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I got quite a few logs last week and have just finished cutting them to start the seasoning. All from the same site which has a large selection of specimen trees planted over the last couple of hundred years. This particular one was a single misshaped twisted log that I though could be Hawthorne...

First time on the lathe for a couple of years. I found a piece of spalted beech and knocked this out. It took a couple of days as the arthritis is getting to me now but it was worth it I think.

Hi All, I have a colleague who has a property in Cyprus, he has bought back some Olive wood for me to make pens with, well if these first two are anything to go by...... Its 500 years old and as dry as a prune, a lot of surface shakes and splits, so sharp tools, slow cuts and a liberal amount of...

Made these as fundraisers for the British heart foundation as a thank you for saving my life almost ten years ago so far we have raised 4 1/2 grant my target is 10 grand for the extra ten years they have given me

Fresh of the lathe this morning a 5” yew box haven’t made one of these in years finished with 2 coats sanding sealer and paste wax

Hi all, I saw this on FB and it made me think.... So I ll share it on here...please post a picture of your favorite pen, just to inspire others.... Mine is below, I saw this years ago on here and one day I will have a go at recreating it!!

Happy Birthday Kelvin, 70 years young:funny: :happybirthday::happybirthday::happybirthday: Dave

Made these pens as fundraisers for the BHF to celebrate the ten years of life they gave me

Yes, I know. If you've just fallen over with the shock, I quite understand why. Back in the day I was making perhaps 7 or 8 pens a day, but I haven't had time to do one for over two years. Here it is. It's chrome Beaufort Headwind (no surprise there) in a resin cast carbon fibre blank.

I've been visiting my friends in London for 50 years now, this was from the pear tree they had to cut down a few years ago. ?They've asked me to make pens out of the wood that's been in storage for many years. This was a little soft but with careful skew chisel work It's turned out quite well I...

15 years I think, at least ten plus years I have been turning, at times with cocobolo, and never once had any reaction. Life just got its own back. I was at a Game and Country show in Oxfordshire over the weekend, under canvas so in the shade, but was so hot I was wiping my forehead with the...

These pens are made from New Zealand Bog Wood ranging from 600 years plus to 50000 years old.

Just want to introduce myself to the forum. My name is Duncan and I am based in Stratford upon Avon. I have been a hobby woodturner most of my life, but since retiring 13 years ago, I have done a lot more stuff. My specialities are salt and pepper grinders, bowls, clocks and of course pens. All...

Hi all you good people.My name is Geoff and have just joined.I have been woodturning for some years and have got into pens the last three years or so.I started penmaking like most other people,using 7mm twist pen kits.Have now moved onto better quality kits and am making fountain and rollerballs...

Dear All, The first memory I have of my father is 65 years ago and I was 5 years old when I helped him make his shed. He bought an old watchman's cabin from the iron works where he worked, the story goes that he paid £0-3s-6d for it, and it was very old then. This story occurred long before...

I started this tap handle years ago from some forgotten type of fruit tree wood I picked up years ago in the Adelaide hills. I had just finished turning it, came back the next day to put finish on it and found it had cracked.:vangry: Found it under the the bench the other day, filled the crack...

Hi all, A couple of Olive Sirocco's....the olive is from a work colleague and has come from a church in Cypress ( legally attained) these will be returning when permitted to go to the archbishop. The wood is 200+ years old and very very dry, it's fought me all the way....there were 3 blanks...

I don't think I've showed this here but was reminded about it on a FB post. Bill Mooney sent me this pen in his signature shape a few years back as I'd sent him the crosscut Sycamore blank. I keep this for showing in turning lessons when appropriate.

A slimline pen dressed in xcut old English Oak given to me by my mate Basil. It was buried in the stone wall of his cottage & has been there for 200-250 years & was probably 350+ 450 years olds when the tree was felled. It has a beautiful deep colour, hard as the hobs but nice to turn.

Unknown wood from blanks I bought about 15 years ago.