Wood Pen Blanks
Pen blanks are frequently made from off-cuts of wood that would otherwise be discarded. In this way, more wood is used to make objects of beauty instead of wasted or burned, and more carbon remains sequestered…wood turning helps the environment. Pen blanks are usually sized somewhere between 3/4 and 1 inch square by about 5 inches long. This size is adequate to make most any style of pen, although some extremely large or complex models may require a special jumbo blank.
Highly colored and figured stabilized burl wood allows for the creation of unique turned items due to both the color and the inherently unique and individual nature of burl …
With names like Field, Olympia, Caribbean, and Bahama Cherry, one might think they have stumbled into an Avon catalog, but these are actually color names for laminated pens blanks …
Wood_Pens January 22, 2011 Acrylic Pen Blanks, Wood Lathe Tools, Wood Pen Blanks, Wood Pens, Wood Turning Home, Wood Turning Lathes, Wood Turning Supplies, Wood Turning Tools, Wood Turning Wood, Woodturning Materials From the rough beginnings of cutting and drilling blanks to the final finishing steps using special Australian shellac, this post will give you the step by step run down …
It is potentially fair to say that I am a man obsessed with the huge variety of materials which can be turned on the wood lathe. This post …
Lignum Vitae is the hardest and densest of all commercially traded wood species, and that hardness has made the wood useful for everything from electrical insulators and submarine drive …
From the disastrously bad beginnings to the more recent freighting of over 100 pounds of turning wood across the nation by air, this post discusses the process by which …
This post describes the materials and process utilized to make a unique double headed pen with both red and blue inks in one pen body intended for use by …