Alan Jeffers

[Alan Jeffers]

Hello everybody from beautiful Shenandoah Valley, VA! My wife and I retired here in 2020. She passed away last year, and I took up woodturning to occupy my time. My wife had bought me a little 10 x 18 hobby lathe a few years earlier, but I never had much time to learn how to use it until now. I'm having a blast! Started out with some pen kits, but wasn't too long before I wanted to make some bigger stuff. Someone gave me some red cedar logs, and that was all the encouragement I needed.

Posting some pictures of some of my latest work. Looking forward to feedback and tips from the community.

 

[Michael Anderson]

Hi Alan, welcome from Chattanooga! You’re certainly doing your wife proud—those are some wonderful pieces. Glad to have you around. Cheers!

 

[Charles Cadenhead]

Welcome! Love your work.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Great work especially the first pen

 

[Alan Jeffers]

Thanks! The pens were a great way to get started on the lathe, and I had a lot of fun with some of the blanks. The polka-dot one is one of my favorites. Maple blank, drilled and filled with dyed toothpicks.

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Welcome from Ohio! Those pens are really awesome!

 

[Steve Bonny]

Those are some great pens. Bigger lathe in your future?

 

[Alan Jeffers]

Those are some great pens. Bigger lathe in your future?

Indeed! Trying to decide if I want to grab a 14 x20 Grizzly now, or save a bit longer for a 17" Rikon. 17 inches, and a rotatable headstock...

 

[Steve Bonny]

Indeed! Trying to decide if I want to grab a 14 x20 Grizzly now, or save a bit longer for a 17" Rikon. 17 inches, and a rotatable headstock...

Hehehe, you're hooked!

 

[Brian Gustin]

Indeed! Trying to decide if I want to grab a 14 x20 Grizzly now, or save a bit longer for a 17" Rikon. 17 inches, and a rotatable headstock...

My advice: save up for the RIkon (or a Jet)

 

[Michael Anderson]

I agree with Brian 100%.

 

[Sam Fleisher]

Thanks! The pens were a great way to get started on the lathe, and I had a lot of fun with some of the blanks. The polka-dot one is one of my favorites. Maple blank, drilled and filled with dyed toothpicks.

Welcome, that toothpick pen is pretty nice!

 

[Alan Jeffers]

My advice: save up for the RIkon (or a Jet)

Yup! That's the direction I was heading. Gonna need some help getting that 400# machine moved into my shop, tho'

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Yup! That's the direction I was heading. Gonna need some help getting that 400# machine moved into my shop, tho'

Most come in parts to be assembled. but saying that the PM headstock is over 120# I think and headstocks are cumbersome to move but doable.So don't let that hold you back.