Thanks HEAPS for all your comments everyone, they sure are welcome!!!
Mrs P-T, they are GREAT looking pens, thanks for sharing the photo.
You should get yourself a login, the guys on here are fantastic. I've grown quite fond of the lot of them.
Buck, I'm hoping to meet up with Sigidi in the next day or so, and maybe talk him out of a couple of bits of limb, so I can turn them!!!
Charlie! Thanks heaps for your kindness, I am having a great time reading your website! Andrew's Dad is a good teacher. That Dibbler was roughed out with a gouge, then finished off with a skew. It was very difficult as the timber had a very open grain, and I kept bouncing. Don't forget this is the first thing I've turned in a year and a half, and as I said, the second real thing overall. I was supposed to be turning beads, but when I did the first one, the rest of the dibbler just sort of fell out of the tools...
Dad came across and looked and said... Hmm... not many beads there, still, looks OK. Then gave me a few pointers on what I was doing right and wrong, and off I went. Sanded to finish and he helped cut the pointy end off. Then it was oiled and done!
It's just so much fun. I can't wait to get back on the lathe. Probably a good thing I don't have one at home yet or I wouldn't get anything done!!!
My next project will be a set of tall Salt and Pepper shakers... Can't wait!
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