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I have not made too many pens recently due to an arthritic knee giving me a bit of pain, but here's one I finished today.

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Made a few dippy pens today just for a bit of fun lol

Finally. Not overly impressed with kit, and it's a bit blingy, but I'm happy with it.. Hand carved from a bit of pallet wood.. It doesn't show the scales like I thought it would as they look painted on, but they are carved.

Hello, I want o buy the AXMINSTER WOODTURNING COMPRESSION PEN MANDREL - 2MT< but I don’t know if they will be compatible with the different pen kit I’m buying from Pen Making, Bowl Turning, Wood Lathes, Wood Blanks, and Turning Tools for Woodturners | Craft Supplies USA in the USA (most of...

this is a bit of some pine ( cant remember its name ) leaf...i liberated it from corfu. thought id have a bash to see what it looked like and i think its quite cool, although the introduction of some colour may improve it..anyway, i think ill play with it for a bit before i go all out and make...

Hi all. I took a piece of celluloid from my “special blanks” drawer this week and made this pen with it. I love the stuff. It does require a light touch or it can overheat, but worth the extra bit of care needed. I’m on a bit of a run with the hex shaped pens at the moment. Not sure if I’m...

Fresh of the lathe this morning finished with spray lacquer some little girl will love it

Hi all I’ve been away from here for a little while, but thought I’d share my latest offering(s). I bit the bullet and finally acquired a vertical mill recently and, after a little bit of prototyping, came up with a hexagonal pen that I’m happy with. For those interested I achieved the shape...

Solano pen kit dressed with Buckeye and a bit of segmenting.

For the last couple of years I've been 3D printing things I could pour silicone into to make "tube in" pen blank moulds. I've got so many now that they're a pain in the posterior to keep track of which is which. I was grumbling about this to the missus and she said, why not put the name of the...

Hello folks I purchased a keyless chuck and the first time I have gone to use it, it has seized closed on the drill bit. It is under warrant and will be going back (at the company's expense so I am waiting for them to try to say it must be returned under my own cost. The law on that is not in...

Hi all, I'm Spencer and I live in sunny Eastbourne (originally a south east London boy). I was a lurker here for a long time but life was a bit hectic to really get involved. I've been a part time pen maker for a few years. Took a bit of a detour from that to do other things but now back...

knocked up a few pens and some simple stands just for a bit of fun

would have liked to put this on a lidded kit of some sort, but i dont have one, so it went on this slimline dobber.. this is another i cast with some of the last bits of the bush i dug up from MILs garden.. i dyed the resin and added just a tiddly bit of mica, painted the tube with nail varnish...

Headwind kit from Beaufort, dressed in dyed maple and Frogwood. Mark flexi likes a wee bit of green. Hope you like this.

A simple but effective bit of fun segmenting

Made this little beauty with a bit of piercing on the lid for a bit of fun and it instantly sold

Had better days before now. First off I had a beautiful blank of Black Palmira that decided to break in half (Lengthways) just as the drill bit was exiting, (Split with drill inside if you get my meaning). Oh well all is not lost as I had a lovely bit of Wenge that I could use. Cut blank to...

Found this bit of wood that I'd stabilised a good while back, so put it on another manager kit