* Pen making Well I posted the spare blanks I had to spare last week and the results came in. The above blanks were the ones that one. A transparent Omas green blank and a kirinite teal and red swirl blank. With the clear one as a barrel and section then the other as the cap. I had enough for this to work and the … Continue reading Pen making update 34: and the winner is…

* Pen making So the biggest new is that I have actually started the kitless pen making guide that I have been writing, I have put up the first part of it which deals with some basic preamble and then turning a square blank to a round blank. I am not sure how long this will take me but hopefully it won’t be too long. … Continue reading Pen making update 33: Kitless guides and orange pens.

* Workshop As you can see by the above image it has not been a good week for me. I had been putting off working on the lathe until Thursday as family duties called. So when I got in there thursday morning I pressed the on button and the bleeding switch [broke off](https://i.imgur.com/QPzcuQ7.jpg). I got onto Warco and I will be receiving a new switch … Continue reading Pen making update 32: The Problem with Switches

The workshop Ok there is some big news. As you may have guessed by the picture, I have received my lathe and I set it up. With the help from u/newtonpens (thank you man!) I got it sitting so there is a 0.1mm deviation from one end of a turned blank to the other. If I tried harder with some shims I could get this … Continue reading Pen making update 31: Lathes Ahoy!