Wood_Pens
With plastics, I go a good deal further to ensure a high gloss finish and an excellent hand feel. I use a 9 grade micro-polish system as well. …
Some very experienced, and persnickety, pen turners will discard the bushings because of the fact that they can become worn down, or because some pen turners don’t trust the …
The shafts come in different sizes to better accommodate the wide range of circumferences found in pen making brass tubes. I have many different sizes but always known …
Before doing anything else, I put on a pair of non-latex gloves to protect my hands from the glue. I don’t think the glue is harmful to the …
From the very first instruction on pen making that I received from my father, right through to the most recently consulted directions sent with a pen kit, I have …
Drilling the center of the cut to size pen blanks is often, for me, the single most frustrating and difficult part of the entire pen making process. Every …
Obviously, in order to cut the blanks to size, some type of cutting instrument, tool, or machine is required. I suppose a pen maker could use a handsaw, …