Pen turning

On my quest to be a 'Jack of All Trades and a Master of None' I attended a pen turning class at the WoodCraft store in Sandy Utah. I was up that way for an eye appointment to get my cataracts checked for possible surgery. That's another story.

The class started at 6:00 pm and lasted two and a half hours.

The wooden part of the pen is Olive wood. It was turned down to the correct size on a JET mini lathe. The pen is a Wall Street II kit. I was lucky that my eyes had returned to normal because the eye doctor dilated them. It would have been a pain to try to work on it with them dilated.


This shot shows some of the wood grain on the back side of the pen.