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We finally got our schedules together. My wife and I got him a "Christmas gift" for a penturning class at our local Woodcraft store. Only took 10 months to get together. He turned one blank yesterday and found it had worm holes. When he got down so far, we could see the tube. The wood let...
My grandfather took up the hobby of turning wooden pens on a lathe, he's quite experienced with woodworking though. He has a problem when turning ginkgo, its so soft that small little chips of it will rip out. No matter how much he tries to sand it, this always happens and it's never perfectly...
This was inspired by Larry Marley's Cherry pen that he posted on here. I thought I'd give it a try and made it in Walnut! Thanks for the inspiration Larry!
MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT CLOSED END PENS, BEAUTIFUL SOLID BLACK PIECE OF EBONY, NOT A HINT OF BROWN, ALSO VERY OLD PIECE, I HAVE HAD IT FOR OVER 5 YEARS AND MY FRIEND THAT GAVE IT TO ME HAD IT LEFT FROM A JOB HE DID OVER 20 YEARS AGO, YES IT WAS VERY DRY BUT SWEET TURNING, AND FINISHED WITH CLEAR...
A desk pen in the old fashion style of a qwill pen complete with a bottle of ink for a base. It's also a letter opener. The pen is turned from curly maple and the base is cocobolo with the sapwood on top.Inspired by my Mother-In-Law
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This pen blank is a Lucite material used by pipe makes for making stems. It's called chocolate mint by the supplier, I think it's a great name for it with the green base and ribbons of brown running through it!! The pen is a platinum Gentlemen's roller ball.
I made this pen for a...
This is a platinum Gentlemen's Roller Ball pen on a Tiger lucite pen blank. The finish is micromesh followed by a micro polish.
Thanks for looking!
Take care,
Jim
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