The Wood Turning Continues

Well, I have not been on here as much lately, this is in large part due to the arrival of my mini wood turning lathe. Over the past two weeks I have been busy learning how and then turning pens on it. So far I have produced about 30 pens which give me a pretty good starting stock in my new Etsy store. This is a good spot for a plug for me shop! https://www.etsy.com/shop/Thebar1Woodworking

Right now it is pretty much only pens, however tomorrow my desk top band saw comes in that gives me a lot more options. A couple weeks ago I came across two 3-4 foot long 4 inch wide olive wood logs. Olive wood has such a beautiful heart wood grain.While I am in Jordan Olive wood from the Holy Land is what I want to work with most as I am pretty sure it will not be available in Minnesota!! I am hoping to be able to turn a goblet or two and a couple bowls from these logs as well as a couple of handles for two of my carving tools.

I am happy to have come up with this now before our trip in April as it will have something to do with the trees I plant as I will want trees that will give some decent carving wood when they are pruned. This will sort of be my winter hobby in Minnesota as well as a way to generate some income for the homestead upon retirement, have to have as many options as possible!

I have also created a facebook page to carry all of my projects since I know not everyone is in to that I did not want to spam everyone's FB page that was not interested in it! That link is https://www.facebook.com/TheBar1Woodworking /

Well that is it for tonight, I hope everyone is doing well out there and as always I look forward to comments or suggestions!!

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