Why does no one ever post their fails?

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Drstrangefart

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Every pic of anyone's pens is spectacular. No one ever posts a steaming pile of failure. I'm gonna do it. I have a pen I tried painting with acrylic craft paint before I sealed it with CA. It looked barely accpetable when done, and a couple weeks later the paint shrank as it dried more leaving behind butt-fugly wrinkled crusty looking spots. I'm gonna get a pic up and post it tomorrow. Just to say someone did it.:cool:
 
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Drstrangefart said:
Every pic of anyone's pens is spectacular. No one ever posts a steaming pile of failure. I'm gonna do it. I have a pen I tried painting with acrylic craft paint before I sealed it with CA. It looked barely accpetable when done, and a couple weeks later the paint shrank as it dried more leaving behind butt-fugly wrinkled crusty looking spots. I'm gonna get a pic up and post it tomorrow. Just to say someone did it.:cool:
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You might want to save it in case we have another Ugly Pen contest in the Bash the first of the year.
 
My blown out blanks are never pressed into a perfectly good pen kit! But I do have a few hanging around that I'm happy to post for you if you like.
 
Parson said:
My blown out blanks are never pressed into a perfectly good pen kit! But I do have a few hanging around that I'm happy to post for you if you like.
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Sadlt, it was borderline useable, and the best out of like 6 tries. I had to keep scraping all of the paint off and starting over. It just got wors after sitting for a few weeks. I need to get my Dad to scan it to get all of its miserable glory.
 
Drstrangefart said:
Every pic of anyone's pens is spectacular. No one ever posts a steaming pile of failure. I'm gonna do it. I have a pen I tried painting with acrylic craft paint before I sealed it with CA. It looked barely accpetable when done, and a couple weeks later the paint shrank as it dried more leaving behind butt-fugly wrinkled crusty looking spots. I'm gonna get a pic up and post it tomorrow. Just to say someone did it.:cool:
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OK How is this for nasty??? I wish I could find the picture of my ugly pen entry, it was rather disturbing..
 

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I am not sure I would WANT to win an ugly pen contest! Not something I could tell my customers to boost sales. lol

To answer the original question; why not post failures:
It is hard to get pictures of chunks of wood scattered in the wood shavings under the lathe. That's where my worst failures ended up.
 
I did post an ugly pen and its ugliness was confirmed by many IAP members. I enlisted it into the Ugly Pen Contest and then cleaned it up and sold it to an English Professor who did not like conventional looking pens.
 
So what's a failure?

Drstrangefart said:
Every pic of anyone's pens is spectacular. No one ever posts a steaming pile of failure. I'm gonna do it. I have a pen I tried painting with acrylic craft paint before I sealed it with CA. It looked barely accpetable when done, and a couple weeks later the paint shrank as it dried more leaving behind butt-fugly wrinkled crusty looking spots. I'm gonna get a pic up and post it tomorrow. Just to say someone did it.:cool:
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What is a failure???? That is a new word to me. Now perhaps a time or two I've had a pen that was "less than perfect" .... but failure? Never.
 
bradh said:
I am not sure I would WANT to win an ugly pen contest! Not something I could tell my customers to boost sales. lol
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That is a good question, is second place in an ugly pen contest better than first place:confused:!?!

I haven't been turning pens long enough to have anything stand out as uglier than the others, I'm sure some will get really ugly when the good ones start coming out pretty...
Chris
 
WoodWorkinthe530 said:
bradh said:
I am not sure I would WANT to win an ugly pen contest! Not something I could tell my customers to boost sales. lol
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That is a good question, is second place in an ugly pen contest better than first place:confused:!?!

I haven't been turning pens long enough to have anything stand out as uglier than the others, I'm sure some will get really ugly when the good ones start coming out pretty...
Chris
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A quick lesson in creative writing (after you win the "ugly pen" competition): Brad recently entered a national pen-turning contest, held in a forum of penturners, numbering nearly 10,000 members. As a newer turner, you can imagine his surprise when he was announced the WINNER!!!

As a gesture of humility, Brad has not yet increased his pen pricing to reflect his new found glory, so best to purchase QUICKLY!!!!
 
ed4copies said:
WoodWorkinthe530 said:
bradh said:
I am not sure I would WANT to win an ugly pen contest! Not something I could tell my customers to boost sales. lol
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A quick lesson in creative writing (after you win the "ugly pen" competition): Brad recently entered a national pen-turning contest, held in a forum of penturners, numbering nearly 10,000 members. As a newer turner, you can imagine his surprise when he was announced the WINNER!!!

As a gesture of humility, Brad has not yet increased his pen pricing to reflect his new found glory, so best to purchase QUICKLY!!!!
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Big Tobacco needs more spin doctors like you Ed!
Chris
 
In my case, it's because the selection process would be too difficult. Trying to find THE ugliest one would be too time consuming. I've made some real "stinkers"! I've never made one quite like the "hairy" one in last year's competition, but close.
 
How do you define "failure"? Is it when something goes wrong? Is it when you do not learn why something went wrong? Sometimes it is just a happy accident where an oppertunity jumps out and grabs you by a body part. I watch Bob Ross when I can and for him it always an opportunity to do something other than what was planed. Now almost of my unexpected opportunities end up on the floor under foot like the shavings. I most often do not have the patients to see the opportunities in my 'happy accidents'. So there.
Chrles
 
I have 2 or 3 fails I'm still finding pieces of. I've rescued some blowouts on stuff like pine cones because it was pretty simple. My big fail didn't blow out. The CA turned into a hideous prune as the paint under it shrank a couple of weeks after the pen was finished.
 
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In my case, it's because the selection process would be too difficult. Trying to find THE ugliest one would be too time consuming. I've made some real "stinkers"! I've never made one quite like the "hairy" one in last year's competition, but close.
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Hey listen up guy, My German Shepherd donated a good amount of tail hair for that pen, and even though it was entered as an ugly pen, it won most disturbing or maybe it was disgusting I can't remember which. I actually still have it and it sits in it's own little case, away from all my other pens...
Most of my pens are far from the beauties you good turners crank out, I am but a humble tool maker..
 
bitshird said:
PenMan1 said:
In my case, it's because the selection process would be too difficult. Trying to find THE ugliest one would be too time consuming. I've made some real "stinkers"! I've never made one quite like the "hairy" one in last year's competition, but close.
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Hey listen up guy, My German Shepherd donated a good amount of tail hair for that pen, and even though it was entered as an ugly pen, it won most disturbing or maybe it was disgusting I can't remember which. I actually still have it and it sits in it's own little case, away from all my other pens...
Most of my pens are far from the beauties you good turners crank out, I am but a humble tool maker..
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I kinda wanna see this hair pen. POST A PIC NOW!!!!!!
 
Drstrangefart said:
bitshird said:
PenMan1 said:
In my case, it's because the selection process would be too difficult. Trying to find THE ugliest one would be too time consuming. I've made some real "stinkers"! I've never made one quite like the "hairy" one in last year's competition, but close.
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Hey listen up guy, My German Shepherd donated a good amount of tail hair for that pen, and even though it was entered as an ugly pen, it won most disturbing or maybe it was disgusting I can't remember which. I actually still have it and it sits in it's own little case, away from all my other pens...
Most of my pens are far from the beauties you good turners crank out, I am but a humble tool maker..
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I kinda wanna see this hair pen. POST A PIC NOW!!!!!!
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OK I just happened to have it close at hand, and also included is a picture of the Donor, Now it's shedding and got hair all over my photo cube.
 

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if you look at the ugly pen contest that was just one of the special pens in the contest. One of my most epic fails (no pics) I am sure that there are pieces still in my garage. I spent alot of time making a pen blank it took 4-5 separate glue ups made from over 70+ pieces. I was turning it and I was not to far into segmenting pieces together. Needless to say I did not have my tools quite sharp enough nor my glue joints tight enough, it caught a edge and sent pieces flying. I even got pieces to be stuck into a mattress leaning up against the far wall in a two car garage. (I was working on the opposite side.
 
Charles, oddly enough my wife insists on showing that pen to people, The pooch is my best friend, and part time lover. (no there is no bestiality involved) we have 5 Shepherds and she rules the roost, no one else can climb into bed. She makes my wife soooo angry, she waits until I go to sleep then slips up and lays next to me, but on my wife's pillow. My wife gets home about midnight and Nola just looks at her like well so what!! The dog is rather spoiled, she just doesn't think so!!
 
bitshird said:
PenMan1 said:
In my case, it's because the selection process would be too difficult. Trying to find THE ugliest one would be too time consuming. I've made some real "stinkers"! I've never made one quite like the "hairy" one in last year's competition, but close.
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Hey listen up guy, My German Shepherd donated a good amount of tail hair for that pen, and even though it was entered as an ugly pen, it won most disturbing or maybe it was disgusting I can't remember which. I actually still have it and it sits in it's own little case, away from all my other pens...
Most of my pens are far from the beauties you good turners crank out, I am but a humble tool maker..
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it sits in it's own little case, away from all my other pens.....
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And THAT is a GOOD thing Martha, when I wake up from my reoccuring nightmare, where I am Naked in front of the Queen, THAT PEN is always in my pocket! geez! I tremble just thinking about it.
 
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it sits in it's own little case, away from all my other pens.....
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And THAT is a GOOD thing Martha, when I wake up from my reoccuring nightmare, where I am Naked in front of the Queen, THAT PEN is always in my pocket! geez! I tremble just thinking about it.[/quote]

Now I am mightly confused:confused:. Just where is this pocket on a naked man? :eek: Maybe, just maybe, I don't really want to know.:drink::party:
Charles
 
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