I don't have a lathe or have enough experience to properly use one but I am thinking about having some pens made from tobacco sticks. My siblings and I were all raised on a farm and tobacco was the main cash crops when we were kids.
I still have a few of the tobacco sticks and was thinking that it would be nice to have one of the Expert Pen Turners on this site to make 5 or so pens from one of the sticks that I could give to my siblings as a memory of our days on the farm. In case you don't know the sticks are made from old pine and they are probably 60-70 years old. The sticks are not square as I see most pen blanks are. They were probably mostly square when they were new but have worn away around the harder grains of the wood over the years somewhat like you see sandblasted wood.
Does anyone have an interest in doing this?
I still have a few of the tobacco sticks and was thinking that it would be nice to have one of the Expert Pen Turners on this site to make 5 or so pens from one of the sticks that I could give to my siblings as a memory of our days on the farm. In case you don't know the sticks are made from old pine and they are probably 60-70 years old. The sticks are not square as I see most pen blanks are. They were probably mostly square when they were new but have worn away around the harder grains of the wood over the years somewhat like you see sandblasted wood.
Does anyone have an interest in doing this?