bitshird
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OK I've only been turning pens for about 10 months, so I'm not what any one would call an experienced turner, I don't even own a wood lathe[:I] But I have turned close to two hundred pens and a bunch of bottle stoppers 
I keep reading about how hard it is to turn PR, I've been pouring it and making pens for about 8 months, and bottle stoppers for 6, I've only had 3 blow up, all while drilling [B)], I've read how much trouble turning DIW is, I had one blow up out of 8 so far, and that was a stupid mistake, I got in a hurry I've read how hard it is for some folks to get a decent CA finish, I've only had problems with a few pens when I first started, I was using Locktite CA Pure junk [}]
So I'm thinking to my self, Self I says you got your act together don't cha [^][^]
Yesterday I got a good size piece of Paduk, a real nice board, as it cooled off last night, I started cutting it up into 3/4 and 7/8 blanks along with a dozen or so 2x3 chunks for stoppers []
This afternoon I HAD to turn a pen from it, it was screaming at me[]
I took my time resharpened a tool that for me is the equivalent of a skew, turned the blank round and drilled it, set it up between centers, and started turning what was intended to be a nice TI gold Cigar did the cap end first, looked good, nice grain not too bad of a start, got started the lower barrel, and I thought I had gotten shot it threw a chunk off as I neared the tip that left a dent in my safety glasses, Now I understand, and this particular dish tasted horrible Now perhaps I won't be so inclined to come up with some acerbic comment or even worse think Jeez what a dummy this or that person is, I think I know who the dummy is and I feel sooo stupid [:I][:I][:I][:I][:I][8]
I keep reading about how hard it is to turn PR, I've been pouring it and making pens for about 8 months, and bottle stoppers for 6, I've only had 3 blow up, all while drilling [B)], I've read how much trouble turning DIW is, I had one blow up out of 8 so far, and that was a stupid mistake, I got in a hurry I've read how hard it is for some folks to get a decent CA finish, I've only had problems with a few pens when I first started, I was using Locktite CA Pure junk [}]So I'm thinking to my self, Self I says you got your act together don't cha [^][^]
Yesterday I got a good size piece of Paduk, a real nice board, as it cooled off last night, I started cutting it up into 3/4 and 7/8 blanks along with a dozen or so 2x3 chunks for stoppers [
]This afternoon I HAD to turn a pen from it, it was screaming at me[
]I took my time resharpened a tool that for me is the equivalent of a skew, turned the blank round and drilled it, set it up between centers, and started turning what was intended to be a nice TI gold Cigar
did the cap end first, looked good, nice grain not too bad of a start, got started the lower barrel, and I thought I had gotten shot it threw a chunk off as I neared the tip that left a dent in my safety glasses, Now I understand, and this particular dish tasted horrible Now perhaps I won't be so inclined to come up with some acerbic comment or even worse think Jeez what a dummy this or that person is, I think I know who the dummy is and I feel sooo stupid [:I][:I][:I][:I][:I][8]
