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2022 CRAFTED PENS by GLENPENS After searching for wood over the last 3months in keeping with my previous years of having wood with a story I am now in the position to release my additional pens for 2022. They are all unusual, unique, rare or very rare and most have a story to tell. My first...

A friend gave me a small Basswood blank this wood is a very soft hard wood and as light as a feather but it is a lovely wood to turn this piece turned beautifully 6” x 3” took very little time to compleat in fact it took a lot longer to lacquer

A pair of Gold plated FP/RB Gent pens in French Oak wood with a bespoke Spalted beech wood box. This French Oak is lighter in colour than the English Oak I turned. Less figuring as well, grain doesn't show up quite as well. Spalted Beechwood speaks for its self I think.:whistling:

I am not new to this site though it has been a few years since i was last here. Anyhow down the the topic, i have been turning all the time but fancied getting into using a vacuum pot. I bought a pump and pot from FB but wanted to try this out. In my bowl turning i have come across many wild...

I was chatting to someone a few weeks ago and they told me that they always wax a pen regardless of the finish (C.A, melamine etc) or if it is Acrylic or wood. Since then it has been revolving around my head as to why they would do that. I was going to ask on here but feel you may all be tiring...

Been rather ill so far this year and have done very little turning wise. Rather than just stare at the bedroom, with great effort I decided to get myself to the shed and try turning a pen. Started turning an Atrax on some coloured ply but I made a boo boo on the gluing and got nowhere. Instead...

Had a few hours in me workshop this morning and made a few pens three astons dressed in first one Walnut then desert Akron wood and Burr Oak also two sierras one in Elm burr and one in mountain Ash

New today an 8” Robinia bowl love this wood

Had a little play today Not sure it could be a platter, Bish or bowl what ever I really enjoyed making it tHe wood is Olive ash just got to finish spraying it

Hi all Another wood/acrylic combo, this time in a blue maple burr with sky blue pearl section, threads and finials. It has silver accent rings and a Jowo no6 nib. The pen is fully lined in both barrel and cap. This wood is stabilised (I buy it like that) and I finish using the melamine...

A nautical pen dressed in x cut Burmese teak decking Fromm the USS New Jersey Americas oldest surviving battle ship the wood is over 100 years old I had quite a lot of rotting wood to cut away to salvage this and just 4 other pieces

I have but with matching wood I have a number of little jobs. I need small circles professionally cut out of wood for an insert for a bookmark. I also need a paper knife entirely of wood. Plus a spurtle which would need turning out of the same wood. The wood is fine teak unused and I would need...

Hi all, Well if we're doing wood, we should do plastic/acrylic too

Hi all, Rather than hijack a previous thread, it's made me think, so I would like your comments please.... Above is the selection I have for wood finishing, some good, some not so. We all must have a collection like this so I thought 'post a pic' good points/ bad points:banana::banana:

Made this for some of my pipes. Black stinkwood (ocotea bullata). It is actually a lot darker than the pictures. Flash must have done that. The side view is a lot closer to the real colour. Black stinkwood is protected and difficult to get. This wood came from a recycled dresser. Still got a...

So here is the second major pressie, this one for my daughter, she choose Teak and some Sapele there wasn't going to be enough teak so I got more Sapele as no where local had any affordable teak! The wood used was all from the same batch and I've not treated any of differently, the middle shelf...

Even after many years of turning it can go wrong whiled turning an 18” platter first I went to thin and hit the chucking recess but thought finish it and make a bung but while still sanding a few cracks that were in the wood to stat with decided to have a party lol more fire wood lol

to bert.... bert is an approximation of a catnip toy that was much loved by my step daughter when she was a tacker ( child ).. no idea what the red wood is, but the white is nordman spruce, an old christmas tree

this is the last of the christmas prezzies,,,,this one's for my sis in law, she loves anything natural wood, so the only finish is shellack and beeswax...also the first time ive used my dremel on wood...im quite proud of this one and i hope she likes it.. i think its magnolia, but not overly...

Todays silly question live from Dronfield is, When turning things in wood I have noticed that I only seem to make fine dust and no ribbons whilst making whatever it is, this is not only on pens but bowls as well. If I am turning acrylic pens I do get ribbons albeit very thin and narrow ones...