ldb2000
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I made the big time . Front Page !!!! :bananen_smilies051: :bananen_smilies104: :bananen_smilies051:
I bought my first lathe in August 2007 . I had read about thousand web sites on turning , mainly boxes and small bowls , which was what I wanted to try , I had also seen some pens that had been turned and that caught my eye , they were really really cool .
I ordered the free DVD about turning pens from PSI and got a $10 coupon for my next purchase . I read every tutorial I could find on the subject including the ones posted here and on the PMG pages .
I used the $10 coupon and bought some slimline pens and pencils and after turning my first one , I was hooked ! .
I lurked around here for awhile and drooled all over my keyboard about the beautiful pens that had been turned and posted here . Then I bought a new keyboard :biggrin: .
At some point in time I decided that just putting a nice piece of wood or plastic on a kit pen wasn't enough . I had seen the pens that Steven (Skiprat) and several others had made without kits and knew that I wanted to go in that direction . It's not an easy path to take because there are no tutorials and very little information on making a pen without the kit , but there are a number of people who make them so I studied their pens and through trial and error and the tap and die set from the first group buy , I made my first semi kitless pen .
Someone had made the comment that "I wouldn't have wasted my time to make a kitless ballpoint" about my first kitless roller ball pens (it was a capped pen that I had used a parker type Fisher space pen refill instead of a roller ball , I like the fisher refills , they write very smoothly) and that kinda got my goat so I started making kitless slimlines and discovered that I love them .
I really have nothing against kit pens , I even make one every now and then :biggrin:, I just love the challenge and the fact that the pen I make is all mine . I'm not constrained by a kit anymore only by my imagination so a pen like the Brass rod pen is possible .
I want to thank Jeff for picking my pen for the featured pen and for starting and running this wonderful forum .
I also want to thank the people here on the IAP for posting your pens and sharing the knowledge which made the dream of one day having a pen picked as the featured pen and the dream of being accepted to the Pen makers guild a reality .
Thank you all .
I bought my first lathe in August 2007 . I had read about thousand web sites on turning , mainly boxes and small bowls , which was what I wanted to try , I had also seen some pens that had been turned and that caught my eye , they were really really cool .
I ordered the free DVD about turning pens from PSI and got a $10 coupon for my next purchase . I read every tutorial I could find on the subject including the ones posted here and on the PMG pages .
I used the $10 coupon and bought some slimline pens and pencils and after turning my first one , I was hooked ! .
I lurked around here for awhile and drooled all over my keyboard about the beautiful pens that had been turned and posted here . Then I bought a new keyboard :biggrin: .
At some point in time I decided that just putting a nice piece of wood or plastic on a kit pen wasn't enough . I had seen the pens that Steven (Skiprat) and several others had made without kits and knew that I wanted to go in that direction . It's not an easy path to take because there are no tutorials and very little information on making a pen without the kit , but there are a number of people who make them so I studied their pens and through trial and error and the tap and die set from the first group buy , I made my first semi kitless pen .
Someone had made the comment that "I wouldn't have wasted my time to make a kitless ballpoint" about my first kitless roller ball pens (it was a capped pen that I had used a parker type Fisher space pen refill instead of a roller ball , I like the fisher refills , they write very smoothly) and that kinda got my goat so I started making kitless slimlines and discovered that I love them .
I really have nothing against kit pens , I even make one every now and then :biggrin:, I just love the challenge and the fact that the pen I make is all mine . I'm not constrained by a kit anymore only by my imagination so a pen like the Brass rod pen is possible .
I want to thank Jeff for picking my pen for the featured pen and for starting and running this wonderful forum .
I also want to thank the people here on the IAP for posting your pens and sharing the knowledge which made the dream of one day having a pen picked as the featured pen and the dream of being accepted to the Pen makers guild a reality .
Thank you all .
