RDPowell
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My names Ron and I'm from a little town of 418 in East Texas. Retired truck driver, Jack of all trades Master of none.
Always had to have my hands busy even when still in the workforce. Collecting and restoring just about anything that plugs
into a wall to furniture, etc. etc. Smoked for over 50 years and decided one day because everything else was just getting too heavy
for me to work with or on and that I liked the art work end of it to start creating smoking pipes. I did that for close to ten years but,
after quitting tobacco/nicotine I still needed to have something to occupy my time and maybe help a little to pad my SS. Going stare crazy
some one said I might take up pen making so I looked into it, still looking into it. I have a 10 x 30 metal lathe with a good amount of tooling
and many tools to get it done and the Mandrel seems the only other tool I'll need to acquire. But, machining a pipe and a Pen are to different things.
Both of course need to be precise but, it seems to be a lot more machining to be done in Macro on a Fountain pen's interior . Looks like there might be
a lot of hair pulling for me, and I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box. So there you have it, I'd like to give it a try but, I'm really not too interested in making
ball point pens and would rather try my hand at what I would think is probably the toughest first. Yeah, yeah, typical rookie even at almost 70 yo.
Always had to have my hands busy even when still in the workforce. Collecting and restoring just about anything that plugs
into a wall to furniture, etc. etc. Smoked for over 50 years and decided one day because everything else was just getting too heavy
for me to work with or on and that I liked the art work end of it to start creating smoking pipes. I did that for close to ten years but,
after quitting tobacco/nicotine I still needed to have something to occupy my time and maybe help a little to pad my SS. Going stare crazy
some one said I might take up pen making so I looked into it, still looking into it. I have a 10 x 30 metal lathe with a good amount of tooling
and many tools to get it done and the Mandrel seems the only other tool I'll need to acquire. But, machining a pipe and a Pen are to different things.
Both of course need to be precise but, it seems to be a lot more machining to be done in Macro on a Fountain pen's interior . Looks like there might be
a lot of hair pulling for me, and I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box. So there you have it, I'd like to give it a try but, I'm really not too interested in making
ball point pens and would rather try my hand at what I would think is probably the toughest first. Yeah, yeah, typical rookie even at almost 70 yo.
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