Hello,
I’m Ben, I fell into carpentry out of high school, my father built custom homes here on Kauai. We had a hurricane 3 months after graduation and I went into the workforce. That was 1992. I got a used grizzly lathe I think 12x36 and used it to turn resin fishing lures about 15 year ago. I am passionate about most all fishing. A couple years ago a customer ask me to turn a couple legs out of ipe he had for a built in desk I was building for him. Probably not the best project to start spindle turning on. After a steep learning curve I pulled it off. Unbelievably they asked me to paint these beautiful things white. The desk turned out great and I found that I really enjoyed turning wood. I started turning bowls right away, what a deep rabbit hole I find myself in now. Any how here I am. Happy to meet fellow woodworkers who have found themselves deeper in this woodworking world than they thought they could possibly end up. I still have the grizzly, a jet vs1221 and am in the process of acquiring a vega2600 that I’m going to try to bring back to its former glory. I don’t know what else to say but here is the last bowl I finished, Milo that was given to me by a friend from his discard pile. It’s about 10 inches across 3 high.
Ben
I’m Ben, I fell into carpentry out of high school, my father built custom homes here on Kauai. We had a hurricane 3 months after graduation and I went into the workforce. That was 1992. I got a used grizzly lathe I think 12x36 and used it to turn resin fishing lures about 15 year ago. I am passionate about most all fishing. A couple years ago a customer ask me to turn a couple legs out of ipe he had for a built in desk I was building for him. Probably not the best project to start spindle turning on. After a steep learning curve I pulled it off. Unbelievably they asked me to paint these beautiful things white. The desk turned out great and I found that I really enjoyed turning wood. I started turning bowls right away, what a deep rabbit hole I find myself in now. Any how here I am. Happy to meet fellow woodworkers who have found themselves deeper in this woodworking world than they thought they could possibly end up. I still have the grizzly, a jet vs1221 and am in the process of acquiring a vega2600 that I’m going to try to bring back to its former glory. I don’t know what else to say but here is the last bowl I finished, Milo that was given to me by a friend from his discard pile. It’s about 10 inches across 3 high.
Ben
