Went to my mates place in the country where we get together for a yarn he turns something exciting cause thats what he does for a living, because it was a threatening rain day only two of us beside him turned up.Its called between centres turning group.
Anyway he said he would never turn a pen again for his galleries emptied out his accumulation and me and my other mate bought the lot EXCEPT a thousand pen blanks all burl Red Mallee, etc etc all I could think of how in heavens name could I buy and ship to bonny UK then I thought you guys have enough on your hands with the return of your Prime Minister with a majority.
The Turners wife made a chocolate cake fit for royalty we had a yarn and parted.One thing though my other mate brought in a few old magazines on the front page headline said 40.000 wooden pens. I know you all have photographic memories cast your mind back to a board I showed a pic of simply hundreds of carved long boots in every possible timber well this bloke is the same one. He was Aussie Dremel rep travelled Australia carved the boots as demos and between demos on the circuit.
This article prompted me when first I saw the 40.000 pens to drive for hours go meet with him and with your indulgence I would like to reconstruct both this article from 2005 and my visit the same year. He has since moved on to his greatest love flying.
Peter.

