New Pens From Newton Pens- From The Metal Lathe!

[Newton Pens]

That's right! I got the metal lathe going! And it's freaking awesome!

 

I have ONE little boring bar that a buddy gave me to play with - the same guy who loaned me his engine hoist to get the lathe up on the stand. He's got a 50 year old metal lathe in his shop that he uses to turn stuff round. Cool guy.

 

So here are my first two pens done up on the new lathe. The sections were done on the wood lathe, b/c the metal lathe was still on the floor at the time. I need more tooling to be able to make a section the way I'll want, I'm sure.

 

These are both student pens, by the way.

http://newtonpens.wordpress.com/blue-green-and-keen/

 

http://newtonpens.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/miranda-2.jpg?w=1400&h=

 

http://newtonpens.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/miranda-3.jpg?w=1000&h=

 

http://newtonpens.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/miranda-5.jpg?w=1400&h=

 

And the other one...

http://newtonpens.wordpress.com/blue-crush/

 

http://newtonpens.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/carlee-2.jpg?w=1200&h=

 

http://newtonpens.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/carlee-4.jpg?w=1000&h=

 

http://newtonpens.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/carlee-1.jpg?w=1400&h=

 

This is so much fun! I did both barrels and caps in just a couple of hours tonight.

 

 

[Inguz]

Beautiful pens Shawn, I take it the new machine gives you more control and speed?

[watch_art]

Very good control - I love it. It's just a joy to use.

Speed - no. It's MUCH slower turning. 1400 rpms is the max. But 70 is the minimum. It's just awesome.

[myn]

Oh, boys and their toys. My goodness Shawn those are lovely. So glad the new lathe is a dream to work with . . . now get busy and start cranking them out.

Yeh right, as if you didn't have a gadzillion other things to do eh!

 

Love your work.

[watch_art]

Thanks! I've got lots to catch up on. Getting so busy with school and all the little holidays had pretty much killed all my spare time with pen making. Very glad school is over and that summer time isn't full of holidays.

[N2theBreach]

Nice. I'm impressed that you can produce such quality so soon after getting it set up.

 

Lucky students.