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  1. alan morrison

    Recycled light bulb.

    Made this bud holder from a Steve Good pattern to hold some of my sweet pea.
  2. Terry Q

    Speaking of yarn bowls

    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.
  3. alan morrison

    Miniature grandfather clock

    This is a clock I did from a plan originally from hobbies in 1925 before the pen turning bug got hold of me. The pen and stand are for scale Hopefully the photo is ok
  4. G

    My Second Pen

    My second pen with a story. A big big story 5 pages long. The story is all about the RRS DISCOVERY 1901 I have been fortunate to get hold of reclaimed Teak boarding from the ship. Glen:love_it:
  5. T

    Antlers and Horn

    Hi , I’m going to a deer farm soon to track down some antler for pens, but has anyone tried sheeps horn? It’s a lot easier to get hold of. Cheers.
  6. Penpal

    Kynock 475

    Massive shell, pen using pieces and bits threaded into the cartridge, lovely pen to hold. FRom my box of shells, some big some whoppers. Peter.
  7. BradG

    Aluminium kitless fountain pen

    The fruits of today's labour. a kitless aluminium fountain pen, featuring a JoWo nib. I also made a few Calligraphy dip pens, though as I'm making 10 of those il hold off from posting them until they're all done and post them all together
  8. hawkeyefxr

    Can anyone help please

    I bought 5 seam ripper kits in two batches, the first batch came with metal springs to hold the rippers in the tubes, one of these kits came with three springs. On the second batch they came with the soft part of sticky back velcro as they no longer do the metal springs. I have tried suppliers...
  9. Z

    Anybody used the MT1 Big Grabber Closed end Mandrel

    Hi I am looking at the MT1 Big Grabber Closed end Mandrel, and wondering if you can just buy the spares as I already have the Mandrel, I have noticed with other Closed End Mandrels on the market, they open up at the end to grip tube internally very securely..this one just seems to have a bit of...
  10. hawkeyefxr

    Any lefty bowl turners in here

    I was making a pen today and i swap from a left hand hold on the chisel to a right hand hold without much trouble, in fact it feels a little more comfortable that holding it left handed. It made me think though, i am going to have a go at bowl making. Turning the base of the bowl will be ok but...
  11. S

    Newbie - first pens

    Hi All! Very new to this - my first slimline pens... in tulip, iroko & beech. The beech one is slightly fatter as my mother-in-law needs a thicker pen to be able to hold ok. Finished in microcrystalline wax... wanted a "wood" finish.
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