Hi from Washington

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sschering

sschering

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Hey all.. I'm now to the forum and to turning in general..

Last year I brought home may grandfathers metal lathe and I've ben playing around with that over the summer..

This winter I picked up a set of turning tools, mounted the tool rest, kicked up the spindle speed and started playing with wood..

Here's where I am so far..

What I did was turn a block of poplar down to 5/8 so it would fit into my largest collet.
stuffed it into the collet and drilled through the center.
Then I mounted it between centers and went to town with the skew.
I finished up with a bit of sanding since I'm not a skew master yet :)

Practice for pen turning.. Honestly it's the first thing I've done that turned out ok.

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broitblat

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Welcome from over the hill (I mean from the other side of the Cascade mountains, but there are other interpretations that are equally valid ;-)

-Barry
 
CSue

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Welcome, Scott. Thats a good start. So time to try your finish, don't 'cha think?

Below are links to two threads/articles that have lots of information on pen turning. The first one is a very basic overview of the many aspects of getting into turning pens.
http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42446

The second link has postings by different pen turners and what they wish they had known earlier:
http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=46654


Here is another link - a PDF on the acronyms used here. I am sure you know many but this will help with those you don't.

http://content.penturners.org/articl...9/Acronyms.pdf
 
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