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Try as I might, I just do not like my Shopsmith! It is a lousy lathe, try spinning a 10 -12 inch piece that isn't perfectly balanced and you will be chasing your SS around the shop or running from...

Ya know I had to post mine too.....how was that grape juice? Here's the first one I made, it's baltic birch plywood 3/4" stacked 5 high and glued. In the second layer I quartered it and put...

OK, we'll be there....we like the 17th best. What time are we looking at? I can smell the Quiche already.

Mike

Hi Dan, Congrats! I'm not in the Chicago area but wanted to pass on the congrats to you. How long before the wedding? Do you have a Woodcraft store near you?

There is a store in Palatine,
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Boy is there some beautiful work on this post!! You guys are great and I hope to be at least half that some day.....

While I've done a ton of pens and really have a few I love, the photos aren't...

Hi David, nicely done! Interesting shape. I like the flare at the top. I'd love to see it in person.

Thanks Guys! We have had a lot of requests for pink and purple acrylics, and finally found some neat blanks in those and MANY other colors. I really got into this for the woods but my wife loves...

Hi all, Hope Santa was good to everyone! I finally got back out to the lathe last night to make a pen for a co-worker of my wife. She wanted a pink pen and chose a chrome cigar for the style. So...

Hi Ken - I just want to toss my 2cents worth in.

I really like the "Elegant American Pen" from Berea Hardwoods (Hart Double Twist at Woodcraft is the same pen) as a consideration here. It is...

Hi Mike, I picked up a "paint pen" from Staples. Actually two of them, one in silver and one in gold, PIL41600 and PIL41500 and both are FINE Point. You shake them vigorously for a minute and then...

I have both a Stronghold and a Supernova2 and wouldn't part with either. I also have the Cole Jaws for my SN2. I looked at the Midi and decided I didn't like the tightening method on it.

Mike

Hi Jeff

I have a Rikon 30-140 benchtop drill press with 3 1/8" of stroke, and it is just barely enough for some of the pens I do. The Wall St 1 (Broker) pen is 3 1/8 long in 1 tube, the...

Hey, WOW! Beautiful piece, and who would have thunk that a nice piece like that could come from something that makes such a great pie!

Seriously, that is beautiful.

Hi, I have been toying with the idea of making "tubes" from tree limbs. They would have to be fairly straight but I figured I would do like a lidded box with a friction fit lid. Part off the lid...

Hi all, thanks for all the kind words! Wayne gets some of the most incredible Cocobolo I have ever seen, and occasionally I end up with some of it.

I found out what was wrong in his address and...

Hello all. I'm Mike and I just joined up here. David and Nancy turned me on to SMC and it is impressive to be amongst so many great turners (as well as woodworkers of other ilkes too). I have been...

Hi Chris,

I use EEE and Shellawax on my bowls, and on many of my wood pens. I've done about 500 pens in the past year and a half, some wood, some corian, some acrylic and some antler. I do a...