Some time ago, William Wood-Write had a sale on Mun Ebony pen blanks ($1 each).  I had never heard of Mun Ebony, so I thought I would give it a try.  When they came, they were coated in plastic and they looked and smelled absolutely awful.  I held off doing anything with them till today…

Here is the second piece to the Razor Project.  Once again, I have had the stand for some time and finally decided to make it.  This is also in the Acrylic “Caribbean Sea”.  I also have a badger brush to make a shaving brush to hang on the other side of the stand, but am…

I have had this razor kit for a few months now, and never gotten around to picking out a blank.  Well, today with my new acrylic blanks from William Wood-Write, I decided to move ahead with this project.  This is one of the new acrylics called “Caribbean Sea” and again, it is fabulous.  Nice to…

I ordered some acrylic blanks from William Wood-Write a couple of weeks ago.  They are really fabulous colours.  This Deco Slimline pen is made with an acrylic blank called Cinnamon Swirl.  It is one that would likely only appeal to women but the swirls in the acrylic are great.  One day I hope to figure…

Some time ago, I ordered a few of these Artist Sketch Pencils.  They have a nice, soft, 5.6 mm lead and there is a sharpener in the tip.  One of my earlier posts is a Mahogany blank, and I had enough to do another one, but this time, I decided to try something out.  Before…

I haven’t posted for some time as Jenn and I have had a busy summer and I haven’t been able to play with my lathe much.  I had tried to finish a pen using CA glue (Cyanoacrylate) but I wasn’t overly happy with it.  I found this spare barrel next to my lathe and decided…

A few weeks ago, another member of my section who has been posted this summer mentioned to me that he has started to collect Fountain Pens.  I had already made this fellow a pen for his “going away” gift, but thought that, in light of this new collection of his, I would make another fountain…

In one of my orders from William-Woodright, he sent me a free pen-blank that was a Spectraply called Fighting Irish.  When I turned the pencil I realized that they were the colours of the Air Cadet Gliders.  My source of off-cut wood is a professional wood-worker named Bonnie.  She is also the CO of the…

Another colleague is leaving the section this week and, as I am getting a reputation, I decided to make a pen for Meaghan.  Again, because she is Air Force, I made another Acrylic in Blue and Black.  The pen kit is a Deco Slimline.  After my most recent debacle on the acrylics (perhaps debacle is…

This blank is a natural burl.  To finish it, I sanded: 120 – 240 – 600 and then ran through the micro-mesh pads.  Once glossy, I put three coats of Turner’s finish on the pen, and used the 12000 micro-mesh pad between coats.  Finally I applied a liberal coat of Conservator’s wax.  I am very…