Just to keep you aware, I will be doing pen stuff and non pen stuff in this entry. Because after the pen show I went on holiday with my girls. * Pen making I have managed to fix my lathe from the annoying knocking sound from the gears. Turns out they were slightly on the tilt… Maybe I should go back to the beginning. Before … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 3 week 6: I’m back

* Pen making So the final push is upon me. The pen show is next week, well a week today. This time next week I will be either on my way home in a gloriously happy mood or seriously depressed. How well it goes, who knows? Will it be busy? Will it be quiet? Will we manage to sell anything? Will we sell nothing? All … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 3 week 5: One week to go

* Pen making Hello, well guess who has been told to self isolate for 8 days because I dared go to the dentist and came in contact with someone that has covid. Well gotta look on the bright side, at least I can do some more prep for the show. So I finished off the few pens that I did last week. Including a brand … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 3 week 4: Photography and pen show prep

* Pen making Well hello all you lovely people, how are you doing? I am good, thanks. So the pen making stuff. I am still looking back through the stuff I have posted over the past two years and will do a proper time line of the pens I have made, might even upload it onto my website which would be interesting. Well it would … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 3 week 3: Prototypes and dry runs

* pen making Some mistakes continue to happen, and I continue to attempt to fix them. This time it was the section of a new pen, when I was cutting the section off of the blank it chipped around the edge, this was entirely my fault, I wasn’t spinning the lathe up high enough. Remember, when cutting high speed is good, either that or use … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 3 week 2: New year, old mistakes