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Hammer Handle Pen & Stand
A couple years back I found and downloaded a pen stand designed by Steve Good at Scrollsaw Workshop scroll down the page to see his stand. So to start off let me thank him for the inspiration.
I had intended to someday make some like it but never really found an excuse. Well a couple months back I had asked my brother if he had anything wooden from our dad who had passed several years ago, summer 1987. Anyway my brother brought me an old but unused hammer handle that he had found in Dad's shop just after Dad had passed. Even though it was unused it had apparently lain around his shop for quite some time because it was very dirty, greasy looking, and paint spattered and my brother had kept it that way in storage over the intervening years.
Here is a picture.
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I wanted it(or something turn-able) to make some "In Memory Of" pens for all my siblings, two sisters and the brother mentioned earlier, as a Christmas present this year. I was thinking of a "memory pen" on a stand in front of a photo of dad and the "something turn-able". As it turned out the hammer handle was perfect for the pens.
Here are the pens and a prototype of the photo I am thinking about:
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The photo for the background shows dad at two different times in his life and the process used to make the pens, it is a work in progress and subject to change, don't really like it at this point but...
Now all I needed was four small stands, that is when I remembered the downloaded stand template and took a look at it. The plan is actually a scroll saw template and that seem like a lot of sanding work so I thought I would see if I could come up with a similar designed that could be turned on a lathe.
This is the resulting stand.
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All four pens on their stands.
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I will post in another thread my process I used to make it.
Any and all C&C appreciated.
