mgdesigns
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Hi, I am new to this forum, and I live near Nashville, TN. I am also fairly new to wood turning & penturning. I acquired a 1955 ShopSmith about 6 months ago, and have disassembled it and made it work properly. The Lathe functions have always fascinated me, so I started to also obtain drive spurs, gouges, dead center, live center, and recently a new Nova G3 4-jaw chuck. I've turned a few bowls, and few pens.
The first pen I gave as a gift I also embellished in a unique way. I hand engraved the clip, top cap and ferrule. You see I am also a professional hand engraver. I did the engraving under microscope and used a specially ground 120 degree carbide cutter on my GraverMax setup. It is impressive to a novice viewer, but I am not pleased with the platings that are used on Woodcraft or PennState findings. My goal would be to cast my own finding out of better metals (i.e., sterling silver, 14KY gold, etc.) so I can embellish worthy metals.
Here is a sample of my hand engraving on stainless steel knife ($2 cheap Chinese knife - I hope I did not devalue it too much).
The first pen I gave as a gift I also embellished in a unique way. I hand engraved the clip, top cap and ferrule. You see I am also a professional hand engraver. I did the engraving under microscope and used a specially ground 120 degree carbide cutter on my GraverMax setup. It is impressive to a novice viewer, but I am not pleased with the platings that are used on Woodcraft or PennState findings. My goal would be to cast my own finding out of better metals (i.e., sterling silver, 14KY gold, etc.) so I can embellish worthy metals.
Here is a sample of my hand engraving on stainless steel knife ($2 cheap Chinese knife - I hope I did not devalue it too much).
