Turrning a European Style Wooden Pen

Turning wooden pens is a fast turning operation, that is great for gifts, practice, or just making a great pen. These pens are made with kits that go from around 7$ for a smaller pen with a standard blank, to 50$+ for high quality pens with rare burl blanks. This is a European style pen from woodcraft and the blank is a piece of claro walnut left over from another project. I use the HUT Perfect Pen Polish or P.P.P. to finish it and it is turned on a 12 by 24 jet mini lathe.

Step 1 Material

For this project you will need:

a Lathe

a pen mandrel and the proper bushings

a pen kit and a matching drill bit

a barrel trimmer that matches your pen kit

turning tools (i actually only used a roughing gouge)

sand paper

pen polish

a drill press

super glue

and a saw

Comments

[Wi11]

Awesome! Reminds me of some of the pens I've made. I really like the center-ring though the first time I made a European pen the fit was less then flush,

[ancaf33]

nice :D

[Uptonb]

Great 'ible. I've always loved these pens.