Unique Treen

Two revolver pens for sale, $65 each plus shipping. The one on the left is Mpingo (African Blackwood) in gun metal, and the one on the right is locally sourced Plum in antique brass.

EDIT: Both of these sold very quickly, and I received orders for all of the revolver kits I have in stock plus a couple of bolt action pens as well. I'll be ordering some more probably tomorrow if you'd like to get one made. I still have a handful each of the bolt action and mini bolt action pens if you'd like one of those (pictures tomorrow-ish).

A couple of new pens I turned this weekend. Both of these are for sale. The revolver pen (right) is made from locally sourced Plum, and the Bolt-Action pen (left) is made from Black Locust burl with the 1903 Springfield clip.
Revolver Pen: $65 SOLD
Bolt Action Pen: $55 SOLD

I have 3 more revolver kits and more than half a dozen bolt action and mini bolt action kits available if you'd like one.

A trio of pens I turned today. Plum at the top, Mpingo in the middle, and Black Locust Burl at the bottom.

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This is what I've been working on for the last few weeks. This is the last eight of fifty pens a friend of mine ordered for his company. They'll go into the mail tomorrow, and he should have them by Friday!

Here's another shot of the same three pens where you can actually see the stylus tip on the pen/stylus one.

New photo by David Gonsalves

A trio of new pens for Mother's Day. The top is myrtle wood my brother and I sourced down around Coo's Bay in Oregon, the middle is a nice piece of snake wood that I found in one of my stashes, and the bottom is a piece of black locust burl the same brother gave me years ago. It's a bit of a different style in that it has both a pen and stylus, so you can use it for writing and on your tablet or phone.

New photo by David Gonsalves

A couple of shots of a pen I made today. I gave away the chance to win it in a raffle and this is what the winner wanted. It's a gun metal bolt-action pen made from Myrtle wood gathered from the southern OR coast.

I purposely drilled down through the line between the sap wood and the heartwood, but only the bit under the clip remains of the heart wood. Pretty, huh?

The sap wood was very p***y, so I had to stabilize it with cyanoacrylate & accelerator a few times as it was kinda splintery as well. I think it turned out well, and the lathe only acted up a couple of times during the turning.

Now to get it in the mail to the raffle winner!

A nice piece of Black Locust Burl on a gun metal bolt-action pen. Made to trade for some boat upholstery for our Life Sling II enclosure. Seems like a good trade to both of us.

Thuya Burl and Chrome bolt-action pen, with WWII C**t 1911 in .45 ACP. This pen was made to be donated in a PIF event to a random member of WaGuns.org.

These were made with locally sourced Butternut provided by the customer. Nice, huh?

Some days it just doesn't pay to walk into the shop. My lathe has died, or at least is very sick. It'll only develop about half RPM and it has very little power. I suspect either one of the legs of the three phase inverter has failed, or one of the windings in the motor. I'm kinda hoping it's the inverter as I might be able to fix it myself, but if it's a failed winding, I can probably get that fixed for a couple hundred dollars. Both of them are around $500 to replace, which is roughly a third what I paid for it in the first place. Kinda wipes out any cash I've made with it over the past few years. I'm going to give Technical Support at Jet a call to see what they have to say, but it's out of warranty by a year, so I'm only expecting some sympathy & help trouble shooting it.