The International Association of Penturners

Normaly I'm all into segmenting but have recently tried a little bit of resin casting. This is a Dawn Click, with epoxy resin and pine cone cores. Hope you like it.

When I first started turning a few months ago, I came across an article in the Library by David Washburn A.K.A "djwood1" about curved metal segmenting. I really wanted to try something like this so followed the tutorial and came up with my first crack at segmenting.

Wanted to ask the group if anyone has success in creating Rope Twists on a pen blank. With the demise of the Beall Pen Wizard along with the Legacy lathe I'm no longer seeing any viable way to create these Rope twists. They look fantastic and the machines of the past did a really good job with them, especially the Legacy Lathe. That machine costs into the thousands so unfortunat...

I showed a couple of blanks recently, and consulted AI for colour advice for the end caps.
I turned them this morning. Hope you agree with the choice.

I have no idea how I ended up seeing so many luthier videos on my facebook feed, but this one really caught my eye. The DIW on this is gorgeous.

The site won't let me embed the video, but it's here if you want to watch: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2454846081651077<...