New lathe owner in AL

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gmreeves

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Birmingham, AL
I received my first lathe for Christmas last year and have been going crazy with it since that day. So far I've turned about 25 pens, two turkey calls, and several wine stoppers. The purpose for the lathe was for my small business so I could be able to turn my own cork grips and wooden reel seats for the bamboo fly rods that I make. It appears that pen turning can be quite profitable as I can't keep them very long. It seems like this place is full of information and I can tell I'll be on here a lot. I hope I don't ask too many questions but I am a bit OCD about some things and like to know the correct way to do something or at least have a lot of options to try before entering the shop. Anyway, I just thought I would say hello. Oh yeah, my name is Greg Reeves and I live in the Birmingham, AL area.
 
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Russell Eaton

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Welcome from Ga. I know it would be a long trip but we have a local chapter meeting next Saturday at the Woodcraft in Roswell. That is about 25 min. north of Atlanta. Welcome. Russell
 
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CSue

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Hi Greg! Welcome.

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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