Nostepinne

It’s the best Nostepinde I’ve ever seen good job

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Well done.

Nice Job! Hope you fix the lathe. What broke?

You all are very kind. Thanks! This place is awesome!

-- Lisa Chan, custom cafts and yarn accessories, http://www.grippingyarn.com

Nice turning, have no idea what you are talking about, but it’s the best one I’ve ever seen.

-- (You just have to please the man in the Mirror) Mike from Michigan -

Way to go! I can’t remember the source, but there’s a common comment about, “Have nothing in your home that you don’t find to be useful or know to be beautiful.” Check on both counts.

-- Dave E. "People who are competent are worth the oil it will take to fry them in hell." --Mencken

I learn something every day here. A whole new world of functional art made from wood! Very cool!

-- If you can't joint it, bead it!

Lisa, I work with women on my jobs often, you are all wonderful as crafts persons & make life GRAND

-- $tudie

If you’ve gotten your lathe fixed; and your nostepinde has gotten a little dingy with use and time; a small suggestion:

Remount your nostepinde, between centers if you can, and grab a hand full of shavings of similar hardness or wood type; and use these shaving in your losely cupped hand with light pressure to both clean and burnish the surfaces where you grip the pinde and where you wind the yarn. You will need to turn at relatively high RPM (> 1500 or so) and not hold the shavings therte for very long: think 3-5 seconds or so.
The surfaces thus treated will develop an attactive burnished sheen, and become even softer to the touch.