First "turned" pen
2014-10-06 00:14:52.824101+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Greg at Oregon Burls posted a Facebook "person to guess closest to the weight of this burl gets a couple of pen blanks" entry. So I assumed a spherical lump of uniform density, did a little ¾πr3 action, and nailed it. But I don't have a lathe, nor did I invest in the fancy long drill bit, so this is a jig to rotate the block on the milling machine, some sanding, and the guts from a mechanical pencil. Got a few measurements hilariously wrong, but I think I kind of like it overall...