Pens!! New lathe!! Happy dancing!!!

[Steff Pace]

My sweet LOML gave me a Jet 1014i for Christmas, and I have taken my own sweet time getting up and running- had to make a stand for the lathe, get the basement shop painted, some cracks fixed, make a step cause the stand was too tall for me (I'm 5'1"), get some tools, get the tools sharpened, take a class, and now, finally, MY FIRST PENS!!! What fun! I am addicted, and now everyone wants me to make them a pen. hahaha. LOML of course got the first one, Dad got the second, and I kept the third. Here are some pics: from left to right, birdseye maple, walnut, plain maple, olive wood, bocote, and chinaberry. My first pens were the plain maple, my dad's, and the bocote, my husband's I made in the class. They look better in person. The olive wood is the first thing I turned on my own new lathe, my husband has a friend who lives in Italy and brought me some wood a couple years ago, along with some olive oil from a friend who owns an olive grove there. The second picture is an oak dibble I made, the dark one is an old German one my sister had, I actually planted my daffodils with it. Now I can give hers back. Turning is so fun!

[Dewey Torres]

"Turning is so fun"

I agree Steff! I have not done Pens yet but turning is an easily acquired passion. Especially while you are still young enough to have a steady hand.

Love em!

[Don Carter]

Steff:
They look great! Congratulations, I think. This turning thing is addictive but it sure is fun. Keep 'em coming!

All the best.

Don

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Very nice first pens and dibble Steff! Keep at it!

[Leigh Costello]

Very nice, Steff. I have made and sold hundreds and judging by my pen blank stash, I am going to very busy for a very long time. Happy Turning!

[Billy Tallant]

Pens look great Steff! They are addicting for sure...

[alex carey]

congratulations on the lathe and those are some nice looking pens.

[Jeff Nicol]

Steff, Way to go on the pens! They all look very well done! The planting dibble is a great thing, I have been going to make some for my wife, as she just loves to plant flowers!

Jeff

[Paul Douglass]

Nice looking pens and congrats on the new lathe. I made several dibbles that I use in my garden planting.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Very nice work on everything Steff! Beautiful pens! Made a couple of dibbles when I first started turning - still use them!

Have fun turning! Looking forward to seeing more of your work real soon!

[Bill Bulloch]

Nice looking pens Steff. Keep that good work up and you'll soon be calling that basement shop "THE STUDIO".

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great looking pens and dibbles Steff. Have fun and enjoy.

[Jim Kountz]

Nice looking pens Steff, isnt it great to be able to go in the shop and in a little time come out with a completed project? Thats what I liked about pen turning.

[Kirk Miller]

Nice work Stef. I had never heard of a Dibble before. I can see where it would be handy though. I will have to make one for the GF. She is the gardner of house.

[michael gallagher]

Welcome to the vortex and the bottomless pit called pen turning. My wife thinks I am nuts with all of the pens I make, but it is rewarding, and I'm glad to hear you like it, too (you can always see how one addict can relate to another).

Your pens look a lot better than my first batch, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work!