{"id":8803,"date":"2007-10-10T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodworkersguide.com\/2007\/10\/10\/the-reluctant-woodturner\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T11:50:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:50:56","slug":"the-reluctant-woodturner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/the-reluctant-woodturner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reluctant Woodturner"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m a reluctant woodturner! With all the woodworking I’ve done over the years I never had any real interest in woodturning. It was something that just never appealed to me. I don’t know why. I never really thought about it.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago a friend of mine was moving into an apartment and was going to put his lathe in storage. He asked if I wanted to borrow it. “Sure, why not?”, I said. Just because I wasn’t interested in turning didn’t mean that I would turn down an offer to have a new tool around. <\/p>\n

He delivered it one afternoon and gave me a quick lesson on how it worked. After he left I tried turning a piece and it was a ‘gawd awful’ attempt at a simple rounding. Over the next couple of years I made the occasional attempt again. It never amounted to much though, but with a lot (A LOT!) of sanding I was able to create a few candle holders, or at least that’s what I called them. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Candle Holder<\/div>\n

One day last summer I was at a carving buddy of mine and he was turning a pen. After an hour or so he had crafted a fine wooden pen made from an exotic hardwood. I was amazed! Here was something I could get into!<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to find a used Delta Midi-Lathe with the Oneway chuck system for a pretty good price. It also came with a bunch of pen kits, a few tools and other accessories.<\/p>\n

Delta Midi-Lathe<\/div>\n

Here are a few pens I recently turned recently\u2026 er’\u2026 reluctantly\u2026 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Turned Wood Pens<\/div>\n

Back to the shop…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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