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Knots cut on bandsaw on a piece of mahogany and set into maple using a hole saw. Also photo of the backside of the knots.

Acrylic slimline made from Mark’s goody box.

A blank & kit from Mark’s donation box. Thanks Mark. A black chrome kit dressed in a card suit blank. Sot the mistake.

Made a Celtic pen using callipers once again, I struggle so much getting the measurements of the blanks spot on :sob: This pen is plagued with problems, one of them just makes no sense what's so ever to me. One end of the blank is level with the tip whilst the other end goes over to one side...

Not a pen, nor is it acrylic, so I am not sure it really belongs in this forum but anyway... A couple of years ago I made my first ever pen related thing. It was a pencil for use in my workshop. The trouble is I used a sandy coloured fake snake-skin blank, which is an excellent camouflage...

40 bits of timber and veneer make up this pattern.

I have been asked to make 3 fountain pens out of old timbers from a now restored landing craft used in the Falklands war. Foxtrot Eight was one of four smaller landing craft used by Portsmouth-based assault ship HMS Fearless to ferry commandos and their equipment ashore at San Carlos in May...

A few last Bullet pens to come off the lathe.

Zephyr in blue acrylic. No, flexi no box this time. :tongue:

A streamline dressed in corian. Slimlines dressed in corian & married to black enamel kits from Mark’s box. Thanks Mark.

Streamline dressed in black & white swirl acrylic blank.

Not turned a pen for a year and half, here's an Alpha dressed in one of my own castings, apologies for the photos, these were taken quickly with the phone all the best Andy

Good afternoon folks, Its been a while since I have turned anything,been busy fishing and it's been too bloody hot in the shed!Anyway,a while back I purchased two of the new Leto kits from TM,part of their pro range.As the pics show,as well making the kit as usual,the skill level is raised as...

Dyed stabilised timber finished in melamine & microcrystalline wax.

Spalted sycamore finished in melamine & microcrystalline wax.

Olive pens finished in melamine & microcrystalline wax. This pen is a keeper.

Here's a recent pen with the design roughly based on a simple Dara Knot. Maple on an Etesia kit from Beaufort Ink.

TM Zita kit, Zebrano wood finished with Yorkshire Grit - guess what I'm giving out as Xmas presents this year!

I'd got fed up of cutting wood with my old plastic el cheapo mitre box, so I got a 14tpi Wood Hand Mitre Saw from Screwfix. After trying it out I thought 'Lets see if I can make a Celtic Knot, blank...this was the result, not perfect, but with more practice... I'd always assumed that one...

Follow up to the Ghost gum Ares, now in a Lignum Vitae box. What do you think? Rather a challenging wood to work with, put traditional hinges on this, had to drill and use a self tapper screw to put a thread in the wood so I could get the screws in. mega hard but finished really nice.