Our First Turn
Over the past few weeks we have been acquiring the bits and pieces necessary to begin pen turning. We have learned lots through this. Our lathe is a Wilton, our turning tools are HF $10 cheapies, we did take the plunge and bought a Wood Craft horizontal wet grinder. We picked up some cheap maple blanks to practice on and have been making non-round chunks of pine and oak round, well sorta. Today I cut the chunks of maple and set my wife up to do her first turn at a pen. I think we took on a more difficult pen than we should have. We thought it would be need to do a click pen. She turned the wood down and we polished it to 1500 grit. She then took some johnsons floor wax to give it a sheen. Now comes the completely frustrating part. Putting it together with no manual or instructions. Some parts went well however, the clicking part took us 3 disassembles before we had it together. Other than one ugly spot it looks pretty good. My wife did a good job. Here is a pic of it in maple.
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