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Spent a nice hour catching up with Eamonn yesterday (@Silver on here), one of the good guys - there's plenty of them on here! Came away with a few of his lovely pen boxes, I'll post pictures in a bit. Thanks for the tea, good company and laser engraving mate!

So I decided to make a few pens and post something since I haven't posted for a while. Left to right 7mm Elm and Maple, 2 x Tempest tulip wood, 3 x Sirocco in Azobe, cross grain black Walnut and Ropala lacewood. PG

Found this and thought I would post it here

Hi, I am new to pen turning although I have had my lathe for about 9 years. I bought it a long time ago set it up in my garage then the daily grind of work took over & I never got chance to use it much. During the last year I got the bug.....started with a few bowls now got into Pen Turning &...

This week's Pen of the Week was chosen by Penpal and goes to the "PSI Tudor Twist Pen" by Skin-Job Peter said "My selection(torn between a few rippers) was First Pen of 2018 PSI Tudor Twist pen by Skin Job. With no bias on my part he took an iffy Pen Kit and transformed it with various...

Rather than swamp David’s post with pics I started a new one. Peter asked me if my boat was finished, and the answer is nearly. After much delay it’s due for delivery next Tuesday so I don’t have finished pics yet, but I’ll post some after the launch. For now here are a few progress pics

I had a customer return a Omega pen to me in a broken state, the nib adapter had broken in half at the thread. I contacted Taylors Mirfield asking if they did spares for the Omega pens. Dan emailed me back saying there was a replacement in to post free of charge. What a service i cannot sing his...

This week's Pen of the Week was chosen by Glenpen and goes to the second pen in the series "Flood Waters" made by Bob Ellis. Glen said "Although I am not taken with acrylic pens preferring wood I like a pen with a story and Bob as done this with this pen and Coastal Waters just completes it"...

Hi friends, Some pics of the latest pens i've turned before my hospitalization, was'nt able to post them earlyer for that reason.

Hello to everybody keen on pens. My name is Tony and I look forward to joining in to your forum. I'm pretty new to pen making, in fact I've made just three so far, but now the nights are drawing in ... I was recommended to come here by a guy from the IAP,which, as it was my first post to them...

Due to health reasons haven't posted or visited for quite a while. Health is now reasonable and it's time to get back into life and turning. Just before my latest bout of illness I started building a small workshop in the back garden and treated myself to a new Axminster Lathe. The Lathe...

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I bought some alloy rod for pen turning the other day then realised I'd chipped the last of my polished inserts some time back so I got these in the post today. These give a great finish on aluminium alloys and plastics if you haven't tried them. I use a Tangential tool for most of my turning...

This weeks Pen of the Week chosen by BradG goes to the Shakespeare in Moose Poo that was made by Flexi (Mark). Brad said "Not only is the fit and finish accurate all around, the material choice is very bold,but yet it works so well. I can only hope that Mark wore a mask with all those particles...

There are quite a few members who post videos of their pen making endeavors on the forum, which usually result in a cracking pen at the end of it. Please don't stop posting them - we all enjoy watching them. BUT You might want to consider also inducing a still photo of the pen you've made...

Sorry not been on much due to illness in the family now I have a chest inflection :sob: so will not be turning much very soon. When I get better I will post what I have been doing.

Well like all plans about getting into the shed to do some turning and finish off cutting the blanks and sealing them. I had forgotten that we were meant to have the great-grandson who at the mention of shed grabs his bag of toy tools and follows me out there. So I did manage to sort out my...

This weeks Pen of the Week selected by Scott (Sawes) goes to the Ergonomic Oblique Dip Pen that was made by Melanie (Fingwe). Scott said "It just shows that you don't always need a lathe to make a beautiful pen" Here is the link to Melanie's original post...

Received this email today - some scammer on the face of it trying to persuade me to use their web design services. I get emails like this every day, but this one goes the extra mile. Read down to the post script. Lucky he pointed it out - that's all the re-assurance I needed.:funny:

Handmade with aircraft grade aluminium, and anodised purple, featuring a German JoWo Nib Will be half a dozen colour variations of the same pen over the next few days, so il just post them as replies on this thread rather than creating a new post for each one.