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Ok just thought this was funny ... walking through HD today I see a strange looking hammer thing and stroll over to investigate. Upon investigation I find out this thing is called a Fubar .... I...

It is a bit on the heavy side but not too bad. I compared it to some other ornaments we have for our tree and it wasn't that much of a difference.

There is a hole drilled through the ball. I did...

Golf Ball Ornaments :)

http://www.osbornewoodworks.com/images/IMG_0896.JPG

Excellent work!! My daughter wood love one of those.

BTW: How come the jackasses always get the girl :)

103 pens shipped and Cash sent via paypal today.

Oh as much as I would have loved this to have happened to me, it didn't. My buddy forwarded an email to me with this story because he knows I like wood and such.

My buddy fowarded this email to me and I thought I would share it.

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It was the summer of 1980. I was 8 years old and spending the summer with
my father in Miami. My parents were...

Ken Nelsen is the person that did the engraving for me.

Here is his web site:
http://www.kallenshaanwoods.com/

Ken also wrote an article on how he does this for a magazine.

The article...

Yes they are definatly doing the one in November.

Also they posted some pictures from the TaT on their site....

Pic 5) Aunt Cyndi making her first pen with the help Bill Youngblood (the segmented turning master). Also supervising is her son Kevin (age 12) which made his first pen earlier.
Pic 6) Beth from...

The Detroit Area Turn-A-Thon was a success. The final count was 85 pens. Which works out to about 2 pens per hour per lathe. I think that is pretty good since only 3 of us there turn pens on a...

:D Rock On Chris!!!! Those pens look awesome. I'm sure the troops will be very happy.

I didn't get a chance to see it .... can you email it to me? Too bad it offened somone or maybe it didn't and people just wanted to cover their backsides. Soon we won't have any freedom of expression...

Thank you all for the comments and tips. Here is the pic I promised of the first ones and the new ones. The first one is the one in the middle. Please excuse the "Toy Bomb" that went of in the...

I used some scraps from some blanks I was cutting up for our TAT. I glued up the corian and cut at a 30 degree angle (1). Then I glued again to make the the angled stripes (2). Then I layed flat and...

What is square? Never heard of it :rolleyes: Yeah I used a tenon cutter. On my daughter's I turned the tenons on a lathe but then I got the tenon cutter after a demo at Woodcraft. I am having some...

I made my daughter a rustic chair for her 1st birthday and since then I have had alot of people ask me to make more. A few trees came down on our property so it was the perfect time to make some....

No I'm not gonna post on everyone I make but I thought this one looked different.

For some time I have been setting aside 10% of the profit from the pens I sell to give to the FPP. Yesterday someone wanted to purchase a pen from me for a soldier in their family. I was thinking of...

I have not been able to make any myself untill now due to getting everything ready for our upcoming TAT. Finally I took out some time and made a few.

I wanted to make some like how Ed Davidson...

I got a email with a bunch of pictures today and I thought this one was neat and shows how important letters and such are to the troops

Thank You Waymon!!!

I contacted the one here in Detroit and they have not heard anything about it or even the Freedom Pens Project. I gave them the info so hopefully they will participate also. I will try to get someone...

Hi Joe,

Many people use CA glue as a finish, some use it for a sealer like I do. I sand to about 320 apply some thin CA with the lathe off. I use disposable vinyl gloves to do this, you can use...

I am wondering something also. How do you go about getting people on the lathes in an orderly fashion. I was thinking of having a sign in sheet. Call the name of the person, they turn, bring you the...