sal_campagna
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I've been a long time lurker and now first time poster.
I started turning pens right around the first of December (seems we have Jet mini in the machine shop at work so that got me going). I want to thank everyone (especially George/Texatdurango) for turning me onto TBC.
It was a challenge to pickup parts at my local Woodcraft, especially after I explained why I wanted them. I was pretty much told that turning wouldn't work because the wood would just spin and that finishing would be worse because of the extra CA on the sides.
Anyhow, armed with freshly reading George's post I walked out the door and got on the web and ordered a 60 degree live and dead center from The Little Machine Shop.
Man, what a difference! I am so much happier making pens this way, especially the CA finishes (I'm a no BLO guy) it's nice not to have cracked edges from trying to cleanly pull off the bushings.
I also read the other day a post comparing trying to sell on ebay vs etsy, so I hopped on etsy and threw a couple of pens and a bottle stopper on there (http://peninsulapenworks.etsy.com). Pretty neat for the whopping sum of 80 cents.
I attached a pic of a Majestic I did a couple weeks ago, the Oak came from the trees in my backyard at my parents house.
Anyhow, just wanted to say Thank You and hi...
I started turning pens right around the first of December (seems we have Jet mini in the machine shop at work so that got me going). I want to thank everyone (especially George/Texatdurango) for turning me onto TBC.
It was a challenge to pickup parts at my local Woodcraft, especially after I explained why I wanted them. I was pretty much told that turning wouldn't work because the wood would just spin and that finishing would be worse because of the extra CA on the sides.
Anyhow, armed with freshly reading George's post I walked out the door and got on the web and ordered a 60 degree live and dead center from The Little Machine Shop.
Man, what a difference! I am so much happier making pens this way, especially the CA finishes (I'm a no BLO guy) it's nice not to have cracked edges from trying to cleanly pull off the bushings.
I also read the other day a post comparing trying to sell on ebay vs etsy, so I hopped on etsy and threw a couple of pens and a bottle stopper on there (http://peninsulapenworks.etsy.com). Pretty neat for the whopping sum of 80 cents.
I attached a pic of a Majestic I did a couple weeks ago, the Oak came from the trees in my backyard at my parents house.
Anyhow, just wanted to say Thank You and hi...
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