grain

This slimline pen is dressed in xcut pitch pine. The blanks look like long grain but are in fact short grain. I cut several slices from the 3”x3”post, cut them into blanks then took two pieces from different slices & married them up in mirror image. I got enough for six pens with the grain in...

Thought I would use up some bits from my ever increasing pile of offcuts. With the varying degrees of hardness & end grain it was a bit of a bugger to turn! Pat

Guys and girls.. I was t a local Auction last week and won a couple of lots of wood. Among some of the lot there was some 90x90 new newel posts ends that look like they have been cut offs of several installation jobs, they were identified as Sapele. Well, amongst them there was one newel...

First pen for a while well this was one I fifnished yesterday Slimline with a Iron Bark blank I think a bigger pen would show any grain off better. I only did the slimline to see hoe the wood turned still have some more it came from a friends garden in the Blue Mountains NSW

Well it will be when finished thought I would show progress and also the finished article when I do finish it. This is from a piece of the very freshly cut Ash wood and is from a intersection of branches. Trying to do one to finish while wet and then see what shape it takes when it dries I am...

Love this stuff, the grain pattern gets me excited ..... :banana::banana: Cheers

Not sure what the wood is but it has a quite open grain with some spalting. Red dye added to the stabilising solution, Melamine finish.

Knocked this out today. Couldn't get a decent finish on the end grain on the inside which sort of kills it a bit

This weeks Pen of the Week chosen by DJB Penmaker (Derek) goes to the Baron Fountain Pen in Brazilian Brown Ebony made by Bob Ellis "The Joy of Revealing Beautiful Grain". Derek said "There were so many beautiful pens shown this week each one deserved to win (in my opinion). However, this one...

I plan to get some wood in to store for future use, i though i would seal the end grain with wax but have no idea where to get it. I am guessing it does not have to be super duper wax just the cheap variety as it will just seal the grain. I have an old pressure cooker i use in the garage so that...

Thanks to the blind old git for the tester blank.

This pen was made for my son-in-law from a lump of, I think, mahogany which he brought back after clearing out his Grandfather's house following his passing. I used a melamine finish for the first time and am delighted with the results. Although you can't feel it from the picture the pen is...

11" x 3" Holm Oak bowl if you had seen this lump of wood when I first got it out to turn it was full of splits and hols which I had to repair as I was creating it I gave it 3 coats of sanding sealer and a coat of paste wax it has the most wonderful grain which looks even better in the flesh so...

This is becoming one of my favourite pens the "Click Mechanism" is Outstanding and the Engineering is excellent. This one is dressed in some cross cut Cocobola that I got from our Jim. I could not believe the grain that came through during turning.

These are the new Exemplar kits from CSUSA. The blanks are Color Grain from PSI, and are similar to the old Dymondwood blanks. The blue one is called Winter Garden, and the red one is Night Fire. They turn and even smell like Dymondwood, but I think they're slightly lower quality. But still...

Today hasn't been very productive...but it's been a huge learning curve.... I had this great idea of making a batch load of Scribe pens with a walnut and maple stripey pattern...mainly because I've sold a couple already and been asked for some more. So last night I prepared the wood and made a...

First attempt at Celtic knot pen I used a scroll saw as I wanted a thin kerf to fit aluminium strips from a coke can. The pen was made from lime wood and did not have much grain and was very plain so used 3 wood dyes from chestnut. Pen finished with c a then sanded and polished.

Wow, this wood is now my favourite. It drilled and turned wonderfully and has such a loverly colour and grain when finished.

Look what I found hidden in some logs. I have just finished cutting up the logs into squares and put them through my thicknesser to get them nice and flat as the chainsaw does not always cut square. I will now cut them on the bandsaw into rounds where needed, could not do them today as the blade...

Apart from my lathe work i enjoy making end grain cutting boards , this is one i finished a couple of weeks ago for a customer