Turning Tools
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 …
Any drilling action will result in friction which creates heat. While Corian is designed to be resistant to heat in its use as a countertop material, that doesn’t …
But what we do know is that the wood of Weeping Boer Bean has a dense, fine and even texture, though the grain is wavy. The sapwood is …
As sometimes is the case with tropical woods, Movingui finds many uses in traditional African medicine in the areas in which it is endemic. Pounded Movingui bark is …
The grain in any given piece of Avodire can be straight, wavy, or irregular and interlocked. Avodire can exhibit a range of grain patterns, such as wavy, mottled, …