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I no longer make or work with micarta style materials. Yep – Micarta.  Or at least a laminated fabric material. From April 2012. Okay – so I made some laminated denim with fiber glass resin from O’Reilly’s. It was about $50 for the resin, $6 for the denim (should have gone to the thrift store […]

I do not do my own urushi finishes anymore and have no plans to do so in the future.  Thanks. —————————— I’m going to start offering urushi finish for some of my pens.  Ebonite for sure.  I still have a denim pen around here that’s been through hell.  I’m going to put some urushi on […]

More practice with button fillers.  This is going to be fun.  🙂

I got asked today how big my oversize pens really are.  Hopefully this will help to give an idea of how big they are.  If you’d like an oversize pen photographed next to something different that you’re more familiar with, let me know.  🙂

The kids are with Gramma and my wife is at work.  I’ve got a few orders but I’m waiting on materials to ship in so tonight I thought I’d play. A secret santa in Europe sent me a few sticks of celluloid and I thought I’d try to turn this zebra stuff he put together […]

That was easy. Now that I’ve made one my students are going to be bugging me for them.  🙂  That’s okay though.

I’m in a lot of videos but you don’t get a very good look at me for the most part. I’m mostly pretty funny looking if I do say so myself. Here we are.  Hair long and shaggy.  I’m planning on selling raffle tickets at school and letting the winner of a draw cut my […]

Got an order from Tennessee to make a couple small pens and have enjoyed these quite a bit.  It’s always fun turning new materials to see how they’ll turn out. And of course a new section.  Made the oversize yellow pen for a local customer and I just wasn’t sure about the section.  He wasn’t […]

Finally finished the celluloid pens tonight.  What was supposed to be one turned into two with three sections. First – I wasn’t happy with the cap I made.  Too short and squatty lookin.  Not tapered enough.  Then a thing with how deeply I threaded the barrel and how long the threaded tenon on the section […]

Some days you can’t win for losing.  Other days you’re truckin’ along and kickin’ butt and then all of a sudden SCHWACK! So yeah – my carbide tool was getting bored and wanted a little adventure, a little excitement, and decided to jump into the tip of this cap hard. Even scarier than that is […]