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Please feel free to post your wedding pens.
This is not instead of where you normally post your finishes pens, it's as well as. Lets build a library of wedding pens
I didn't want to pay for a 6" blank when 5" are a lot cheaper and more common. I modified the pen by making the large tube shorter so that the pen was just under 5". I turned the pen to be more chunky. The only problem was that the spring was too long so I cut it in half
Glen
I have been asked to make a pen that looks like a truncheon with a parker refill with the nib coming out of the business end does anyone have any ideas of a UK based kit that would suit? it (I don't do kitless having no patience)
PG
I had an 86 year old student in for his first lesson today he made a 6" x 2" Zebrano bowl how bad is that I hope I can still do it at his age his next project is to make some pens for Christmas presents it didnt take his wife long to nick it and fill it with sweets
Hi all...
I have turned a couple of pens and decided to attempt to turn a bowl... a whole different set of potential problems.. but it went quite well I think for a beginner... and my wife is chuffed with it (and as we all know... That's what really matters!)
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First day in me workshop for a week as I have had a lot of pain from old injuries and me ticker was complaining so it was time to stop and wait till every thing got better.
I am enjoying myself as I have wanted to make this bowl for quite a while now and today is the day no pens for a while as I...
Well a knock at the door sent me to heaven again. Some great pieces of wood including oak, beech, mahogany, sapele, tulip wood and some which I think is cherry maybe someone can tell me if I am right.
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.
Some stamp pens in the making some of the tubes are first covered in a decorative film then the stamps stuck on one has screwed up kitchen foil rubbed over with a felt tip pen then rubbed off and the last one is for a friends request for the intelligence corp just got to cover them in mod podge...