Flintski22
Member
For those of you who don't know me, my name is Flint and I'm a very young woodturner. I'm new to the craft and picked it up as a hobby for extra projects in my woodshop classes at school. I'm a complete rookie.
I just wanted to take a quick second to thank all the good people of the international association of penturners for all the good advice I've been given. I just started pen turning and while I still have a lot more to learn, I've been thrilled with the personal progress I've made and the knowledge I've gained.
I started out last semester making my first pen. It's a redheart slimline pen. Things were tricky because I'd never done it before, but it turned out pretty ay okay and it's a pen I'll forever hold dear to my heart. This semester I found some time in my woodshop class to turn a 2nd pen after finishing a walnut nightstand I'd been working on. I turned a bloodwood pen, this time a euro pen kit that required a mortise and tenon and some more advanced techniques I'd never tried my hand at. I was able to make it far quicker and was thrilled with improvements in the gloss of my finish.
I'm now close to finishing my 3rd pen. For this 3rd pen, I decided to take a big jump and try my hand at segmenting. I took an ebony blank and added red heart scallops. The whole thing was kinda freehanded and made without a jig, so it definitely isn't the highest quality segmenting, but it's looking incredible nonetheless.
I never would've been able to grow my talents and knowledge like I have without the help offered by all of you, and for that I owe each of you a thanks. I'm happy to be here learning from all of you.
here are the following pictures: a picture of my first slimline pen, my 2nd pen (euro) and my not-yet-complete segmented pen.
I just wanted to take a quick second to thank all the good people of the international association of penturners for all the good advice I've been given. I just started pen turning and while I still have a lot more to learn, I've been thrilled with the personal progress I've made and the knowledge I've gained.
I started out last semester making my first pen. It's a redheart slimline pen. Things were tricky because I'd never done it before, but it turned out pretty ay okay and it's a pen I'll forever hold dear to my heart. This semester I found some time in my woodshop class to turn a 2nd pen after finishing a walnut nightstand I'd been working on. I turned a bloodwood pen, this time a euro pen kit that required a mortise and tenon and some more advanced techniques I'd never tried my hand at. I was able to make it far quicker and was thrilled with improvements in the gloss of my finish.
I'm now close to finishing my 3rd pen. For this 3rd pen, I decided to take a big jump and try my hand at segmenting. I took an ebony blank and added red heart scallops. The whole thing was kinda freehanded and made without a jig, so it definitely isn't the highest quality segmenting, but it's looking incredible nonetheless.
I never would've been able to grow my talents and knowledge like I have without the help offered by all of you, and for that I owe each of you a thanks. I'm happy to be here learning from all of you.
here are the following pictures: a picture of my first slimline pen, my 2nd pen (euro) and my not-yet-complete segmented pen.
