Welcome to another Holly Springer! There are a good number of us on here. I'm not doing pens, but have been using my ShopSmith's lathe quite a bit lately (speaking of space saving options).Anyone in the area doing writing pen turnings and building them? I'd like to try that with a mini lathe. Again as my garage is my future shop looking for space saving options. Looked at the Grr Ripper system, interesting device.