jttheclockman
Full Member
With the New Year fast approaching and we all got new tools and gizmos and gadgets for the shop, it is time to start thinking about what we want to do with this hobby of penturning??? We all need to step up our game. We all need to try new things. We all need to step out into the unknown and experience some new techniques or challenges in the world of penturning. Stop making those same type pens you feel comfortable with. ( i undestand if you have orders and such) What I am talking about is doing some new things to that round stick.
I will be doing quite afew new things and using different materials. I have never done a 360 degree herringbone pattern pen before but this year I will give it a try and if I can get the workings down I have a terrific idea that I would like to pay tribute to a fellow penturner that made the design that I had seen. I will again expand my segmenting skills. I may even try some scrollsawing and turning into the same pen design. I will be casting some watch pens that I always wanted to try. I have some cool ideas for this too. I maybe doing some more closed end pens with some different looks.
I need to get myself some taps and dies so that I could create my own pen from scratch to finish. Again I have ideas floating in my head but this may have to wait. I will see how things work out in this area.
I know I will be pushing myself a bit more this year because I like challenges. I know these things sound somewhat ambitous and they surely are. I hope to be able to share some of these ideas and pictures with you all in the coming year. I want to take the journey of my penmaking down a new path. I am hoping others will join me as we turn the page on another year. You all got your feet wet so it is now time to take pen making to new heights.
I know for me things have not always gone the way I planned due to health issues and family issues in the past but with Gods hands I hope to be able to have some fun in the shop this year. I am just now getting back that adrenilin rush to create new things again. As many probably had happen or may even be going through it now, we all get burnt out or fall into the dulldrones and stay away from the shop. But that sawdust is flowing in our veins and it comes back. For me it is slowly coming back.
What say you all??? Lets have a great New Year and I look foward to seeing some new creations out there. Lets have some fun. I would like to hear your New Year resoultions in the pen turning field.
I will be doing quite afew new things and using different materials. I have never done a 360 degree herringbone pattern pen before but this year I will give it a try and if I can get the workings down I have a terrific idea that I would like to pay tribute to a fellow penturner that made the design that I had seen. I will again expand my segmenting skills. I may even try some scrollsawing and turning into the same pen design. I will be casting some watch pens that I always wanted to try. I have some cool ideas for this too. I maybe doing some more closed end pens with some different looks.
I need to get myself some taps and dies so that I could create my own pen from scratch to finish. Again I have ideas floating in my head but this may have to wait. I will see how things work out in this area.
I know I will be pushing myself a bit more this year because I like challenges. I know these things sound somewhat ambitous and they surely are. I hope to be able to share some of these ideas and pictures with you all in the coming year. I want to take the journey of my penmaking down a new path. I am hoping others will join me as we turn the page on another year. You all got your feet wet so it is now time to take pen making to new heights.
I know for me things have not always gone the way I planned due to health issues and family issues in the past but with Gods hands I hope to be able to have some fun in the shop this year. I am just now getting back that adrenilin rush to create new things again. As many probably had happen or may even be going through it now, we all get burnt out or fall into the dulldrones and stay away from the shop. But that sawdust is flowing in our veins and it comes back. For me it is slowly coming back.
What say you all??? Lets have a great New Year and I look foward to seeing some new creations out there. Lets have some fun. I would like to hear your New Year resoultions in the pen turning field.
