Day two.

[Keith Christopher]

From left to right (bloodwood, green acrylic (previous post) , pink maple burl (previous post), Bloodwood, curly maple. I can turn one of these out in like 20 minutes. (well a little longer on the acrylic tough to round over but nice once round) .


Cheers. I'll do some spindles and bowls soon. Just having fun here.


http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b179/goyde/Lathe/pens.jpg

[Keith Burns]

They all look great ! Remember, turn, turn, turn is the word:D

[John Hart]

Geez Keith...Day two huh? Well ok..I guess we have to believe you. You're a natural! Nice Work. Are these Christmas Presents??

[Chris Barton]

Good looking pens!

[Tyler Howell]

The Man 's gone wild!!!
Nice stuff:cool:

[Keith Christopher]

Yes they are xmas christmas presents, This is not the second day I've had my lathe but this is my second pass making some pens. The only problem I have of late is sometimes I'm not paying attention and put the wrong blank between the wrong bushings, so I end up with some parts narrower than they need to be. (see the green acrylic pen top) Ahh well. Of an interesting note. I killed a brad point bit drilling holes in some pink ivory blanks. I may have to get a 5hp drill press and some serious bits to get through this stuff.

I now have 50 bubinga blanks, 5 pink ivory blanks, 10 curly maple blanks 20 blood wood blanks, tonight I will have about 20 cherry blanks once I rips these boards down.



Keith

[John Hart]

For what it's worth Keith, I think that turning pens is a great education...And from the sounds of it, you're gonna get a lot of education with all those blanks!!!;) They offer a discipline of Attention to Detail that will migrate into all future work. (did with me anyway):) :)

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Good Lookin' Pens!

Bruce

[Ernie Nyvall]

For what it's worth Keith, I think that turning pens is a great education...And from the sounds of it, you're gonna get a lot of education with all those blanks!!!;) They offer a discipline of Attention to Detail that will migrate into all future work. (did with me anyway):) :)

This is true. I learned a wee bit about using a skew on the pens.

Oh and ... very nice work on the pens Keith.

Ernie

[Andy Hoyt]

Keith - I began with pens too. But I found that starting out with 3/4 x 3/4 square stock kinda boring and didn't allow for much in the way of actual turning time.

So, I began with larger stock (5/4 and often bigger) and had fun just making shavings with the eventual reward of finding a pen blank deep inside.

Might seem like a waste of thick wood, but I just chalked it up to the learning curve.

[Keith Christopher]

Andy,

I hear ya ! but if I had something larger on the spinner, I don't think I'd turn a pen. But perhaps you are saying you can play and try things and what not until you get to the magical size for a pen.


Keith

[Dick Parr]

Looks like you got the hang of it real quick Keith. Those are some fine looking pens. Great Job.:)