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Every now and then I find in my stash of blanks outstanding grain .This Olive Wood embodies the best of everything. Peter.

Olive wood Omega.

Hi all, Yes another leveche, but I am liking this wood lark....

Hi guys, well you saw my stash of ply blanks I needed to turn one.... This has come out way darker than I thought it would, but that's the game we play with wood....

Hi just thought I would share my venture into trying to add glass to wood turning Northumberland Yew and Sea Glass collected from North East Shore Kevin :banana:

A pair of rollester's from axminster one's acrylic and the other is definitely wood (but I might have forgotten the wood I used.. :rolling:)

The design of the pen I'm working on uses no finials or adornments, closed tapered ends, cigar like. If I'd had more time / had put more thought on how to do it, I'd probably have not used the brass tubes, but too late to change that now as I've bought the kit, so... The brass tubes will...

Hello, I have been working for more than 15 years on a VL100 Vicmarc, what do you recommend for my next investment: Vicmarc VL 300 other? Tool holder min 250 mm what do you think is the best wood lathe?:banana:

Hi all, I'm very new to pen turning, not had much experience turning wood as I'm usually turning metal. I have made 2 pens so far, a set for my brothers birthday. They went really well and as soon as a my wife saw them made lots of hints about the fact her birthday is coming up... I am however...

Had a couple of days from model making and turned an Ash bowl and coloured with spirit stain and finished with acrylic S/S and wood wax. The second item was a piece that I rough turned back in 2016 and decided to finish I believe it is Maple, Decided to leave this one natural and just finished...

To add to my attempts at fountain pens - a junior gentleman in Olive wood. Gorgeous bit of wood!

Hi all Just wondered how you store the pens you make. I’ve looked around and there are many options but I’m looking for your recommendations. Ideally I’d like a small set of drawers which can hold say 20-30 pens. I’d like it to be fairly nice looking in wood if possible. Or any other ideas...

This is the first use of corian used for this cat pen for the granddaughters birthday. Does look ok but corian is not my thing and it's to heavy. Love a piece of wood with some segmenting. Each to their own.

I made my dad a Toolbox pencil for his sketching, crosswords and adventures in the garage. The wood is Makore. He's very happy with it, and so was I ?

A very quick simple bowl that I promised someone who gave me some wood quite a while ago. Nothing fancy or even coloured

my name is Len and I have been turning wood as a hobby for about 40 years. The extent of my pen turning has been with the simplest kits using wood and by using the knowledge contained within this forum try more sophisticated pen turning. The examples I have seen by the members on here are...

Another gem by Grandpa Amu...

Got a bit fed up spinning wood so I thought what can I do for a change. I have a load of pallet wood lying around and the Mrs has been on at me for ages to have a go at some garden furniture. Had a couple of hours in me shed and came up with this beauty.

I have 8 Stuart Conway acrylic blanks that came with the lathe I recently bought. I am not a fan of acrylics and would like to swap them for wood pen blanks or even slimline pen kits, am willing to cover all the postage and packaging , any interest? Jan

I don’t believe it........... I took a leave of absence from these pages for a couple of years whilst I undertook a wife replacement programme, and on resuming correspondence on this and other similar pages have become increasingly dismayed at the alarming amount of complete and utter Bollocks...