Thread: AUGUST Pen Swap

Originally Posted by brind0g

got my timber today thanks skew, will start pondering ideas for the next few days!! cheers mate

Me 3

so i'll just chuck it in the sun on my window cill and check tomorrow nite then and decide how long it will be left there. thanx for the help

Don't forget to turn it, so that all of it gets equal exposure. Otherwise it will end up striped, and the zebra theme was last month.

Now there's an idea! :eek:

I wonder how a pen'd come up if you turned it simply then covered it in a stencil, cut away a small pattern and exposed it for a day or two... then cut away a bit more stencil and exposed it again. And so on.

Would the variations in colour stay crisply defined, or would it all start blurring together? Hmmm... this bears looking into!

jeeezus, you guys still swapping pens !

You still pinching planes?

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

You still pinching planes?

yep.

well i took my pen into school today to show the woodturners and they all loved it so....thats good

Good effort
Toni

I'm too sick to work today, so doing some recuperation in the shed

Have resawn each of the blanks on the bandsaw, run each over my new planer to square up the sides, and ensure an even thickness, and they are now laminated in the vice to dry.

Once dry, I have to resaw them again, the true up the blanks, then the real tricky bit comes to produce the diamonds.

My main problem - I have no faith that my ability to turn, to be able to deal with the final segmented blank

Oh mate sorry to hear your not feeling the best. i hope you feel better. Sorry you do not have a lot of faith with your self turning segments. Take it easy and hope for the best I think is all we can do
Toni

Stuart

Remember - Heavy, hard cuts. Force the skew in hard. Dont listen to anyone else.

Just slam it in.






(to much damn competition round here )

Originally Posted by lubbing5cherubs

Oh mate sorry to hear your not feeling the best. i hope you feel better. Sorry you do not have a lot of faith with your self turning segments. Take it easy and hope for the best I think is all we can do
Toni

You are too innocent Toni
Good thing is my boss is gullible as well

One way of getting plenty of shed time!

Ok, so this is where I got up to.

Now to plan the next step. Needless to say, I have some ideas......

Originally Posted by stuart_lees

My main problem - I have no faith that my ability to turn, to be able to deal with the final segmented blank

You're doing it all wrong!! What you need to do, is to leave the blank about 1/2 a brass tube longer than normal. Then you glue an extra tube in the end. You have 1/2 the brass tubing sticking out, right. This you grip in your Triton cordless drill. You now turn the drill on, and (very) carefully bring the rotating blank onto the rotating blade of the Triton wc 2000. For extra good finishes, smooth as a baby's ####, you make sure that you've got the drill rotating in the opposite direction to the saw blade. For final finish, use the Triton ROS with 80 grit. You'll end up with a really sweet pen, that looks quite distinctive (like nothing on earth perhaps), and you'll be really proud of it. Then, the ultimate step, get it professionally photographed. Mate!!!! It's an absolute winner, wish I had all the Triton gear.