{"id":336,"date":"2009-11-22T20:59:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2009\/11-22-lamp-and-pen\/"},"modified":"2009-11-22T20:59:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:59:51","slug":"lamp-and-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/lamp-and-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamp and Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/4126823356\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2750\/4126823356_34d31f2092_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/4126823356\/\">Lamp and Pen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/rgdaniel\/\">rgdaniel<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>A very productive day at the office today! My Best Pen Ever (if I do say so) made of purpleheart with a maple finger-grip area and a maple centre band (replacing the &#8220;comes with&#8221; band). Including some nice little groove details on the maple bits&#8230; not sure I can bear to part with this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And then the scary bit &#8211; the oil lamp&#8230; my first turning of any real size, first time using the 4-jaw chuck&#8230; I slowed the lathe WAY down to slowest speed, so it wouldn&#8217;t all explode on me&#8230; even so, when those CORNERS come whipping across the gouge tool, you hold on and hope for the best, taking tiny tiny bits of wood off at a time&#8230; worked out okay though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The design is based on either a very fat bud vase or a nuclear cooling tower&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/4126823356\/sizes\/l\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the large size on Flickr<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamp and Pen Originally uploaded by rgdaniel A very productive day at the office today! My Best Pen Ever (if I do say so) made of purpleheart with a maple finger-grip area and a maple centre band (replacing the &#8220;comes with&#8221; band). Including some nice little groove details on the maple bits&#8230; not sure I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking","tag-turning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}