That pool cue pen is devilishly hard to manage. At 8.5 inches, no pen box or display fits. Normal pen pots tend to tip over. Something had to be done so I figured why not manage it like any other pool cue and make a cue stand for it?

Voila! #HotOffTheLathe today are the two cue sticks used as the uprights for the stand divider. The rack is 3D printed. The base is #shapermade and the divider is laser cut. Used all the toys on this one!

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That pool cue pen is devilishly hard to manage. At 8.5 inches, no pen box or display fits. Normal pen pots tend to tip over. Something had to be done so I figured why not manage it like any other pool cue and make a cue stand for it?

Voila! #HotOffTheLathe today are the two cue sticks used as the uprights for the stand divider. The rack is 3D printed. The base is #shapermade and the divider is laser cut. Used all the toys on this one!

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#HotOffTheLathe tonight is a gold Vesper pen with black palm barrel. The wood is so dark I had to reduce the contrast drastically to show it against the gold.

I love the Vesper pens for their weight, balance, and solid click mechanism.

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#HotOffTheLathe tonight is a gold Vesper pen with black palm barrel. The wood is so dark I had to reduce the contrast drastically to show it against the gold.

I love the Vesper pens for their weight, balance, and solid click mechanism.

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#HotOffTheLathe today are a Longwood style pen in olivewood with gold trim and a Vesper style pen in canarywood with gunmetal gray trim. These are both commissions so I took extra care with the finishing and buffing and they turned out great. The Longwood kit is great for showing off a great blank and this olivewood lives up to the promise. The Vesper is one of my favorites for balance and reliability.

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FINALLY got some turning therapy. #HotOffTheLathe today - Grandson asked for a ring and he NEVER asks me to make him anything, so I put on hold the commissions in the queue and the fountain pens to make this for him.

The pine cone ring was for me and for practice. Grandson gets the ceramic core opal inlay ring... which was also for practice. I wanted to make a couple of rings before cutting into the blank he actually picked.

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Did someone say pizza cutter? #hotoffthelathe today is a monster sized pizza cutter from Wood River. I used one of the #scrapwoodchallenge blanks from the previous post to turn a handle. I love the green poplar contrasting with almost black wenge and the white ash. Going to try it out tonight!

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#hotoffthelathe today is an Apollo style twist pen. I'm so glad I kept using up the off-cuts from the last bowl because this one has a little detail at the tip that is unique and whimsical yet natural. Can you spot it?

Wife said this antique brass is her favorite trim color with the cedar barrels so far. I agree.

#hotoffthelathe tonight is a turned and carved cedar bowl at 6.25" wide x 2.5" tall. Wife gave me a Master Carver Pro for Christmas which I used to carve out the 1" high band of dimples along the outer rim. This piece is from an outer section of log that grew into itself, leaving the bark inclusion in the bottom right and swirled grain like a burl.

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#hotoffthelathe tonight is a Majestic style rollerball pen made from cedar burl. The second photo shows the pen blank before it was cut from the slab. The cap barrel is beautiful in its own right and would be stunning on almost any pen. But the burl in the bottom section makes the cap look bland by comparison.

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#Hotoffthelathe tonight is another cedar pen. Looks much like the one from yesterday but that's because they are intended to be a matched pair.

The yellow box in the 2nd pic shows the blank before I "liberated" it from the parent wood. The jagged edge at right is because the wood developed deep cracks as it dried and became brittle. Much of the wood around the edges, like this piece, is too cracked and unstable for anything large.

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Took forever, but I finally made something new AND what I'm calling "Possibly The World's Most Overengineered Pen Blank Squaring Jig" worked perfectly.

So today #hotoffthelathe is a Stratus pen with stylus tip made with a cedar wood barrel. This is the same cedar as the bowls I posted a while back and I'm giving the bowls and pen to the guy who gave me the wood.

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#hotoffthelathe today is a set of two nested bowls and a decorative hollow form. First time using my coring rig and all of these are from the same piece of wood. Original piece of wood was 40+ lbs & without the coring rig, the two smaller pieces would be shavings at this point.

Red cedar. Hollow form has a walnut burl inlay and the top is purple heart.

Large bowl is 10.5x6 inches. Small bowl is 8.75x4.25". The hollow form is 3x3" + 1.5" for the lid.

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