ornament

Learning as you go (or making it up as you go along) means that I end up with a large box of discards that for some reason didn't become pens: too short, off center, oval, took too much off (so many of these!) but then I saw a kit for ornaments and I thought, "I bet I can make that work for the...

Well the USPS says the package was delivered today, so I figure I might as well post this. It's redwood burl. This pen kit posed a problem for me when I got it. I turn between centers and the brass tube was larger than my dead center. So I had to make a wood dead center that was held in my drill...