IAP Bash Contest Prize

**Big Shed** · 22nd March 2013, 09:29 PM

During the recent IAP Bash a tutorial I wrote on Kitless Pen turning was entered in the Best Article or Tutorial for 2012 contest., not by me, all the articles and tutorial are entered automatically..

It was in the final 5 and eventually won the 3rd prize, which happened to be a very nice Feather Blank donated by JohnU, thank you John.

The blank arrived last week, it was cast on a set of Jr Gent II tubes and came with an extra bit to turn a matching finial if required.

I decided to have a go at this blank today, haven't done a feather blank before, so something different.

Before I started I turned up a set of No Mandrel Bushes for the Jr Gent II as I discovered I didn't have a set of those for myself!

As can be seen in the above photo, the blanks are a fair bit out of round and longer than the tubes, so the first order of business was to get them round and trimmed to correct length.

After getting them round, still oversized, they were trimmed to length.

So far the work has been done on the metal lathe, so now we are ready for final turning and sanding/polishing on the wood lathe.

With the 2 barrels finished on the wood lathe, it was back to the metal lathe to dimension the finial part.

Back to the wood lathe for final shaping, sanding and polishing.

..........and back to the metal lathe for parting off.

**Big Shed** · 22nd March 2013, 09:34 PM

It remained to remove the existing (Gold Ti) finial, install the new one and assemble the pen, taking care to line up the feather patterns.

**edblysard** · 22nd March 2013, 09:55 PM

That is one classy piece of work, simply amazing.

**DJ’s Timber** · 22nd March 2013, 10:05 PM

Stunning is the word that comes to mind

**cookie48** · 22nd March 2013, 10:40 PM

That one of the nicest looking pens I have seen.
Well done

**Grommett** · 22nd March 2013, 11:21 PM

Exquisite

**HazzaB** · 22nd March 2013, 11:28 PM

Hey Fred,

Simply stunning,

HazzaB

**Nai84** · 22nd March 2013, 11:43 PM

U are a very lucky man well done on that mate it is a spectacular pen ;-)

Ian

**Simomatra** · 23rd March 2013, 08:12 AM

Well done Fred, excellent work in progress and a beautiful pen, congratulations on the article as well. I have turned quite a few feather pens and have tried to cast but that has eluded me at the moment

**Dorno** · 23rd March 2013, 08:29 AM

Well Fred I don't think we need to say anything because it's obvious

BUT I will

Absolutely Stunning

Cheers Ian

**gawdelpus** · 23rd March 2013, 08:31 AM

Excellent all round Fred ! well presented and a worthy project ,using all the tools at your disposal does take some drama out of things hehe. Well done indeed

**Big Shed** · 23rd March 2013, 08:36 AM

Thank you all for your kind comments. It was fun doing this and even more fun seeing the end result.

JohnU has advised me that the feathers are from a Ringneck Pheasant.

The main reason I put up these WIP pictures was to show the usefulness of a metal lathe in the pen making process. Most people seem to think that it is only for turning metal, but mine sees a lot of work with resin blanks and it gives one a lot of control over the process.

**artme** · 23rd March 2013, 09:28 AM

Beautiful Fred!!!!!

**tdrumnut** · 23rd March 2013, 01:29 PM

Excellent result as usual Fred, & a great wip as well, nice to see how a metal lathe can be utilised in pen making

**PenTurner** · 23rd March 2013, 02:14 PM

Absolutely beautifully done, and we know your excellent skill in writing tutorials, excellently done all round.

Amos

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