Today I had a session in David Lim's workshop out at Yennora. He has some very nice wood working equipment. David was very generous with his time, equipment and materials as well as showing me how to use his equipment. With his help I was able...
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Got up before dawn today and couldn't get back to sleep. Rather than tossing and turning in bed I headed down to my workshop, the place I love best. Started the day by making some shavings. Love it when shaving come off the piece like this. My 40 year...
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I have got the box sides machines up. The mitre joints are cut and glued together. I decided to use the Bessey clamp - VAS-23 to clamp the box sides which made life so much easier. I think every workshop should have a couple of these. The Birds Eye...
Back in Sydney after a week away in the sun. While away I have recharged the batteries and am now super keen to make something in the workshop. Got the wood out and am now doing night shifts in the workshop. Night shift is great for me because I done...
Trying to make some more room in the warehouse so I can fit in some more stock. Cutting up slabs is spaulted sassafras and huon pine. There is about 2 to 3 thousand pen blanks here. I love cutting up spaulted sassafras because of the smell...
We sell lots of pen blanks to pen makers. I often get asked by customers, do I cut the blanks I sell. We get some cut by specialist cutters who chase particular species of timber, like burls from the semi arid regions of Australia. I also cut...
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I have finished the video on how to make the Stretcher Bond Pen Blanks. I had to break it down to 3 videos because is goes over 27mins and youtube will only take up to 10mins. I don’t know how other videos on youtube has videos that run for hours, my...
We had a massive thunderstorm roll over the weekend which meant that I was workshop bound again Did some more castings, this is a Chiyogami Paper Executive Clicker...
Like I said earlier, I need to make 10 Cigars to go to a high end wood gallery. Now here they are. Timber on the pens are (top to bottom) Huon, Huon, Tiger Myrtle, Burl Red Mallee, Burl Red Mallee, Burl Myrtle, Burl Eucalypt, Spaulted Myrtle...