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Mini-Lathe Workshops

Wine Bottle 
Stoppers

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Bottle Stopper glued up
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Preparing Block for Chuck
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Hickory plug for threads
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Cutting threads for Stopper Mandrel
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Bottle Stopper on Mandrel
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Finished Bottle Stoppers
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Pen Making
Wood  & Acrylic
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Beginning Pens;
is where we first learn the essential skills, and equipment needed to make a wooden pen from start to finish.  
The choice will be either a
'Slim Line'
style or a 'Comfort ' style pen.  You will have a selection of over (8) kinds of wood to choose from.
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Wooden Pens-Beg. Class
Schedule may say Pens 1
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Intermediate Pens;
will be a class in Acrylic pen making.  It is similar to wooden pens, but the experience of turning acrylics is much more refined, delicate, and demanding because of the unique qualities of the acrylic material.   This class may be listed as (Pens 2) on the schedule
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Acrylic Pens-Inter. Class
Schedule may say Pens 2
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Lathe Chucks, Drilling -Boring

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Boring for 
Bottle Stopper plug
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Preparing pen blank from 
square to round
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Drilling pen Blank
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Acrylics - square to round 
W/ plug cutter
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Use of aCollet Chuck
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