Woodworking Blog

I have been making these boxes for quite a few years now. They are very popular in the wood galleries and I have process of making them down pat. The editor of the Australian Wood Review saw a few of my boxes at Bungendore Wood Works Gallery and asked...

We brought in the new Baron II Rollerballs with the new 12 facet pen grips because we thought they were a great improvement over the old 3 facet Barons. Numerous customer feedback has proven this to be the case. A natural follow on from the success of...

By popular demand, were bringing in some Camo pen blanks. This is a Baron pen kit with the new chip Camo pen blanks. We will be selling them for only $2.50 / blank. Size will be 20mm x 20mm x 125mm. These blanks are made in Taiwan rather than Main Land...

I get asked quite often how much do you sell your pens for? and can I make money from turning pens? My answer is often how much you get depends on what your selling and yes for sure you can make quite a bit of money from selling pens. How much I sell...

Huon Pine is a special and rare timber. It's even more special and rare when the timber features the bird's eye grain. You get the birds eye grain in the timber around the burly sections of the tree. The burl looks like a cancerous growth on sections...

Were introducing the dagger style letter openers into our growing range of pen kits and woodturning projects kits. Letter openers are a great way to match an additional item to that special hand made writing instrument. They particularly go well with...

What a wonderful week it was at Sturt. Unfortunately I couldn't stay for the entire week, I had to miss out on the Friday lesson because I was dragged screaming and kicking to a conference at Darling Harbour. Luckily I managed to work quick enough to...

I am back to school this week to learn a bit more about wood carving. I am attending Winter School at the Sturt - School of Wood for a 1 week course on wood carving with Grant Vaughan. It was a very cold start of the week in the Southern Highlands but the

Going through a large rack of Jarrah boards, I found a short length of Jarrah full of leopard spots. I like making boxes out of Jarrah because its beautiful to work and I enjoy the fragrance of Jarrah when its machined. I also like to use the Baron Pen...

Having completed the cot - which may I add, was a cot which got high praises from all the friends and family members, I continued to keep building furniture. One piece at a time, 2 hours a day for weeks if not months at a time. Rather than sitting in...

When I first started making pens I was always frustrated by the fact that we didn't have any pen kits specially designed for the Australian market. Putting Australian timbers on the pen kits was always a selling point for the pens that was sold at the...

What a fantastic pen this kit turned out to be. The pen blank is Burl Tasmanian Myrtle (Nothofagus cunninghamii). I didn't think much of the blank but decided to make it because there was a defect in the blank which meant that I didn't want to sell it...