Thread: Jonz penz

I like that display, lots!

Thank you edblysard. Not the pens though, Only kidding

I had to make a couple of small cherry bowls and that was one of the offcuts. The bark is well fixed and it was finished with celulose sanding sealer and malamine laquer and then buffed on my Beal buffing system. The pen holders were just beech offcuts drilled to the max diameter of the pens, turned with a spigot on the bottom and glued in place.

Just as a matter of interest I wondered what it would be like to turn a pen in ply? French ply has to be the very worst I have ever seen! But I thought what the hell, so I cut a load of small squares out of 25mm ply and glued 2 lots together to give me the 2 1/2s of the blanks. Drilled them and glued them onto the brass tubes with my usual epoxy. Then mounted and turned them, VERY carefully with a very sharp skew chisel. The outcome was a very nice surprise, for me at least.



The kit used is the Artisan twist 24 carrat gold from Axminster Power Tools. To be honest it's the only kit I have used. Good quality and no problems getting the refills at all.

Edit : - I forgot to add that when I'm doing pens I love the idea of Celtic knots and slight variations on them. The collar on the right hand on occured when the wood started to break up as I got to the end of the blank whis=lst turning it, so I just scored it doe=wn to the tube carefully with my skew and turned the blank back down to the tube, both ends for the ballance. Then fitted a small cut from a contrasting blank and turned it down to level. It makes a nice finish and saves a blank at the same time. The finish on all of my pens is celulose sanding sealer and a couple of coats of melamine lacqure, sanded down to 400 and buffed on my Beal system.

Pens with Purpose the slims are one of the first pens most of us make and are still one of the most versatile of kits . You might try the "streamline kits ,essentially the same with a slightly thicker and more interesting centre band ,not sure Axminster have much of a range , but one of our forum sponsors Timberbits ships cheaply to all over the world ,might look at his site . Keep up the good work and enjoy Cheers ~ John

Neat work!! Like them as being fit for purpose too!

Nice work Jon & great display stand also

Thank you for your kind words folks.

It goes without saying that if you wish to do anything that I have done then go ahead, no problems

Jon great workmanship and variety, good ideas, Amos

Originally Posted by Jonzjob

Thank you edblysard. Not the pens though, Only kidding

I had to make a couple of small cherry bowls and that was one of the offcuts. The bark is well fixed and it was finished with celulose sanding sealer and malamine laquer and then buffed on my Beal buffing system. The pen holders were just beech offcuts drilled to the max diameter of the pens, turned with a spigot on the bottom and glued in place.

Just as a matter of interest I wondered what it would be like to turn a pen in ply? French ply has to be the very worst I have ever seen! But I thought what the hell, so I cut a load of small squares out of 25mm ply and glued 2 lots together to give me the 2 1/2s of the blanks. Drilled them and glued them onto the brass tubes with my usual epoxy. Then mounted and turned them, VERY carefully with a very sharp skew chisel. The outcome was a very nice surprise, for me at least.



The kit used is the Artisan twist 24 carrat gold from Axminster Power Tools. To be honest it's the only kit I have used. Good quality and no problems getting the refills at all.

Edit : - I forgot to add that when I'm doing pens I love the idea of Celtic knots and slight variations on them. The collar on the right hand on occured when the wood started to break up as I got to the end of the blank whis=lst turning it, so I just scored it doe=wn to the tube carefully with my skew and turned the blank back down to the tube, both ends for the ballance. Then fitted a small cut from a contrasting blank and turned it down to level. It makes a nice finish and saves a blank at the same time. The finish on all of my pens is celulose sanding sealer and a couple of coats of melamine lacqure, sanded down to 400 and buffed on my Beal system.

wow thats cool i did something similar to your celtic knot and didnt even know that there was a proper name for it

You can do a single cut to get a nice pen/pencil set too