Thanks for the kind words, Gary. I was going for something like Brian Gray as mentioned here in the first post.
I do think it’s very possible that I do a very limited run again once the weather gets better. When I was turning these pieces it made a total mess out of my studio. Since the studio has been converted over to the jewelry studio I can’t have that kind of mess in there anymore. Once the weather allows I’ll pull the lathe outside and do some turning.
Turning the bodies nice and slim as I like them is not easy and in the beginning there was a large error rate. Pretty costly and annoying. I have it perfected now thank goodness.
The bodies for the Orenz metal grips are an extra pain to make. If you have one, take the metal grip off and that’s exactly how I turn the body down to. Not easy.
I also made some 2mm and 5.6mm sketch pencils for artists.