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mac davis[_5_]

On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:13:21 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:43:14 -0800, mac davis
wrote:

On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:35:16 -0500, wrote:

Amazing job for your first pens!
Most of us start out doing really original (bugly) shapes and look pretty
amateurish..
Yours are an interesting, useful shape and damn good fit and alignment of metal
to wood..
Well done!

mac

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Thanks mac !
Coming from you that's a big compliment. I've done more lurking here
then turning the last few years and have learned a lot from your
posts. This pen stuff is quite fun. I can see myself really getting
into it !

Lenny

It's addicting.. I NEVER thought I'd turn pens, then a year later they were my
main source of income!

If you haven't already built a "blank holder", make a few, they're very
helpful..

Mine are just an 8' long piece of 1x3" with long finishing nails in 2 rows..
Very handy to keep drilled or unfinished pen blanks in because it lets you
remember what 2 go together..
I find that I don't want to bother doing pens unless I do quite a few, so things
like this help a lot..
Also good for drying finishes... I have a separate one for curing the Danish Oil
on wet sanded blanks..
Much better than handing them or the other things I've tried..

mac

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