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Exhausted and a sore back

Tom.1946

Tom.1946

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Started at 11.00 and just in at 5.00, and as the heading says absolutely knackered but think it was worth it. Finished two Aquilo , one Headwind and one Solano. So after 7 months I think it was worth it.......


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Very nice job mate, love the green/blue Aquilo...
If your back hurts, check your lathe height you should be comfortable when turning....
Now to get these sold and onto the next ones :dancer:
 
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Tom.1946 said:
Started at 11.00 and just in at 5.00, and as the heading says absolutely knackered but think it was worth it. Finished two Aquilo , one Headwind and one Solano. So after 7 months I think it was worth it.......


Tom
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Hi Tom, I love your pens, what was the green/blue blank you used?
I have been looking for something like it with no success .
Cheers,
Paul
 
Tom.1946

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WIFAG said:
Hi Tom, I love your pens, what was the green/blue blank you used?
I have been looking for something like it with no success .
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul
I am not sure bought a few blanks from this site but have been buying locally from a source that sells Chesnut blanks .I have their chart as there are certain ones that I like but not so much some of the others. All the pens shown I didn't paint the tubes but apart from one tube didn't show through....
Tom
 
Tom.1946

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Adal6 said:
Nice pens Tom. Lovely kits hope the back is on the mend till next time we’ll done
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Think with seven months off that I done to many
and that played a part in having a sore back.
Apart from turning to round I sand from 80mesh to 1200mesh wet sandpaper then 1500 to 12000micro mesh pads. After that 2coats of 3 polishes and 2coats of carnaubra wax.......
Think I just took to much out of myself in one day

Tom
 
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Very nice work Tom.
As Mark said, if your back hurts then it could be the Lathe Height is not correct (been there done that).
Once I adjusted the height of mine, I was stood at it for 7 hours :noway1:
No back ache though :phew:

So nice to see you back turning again though Tom, long may it last :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:
 
Tom.1946

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Gadget-UK said:
Very nice work Tom.
As Mark said, if your back hurts then it could be the Lathe Height is not correct (been there done that).
Once I adjusted the height of mine, I was stood at it for 7 hours :noway1:
No back ache though :phew:

So nice to see you back turning again though Tom, long may it last :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:
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I have my lathe set that the centre is roughly just between my abdomen and rib cage....
What should it roughly be......
 
Tom.1946

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Nice to be back turning again... I have 4 jetstream pens but no blanks cut, so will have to wait till next week to do that. Same goes for 6 Notus pens. I think that I might have a couple of European pen blanks cut. However it's one kit that I don't really like turning. I think that I bought about 8 when first starting out. Think I made two and put tubes in the wrong way I.e. long tube in the short blank etc on two others. Because of the tenon I always broke the kit down to turning each section separately...
Still don't know if I will do them, or wait till I get tubes cut for the other kits and finish them off before I re-order a selection of some of the the other kits.......
Tom
 
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