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Has any tried Pyrography on a turned pen ? Could you then treat it with CA Glue and polish it ? I am thinking of getting a Pyrography kit for Christmas and wondered if it would work on pens.

This is the one I've been working on this week. Doesn't look like most of a work week to you? The pen only took about six hours. The metal work took about three days. (In all fairness, that time includes making a couple of the parts twice because sometimes I do foolish things. The learning...

Hi All, I have had great advice from the forum in the past but have a question if. Anyone has tried and if it is possible. Would it work to use a lo resin mould painted white brass tubes and using a brother p touch printer to print names on and stick this to the tube and pour clear resin into it...

Straight off of the lathe. I rough turned this Oak blank a while ago and it promptly split so I left it in the pile and came across it and decided to repair the split and make a feature of it, there are also some other splits. I think I need to work on the butterfly fits It measures 9" X 1 3/4"...

:waver: As you can probably tell by my username, I'm Steve and I'm from carrot crunching Suffolk. (Skiving off work today.) I'm fairly new to pen turning and I love every minute of chilling out in the shed and spinning up all manner of random stuff on my small but competent lathes. The last...

This week's Pen of the Week is chosen by Penpal and goes to "White Simplicity" by silver Peter said "My choice for pen of the week is the stunning White Simplicity by Eamonn. Neat to see all of the work coming through,very encouraging. This white pen is outstanding" Here's the link to...

Big improvement with the knee replacement still a bit painful and clicks a bit but it's getting there. Me and our Aud have been working on renovating an old Atlas metal lathe over the past couple of weeks just a bit of electrical work and we're done. I will post a few pics of it when it's...

I have posted a couple of pens over the past two weeks that included Celtic knots in one form or another - both are slated for presentation of Modern Celtic Art that opens next week. In this very rural area in Upstate New York, there is a pocket of full and part-time working artists who work in...

I have had this one in the pipeline for a while. (I work on it between paying jobs!) The barrels are from a custom blank from Tim McKenzie (@mckenziepenworks), and I think it is my very favorite of his work to date. It’s subtle and classy…but the diamond sparkle takes over in natural light...

Well sort of true but I've been wanting to make a set of gates for some time and as I work with the door open and the dog likes to see what's going on in the world I have until now needed to tie her up. I made these just from softwood ( ex 9" x 3" ) I've had for a very long time so when they...

Zebra and cherry, doesn't mix well, I used charcoals toothpaste as a finish before ca coat as it's a light abrasive. The black went in the grains and gave a lovely effect. Unfortunetly the woods didn't work together. Its a slow learning process. I've nearly used my first set of slim lines up...

this is a slow burning project. I need a kit that is as straight as possible- ideally the barrel will have bushings that are the same size each end and the cap the same size each end. I need at least 1mm of wood in thickness when turned. Any suggestions? the alpha might work, but I don't know...

Thought I would share some photos the club members work as well as mine The first 5 are of my section

I'm a old guy that's disabled and looking to start turning some pens for family. Have a life time of working with wood , but not when it's spinning around ! I have a small lathe and mandral - cheapo pen kit some blanks ect. What i need help with is what type chisels will i need. And any...

Been getting all my chisels sharpened for Saturday as well as some blanks and finishes to do demonstrating at the English Festival as well as showing my work so if you happen to be close to Rainham in Kent try to drop in admission is free.

So I may have had a bit of a stash of Siroccos here... I have some Mistrals and Tempests on the way as well but needed some examples of some of my blanks so I turned these the other day. I'm not a huge fan of black plating on my own pens but I think the color combos work on these.

I have been struggling for months to come up with a way to make a custom ("kitless") pen that allows for the use of wood. This one is a stabilized maple burl with Alumilite fittings. The body of the pen is sleeved with a brass tube. Then alumilite fittings were turned with a tenon. Boring...

This was a nice project and my first attempt at making a Polymer cane. Great stuff to work with. U-Beaut EEE and a couple of mops to finish. Polymer clay & Maple bottle stopper - YouTube

Yesterday quick visit to my Wood Craft Guild, situated on the edge of the city on Lions Youth Haven Farm. The day was stary bright,bad for pics outside. The complex is now enormous, eight Vicmarc VL100,s several large Vicmarcs, just a few of the other machines,Sawstop, Hammer Saw, etc and an...