What a day, it was going great until my wifes computer blew up. Gotta love it when a PSU starts to spark. Hopefully it hasn’t fried the mother board. Will find out Tuesday when the power supply turns up. Finished off two customer pens today and finished off shaping a prototype all of which I will share next week. Oh yeah, it’s my birthday Tuesday, … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 2 week 39: Materials

* pen making Still not out of this god damn slump and it is starting to annoy me now. However I am not holding off on this any more. So, one of the things I am proud of is my way that I can overcome problems when I reach them in the pen making. This will give you a little bit of an insight into … Continue reading Year 2 week 38: Fascinating Facets

* pen making Hi everyone, hope you are all ok and not getting too bored with the various lockdowns over the world. Hope you are staying safe and healthy. We are all safe although the kids are going nuts now. Anyway, pen making. So I tried something I have never tried before, well I kind of have tried them before at a very small level … Continue reading year 2 wseek 37: All the Inks

If you have come on to the website recently (after lunchtime on 10/02/21) you will notice things will look a bit different. I have had a bit of a redesign. Please let me know what you think. Continue reading Bit of a redesign

* pen making Well I promised I was going to do this for a few weeks now. I have gathered together the ebonite and the end of the day pens that I have made and got decent photos of them. We also sorted out the lighting in the living room so the photos should come out well. I haven’t run any of the photos in … Continue reading Pen making update Y2 Wk36: pen sets