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Several lathe projects of the last few days.
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:42 pm
by mustangpalmer1911
Made a few pens over the last few days and a Mach 3 razor kit for myself. I had made 3 other pens that when people saw them they wanted one. My mom took one, my grandma took one I made from some butter nut from a tree we had to cut down that she planted when she was a kid, and a lady at a antique shop wanted one I had made from cherry and offered me to trade for a box I was looking at to store my pen making supplies in. The 3 here one is from some ??? blank I got from woodcraft when I took the class and the other 2 are cherry. The razor is black walnut.
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:56 pm
by mountainbreeze
Nice work!
Several Lathe projects of the last few days
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:24 pm
by flashbacpt
Very nicely done! Your "Story" reminded me of when I first started turning pens. It was almost two years later when I "could keep one" for myself! It is amazing how people come out of nowhere with......"I want one!"
Keep up the good work!
FlashbacPT
John
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:37 pm
by kalynzoo
Very nice. It's great that you can relate a story of the tree to the finished work. It will make the pen an heirloom indeed.
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:47 pm
by chipmaster
Those are all beautiful. Where do you get the hardware to fit to the blanks?
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:16 pm
by mustangpalmer1911
chipmaster wrote:Those are all beautiful. Where do you get the hardware to fit to the blanks?
Penn State Ind 90% of the time and woodcraft when I am in Harrisburg once a month for work.
http://www.pennstateind.com/
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:23 am
by terrydowning
You can also look at
http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/ AKA Craft Supplies USA (CSUSA)
http://www.bereahardwoods.com/
Or check out many of the vendors listed over on IAP
http://www.penturners.org/.
IAP is also a great place to pick up tips and techniques for pen making and many other turning techniques.