ab_penman]

70 years old
June 01, 2007
1118 + Posts
There is a lot more pen turning activity of FB these days.
A lot of turners are joining and posting in Face Book groups.

 

[Edgar]

Edgar Dohmann
71
Feb 2013
4100+ posts

 

[edicehouse]

70 years old
June 01, 2007
1118 + Posts
There is a lot more pen turning activity of FB these days.
A lot of turners are joining and posting in Face Book groups.

I know a few of the active people on them from here. It seems like it is the same group and they will cross post to the same members.

 

[camb]

Poll

2011 71 years. 158 posts

 

[stonepecker]

Feel like I am 30
Act at times like I am 20
Behave at times like I am 13

Total.......... 63 years old
the rest you can find out.

This NOT an old persons hobby. I personally wish I had found it a lot sooner then I did. For me, turning anything brings out the 'kid' in me. It is something I can do for hours or for a few minutes. It helps me put my mind in a happy place and the troubles fade away. Once I walk out of the shop, I have a fresh outlook on life. It gives me a break from the stress of everyday things and allows me to create something different and new.

 

[wfsteadman]

wfsteadman
Age: 49
# posts: 45
Join Date: 8/10/2016

 

[KCW]

I'm 35
Joined 12-18-14
Posts 281

 

[triw51]

William Weathersby
65 years young (at times I feel a lot older)
Join date: 02-14-2012
<dt class="shade">Total Posts 1,939</dt>

 

[its_virgil]

joined jan 1, 2004
age 68
post count 6615

 

[walshjp17]

walshjp17
John Walsh
Age 71
July 2012
2639 posts

Haven't turned too much in the past couple of years due to health issues but I am able to keep my fingers and jaws moving:biggrin::wink:

 

[wfsteadman]

Can you point out the Facebook pages that folks are using for Pen Turning. I have just been using forums but would like to watch many different locations for pen turning

 

[socdad]

Socdad
Jeff Borda
Age 65
Joined 2/2/2010
Post count 531

 

[Argo13]

This NOT an old persons hobby. I personally wish I had found it a lot sooner then I did. For me, turning anything brings out the 'kid' in me. It is something I can do for hours or for a few minutes. It helps me put my mind in a happy place and the troubles fade away. Once I walk out of the shop, I have a fresh outlook on life. It gives me a break from the stress of everyday things and allows me to create something different and new.

Couldn't agree more!

49 years old
2/17/13
448 post

 

[jttheclockman]

Can you point out the Facebook pages that folks are using for Pen Turning. I have just been using forums but would like to watch many different locations for pen turning

Face Book is all about selling blanks. That is all you see there. Everybody and their brother sells blanks. You wonder if there is enough people to make pens for all the blanks available today.

Plus Facebook is so impersonal and each post gets lost so fast because they all move on to the next thing. To me this is the best site to be in the know about pen turning. Just need more members to join in and make believe it is FB.

 

[edicehouse]

This NOT an old persons hobby. I personally wish I had found it a lot sooner then I did. For me, turning anything brings out the 'kid' in me. It is something I can do for hours or for a few minutes. It helps me put my mind in a happy place and the troubles fade away. Once I walk out of the shop, I have a fresh outlook on life. It gives me a break from the stress of everyday things and allows me to create something different and new.

Couldn't agree more!

49 years old
2/17/13
448 post

I am not meaning to offend anyone, by saying old person hobby, and I wish I had started in my teens or 20's; however that didn't happen.

This is just to see if my theories are right.

 

[jttheclockman]

This NOT an old persons hobby. I personally wish I had found it a lot sooner then I did. For me, turning anything brings out the 'kid' in me. It is something I can do for hours or for a few minutes. It helps me put my mind in a happy place and the troubles fade away. Once I walk out of the shop, I have a fresh outlook on life. It gives me a break from the stress of everyday things and allows me to create something different and new.

Couldn't agree more!

49 years old
2/17/13
448 post

I am not meaning to offend anyone, by saying old person hobby, and I wish I had started in my teens or 20's; however that didn't happen.

This is just to see if my theories are right.

You can compare it to this poll Always a reason that it is more an older person hobby for obvious reasons. Need funds, not too physical, and time consuming.




www.penturners.org/forum/f17/what-your-age-39589/

 

[Sappheiros]

Sappheiros
Avi Levin
26 Years old
9/26/15
718 Posts

 

[MDWine]

Total Posts: 1,841
Join Date: 03-22-2005
(took about 4 years off)
Age: 61

 

[fumanchu314159265]

fumanchu314159265 (Rob)
50 years old
post count: 12 (ok...I'm a little slow...lots more reading than posting! very grateful to all of you!)
join date: 02-23-2016

 

[Davidh14]

Davidh14
Age: 27
Join date: 6-22-15
Post: 102

 

[Rolandranch]

Seth Roland
Age - 16
Joined - 06-18-2015
Total Posts - 93

 

[firewhatfire]

age 45
joined 3/7/2011
post count 3500+

 

[keithncsu]

Joined 5/28/16
Age 30 (barely fit into that category - thanks!!)
59 posts

 

[jimm1]

Jim Mahan
Age: 59
Join Date: 12-29-2006
Posts: 1702

 

[ZbR]

ZbR
Age: 63
Join date: 05-24-2016
Posts: 21

 

[Kenny Durrant]

Sep 2012
59 years old
754 posts

 

[Sataro]

Sataro
Age: 58
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 1814

 

[linkbelt66]

Age 76
Join date = 07/13/2016
Posts = 17

Can anyone top that?

 

[Whaler]

Dick Peterson
Age 79
Joined 8/16/05
Post Count 1,708

Since closing my shop down I don't post much anymore but do stop in most days.

 

[jttheclockman]

With 3000 new members the last 2 years there should be that many votes here. These are the members that may turn the tide on the age thing because if they do not vote it will be about the same as last time it was taken 2 years ago.

 

[edicehouse]

With 3000 new members the last 2 years there should be that many votes here. These are the members that may turn the tide on the age thing because if they do not vote it will be about the same as last time it was taken 2 years ago.

Of those 3000 new members have more than 500 logged on in 2 months?

 

[CREID]

57, Just a kid
2008 I think, look to the left to see if I got it right.

 

[leehljp]

Age: 69
Join date: 2005
Post count: 4700+
Began following this site in Nov/Dec of 2004.

I don't get to turn pens as much as I would like. I retired once and I do have 2 other enjoyments - ministry training and flat work.

Ministry training is like a hobby to me, I don't feel like it is work. That takes first place, with some flat work 2nd and pen turning 3rd. I loved pen turning in Japan because I didn't have enough space to do flat work often.

I am getting back to pen turning now.

One last thing: I am enjoying the new and the young people here that challenge old ideas and come up with new ideas. I was talking with my 39 year old daughter last night and she said: "I hate change." It made me think - I love change and new ideas.

Young people, keep bringing it on! Teach us old folks some new ideas. Old people, thank you for what you taught me - and your patience with me. You are appreciated!

 

[Rounder]

Rounder
61
494 Post
Joined 1-16-2011

 

[Dusty]

Age and Post count

81 yrs old
Joined 2006
35 posts

 

[TBCbushings]

Brian 45
Joined 11-07-2009
895...896 with this one

 

[Anglesachse]

Anglesachse
Age: 57 (some times I feel it as well).
Posts: 26
Joined: Dec 2014