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Hello everyone!

I have been fantasising quite a while about making some pens. But now I have started to take baby steps towards this goal.

I am living in Sweden, about 60 km south of Stockholm in a beautiful archipelago in a house with my wife and daughter (4 years old). I am 38 years old and work as a computer consultant. I am a hobby knife maker and blacksmith so I am no stranger to working with tools. I have inherited quite a lot of material from my grandfather that I would like to use to make pens. The wood is not suitable for most knives I make so pens will be a perfect choice.

I do not have a big bucket of money to spend on this hobby, but will buy stuff when I need them and when I have sold some knives.
I have just bought a lathe kit for usage with a drill. Very cheap and not very good quality, but I think it will suite me well for now. Of course, a bench model lathe will be purchased as soon as I see that the pen making hobby will stay with me. :)

I can make my own turning tools so that will also be an interesting project.

As a person I am always eager to learn and to share my knowledge, I do not mind critique at all if it is constructive.

Regards,
Emil
 
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wm460 said:
G'Day Emil,

Welcome to the forum from the hot dried out Centre of Australia.
I would be interested in seeing your blacksmith work and knifes.




Cheers,
Mark.
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Hello, I have been quite many times in Australia working in mines. NSW around Orange and Argyle Mines. Really like Australia.

Here are some links to stuff I have made:

Finished Full Tang Knife - Album on Imgur

Mushroom Knife - Album on Imgur

Bottle Opener - Album on Imgur

Damascus Knives - Album on Imgur

And one pic of a bottle opener:

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Välkommen till forumet.

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Emil certainly you have everything to share in photography, the best pics on this forum I have seen. Your hand skills are superb.I love Damascus knives. Your leatherwork is superior.

I live about 300 km,s from Orange in Canberra where the climate is similar. I have a piece of timber from Mt Canobolas in Orange that grows no where else in the world.

Good fortune making pens mate I also love Australia. I can clearly remember our first daughter who turns 61 in a week from now, what a blessing.

Did you collect any samples from the Argyle Mine? Welcome to the forum.

Peter.
 
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Welcome, Emil. Coming to pen-turning with other craft skills, you may come up with some interesting ways of doing things that we haven't seen before. I look forward with interest to seeing some of your first pens.
 
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Thank you all for a very warm welcome. I can see that there is much activity in the forum, and that bodes well for my future Pen Turning addiction. I am now ready to post some questions. :)

I hope I will be able to contribute, at least in the beginning with some baby step progress pics.

Cheers
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Ah, the Mt Conobolas was very beautiful. I also visited the 3 Sisters, beautiful view. I did not bring any samples from Argyle Mine, but I was able to see a 15 carat raw pink diamond. It was well worth the strip search afterwards. :)

I did bring some thin sheets of bark from Australia, my plan is to epoxy glue them together and create a knife handle from it. I have some interesting knife drawings from an Australian knife maker that I am very inspired of.

Regards,
Emil

Penpal said:
Emil certainly you have everything to share in photography, the best pics on this forum I have seen. Your hand skills are superb.I love Damascus knives. Your leatherwork is superior.

I live about 300 km,s from Orange in Canberra where the climate is similar. I have a piece of timber from Mt Canobolas in Orange that grows no where else in the world.

Good fortune making pens mate I also love Australia. I can clearly remember our first daughter who turns 61 in a week from now, what a blessing.

Did you collect any samples from the Argyle Mine? Welcome to the forum.

Peter.
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