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Pen of the Week 48 Here it is then - POTW48 - A good selection to get your teeth into over Christmas. Voting will end this week on Sunday) Voting is simple - just choose your favourite pen from all those below. They were all posted on the Forum sometime during the last week (any posted since...

Does anyone use a belt sander in connection with pens. Trying to find out the use for one and any more ideas for their use to help me make my mind up if I should buy one. Advice please. Glen:face:

I went to a veterans centre in Southampton a few weeks ago and set up a woodturning workshop by donating everything needed to make there own pens as fundraisers and this is just one of the guys I tought to make his own pen and I had a fantastic weekend with them going back again to show them how...

Hi, Guys, I have just prepped 120 .338 Lapua magnum brass cases. I would like to make a couple of pens from some of the cases I have bullets for them. I know some of you do this could you advise me on the best way to turn them into pens.

Pen of the Week 47 Here it is then - POTW47 - (Voting will end this week on Saturday) Voting is simple - just choose your favourite pen from all those below. They were all posted on the Forum sometime during the last week (any posted since Sunday will be in the next vote). Once you've decided...

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.

Some years ago I made a batch of "pens" from kits I got from, I think, Craft Supplies. Basically a tube with a clutch which could hold a series of small tools - a couple of small screwdriver bits, an awl or a 10A scalpel blade. There was also pair of tweezers from a Swiss Army knife. Someone...

Pen of the Week 46 Here it is then - POTW46 - (Voting will end this week on Sunday) Voting is simple - just choose your favourite pen from all those below. They were all posted on the Forum sometime during the last week (any posted since Sunday will be in the next vote). Once you've decided...

Pen of the Week 45 Here it is then - POTW45 - (Voting will end this week on Friday) Voting is simple - just choose your favourite pen from all those below. They were all posted on the Forum sometime during the last couple of weeks (any posted since Sunday will be in the next vote). Once you've...

Pen of the Week 44 Here it is then - POTW44 - (Voting will end this week on Saturday) Voting is simple - just choose your favourite pen from all those below. They were all posted on the Forum sometime during the last couple of weeks (any posted since Sunday will be in the next vote). Once...

Hi I haven't posted in a while but I have been keeping busy. I had a spat were I sold quite a bit of stuff then it died a death. It got to the point where it was actually costing me money to make pens. People just did not want to pay the money for them. So I stopped making pens. Any way Xmas is...

Pen of the Week 43 Here it is then - POTW43 - (Voting will end this week on Friday) Voting is simple - just choose your favourite pen from all those below. They were all posted on the Forum sometime during the last couple of weeks (any posted since Sunday will be in the next vote). Once you've...

Wondering when this site we be set up with HPPS: to make this site a secure site?:thinks: Les

Hi Not too bad for a beginner I am thinking. A lot of sanding was needed. The finish on the top of the bowl is liquid acrylic which I need more practice with. I ran out of spray. The ogee is not too bad but next time I would like to make it softer, slower and longer, if that makes sense...

Well, did anyone hear the POP..... that was me pulling my finger out!! A very good friend has a holiday let in Cyprus, on his last trip he collected a piece of Olive wood about 70 years old....could I make a pen from it...heck yeah!! Err you sure this is olive?? It is rock hard and very bland...

Pen of the Week 42 Here it is then - POTW42 - (Voting will end this week on Saturday) Voting is simple - just choose your favourite pen from all those below. They were all posted on the Forum sometime during the last couple of weeks (any posted since Sunday will be in the next vote). Once...

Pen of the Week 41 Here it is then - POTW41 - (Voting will end this week on Saturday) Voting is simple - just choose your favourite pen from all those below. They were all posted on the Forum sometime during the last week (any posted since Sunday will be in the next vote). Once you've decided...

Pen of the Week 40 This one should be called Pen of the month really. I'm sorry we haven't done this for a while. I've been pretty tied up with moving I'm afraid, and sorting myself out as a consequence - this is the first opportunity I've had to organise a POTW since the end of July. So...

A bloke I work with, He been very happily married but did like to point out: He and his wide had an agreement. She would make the small decisions and he would make the big ones. 30 years later they had bought 4 cars. moved twice and had 3 kids. He was still standing ready to make that big...

Customer asked for postable cap. This is what I came up with. 5-3/4'' Capped 5-3/8'' Uncapped 7-3/8'' Posted Cap Need to find or make a better clip.