newtonpens

My first experiment with threading.  And it was good!  🙂  I love my new lathe. Now to master it, then double and quad start threads.  🙂

It’s that time again – and here’s the newest pen for the .  It’s made from a celluloid that was given to me about a year ago, and I haven’t been sure what I wanted to do with it until…

Here’s a shot of the entire shop (mostly) after all has been set up and organized pretty well.  Little desk at bottom left was made with scraps of my old work bench – has nib tuning/grinding stuff and a little…

That’s right! I got the metal lathe going! And it’s freaking awesome! No idea what I’m talking about? Then read this great page all about metal lathes (view article here) so you can understand why I’m so excited. I have…

Yeeha!  I gave the two scholarships out tonight.  I only stuttered once when I lost my place, but I did great!  😀  My hands were shaking like MAD, but nobody could see that behind the podium.  That felt really good…

About to go fill it up with oil and turn it on.  🙂

It’s still in the driveway – I have a friend coming over soon to help me roll it inside. edit:  Got it in!  Used a bunch of cut schedule 40 PVC and just rolled it in.  Was easier than we…

I’ve received all the scholarship applications and sorted through them, discarded the incomplete, and now have only three to review.  I’ve given out copies of the essays to ten of the teachers I work with and we’re working on narrowing…

Well, the scholarship money has been transferred to the school and all the applications have come in. I’m going to spend this week with the other teachers reading through them all and picking the 2 or 4 most deserving. There…

So my giant metal lathe will be here Wednesday afternoon, and I just got finished cleaning up in the shop.  Sunday afternoon and then a few more hours tonight.  It took forever to put all those blanks back up there…