Here's a stamp I made for doing wax seals. I figure when I make the pens for people I'll use some nice paper to put care instructions on or whatever, and add a wax seal with my logo:
Just received a delivery of tons of different pen kits etc today, so I've loads to keep me busy now, plus some blanks of (apparently - who knows) 5000 year old bog oak, which has some very n
One other piece of wood I'm really keen to use is something a mate handed me the other day. A really beautiful chunk of Gorse trunk that he's had for years and not really known what to do with it. I'd never thought of gorse as something useful for turning (as gorse iw usually associated here with discomfort & swearing, and black clouds from it burning on the hills), but the colour, grain & pattern is stunning I think:
Counting myself lucky to have this one.
