Newby from U.P.

[writestuff]

Hi all, Ive been turning pens for about four years, nothig special, but they do make great gifts. I will add pix of several of my latest to this thread. I recently excaped from another forum, and have been lurking here for some time. I work with two lathes, a HF 34706, and a sweet Jet 1220VS.
Right now, I'm working with my first celluloid blanks and expierencing a learning curve. Will post pix when I get that tecnique figured out. I am posting three pix with this thread, Two Executive pens in amboyna burl, and a zebrawood from an end grain blank. These are finished with CA. Your comments are welcome.

 

[Ligget]

Welcome to the IAP Bob, lovely pens too!

 

[Mrs Rojo22]

Welcome and nice looking pens!

Robin

 

[hilltopper46]

Welcome, from Wisconsin!

I've tried turning that cross-grained Zebrawood - that ain't no easy thing to do.

 

[broitblat]

Welcome, Bob.

Based on the examples, I look forward to seeing more of your work.

-Barry

 

[Longfellow]

Welcome

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

 

[Rollerbob]

Bob, sorry our quota of Bobs have been taken, any chance we call you Joe? :biggrin: Welcome from Texas!!:wink: Nice work, BTW!!

 

[writestuff]

Zebrawood?

Welcome, from Wisconsin!

I've tried turning that cross-grained Zebrawood - that ain't no easy thing to do.

As I found out when one end of a blank went "south" on me. Fortunately I had a comfort tip to take its place. I found that sharp tools and cutting towards the center of the blank let me salvedge the other blank. Whew!

WS.

 

[writestuff]

As to "Bob".

Bob, sorry our quota of Bobs have been taken, any chance we call you Joe? :biggrin: Welcome from Texas!!:wink: Nice work, BTW!!

Just call me WS.
WS.

 

[Mack C.]

WS; Top notch combo; Executive twists and Amboyna burls. The X-cut Zebrawood is no slouch either.

 

[Jim15]

Welcome Bob, good looking pens.

 

[leehljp]

Welcome Bob. You are doing great! Keep up the good work! Up where you are, you will definitely need a heater for making and finishing pens in the winter!

Below are two 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

 

[rherrell]

Welcome!

 

[writestuff]

Thanks all,

Looking forward to sharing my work with yours.
WS

 

[CSue]

Welcome WS. Those are very nice pens! I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.

The next time you want to post pens for comment and such, use the Forum called, "Show off your pens." If you have other woodwork you've done, there is a Forum called "Other things we make."