Originally posted by WoodenRanger
Thanks for your encouraging comments! Frank, as to how I made the pen in general here are the steps.
1. Make a jig to hollow out the pen blank oval. With the jig you can hollow your pen blank out on the router table. The hardest part about it is lining up everthing so the hole is cut out so everthing lines up straight on the pen.
2. I worked on the crosses next. I have some sanding disks that I put on my lathe and built a table that fits on the lathe. I then built a jig to sand down the cross pieces so they are all the same size. After this I used a square block of wood with wax paper on it to glue the pieces of cross together and cutting them with a hack saw blade.
3. Cut the hillside out on the band saw and sanded it.
4. Glued the hillside and crosses in the hollowed out oval of the pen blank.
4. Took some dyed blue wood and sanded it collecting the sawdust and mixed it in with epoxy and filled in the remaining space in the oval.
5. Made many carful measurements and checks before I drilled the pen blank and Prayed!!
That describes the major steps of construction in this pen, I know its not in great detail but maybe this gives some insight.
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