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Color me foolish, but I'm a man on a mission. I've decided to take the next 24 hours and do a CA finish on some pens.

I have 85 Jr. Gent ballpoint pens, 48 ounces of thick CA, a gallon of accelerator, fresh bars of tripoli and white diamond and I'm wearing sunglasses. :cool:

(And I could swear I just heard Joliet Jake tell me to "Hit it.")
 
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Sounds like you only need a good stereo system and some "tunes" to make it happen!!!

WOW, EIGHTY-FIVE pens - pretty prolific!!!
 

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If I did that many I would wind up with one big finger - about the size of 5 of mine now, but they would all be stuck together.

Hope they sell as fast as you can make em.
 
BRobbins629 said:
If I did that many I would wind up with one big finger - about the size of 5 of mine now, but they would all be stuck together.

Hope they sell as fast as you can make em.
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This raises an interesting, philosophical question>

IF all your fingers are glued together and you are driving down the highway and feel COMPELLED to give some ahole the finger, are you, instead

GIVING HIM A HAND????
 
I'm at 20 in 5 hours, so the pace is about the same. As for the finger versus giving someone a hand, I'm closing in on giving an arm and a leg. :befuddled:
 
ed4copies said:
This raises an interesting, philosophical question>

IF all your fingers are glued together and you are driving down the highway and feel COMPELLED to give some ahole the finger, are you, instead

GIVING HIM A HAND????
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No, just asking him to read between the lines!
 
yeah; don't take the time to get an expresso; send the neighbor on a buzz juice run for you. something like a quad triple expresso with extra ginsing....:eek:
 
DCBluesman said:
I get high with a little help from my friends.
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Ah, nothing like the Beatles. Lou, you are way to close and to talented not to have a friend like me come and pick your brain in person for a few hours (days) . Hint Hint. I have been to your site and love the work you do. I am trying my luck here in Fredericksburg, VA and so far so good. My wife gets me most of my sales. I think I am at 68 pens sold so far. Not bad for a hobby.
 
Lou,

I think you were sniffing too much glue :bulgy-eyes: when you decided to do than many in that short of time! :biggrin: No help from friends are needed for that! :rolleyes:

85 pens, a good way to get CA experience fast! :eek:
 
1:56 late! Things slowed significantly at about 2 a.m. Last pen just finished. I have a sore shoulder and sore wrist and I WANT MY LACQUER BACK! Thanks for the fun comments that kept me going. :cool:
 
jeff said:
I'd love to see a time-lapse video of that.
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That would be interesting. At some point when I own a house and have a dedicated shop I may install web cams. Though I don't know if I would do any marathon pen turnings. Closest I came one year was making about 7 or 8 pens in a row with in about 4 hours I guess, when I was working at a high school. I didn't have a lathe of my own yet so I had to use one at the school. It was the last day before winter break (I think I had been turning for a month or two by then) and my parents wanted some pens to send to relatives for Christmas. Luckily I didn't have any real work to do being as that it was the last day before the break.
 
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