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Jamie being passionate turning Plastic and Wooden pens means you have the desire to succeed. Mrs Beaton used to say first slaughter your ox well for us that means from the get go ensure with a dead centre in the head and tail stock that they meet to the points if not correct any errors (cal in a friend?). the rest is open ended until you maybe show us what you are doing right now pics are good. Centring depends on how where when you grip or hold the blank in relation to the drill then what drill you choose and if before you hoe into the drilling process do you use a centering drill to prepare the entry of your chosen drill. All of this hinges on what shape your blank is how long it is. There are two jaw wonderful chucks that can help here. Most of all an eye for the task can be natural or trained. There are umteen marking centring guages available to allow you to initially mark the centre then centre pop the spot helps. If any of these terms or means seem involved or not understood go to you tube look up drilling blanks for pens on the lathe. Like playing Russian Roullette a result can be hit and miss if we do not start from scratch put away the shotgun approach thinking at least something will hit the centre.

So far your question is fully open ended trust this provides some thought involved in this important aspect of pen making.

Kind regards Peter.

<blockquote data-quote="Penpal" data-source="post: 177781" data-attributes="member: 122">Jamie being passionate turning Plastic and Wooden pens means you have the desire to succeed. Mrs Beaton used to say first slaughter your ox well for us that means from the get go ensure with a dead centre in the head and tail stock that they meet to the points if not correct any errors (cal in a friend?). the rest is open ended until you maybe show us what you are doing right now pics are good. Centring depends on how where when you grip or hold the blank in relation to the drill then what drill you choose and if before you hoe into the drilling process do you use a centering drill to prepare the entry of your chosen drill. All of this hinges on what shape your blank is how long it is. There are two jaw wonderful chucks that can help here. Most of all an eye for the task can be natural or trained. There are umteen marking centring guages available to allow you to initially mark the centre then centre pop the spot helps. If any of these terms or means seem involved or not understood go to you tube look up drilling blanks for pens on the lathe.&nbsp; Like playing Russian Roullette a result can be hit and miss if we do not start from scratch put away the shotgun approach thinking at least something will hit the centre.So far your question is fully open ended trust this provides some thought involved in this important aspect of pen making.Kind regards Peter.<img src="http://www.penturners.co.uk/images/smilies/18/thumbs.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumbs:" title="Thumbs&nbsp; &nbsp; :thumbs:" data-shortname=":thumbs:" /><img src="http://www.penturners.co.uk/images/smilies/18/thumbs.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumbs:" title="Thumbs&nbsp; &nbsp; :thumbs:" data-shortname=":thumbs:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Penpal, post: 177781, member: 122"] Jamie being passionate turning Plastic and Wooden pens means you have the desire to succeed. Mrs Beaton used to say first slaughter your ox well for us that means from the get go ensure with a dead centre in the head and tail stock that they meet to the points if not correct any errors (cal in a friend?). the rest is open ended until you maybe show us what you are doing right now pics are good. Centring depends on how where when you grip or hold the blank in relation to the drill then what drill you choose and if before you hoe into the drilling process do you use a centering drill to prepare the entry of your chosen drill. All of this hinges on what shape your blank is how long it is. There are two jaw wonderful chucks that can help here. Most of all an eye for the task can be natural or trained. There are umteen marking centring guages available to allow you to initially mark the centre then centre pop the spot helps. If any of these terms or means seem involved or not understood go to you tube look up drilling blanks for pens on the lathe. Like playing Russian Roullette a result can be hit and miss if we do not start from scratch put away the shotgun approach thinking at least something will hit the centre. So far your question is fully open ended trust this provides some thought involved in this important aspect of pen making. Kind regards Peter.:thumbs::thumbs: [/QUOTE]

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