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 laptop. Metal lathe and wood lathe on right. Wood lathe is pretty much just being […]
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 ONE little boring bar that a buddy gave me to play with – the same […]
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 to give those out. I also just BARELY finished two pens tonight, before graduation, for […]
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 thought it would be. 🙂
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 it down to two students, meaning that two lucky kids will each get $1000! I’m […]
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 are only 8-10 applications so hopefully it won’t be TOO challenging. 🙂 I’m so excited […]
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 and in a somewhat organized manner too. Acrylics, ebonite, alumilite, and then by color. Polyresins […]
38!!! Congrats to Juan A.!! You’ve won a pen!
I just got word that… The winner of This Year’s Pen Drawing is: Ticket #1006 Erick F (efchem)! Erick wins the Newton Custom Pen! Congrats to Erick! We appreciate everyone’s contribution, and involvement! Shawn will work with Erick on the final version of the pen, including nib choice and clip/no clip! Thanks Again! Frank