bark

So only two are Acrylic the third is from some cork bark that was laying around and I wanted to experiment.... Padster

Second resin pencil of my composition with bark inlay

SS One Piece Core dressed with Elk antler showing both Marrow and Bark. Size 6.5 X 5mm Wide. Les

I honestly can't remember the last time I turned a pen. This summer has been crazy. The blank is 1 of 5 made by a friend. The wood is actually bark from an Ash. The wood is nicely rippled but this bark is amazing. The ripple transmitted to the bark. The pen is an old Washington roller ball...

This evening a young lady knocked on the door with a small parcel which the postman had delivered to the wrong house number even though it had my address on it. Reading the Label I see it is from the other side of the world, yes you guessed it Australia. Inside there is an early Christmas card...

About sixty years ago Mulga was used extensively for most gift lines in Australia. So exciting as a timber species with the sapwood and holding its bark. Chucked in an Emporer with clothes on. Made for dip pen use it is around a foot across pushing the boundaries of my lighting open box. Peter.

My Mate's wife died on Thursday and we were talking about the ashes and an urn, I offered to make one from wood which the Family think is great. He has seen all my turnings from the very beginning and I remembered that I had a box of my first turnings that weren't finished because I didn't know...

I had quite a successful weekend apart from reshape a friend’s slightly skewed floorboard set into skirting boards and shelves (a day’s work in its self). I managed to make several stock pens and prepare a few others, make a rattle for no 3 grandchild in Oak, and I had a bit of prickly juniper...