technique

I have just seen a couple of Leveche pens made from the Ukraine blanks Phil has been selling and have to say they do look good. Whenever I do striped pens for some reason I seem to end up with a thick bar on the pen :rolling: that I try hiding under the pen clip. TVS and flexi (A lot of you...

Today I had the pleasure of meeting Bill Mooney, who via this forum offered to share some of his wisdom with me. I made the trip to his home and spent nearly four hours in his company. Bill covered all the areas needed to turn. Which are the best tools for different jobs, how to sharpen them...

I wasn't going to show this because it is a failure. It is a modified slimline with an olive wood blank. It's a failure because it was supposed to have a bumpy grip between the lower burnt lines. It was trying out a technique used by Japanese netsuke carvers to raise bumps on a piece of wood. I...

Hi all Here's a new decorating technique...

Hi all My latest youtube video with a new airbrushing technique. I hope you like it!

Hi all, I recently gave a try to a new technique: leaf gilding (or should I sat gold leafing?). It is quite easy: applying some special oil called mixtion, then applying the thin metal leaf. I covered it with CA. I applied the leaves a bit at random, it was just a trial. Not totally happy with...

Well, I decided this weekend to try out the Melamine finish technique that Phil (kindly) shared with us. I followed it to the letter except for thinning the sealer, mainly because I didn't have any thinners! However, the sanding and burnishing with the shavings gave me one of the smoothest pens...

Hi again, I have just turned and part way through finishing a blank for a bolt action tec pen. I am noticing very dark dots or streaks in the wood (very strong in the pictures below). This one is using some Indian Babul wood. Is this just a property of the wood, is it a poor quality...