victorian

I thoroughly enjoy the physical aspects of restoring old furniture. From the 1800’s - 1940’s. Seeing the methods and the transition from largely handmade to handmade in a factory to early factory production. Some of the pieces we buy are nearly perfect, others have seen a hard life and need more...

Well I have now turned 4 pens and this last one is my favorite so far. I made the blank using poly resin and mica pigment I had from my nail polish making days. The pen kit is the Legacy Victoria in copper. What do you think?

Okay, a play on words, but it is all natural occurring woods and colors :biggrin: Pennstate Ind. 24kt gold victorian rollerball. Woods include Satinwood, Bloodwood, Ipe, Ebony, and a touch of (non-organic) dymondwood. Finished in cyanoacrylate (okay, so that's non-organic too:-)). If you've not...

Well I've only started turning pens and have so far made four for my immediate family as Christmas gifts. From people seeing those gifts I sold one each to two other people, and from one of those people; I sold five to another guy. Then I gave a pen to a friend as a belated Christmas give, and...

A few weeks back I got a custom request for a pen. He wanted it to be a Game of Thrones inspired pen. I've never seen the show, but I did some research on it, and this is what I came up with. Apparently there are different "clans" or "sigels" in the show. This pen is inspired by the "Lannister"...

This is the new Pewter Victorian kit from PSI. At first I was not to sure about the kit but when I examined the parts before turning I was shocked at how small the tubes were and was thinking this is not going to look good at all. Well, after I turned one of my handmade blanks and put this pen...