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What a diatribe on making a pen in relation to your post Simon. It must be obvious that we all have had or will a steep learning curve with these aspects in making pens. I have found committing equipment to do repetitive tasks that give quick and accurate help in the process to be very cheap over the years when amortised over numbers of beaut results. In the last while I have given huge numbers of special equipment to a mens shed. I was at a Craft Show recently tootling along on my disability scooter,a voice from above high Sir Peter (a title given with a life membership of that mens shed). Initially when I was first in the rush and bustle of years in pens my wife observed how I would be dissapointed when I got to turning proper. I made my first lathe etc and yes I have loved creating things to make pens.One thing that always amuses is the price and quality of drills the unseen blessings of repeatability and just how cheap they work out to be. Constant measurement of them when you buy them will reveal subtle but real errors inn sizes that can also contribute to under and overs.

Peter.

<blockquote data-quote="Penpal" data-source="post: 321250" data-attributes="member: 122">What a diatribe on making a pen in relation to your post Simon. It must be obvious that we all have had or will a steep learning curve with these aspects in making pens. I have found committing equipment to do repetitive tasks&nbsp; that give quick and accurate help in the process to be very cheap over the years when amortised over numbers of beaut results. In the last while I have given huge numbers of special equipment to a mens shed. I was at a Craft Show recently tootling along on my disability scooter,a voice from above high Sir Peter (a title given with a life membership of that mens shed). Initially when I was first in the rush and bustle of years in pens my wife observed how I would be dissapointed when I got to turning proper. I made my first lathe etc and yes I have loved creating things to make pens.One thing that always amuses is the price and quality of drills the unseen blessings of repeatability and just how cheap they work out to be. Constant measurement of them when you buy them will reveal subtle but real errors inn sizes that can also contribute to under and overs.Peter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Penpal, post: 321250, member: 122"] What a diatribe on making a pen in relation to your post Simon. It must be obvious that we all have had or will a steep learning curve with these aspects in making pens. I have found committing equipment to do repetitive tasks that give quick and accurate help in the process to be very cheap over the years when amortised over numbers of beaut results. In the last while I have given huge numbers of special equipment to a mens shed. I was at a Craft Show recently tootling along on my disability scooter,a voice from above high Sir Peter (a title given with a life membership of that mens shed). Initially when I was first in the rush and bustle of years in pens my wife observed how I would be dissapointed when I got to turning proper. I made my first lathe etc and yes I have loved creating things to make pens.One thing that always amuses is the price and quality of drills the unseen blessings of repeatability and just how cheap they work out to be. Constant measurement of them when you buy them will reveal subtle but real errors inn sizes that can also contribute to under and overs. Peter. [/QUOTE]

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