How a duel wood with brass inlay starts out.
sections are cut sanded glued together and built up into the starting pen ‘blank’.
Holes are drilled through the blanks and brass tubes are glued into the blank centres.
These blanks are mounted onto a pen mandrill with the required fittings for the pen being made and turning starts.
Almost there.
Now time for the finish to be applied.
The final ballpoint pen with all its fittings pressed in.
A pair of hybrid resin and burr wood blanks.
The blanks are drilled out to the required size to allow for the tubes to be glued in. Prior to this as the resin is transparent a white paint coating is administered to the drilled holes to hide the brass tubes once fitted.
Once the paint and glue are dry, the ends of the blanks are ‘squared’ off with a trimming tool. This also reduces the blanks to the correct length.
The blanks are now fitted with bushes which correspond with the diameters of the pen or pencil being made and act as a guide when machining on the pen mandrill.
The blanks are now machines to size and polished up ready for the pen kit to be fitted.
The finish article, in this case a pencil. The same process again to produce the matching ballpoint pen!
One of my resin pens being born.
Patriot resin and Oak pen body being laser engraved for a client.
An Oak and honeycomb resin pen body being turned down to size.
Building up a chrome Headwind pen with the finished Oak and honeycomb resin body.