Xcut oak crop end pen

[Bill Mooney]

On another thread I showed some pens made up of crop ends of acrylic pen blanks. this WIP is done with xcut oak but the process is the same.
I start with cutting a card template 20mm wide & a little longer than the pen I'm making. The top is cut at 45 degrees.

Sand the opposite sides of the crop ends so the mate together.

Glue the first piece onto the template at 45 degrees then glue each piece in turn to each other using CA pressing together with fingers untilset.

Trim the sides, cut to length, drill & insert tubes.

Square blanks off to length.

Mount the blank on the lathe, turn to size & sand.

 

[Bill Mooney]

Xcut oak crop end pen 2

Following on.
Turn, & sand blank to size. this pen is polished with Craft coat.


This is my pen making tool & I useit to make all my pens whether it be acrylic, polyester, corian or timber.
It is made from a HSS planer blade & is 5" long & sharpened at both ends , square & curved.It is bevelled on both sides to form a negative rake like a skew chisel.It does not need a handle & is just gentle held in the fingers.

The pen is hen buffed with a polishing compound. This is one of my buffing mops.

The finished pen.

 

[bassethound]

Thanks for posting that Bill, love it..

 

[wm460]

Very interesting, Thanks for posting that Bill.

 

[paulm]

Thats very nice and very effective Bill, thanks for showing

 

[Bill Mooney]

I made a mistake in posting, I made the over run into a separate thread instead of putting an extra post on here. I've sent Jim a pm to see if he can marry to two into one thread.

 

[wm460]

That is a great looking pen Bill, well done.

 

[Dalboy]

A nice little WIP Bill. A good way of using all the little pieces up.

 

[Woody]

That is great bill thank you for showing there is opportunity for variations of that style

 

[Winemaker]

Thanks for sharing

 

[Winemaker]

Nice pen

 

[Vic Perrin]

Thanks for the info Bill

 

[Vic Perrin]

That's come out very nice Bill. Thanks for the info !

 

[Terry]

Excellent info and photos Bill !!!

 

[Terry Q]

Love the shape of this one. What is the size of your planner blade tool?

 

[ni9eofse7en]

Interesting, look forward to results.

 

[bassethound]

Bloody lovely job Bill, no doubt about that mate

 

[Bill Mooney]

Love the shape of this one. What is the size of your planner blade tool?

Hi Terry the tool is 5" long x 3/4" wide.

 

[Jim]

Thanks for this Bill, it sure is a good tip my friend .. Not forgetting the finished pen which looks superb ..

 

[Penpal]

Love that work been a firm advocate of cross cut by choice for ever its sure a high degree of difficulty but a vtremendous satisfaction level you just proved mate thanks for showing Bill.

Peter.