Well spring here, the garden is in full bloom and I have finally had to break down and cut the grass this year. All this of course means that it is time for the spring and summer markets to start up. This year my plan is to be at the North Shore Green Markets Friday […]
Making handcrafted wooden pens is a fun little branch of wood turning. Most of the pens I make are regular ball point pens that typically use either a cross or parker style refill. For many people a handmade wooden pen in one of those styles is as fancy as they want to go and already
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I have finish turned a few wood bowls this year and thought I should make a post about it. This first is a birch wood bowl that came from the crotch part of the tree where a branch met the trunk. The resulting figure shows some nice feathering which made for a nice piece. This
During the flurry of craft shows before Christmas something came up that made me consider making stylus pens for touchscreen devices. I had seen the hardware before but never really thought much of it because I didn’t see the need for it. This past fall though the square card reader came to Canada. The way
I recently made this made this wooden mug with a handle. I have made wooden travel mugs before but this was a bit different shape and I had never tried to make a handle before. The body of the mug is maple wood that turned out to have some nice figure to it. The handle
