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254135 Tom Price <tomprice03@g...> 2015‑03‑28 Me? Oh, cleaning up the shop, how about you?
Esteemed Galoots,

I'm cleaning up the shop after a prolonged bout of pen making and wooden spoon
carving. The pen shown in the photograph was turned on an ancient Shopsmith
10ER, so no more about the production side on it. The wood came from a random
hunk of maple that my cousin gave me at a family reunion a few years ago. I
found it in my stash this winter and cut some pen blanks from it on my
Neanderbuddy. Wow, some beautiful grain in that chunk of wood.

The spoons. I have been turning the handles on the lathe and then using gouges,
rasps and scrapers to shape the business end. I learned how to carve the bowl of
the spoon from an online video. The guy in the video used a wide #7 gouge for
most of the carving, followed with a gooseneck scraper. The gooseneck scraper is
the key tool here as it allows you to cut through the gouge marks and get a nice
smooth surface to the bowl. As to the gouge, I realized that I had a suitable
gouge in my stash that I had not yet deployed. It had a rusty snaggle-toothed
edge on it that required a bit of work on my hand grinder. But it sharpened up
beautifully and I found a handle for it, also in my stash.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/fccj4de5pzeaxwn/photo%20mar%2028%2C
%202%2017%2006%20pm.jpg?dl=0">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/fccj4de5pzeaxw
n/photo%20mar%2028%2C%202%2017%2006%20pm.jpg?dl=0

Best regards,
Tom Price
254136 Ed Minch <ruby@m...> 2015‑03‑28 Re: Me? Oh, cleaning up the shop, how about you?
Great job and an excellent photograph on top of that.

Ed Minch




On Mar 28, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Tom Price  wrote:

> prolonged bout of pen making and wooden spoon carving. T

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