Hello From St. Louis, MO

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StephenM

StephenM

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Webster Groves, MO
Hi,

My name's Steve and I'm new to turning. For the last few years, I've done a lot of parquetry and veneer work but some of the projects took months to complete so I was looking for something with a little more "instant gratification" and jumped into pen turning.

Here are the first 3 I made over the weekend. Olive, cherry and rosewood (? it was 79cents a blank at Rockler)

first3pens.jpg



Any tips, pointers, critique, etc. would be appreciated - I screwed up the olive one on the left - had the bushings reversed...

I have a 10 year old girl and a 6 year old boy but when I have some spare time, I make cribbage boards and take them to the VA hospital or send them to sailors via http://www.anysailor.com



Steve
St. Louis, MO
(Webster Groves)
 
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Welcome, Steve, from far west Kentucky, to the addiction, sometimes referred to as the vortex. Be sure to give the library a good bit of time. The link is at the top of the page. You will find an article called Library Index. This covers tutorials on about anything pen making you can think of. You will also notice that there are articles listed by year. Much good info there as well. When these fail to answer your questions, by all means post it here. I have never seen one go unanswered very long. You might also want to give this thread a good look. It has some very good info for the beginning pen turner; http://content.penturners.org/articles/2009/Getting_started_in_penturning.pdf. Grab some wood, make some shavings and have fun all the while being safe.
For your first try at pen turning, you did a fantastic job. Keep up the good work. Your gifts to our service men is splendid, a wonderful idea. When you get into reading this site, you will find that there are many here that turn pens for out service men also. You may feel the need to get into that also. Either way, you show good promise with your technique. There are many tutorials available to help you with your finishing and photography. do not forget to ask questions.
Charles
 
Your pens look good.:)

Welcome from Ohio. The tool that saved me the most money is a transfer punch set from Harbor Freight. It costs about $8 and is used to take apart pens. With that set you could take apart the olive pen, turn new barrels that are the correct size and reassemble the pen. It works on cheap and expensive pens.
 
Welcome from south county. You could take the pen apart re-turn it with the correct bushing. We all make mistakes at one time or another. I muffed a Majestic this weekend and even after pointing out my brain cramp to the better half she thought it was just fine. It is all part of the fun.
 
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