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What tools to use when making pens

ataylor

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If i was to start from scratch with pen making what advice would you give me regarding the tools to use? :thinks:
 

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Thats all I use myself Jim. Just wish I could stop buying the rest lol. Got to take the wife over to the promised land on Saturday to see someone. Its close enough to Snainton that you feel obliged to call to the woodturning centre, its almost compulsory. If I get out with only spending £150 I'll consider it a result.
 

Jim

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Thats all I use myself Jim. Just wish I could stop buying the rest lol. Got to take the wife over to the promised land on Saturday to see someone. Its close enough to Snainton that you feel obliged to call to the woodturning centre, its almost compulsory. If I get out with only spending £150 I'll consider it a result.

I guess we have all been there Keith, a quick look round or just a browse through costs me about a ton each time ... :whistling:
 

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My first pice of advice would be get a quality pencil sharpener some 8mm dowel a good center drill, a 2.5mm hss dril bit a 4.5mm drill bit. mount the dowel in the headstock chuck center drill both sides . Then drill all the way through with the smaller drill bit now turn a tenon on one end of the dowel about 6-10mm deep and .25'' in diameter drill this end with a 4mm bit to about 20mm deep now remove the drill from the chuck and cut it off so that its 25-30mm long. Now take out your pencil sharpener and the end with the small 2.5mm hole feed into your pencil sharpener and turn a point on it just as though you are sharpening a pencil ok when you have apleasing shape stop.......... make yourself a coffee and wonder just how you made your first freestyle nib section for a slimline pen..........in wood also works on some acrylics and polymer clay. the secret is any tool you like just find a way that makes it work
 

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I do almost everything with a 1" roughing gouge. Can't be doing with tiny little toy town tools.:devil:


Have to agree Walter, i think that the roughing gouge is misunderstood when turning small items ... :bwink:
 

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I use a roughing gouge and a spindlemaster. :bwink:
 

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I use a 1/2 inch gouge and a skew on the flat with every pen I make tend to have a few sharpened beforehand so I can keep going. Having many of results of compulsive aquisition and penpox.

Kind regards Peter.
 
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