Wood Turning: Pens 1W22
Make an elegant, unique writing implement. Choose a block of wood for its color and grain, drill a hole for the ink, then learn how to mount the long, thin block on the lathe and turn it round. Assemble your components into a personalized pen. All levels welcome.
Limit 8 students
$15-$40 payable in class (depending on material selection)
Masks are required indoors. Vaccinations required for all eligible students.
Ken Lindgren
Ken Lindgren makes functional and abstract objects from trees that have fallen due to death, disease, storm or construction. A member of the American Association of Woodturners, he has taught wood turning at Fuller Craft Museum, the New England Woodturning Symposium and elsewhere. He sells his turned bowls and other works of wood art throughout New England. He has won sculpture awards at North River Arts Society Festival of the Arts and Bridgton Maine’s Art in the Park. His professional career was as a chemical engineer.
“My pieces are all handcrafted to show the beauty that results when people and nature are in harmony. Teaching is a way for me to ‘pay it backwards,’ to do for students what my teachers did for me when I was a student.”
$15-$40 payable in class (depending on material selection).