bowersox1
Member
Greetings,
I want to thank the members for allowing me to become a member of this fine site. My names Mark Bowersox and I'm from Lewisburg, Pa. I'm 49 and trade I am a Boiler Maker, Pipe fitter, Plumber and Boiler Operator (Co-Generation and Coal Fired plants). Due to a hernia surgery over 2 years ago gone bad and 4 surgeries since (due to damaged and nerve entrapment) and many nerve blocks I am now living a life of not able to work and do stuff I use to enjoy. My life is chronic pain that is livable with pills but can change just with a sneeze, moving or walking. My life has changed and for a while I could handle it but I'm growing nuts with not able to do things. I enjoy reading but can only read so much.
Many years ago (20+), me and my father was somewhere and dad seen a fellow that was selling homemade wood pens. Dad fell in love with them and bought one. I must admit it was the sweetest looking and feeling pen I've ever seen or held. I never gave it any more thoughts. Dad died in 2006 from cancer. We don't know what ever happen to that pen. So now with me looking for things to do to settle my mind and give me things to do I started looking at pen making as a hobby and way to pass time.
As I said, I am a metal type of man. If it doesn't fit get a bigger hammer, grinder and throw weld on it. To small, weld it in place. LOL. My grandfather had a wood lathe when I was growing up. I tried using it once but it wasn't good. I never got the hang of it and ended up with a broken wrist cause of the tools and not holding them correctly. This was in the late 1970'S.
I'm reaching out to you folks in the hopes that you can give me some ideas on how to learn how to turn using a lathe without hurting myself and damage to other objects. Maybe you can give me ideas how you learn to use a lathe and the tooling. I haven't bought anything yet as I'm trying to figure out if this would be a lost cause and I end up getting mad. I also hope you folks can prove me with some ideas of what items to get that would serve me best and where to get items that would be best as well.
I thank you for your time and understanding and look forward to hear from you.
I want to thank the members for allowing me to become a member of this fine site. My names Mark Bowersox and I'm from Lewisburg, Pa. I'm 49 and trade I am a Boiler Maker, Pipe fitter, Plumber and Boiler Operator (Co-Generation and Coal Fired plants). Due to a hernia surgery over 2 years ago gone bad and 4 surgeries since (due to damaged and nerve entrapment) and many nerve blocks I am now living a life of not able to work and do stuff I use to enjoy. My life is chronic pain that is livable with pills but can change just with a sneeze, moving or walking. My life has changed and for a while I could handle it but I'm growing nuts with not able to do things. I enjoy reading but can only read so much.
Many years ago (20+), me and my father was somewhere and dad seen a fellow that was selling homemade wood pens. Dad fell in love with them and bought one. I must admit it was the sweetest looking and feeling pen I've ever seen or held. I never gave it any more thoughts. Dad died in 2006 from cancer. We don't know what ever happen to that pen. So now with me looking for things to do to settle my mind and give me things to do I started looking at pen making as a hobby and way to pass time.
As I said, I am a metal type of man. If it doesn't fit get a bigger hammer, grinder and throw weld on it. To small, weld it in place. LOL. My grandfather had a wood lathe when I was growing up. I tried using it once but it wasn't good. I never got the hang of it and ended up with a broken wrist cause of the tools and not holding them correctly. This was in the late 1970'S.
I'm reaching out to you folks in the hopes that you can give me some ideas on how to learn how to turn using a lathe without hurting myself and damage to other objects. Maybe you can give me ideas how you learn to use a lathe and the tooling. I haven't bought anything yet as I'm trying to figure out if this would be a lost cause and I end up getting mad. I also hope you folks can prove me with some ideas of what items to get that would serve me best and where to get items that would be best as well.
I thank you for your time and understanding and look forward to hear from you.