Doug M Jones
01-11-2008, 9:02 PM
My sister commissioned me to make 25 pens for her to give her employees for Christmas presents. This was my second sale and the other one was 1 pen so I said I would do it for $15 per pen because she paid me upfront to buy the supplies. They were all 10K slimlines in acrylic. Evidently she thought I underbid because yesterday I recieved 2 $100 gift certificates in the mail for Craft Supplies USA and a note saying her employees loved the pens and to buy more tools.
I currently have an 8 piece set I bought when I bought the mini lathe that aren't real useful, a 1/2" Artisan bowl gouge, a 1" artisan skew and a 1" Packard woodworks roughing gouge.
Help me spend the $$$. I was leaning toward a radius scraper as well as a radius edge skew and maybe a smaller bowl gouge.
I'm wrestling with buying 2 or 3 really nice tools with better steel or sticking with the Artisan or Hamlet tools and buying twice that many.
What would you do. What tool do you find indespensible?
Oh before I forget, big sis wants a nice bowl when I get done shopping.;)
Thanks for your help.
Doug
I currently have an 8 piece set I bought when I bought the mini lathe that aren't real useful, a 1/2" Artisan bowl gouge, a 1" artisan skew and a 1" Packard woodworks roughing gouge.
Help me spend the $$$. I was leaning toward a radius scraper as well as a radius edge skew and maybe a smaller bowl gouge.
I'm wrestling with buying 2 or 3 really nice tools with better steel or sticking with the Artisan or Hamlet tools and buying twice that many.
What would you do. What tool do you find indespensible?
Oh before I forget, big sis wants a nice bowl when I get done shopping.;)
Thanks for your help.
Doug