Wood Turned Pens
Wood Turned Pens make good gifts!
Wood turned pens are types of turned pens that are beginning to be in demand. Wood turned pens and hand turned pens can be made with lathe turned tools or without lathe turned tools. Wood turning pens are custom pens that could be made at home with the proper tools.
Pen turning is beginning to be popular nowadays because it is very easy and fun to do. Wood turning pens and hand turned pens can also be an original gift for your friends and relatives. Other than the lathe, there is another basic tool that you would need is a metric drill, a pen mandrel and barrel-trimmer. They are required for the styling of the pen that you are making.
The most advantageous thing of this project is that you could turn scraps from previous projects to your pen blank. Prepare your blanks by cutting wooden which are roughly longer ¼ inch compared to the tubes of the pen kit. Drill a hole up to the centre on each blank, and after doing this you should smooth the outside of the brass tubes by using sand paper. Secure the tubes by putting glue on the inside of your blank as well as on the tubes. Then swiftly press them together.
Let the glue dry and with the use of a trimmer, straighten off the wood at both ends of your blank, and then trim it. Then take the blanks to the lathe, but you must make sure that you read the instructions that come with the tool to be able to correctly put in the blanks. When they are installed properly you could now start turning, make it tight but not too tight. When turning you should take into consideration that diameter of your blanks that you are turning, cannot obviously be smaller that the bushings.
After turning you should now sand the pen and apply the finishing. After the finishing, you may start assembling the pens. The trick in assembling is putting in the internal mechanism in the right way, so that the cartridge tip would extend far enough for writing but could also be fully retracted. You could put in varnish or paint it with your own personal design.
If you are giving it to your friends, you could put their names on it. Pen turning is really fun to do. When you are confident with the basics of doing the pen, you can be creative in outing your personality and style in each pen that you finish. Custom pens are really good to make and to give to others.