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5 1/4" x 2 3/4" finished in Danish oil. The more purple looking bit is the Almond with the lighter side being the rootstock.

Since I started turning pens, the craft has moved on in leaps and bounds, and people are finding ever increasingly inventive ways of making the decorative part of the pen that is the responsibility of the person who bought the kit - ie, the blank. Traditionally, pens used to be made from wooden...

Alas I haven't had much lathe time lately as I work to build blank inventory going into the fall... However, I did carve out a bit of time last night to turn two I'd been wanting to make for a while. The first is my Oil Slick blank on a gold Mistral RB. Second is called Red Dragon and it's on a...

Had a little bit of time spare so..... Had a go at this not made a pen for a while...

Drilling into metal is a lot harder than drilling through wood, and then need a tougher drill bit. Suggest me which are the best drill bit for steel?

Does anyone have any experience with using a pin chuck to turn closed-end pens? Have seen references to them in a few places so I thought I'd give it a try. I took a spare mandrel and milled a flat 3/32" deep on it to take a bit of 3/32" steel rod. It fits nicely into a 7mm tube but won't...

On the same thread.....but BIGGER These are .500 nitro express bullets this time (i have done these before), again for a gun show. These are made with a stop end pin chuck and fitted with a gold Omega kit.....quite a bit involved but nothing showing....well only 2 more cases left at the mo

OK So its a busy pic using this rest.Hexed the top part a bit. Peter.

Hi all...i have been a real stranger to wood lately....i hope to change that for a bit.....or at least till i get more Mik Lawrence blanks:whistling: Well here we have a Zeta with a bit of Horse chestnut....finished with melamine alla Phil Dart's way

Good afternoon everyone! (Well morning here...) A certain member of your fine establishment posted a picture of one of his pens made from my blanks and I believe I saw a bit of traffic from here on my own website. I figured I'd stop in and say hello to the pen turners on the other side of the...

Got a lovely piece of spalted alder and was asked to turn a pen as payment. It was a bit of a pig, quite soft but I am quite happy with the result. There are bits I need to improve on but its early days.

We'll was in shed doing a pen for someone so thought I would attempt an acrylic. Went ok I think thought it would have a bit more marbling than it does.

This bit was already missing some bark, so I took it all off. The natural looked a bit rough so I sanded it following the original contours. 4" x 3" at the highest point.

A couple of weeks ago I posted a pic of my very first box with lid and finial, (picture at the bottom) which is the Woodturning club challenge for Jan.. the nice comments suggested my finial was a bit small... So here is V2: Box with Lid and Finial... it’s going on show tomorrow night...

Just the final test for the Hydro Idea again, before I do a bit with a decent bit of melal, there was a quite bit of perosity in the Ally and it;s a bit under turned but worth trying I think, just need top get some nice coloured spray paints , Looking forward it as usual, roll on summer...

Pen with melted Aluminium and grooves filled with coloured Epoxy as a test a long time ago! There are some other bits somewhere in quite old threads on here, been trying some HDPE melting again lately as well.. Also tested a bit of Hydro dipping with Spray paint, just Pound shop...

Had play today and a break from pen boxes.:banana::banana: First clock I have done with laser engraving my own details on them. Normally used purchased numbers or faces. Little bit of learning as the number 9 and 3 needs bringing in a bit but I think I'm nearly there.. Pleased with that...

I had an idea for a bit of decoration so went to the turning shed and selected the plainest Sycamore blank I could find. A few cuts later and it didn't look so plain after all! 10 1/2" x 3 1/2" Horse Chestnut. 8 1/2" x 4 3/4" finished in Danish oil. This was very punky and tore out with any...

If I stand at the lathe all morning my legs get a bit tired so I've been looking for something that I can do while sitting down in the afternoons that keeps me in the workshop and dealing with wood. I decided to have a go at carving a netsuke. Here's a few picture of my first attempt. It is...

Has anyone done this, i saw a pine cone cast in resin that was then turned into a little lidded box, it looked beautiful. Just wondering is anyone has done this and what resin they used. Have seen some US vids on youtube but get the resin they use seems to be a bit difficult.