I had made these blanks on the ship using various scrap woods, all turned to 25 to 28 mm diameter and drilled through with 9 mm drill. These were put in a makeshift vaccum chamber and stabilized at 1 atmosphere vaccum using general wood varnish. Later these were soaked in linseed oil for days and dried.
I had turned a few of these on board, and noted these were much better than usual dry wood, ie no splinters and smooth turning, even the dust was very smooth between fingers, almost like talcum powder.
These were lying at home un-used as I do not have a lathe here. I had managed to buy some kits during this vacation, but could not use them.
Finally I got the idea of making hexagonal section pen bodies, where i would not need a lathe.
The wooden tubes were cut to correct length and the internal diameter was matched with the brass tubes using a hand reamer.
The hexagonal shape was made by grinding starting with rough emery paper [ grit 80, 320 and lastly 600 and 1200].Then 4 to 5 coats of CA glue and polish using micromesh stick up to grit 12000.
I was very happy with the results. Though the freedom of having a lathe machine is not there, with a little tedious work, the results were quite good. With more practice I can make the pens quite good looking.
I used the following economy range kits
a) Traditional
b) Reinhert Gold Trim
c) Pressimo
d) Vertex magnetic Steel cap chrome trim.
Hope viewers like the photos. Request your comments.
Traditional kit :
Reinhert Gold Kit :
Pressimo Kit :
Vertex Magnetic Chrome Kit :
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