Hi Cole and Bill, I don't like the looks of the triple roped pen myself. I think I like the idea of a double roped so it forms a little bead wrapped around the pen. I wonder why I don't see more polygon shaped pens with a dash of tear-drop flutes or super tiny reeds. Jerry Beal came out with the Pen Wizard three or so years ago and yet I don't see non-round pens anywhere. One could argue the tool costs too much but I see it as pennies for what it can do. Isn't that why we bought our machines? Based on dreams and what we can do, but what we DO in the end is a different story :-)
I once read in a pen makers forum that the twisted pens where not that successful compared to standard pens. I never got to see any example of the pens and that was just a coupe sellers opinions. I wondered how they where presented. Here's a little story from my life of selling treenware. I made 50 units of a product that generally sells for $25 - $30 all day long using my legacy and not one of them where round. I sold them for $35 or more on ebay and they where selling as I produced them. Now granted I have a name in the trinket field which helped, but I sold them with the idea that it's not the shape that you see that any turner makes. Mine are original, one of a kind, and limited availability. So I don't know if it was my name, the pitch, or simply the fact they where different, but I do know they left my door with a %100 percent guarantee and none ever came back. Moral of the story, if you're in the craft field you do have educate the customer and as I call it, "Sell the Story". It means more cash per unit but often less sales because the price point is higher. It beats making widgets at a quarter a piece, but I'll admit to making widgets to pay the bills as well. Those too can be lucrative. I still wonder if a single or double start Barley pen has ever been made and how it feels. -Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cole Andrews" <coleandrew...@gmail.com> To: "Legacy group" <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:24 PM Subject: Re: Barley twist on pens > I tried the ropr twist pen and did not like it . Very uncomfortable pen for me. > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Bill Bulkeley <bulke...@mmnet.com.au> wrote: > > Yea me lol I hand ground the little1/2 rope bit when I chipped it and did a > > single start barley > > > > I didn't like it much a single start with the rope bit looked better > > > > I also did a pineapple pattern too it looked ok. I can't post pics sorry it > > was pre fire > > > > But I wanted the 1/2 " barley for small spirals not on pens and for smaller > > multi start spirals > > > > > > > > From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Krause > > Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2014 4:51 PM > > To: Legacy-Ornamental-Mills@googlegroups.com > > Subject: Barley twist on pens > > > > > > > > Hey Bill, > > > > > > > > A long time ago you said magnate did not make a small enough barley bit to > > do pens. I see a 7557 bit that has a 3/4 diameter and a cutting depth of > > 3/32. That should work for a pen. Has any one tried a single or a double > > start barley twist on a pen? > > > > > > > > -Tim > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > No virus found in this message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 2014.0.4355 / Virus Database: 3882/7322 - Release Date: 04/09/14 > > > > No virus found in this message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 2014.0.4355 / Virus Database: 3882/7322 - Release Date: 04/09/14 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to > > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to > > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
