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davinci27

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After enjoying Newlondon88's thread I thought I'd start another similar thread. Here goes

You might be a pen turner if you wake up in a cold sweat after having a nightmare about your latest blank experiment flying apart on the lathe.
 
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You might be a pen turner

" if you refer to the buck you killed as a 10 pen buck instead of a 10 point buck......, you might be a pen turner....":cool:
 
When the wind finally brings down that old tree that's been standing at the town square, all you can do is muster a "blank" stare.
 
I know I read this some time ago and I don't remember who said it . . . but it has all the hallmarks of a penturner . . .

"The baby is 4 blanks long . . . "
 
When you pull in to a 7-11 and look at all the ends of the fire wood bundles looking for good grain....You walk across the street because a neighbor put out an interesting looking limb to the curb...
 
When LOML hollors out at you "bring my cutting board back and it bettor still be in one piece", you might be a pen turner.
 
You might be a pen turner if you go to the furniture store hoping that they dropped something off the delivery truck and need to be rid of the pieces.
 
...when you grab a handful of shavings to throw on a spill of shop liquid (glue, oil, finish, etc) and realize you are using a combination of deer antler and amboyna burl as 'oil dry'.
 
You might be a pen turner when the shop is too cold to turn and you find yourself late at night hitting the refresh button on your browser and scanning over and over again the IAP Forum for new ideas on pen turning...
 
You might be a pen turner if you cant find your suburban in the parking lot and are more worried about the Tx Mt Laurel root balls that were in the back.
 
When you are in someones office, they get up to get something, and you grab their pen to examine it, disassemble it to see what's inside, and try to figure out how you could make one like it. When they get back you start questioning them about why they chose this particular pen and what they like about it.

I haven't done this, but I've heard of some of the more deranged and addicted members may or may not have done this.:wink:
 
You might be a pen turner if...

You have more CA on your fingers than skin....

You have a more diverse wood collection than several prominent Universities....

Wood collectors call you to identify what it is....

You are known in your wood working circle as "the person who hoardes cutoffs"....

You have more than 5 "nickel" baggies full of shavings to fill "holy" blanks....

You can identify a species of wood by smell...from your next door neighbors shop....
 
When you are sifting through your woodpile and find a twisted, knotty, moldly piece of firewood you put it in your shop instead of your wood stove:rolleyes:
 
When you read the twenty three posts in this thread and can consider all of them to be sane and perfectly normal things to do. :eek:
 
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