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I bought online a really nice carbide square tool the other day for about £27 with postage. And looking online they also go up to the £100ish. I’m awful at sharpening chisels so find swapping the heads on the tool better. But then I took a look and thought ‘I could make that’ After all I can...

A quickie thread to say hello. From the south of the UK and totally new to wood turning and pens. Good with tools but not used a lathe until now. Have made parts for bikes and custom bits for cars but only basic stuff. G/F came home with a lathe for herself a few weeks ago and I’ve got...

Hi all I am a very new just bought my first mini lathe a JET Jwl-1221vs 12inch by 24inch Variable Speed Woodturning Lathe with two Nova Chucks. but also a jacobs chuck and an extensive set of Robert Sorby tool rests both straight and curved, long and short as well as the original standard tool...

Brass Bolt Action from 5/8'' brass stock on my Clausing lathe.

Hello everyone I am new to turning, i have always enjoyed playing around making things with wood and when a lathe came up on a local selling site i thought why not, i have been practising and learning using a dvd that came with the lathe of jimmy clewes and youtube, i have tried a couple of...

So my 20 year old Record RDX800i extractor seems to have died. I'll be ringing Record tomorrow but my question is ... If it is a gonna what to get next. Iv'e used it solely for the bandsaw for quite a few years but am thinking if I get a nice shiny new extractor I could move my lathe...

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Hi all, Another submission to POTW. I am not overly happy with this one but saying that, not very disappointed. The shape looks different to me now off the lathe. Unfortunately, I had to remove a lot of plastic from the cap which I didn't want to do. But not too bad on the whole. Cheers...

I fancied trying a set of axminster pen jaws but as I do all my turning on a modified metal lathe and I can not justify buying a wood lathe I purchased a set of axminster chuck jaws and spent a couple of hours in the shed modifying them on my mill to fit my chuck. Result is I can now add any of...

More about a supplier / Manufacturer than an actual tool but felt it was something that I had to mention.... A while ago I purchased an upgraded electric motor with speed control unit for my old Record Lathe. Everything was great until we decided to change the way we did things and took the...

This is my most recent pen - the body and cap are Italian acrylic (trimmed in black) with nickel fittings. The nickel clip features a Celtic spiral pattern - chased and filed. Bock #6 (from Beaufort Ink, of course!) in an ebonite section and 13 mm cap threads. I have been amassing these pens...

Hi All Just signed up as a new member of the group. I haven't done any pen turning as yet but I am just about to embark on this as a hobby. My focus is pens to start with, but I will no doubt extend into other wood turning projects with experience. First stage is to buy a lathe and get some...

I am new to this forum and new to pen making. I have completed these in the last week. I have made the polymer clay canes myself except for the pink one which I have decorated with nail art poly slices. My hubby has bought me a mini lathe as an early Christmas present:love_it: So I have...

Hi all I am not a wood turner and I dont have a lathe ( although my hubby has a metal turning lathe) Not sure whether his lathe canbe used for turning wood. Anyway I have joined this forum as I have seen some youtube videos etc and started making polymer clay pens using wood turners pen kits. I...

As I have stated before the lathe I use for my pen turning is an adapted metal working lathe. One of the issues I have is it does not have a conventional tool rest when using gouges. I had a good look at it and have decided to machine a proper tool holder to accommodate the use of a gouge. I...

Up to now all my pen turning has been done with carbide tooling in the toolpost on my lathe. Profiling the blanks has proved troublesome as I have no idea how to use a wood gouge. All my attempts at using one has ended up in disaster. I am new to pen turning. I made a few out of interest and...

Well me and our Aud have managed to finish restoring the Atlas Lathe. It old but very well constructed. I just need to learn how to use it now !

I bought this little beauty in 1971. It’s an Elliott Unimat lathe combo. It coverts from an automatic feed lathe to a pillar drill or milling table. It has 12 speeds from 155rpm to 6000rpm & has done me proud.

The Turnado Freehand Metal Turning System Click on the video.

was looking for a way to drill through bullet heads for pens, and while messing with my drill press I realised the drill chuck is on a morse taper , this was quickly removed and taken to my loft to try it on my lathe (axminster) and it fits on both the tailstock and headstock, so now all I have...