Wednesday, October 22, 2008

New works

Well sometimes you need to turn to strange sources for pen turning wood. I found these tree staking packages at the Princess Auto store locally.















Each kit has 3 wood stakes about 14 inches long and they looked like interesting wood so for $3.95 a package I bought 5. They are made in China so no identification of the wood but the first pen I made looks like oak to me. The picture is of the Streamline Chrome I made from this wood and the "Cigar" pen is one my son made out of deer antler. We need to make some kind of picture box to get a better shot.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Quiet days

Well things have been very quiet as far as pen turning goes but I bought a Twist Cigar kit from Lee Valley today which will make 2 pens. Just need to settle on the wood. Maybe Monday I can do a couple if it is cold; otherwise it is clean up the yard for winter.