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I’ve shown a few of these hexagonal pens before but one of the tricky elements I hadn’t shared was adding a pocket clip. I typically use the hidden ring approach and cut a small notch in the cap to allow the clip bar to pass through. That’s pretty straightforward on cylindrical shaped pens as...

Made this for s friend with a special piece of his own cross cut oak it had a burr in it that as I turned it voids suddenly appeared that needed filling took a little longer to make the pen but worth it

Made up three orders today the last pen I purchased the wood from China as tiger stripe but as soon as I cut it the smell gave it away its bocote

Is Yorkshire Grit and Chestnut Cut & Polish the same thing???

Morning Casters This post is aimed at those of you on here who have obtained the Holy Grail and managed to encapsulate pictures and images inside resin to use as pen blanks. I had a go last week using Scirocco tubes, Glass Cast 50 resin and a Colour laser printer. I printed the image onto...

bit better, but didnt line the segments up properly, not easy, this, is it lol PS, can i submit myself for moron of the month, i used the wrong bushes on the other one :goesred::rolling::rolling:, thats why it didnt turn right...i shall take myself off to the naughty step and give myself a darn...

although it took 3 failed attempts, about 5 hours and i glued the blank to my thumb.. first 2 are in the shed somewhere.. all cut by hand shame it cracked on assembly but you live and learn sorry about the sound track, will sort it when i get home

Made this one from a 11 1/4” x 7 1/4” off cut and gave it a lacquer finish

Hi all, Well pretty much as the title says, this is a spalted Beech fountain but cut diagonally from a plank I bought from Stiles and Bates.....

Hi all, Can you spot a theme:funny: Well this is another plywood diagonally cut this time, again from my gunstock supplier but on a Delta this time.

Had a blank flow out on me yesterday so this morning I sorted two of the end pieces I had cut off and a bit of black plastic and Whalla one segmented pen lol

A nautical pen dressed in x cut Burmese teak decking Fromm the USS New Jersey Americas oldest surviving battle ship the wood is over 100 years old I had quite a lot of rotting wood to cut away to salvage this and just 4 other pieces

cut up a 8" bowl blank and glued it up again LOL just for fun enjoy

A couple years I co-wrote an article on making a jig to hold bowls and cut the hook to make a yarn bowl. It was a fun project and I enjoyed the challenge designing the jig. Feel free to add this to the tutorials section.

Been making a few bowls and trying out embellishing wax and burning. This week had some medallions made to fit into the bottom of the bowls. A small company down the road did the artwork and laser cut them. I think they turned out very nicely. Just adds a bit of finish to the piece. Bowl is...

Here you go Mark. 'Orford Ness lighthouse Suffolk'. Painted for a US air force colonel who is now living in Colorado and who used the lighthouse as a marker to line up his jet when coming in to land. The lighthouse was demolished this year due to the foundations being under cut by the sea. The...

Following silver commenting on our native timbers and in particular his use of quarter sawn oak. also Bill Mooney 's cross cut oak pen, I thought that I would show a recent Omega dressed mostly in Elm burr .

Hi all, a quick pair? of Sirocco's made from a whisky stave, not sure which one I prefer, one is two tone the other I have cut and burnished lines in:thinks::thinks: Think I will let the customer decide!

Stupid mistake made today. :vangry: I was cutting the nub off of a bowl today, well not really a bowl it was about 3" diameter and 1/2" deep made from sepia (I think) anyway I cut into the bowl so it now has a hole in the middle of it about 1/2 inch wide. It honestly took me hours to sand the...

.. a dish American Oak, finished with Yorkshire grit, standard & microfine. A it was a 'coaster' blank I tried a hot glue chuck for the first time so I could cut a small recess, 1st thing larger than a pen in 40 years, top & bottom views