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Tom Mullane's fault

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Tom Mullane's fault

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Tom Mullane's fault

Tug Fork Bob

>Decided to try something different a while back and ran across some of Tom's pictures of corn cob pens. I thought they were pretty cool, so I ordered a mandrel & pen kits and went out & picked some dried-up cobs from standing corn plots the DNR put out 2 years ago. (The grain was all picked off, so I didn't steal from any deer or turkeys).

I had never turned any pens before, so the first few were not fit to sell. I did give one of them to SWMBO though & she took it to work (Hospital lab).

She came home with orders for 6 pens without even trying to sell them including 3 to a patient's visitor. The next day one of the doctors happened to see her "reject" pen and "had" to have it. She sold that one to him so now that had to be replaced too. Here's a picture of what has happened since--Pen quality and picture quality doesn't compare to Tom's, but so far people haven't seemed to mind

It's all your fault Tom----Thanks

Bob Achenbach


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Fred in NC

>Bob, blame it on Tom, or blame it on anybody! It is a lot of fun. Very nice pens, by the way. For a while I have suspected this forum is getting kind of corny anyway . . .

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Tom Mullane

>Bob, actually you can blame it on Patricia Lawson.. I got the idea from her....LOL..

Nice work on those cobs.. look real good...

They are fun to do once you get the hang of it... and they sell real well also.... I have trouble keeping them in stock...

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RevDoug

>I soaked 12 half blanks today in Rotten Wood Stabilizer. Can't wait to mount and turn these buggars.

Thanks for sharing your pics.

Turn 'em round,

RevDoug