New member from California

[Ted1]

My name is Ted (Obviously) from Fair Oaks, California (Near Sacramento) Iv'e been turning for about 2 months now. I enjoy turning pens, bowls, mushrooms, fruit, reel seats, cork grips and such. I use a Shopsmith Mark V so I also enjoy doing all the repairs and maintenance that come with the machine (It's a requirement for owning one.) Just doing slimlines now, throwing all the mony I can at it every paycheck, and still trying to master that CA finish. I'm happy with 2 pens out of 10 so far. Really impressed with alot of the pens shown here!

 

[Mark]

Hello Ted. Welcome to the IAP. Enjoy the site..
We love pictures... :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[johncrane]

Welcome Ted from Melbourne Australia.

 

[bgibb42]

Welcome from Georgia! +1 on the pictures...

 

[ElMostro]

Welcome to the VORTEX!

Eugene

 

[rockb]

Hi neighbor, welcome to the group. I live in Redding, just go north an hour, turn left at the oak tree by the mailbox and you're at my house. ; ) I like those SS's too.
Rocky

 

[Jim15]

Welcome Ted.

 

[JimB]

Welcome from upstate NY!

 

[broitblat]

Welcome, Ted.

-Barry

 

[Longfellow]

Welcome

Welcome from Sunny St. Cloud, Fla. Home of beautiful Florida wood.

 

[Rfturner]

Welcome

I live in Santa Maria, CA and if I ever head up to sacramento area to visit a friend up there I might be abe to stop by and give some pointers

 

[CSue]

Welcome, Ted. Nice to have you here. There is a local chapter up in northern CA you might check on.

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

 

[gketell]

Welcome to the IAP, Ted!

The local chapter Cathy mentioned is here:
http://www.penturners.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=77
and we are currently planning our next meeting. That thread is here:
http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=59775

If you would like to see the kinds of things we do at our get togethers you can do a search on BBANC and you will find all the threads on our gatherings.

GK

 

[jocat54]

Welcome Ted.

 

[Ligget]

Welcome to the IAP Ted!

 

[greggas]

Welcome Ted. Lucky to live in CA with all that cool wood

 

[glycerine]

Welcome Ted!!

 

[Fred]

Welcome to the Forum, Ted. Glad to have you with us.

 

[rherrell]

Welcome!

 

[Glenn McCullough]

welcome from the mitten.

 

[markgum]

welcome to the fun. can't wait to see some of your work.

 

[jbostian]

Welcome from Indiana.

Jamie

 

[Paul in OKC]

Welcome from Oklahoma, from a former Roseville-ite. Lived there back in the mid 70's.

 

[Mrs Rojo22]

Welcome!

Robin

 

[hunter-27]

Welcome to the group Ted.

 

[leslie hines]

Welcome to the site also have a Mark V that I used for most all my wood working until I could upgrade it is a little hard to turn on.

 

[wood128]

Welcome

Welcome Ted, from sunny Florida. Great bunch of talented woodturners here in IAP. I have been known to supply some nice pen blanks to quite a few of them.
Joe

 

[Daniel]

Welcome Ted,