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HoratioHornblower

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Hello all! I would like to start off by saying that I greatly appreciate the help that has been unknowingly given to me. I am pretty new to turning, and woodworking in general. It all started when I started to carve a wood heart for my girlfriend, and then that evolved into making jewelry which then lead me into turning pens! I love the variety that one can choose from to create beautiful works of art in pen turning! I have spent the last several months researching how to make pens and what you can make them out of, and now that I have the tools I need (most of them anyway) I have started producing. Thanks again for all the help, and I look forward to interacting with all of the great people on here!

David
 
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Haha, I already need to bring what I like to call my "passion" a little bit under control. I have already had two days where I turned for about 8 hours straight! I am a college student and I have the time, and selling them helps the funds. This has to be one of the few hobbies that has the potential to pay for itself.
 
HoratioHornblower said:
Haha, I already need to bring what I like to call my "passion" a little bit under control. I have already had two days where I turned for about 8 hours straight! I am a college student and I have the time, and selling them helps the funds. This has to be one of the few hobbies that has the potential to pay for itself.
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Just wait that thought will go away fast. This rapidly spreading addiction quickly finds a way to eat your money faster then you make it.:biggrin:
 
Welcome from the mitten, consider yourself a fortunate one. Most of us found this addiction, I mean hobby, after or near retirement. You are the next generation turner, please stay with it and grow!! Please share it with others, too.
 
Thanks for all the kind words! Mike, I live in Titusville which is on the Space Coast. By the way, I did not realize that you and so many others on here also live in Florida. And, we don't have to worry about the weather interfering with turning too often. :) Glenn, I do indeed intend to pass it on, as some of the skills that gentleman I bought my lathe from has already done for me.
 
Hey Richard, I have family up in Knoxville! Once I get a place of my own in the next year or two in SC everyone would be more than welcome! Right now I live at the folks house, and while I wouldn't mind, they might. Or, they might not...Show up sometime and lets find out! I love to talk turning, and doing it is even better. :smile-big:

Mike R, I have already had a great amount of frustration with CA...but I think I am finally getting the hang of it!

Mike, I hope to finish a pen kit with cocobolo that I was given tomorrow, and I will take a somewhat decent picture of it so everyone one can see.
 
Welcome, David! Where will you be settling in SC? We have a penturners group that meets in Columbia you're more than welcome to join when you get here.
 
welcome from south east virginia. by the way you say you have turned some pens. as mentioned here many, many times. NO PICTURES, DID NOT HAPPEN.
 
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