Thread: Two acrylic and a Oak burl

Very nyyyce!!

I like all three
very nice

WOW.. I've been watching the pens that u post and I must say you do a fine job kicken out some quality look'n pens.


Now.. where did I put my.... skew..........

Jim

Originally Posted by Jiminidaho

WOW.. I've been watching the pens that u post and I must say you do a fine job kicken out some quality look'n pens.


Now.. where did I put my.... skew..........

Jim

Thank you Jim, but if you can handle a Skew you're a better man than me. I rarely use a Skew, and if I do I put it away as I get close to finishing it, they are just so unpredictable, seems like such a risk to take. One hard spot or niggle to catch it on and you'll be crying in your tea.

I know though, greatest thing since sliced bread and all, I should get around to learning how to use one better though, practice turning some spindles with one or something. I probably need to get a better quality set of tools, I'm still using a $40 harbor freight set, the frequent sharpening is getting to me, although they do sharpen up so quickly. I'm sure the low quality steel in my skew has something to do with my wariness of it.

I still haven't gotten around to getting that last pen kit done, that's the way it goes though.

Cheers everyone!
Matthew

Right! Chuck the Skew...

Ahhhh. there's the EEE! Nice.....

out.

I use CA on all of mine, I never had any luck with any sort of wax or friction polish staying around very long, handle them a few times and the luster is gone, a few more times and...

Also, a little refreshment and entertainment while turning never hurts.

I like ice cold Pepsi, and this time of the year picking off carpenter bee's as they fly past is the name of the game.




We have horrible problems with the buggers around here, need to replace all of the eave trim, it's been bored to bits, the fence I tore down last summer was seriously structurally compromised, probably had 10-15 holes/tunnels per rail, they will bore in a half inch tunnel for a foot or two. I used to shoot them as a kid with my single shot bb, I've upgraded to a 12 shot clip fed co2 powered pellet gun though.

Nice pens... I wish I still had a bb gun. The third one looks like what is sold as Bronze with Black swirls over here. Did you take out the bee with the gun? Thats pretty good shooting if you did.

Corbs

BB and Pellet guns are great fun, more fun than most actual firearms actually. You can shoot them in your backyard, use them on things like carpenter bee's and the like, they are cheap to shoot, nifty little things.

I think (think) that the blank was a butterscotch or orange ripple, it's really more orange than bronze.

That's actually three bee's and yes I shot them with the gun. It's not as impressive as it sounds, they are carpenter bees, a species of wood boring bee, and they are about the size of a bumble bee, if you aren't familiar with bumblebee's, then they are about an inch long. What makes them so easy to shoot however, is their flight pattern, they are really quite acrobatic although by all rights and laws of physics they shouldn't be able to even fly, they are fast, can dive and loop and fight with each other in the air (and even what appears to be mate in the air ) but their fatal mistake is they periodically pause and hover in midair. That's when you take your shot. 5-10 feet out, at the size of your finger or thumbtip, they aren't that hard to hit. However, what ever you are shooting at them with needs to have some speed to it, if its only going a few hundred fps they will dodge it, which is something to see in itself.

They do impressively horrific damage to wood structures. Here's a picture of a board cut to expose a tunnel from a carpenter bee.

Sounds like a bit of fun to pass some time in the shed... glad we don't have those buggers over here in Oz then... Thats a pretty serious looking borer.

Corbs