To Everything, Turn…Turn…Turn
Alan's Turning Log – Adventures in Wood Turning
Category: Projects
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It has been some time since I posted anything to this blog. I have been rather busy through the summer with work and didn’t feel much like working in the shop in the few hours that I had off. My office had another Change of Command in August and I decided, once again, to make…
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I have had several blanks for over a year now. In fact they are among the first ones that I bought. They are made of some kind of resin and they are called “Animal Prints” for obvious reasons. I was waiting for the CA finish on the Bocote pen to cure so I decided to…
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I have recently run into a friend from about 20 years ago (on Facebook). Turns out she lives just down the street from me. At any rate, she has been admiring my latest pens and asked if I could make one for her. After some questions back and forth, she decided on a Rollerball made…
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I haven’t made a pen with acrylic for quite some time and thought that it was time. I came home sick from work this morning and slept for several hours. When I woke up I was still feeling a bit poorly, so to take my mind off my stomach, I went down into the shop. …
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Here are few photos of the end result of what I have dubbed the “Lazy S” Design segmented pen. Then I have placed a photo or two of both of the recent segmented pens together. Which is your favourite? And here is a short video. Finally, the pens together.
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You might call this a companion to the last pen posted last week. I had seen a different segmented pen design on a forum a little while ago and Mack C posted a couple of pictures on how he created the design. I decided that, after the knot design, this would be the next one…
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Since the debacle yesterday where I caught the gouge and blew out the blank at the knot, I decided to try again right away. I did a couple of things differently. First, I set up a stop block on my mitre guage on my bladerunner and, before I made a cut, I inserted a saw…
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Quite some time ago, I tried my hand at creating a “knot” design in a block of wood. I was limited back then because I was trying to make the cuts in the blank with a handsaw. My cover picture is the result of that trial. It turned out reasonably well, but the “strands” in…
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I purchased a new starter kit from William Wood-write this week and it arrived in the mail on Friday, along with some Tulipwood Blanks and so I decided to spend a bit of time yesterday (Saturday) trying out this new kit. The Longwood is the first “click” pen that I have tried (meaning, you click…
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One of my colleagues from work asked me to fabricate a display stand for a presentation Ice Axe that he wanted to display. Another colleague has a similar stand that I used for a model and so made a departure from round wood for a bit to make this. I was able to use my…
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