Walnut Pen and Pencil Set

Mysterious Walnut

I struggled for awhile getting a good photograph of this pen. You have to hold it in the sun just right to really be able to see all the curl (those beautiful wavy, luminescent lines). Even now I'm not completely satisfied with the photograph - pictures just don't seem to do it justice!

Artistic expression

After that ugly pencil, I took a lot of time mass producing pens. I glued all the little brass tubes into all the little pre-drilled blanks and squared all the little ends. This was a super boring process. Then, one after another, I turned about 5 pens worth of blanks, just to get the experience that I needed to feel comfortable with my tools. I finally stood at my lathe one day and decided to just wing it.

My first pencil

Here is my first pencil. Prior to this, I had completed 3 pen kits with ok results.

I'm back...honest!

My sincerest appologies to what few readers I have! The past few months have been so long and tiresome, but we are finally getting back to the swing of things around here and pens have been almost flying off the lathe. =)