A pen -- with Leather (?!)

nuhobby · Post by **nuhobby** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:36 pm

Hi,

I recently saw an interesting article:
http://www.woodturningonline.com/assets ... r_pens.pdf

I tried it myself, with a few shortcuts and changes in technique. To be honest, I may never do it again! But anyway the result is attached. It's definitely different....

tom_k/mo · Post by **tom_k/mo** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:51 pm

Interesting Chris, thanks for the link, and nice looking pen.

pinkiewerewolf · Post by **pinkiewerewolf** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:50 am

Great article!
Very informative, I've bookmarked it.

Chris, your pen reminds me of one of my first fixed blade knives, I like it!

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:07 pm

That is a different version for sure. May I ask, "why don't you ever want to try your hand at it again?"

rkh2 · Post by **rkh2** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:48 pm

Nice looking pen Chris and definitely different. After reading all the steps involved in making this pen, I don't think I would take on this project as it would be awful hard to let someone know all that is involved in the handcrafting phase to get the final result. It would be something that I would not want to part with for all the effort and time involved to make it, as most folks wouldn't give any thought to what effort was put into it. The satisfaction is that you know what it took to handcraft the pen and can look at it and realize the results of a great project.

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:49 pm

I tried it myself, with a few shortcuts and changes in technique. To be honest, I may never do it again! But anyway the result is attached. It's definitely different....[/QUOTE]

Nice pen Chris and That is exactly what I said about this corn cob pen!

[ATTACH]4831[/ATTACH]

Mark

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:49 pm

I tried it myself, with a few shortcuts and changes in technique. To be honest, I may never do it again! But anyway the result is attached. It's definitely different....[/QUOTE]

Nice pen Chris and That is exactly what I said about this corn cob pen!

[ATTACH]4831[/ATTACH]

Mark

tom_k/mo · Post by **tom_k/mo** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:14 pm

mbcabinetmaker wrote:I tried it myself, with a few shortcuts and changes in technique. To be honest, I may never do it again! But anyway the result is attached. It's definitely different....

Nice pen Chris and That is exactly what I said about this corn cob pen!

Mark[/QUOTE]

Mark, nice looking pen. Did you start with a stabilized blank or a raw corncob?

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:20 pm

Tom

It is stabilized if you can call it that. Of the 4 that I tried 2 of them blew up in the turning process. Finishing was a real PAIN also.

Mark

RobertTaylor · Post by **RobertTaylor** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:54 pm

nice pen chris. two of my "back burner" projects are a similar looking pen made of birch bark. i have a box of 1" x 1" pieces cut and ready to glue into a blank. the second pen will be made from dryer lint. have not gotten the right shades yet. the pen in my avatar is made from denim.