Thread: First independant pens

Looks like you are up and running hehe! Slim kits are easy to come by and not expensive in the grand scheme of things ,but you can make them fairly quickly so need a few in stock , I have some woody pear, but not tried it yet ,looks a nice dark reddish color as a blank . We all start off somewhere in this "addiction" but you do end up with practical and useful items at the end of it all , Cheers ~ John

Nice pens there Paul, looks like a nice transition between components and barrels. Just remembered that I have a small bottle of glow that came with a sander pack so have thrown that in the car too. Will get that to you tomorrow along with the blanks

Corbs

As Santa said oh what fun it is to write sorry ride on that sleigh so it is with pens. The three timbers Woody Pear, Lace Sheoak, and Curly Jarrah are wooley coarse grained, striking rays through, and sometimes cranky grained in that order timbers that you handled quite well. When you make pens so aptly named Slimline you only have a thin layer of wood around the blank, perilously so I feel. I have found over quite a long time now great delight in experimenting with grain and shapes as well as finishes.

Welcome indeed to the time you spent on your own and your acheivements.

Kind regards Peter,

well done mate good effort, with a teacher like corbs there will be no turning back

keep up the good work

MIK

Thanks for all the support everyone and a huge thanks to Corbs. Thanks also for the blanks and GLO, I'll put them to good use. The woody pear actually threw me a curve ball, I was just about finished with it before starting the sanding when I thought a skew would just lightly clean it up a bit more. WRONG. The timber split and peeled off the brass tube. I nearly cried. Nothing a good dose of CA and masking tape couldn't fix. I was lucky as the CA blends in and looks like grain on such a dark wood.

Mental note, stay away from the skew with woody pear.

Well done on your pens they look great
Fantastic rescue it is to easy to get the sh#ts and throw the blank away

And well done Corbs you skills as a teacher really shows

Great set of pens Paul, well done.
Great save on the Woody pear.

Well done Paul. You realise, of course, you are hooked now, don't you?

Oh yeah, I'm hooked.

There are 3 sets of blanks on the desk at home drying after gluing up and I should be able to mill them tonight.

Thanks also to Corbs for the tuition, desperate phone calls over the weekend and his bag of goodies this morning.

Nice pens
like the timber and by the sounds of it a good recovery

Paul
Good effort welcome to the Asylum.

Cheers Terry

Hello Paul, great photography, lovely pens, and great teacher, what a start, go for it!, Amos

Great set of pens Paul. There will be no stopping you now.

Rippa

Nice work all round Paul.

Should be no stopping you now.