blanks

Received yesterday as a swap from Victoria. Peter.

My final swap on any site learned my swap mates wife commenced turning when he did so heres 30 blanks to share for them.No pics of the pen I am posting tomorrow.:thumbs: Peter.

A few label cast blanks, ready for casting. As far as I’m aware ours are the only moulds you can cast 8 tubes at a time in one single mould, plus the moulds easily stack on top each other for use in a pressure pot.

A couple of label cast pens of our gorgeous puppy (well 4yr old puppy) Amber

How do you all sharpen the cutting part on the pen mill? The thing you use to get the ends of the blanks square.

I am new to pen turning and would like to find out what is the best drills to use for drilling out the pen blanks

Just updated our website with a load of Alumilite Polyurethane Pen Blanks that we’ve been casting over the last few weeks. www.penblanksandmoulds.co.uk

Can anyone help me with link to a source of Mother of Pearl/Abalone for casting blanks

Hi All, thank you for all the comments recently. I have tried to incorporate your advise including tapered section and insert threads into this pen. I wanted to add a red band around the section but ran out of red blanks, trying and failing to cut very thin thread against a thin wall so had...

2 pinstripe pens I recently turned from a couple of my new pinstripe blanks

A few Sierra label cast blanks I recently put together as a custom order! not my cup of tea! but the customer gets what the customer wants lol

Most of these are to to top up my blanks that I keep for courses I teach but I thought you might like to see them. First is some pippy spalted Olive I cut yesterday followed by some Yew and Olive cut today.

I have experimented with casting blanks - see attached photo. These are simply blue tinted epoxy resin with slivers of rooikrans wood - what we braai with here. The resultant pen, not a great effort, reveals the tiny air bubbles in the blank (when you zoom in - luckily past the focus level of...

Hi - I'm a new member and I've been pen turning for 6mths. Does anyone have use for the resin shavings from a few different coloured blanks. I don't intend to make my own blanks due to limited space, but if anyone can make use of my shavings let me know. Maybe I can swap them for a blank or two.

I bought an old penturners stock a while ago and now all the blanks and kits have been used.....so I am onto the predrilled/tubed blanks that he prepared.... I have to say I quite like this one it has grey patches in it too, but you can't go wrong with red and black!!

Hi all, A local store is selling Mopani wood which has been cleaned etc. It would look OK if cast in a hybrid pen blank. I was wondering if anyone has made any pen blanks out of this root or cast it in some resin. Cheers Frederick

A few of the new Label Cast Blanks we’ve just added to our website.

Where can I buy watch part blanks?

There are going to be three of these (hopefully) Part of the kit price included a donation to the cancer charity. These were again made from Beaufort Inks "pink sapphire radiance series blanks". These also will be going to our local Hospice shop to raise funds.

Ten slimline pens with the cancer awareness pin. These were made from Beaufort Inks "pink sapphire radiance series blanks". They will be going to our local Hospice shop to raise funds.