All wood flowers and vase

I made these flowers the other night, the flowers are from oak and the vase is bradford pear.  I have made another like this, but with a vase from walnut. 

Nurse Pens

These pens are perfect for nurses, or anyone else who needs a pen within reach at all times.  Comes with a strap and disconnects with one hand operation.

More pens

I thought I would do one post with the remainder of the pens I have so far.  As always, if you see a paricular pen you like just send me an email or post desribing the pen and I can make whatever you like.

Cutting boards

I haven't posted for a while so I thought I would show a thing or two that I've made lately. These are two cutting boards that I made for Sandy out of Maple and Purpleheart, a pen made from wild rose bush root, and captured ring baby rattle made from cherry.

First Trimline

Top is my first Trimline pen in Crushed Blue Pearl, it's a little larger than the slimline pens and works a lot better with the acrylics. The middle pen is Cocobolo, and the last one is Bubinga.

More Bocote, curly Oak, and Purpleheart

Purpleheart top, Bocote second, Night Fire third, and Curly Red Oak last.

Padauk

This pen is out of Padauk, some more of the exotic wood I got the other day.

Local and Exotic Woods

I had a chance to buy some more exotic woods and got a chance to turn a pen out of Bocote (top). I also got a chance to turn some Persimmon (middle) that came from Shelbyville and some Curly Red Oak (bottom) that I found in some lumber I already had.

More Colorgrain pens

These are a few pens I've done over the past week, everyone seems to really like the colorgrain pens.

Still working

I haven't been on here in a while so I thought I would do a quick post to show I've still been working. There is a leather pen, multi-colored denim, larger Gatsby pen, and more colorgrains.

Bubinga and Purpleheart

These are a couple of pens I just turned, Bubinga in crome and Purpleheart with surface burned rings in copper.

Bubinga and denim

These are a couple of pens I turned Wednesday night, denim with satin pearl and bubinga with burned and carved rings in satin gold.

Color Grain 6

This is the last of the color grain pens and probably my favorite, it's called "Southwest" and it has chrome hardware.

Color Grain 5

Another color grain pen done in "Oasis" with gold hardware.

Color Grain 4

This pen is done in "Festival" with gold hardware.

Lacewood Funline

This Funline is done in Lacewood with brushed gold hardware.

Acrylic Funline pen

This is a Funline pen, similar to the slimlines that I was doing before. It is done in an acrylic called "Magenta Bliss" with satin pearl hardware.

Another new acrylic

This is another Polaris pen kit done in "Orange and Gold" with gold hardware. I also have pictured the remaining piece of acrylic to show what they start out as.

New Acrylic pen

This is an acrylic pen done in "Banana Split" with gold hardware.

Color Grain 3

This pen is done in "Oceana" with gold hardware.

Color Grain 2

This pen is done with "Gold Rush" and gun metal hardware.

Color grain1

The color of this pen is called "Night Fire" and it has gun metal hardware.

Denim pen with copper hardware

I got in a new shipment of pen kits and get to try out new hardware for my pens, I thought that copper would go well with the denim.

Dovetailed Grease Pot

This is a dovetailed grease pot used to store bee's wax in. I saw it on The Woodwrights Shop and had to make one myself. The top lid is cut to an angle that holds the lower lid shut, which is kept in place by the dovetail inlay. When you swing the top lid to the side you can push the lower lid back and swing it to the side revealing the storage compartment.

2x4 Chairs

This is the best pic I have of the chairs I make right now, the rest were on my phone and I haven't transferred them yet. They are constructed entirely from 2x4's ripped down, or cut to shape.

Refinished Chairs

This is one of the chairs I refinished for Monteagle Inn, as usual I didn't take a before picture. They were in pretty rough shape so I had to take them completely apart, sand them down, reassemble them using larger (non rusted) screws, and re-stain them.

Latest Cherry Bowl

This is the bowl that was on the chuck posted earlier, I finally finished it tonight. It's out of the same cherry as before.

Four jaw chuck

This is a pic of the four jaw chuck I got for my lathe, it has the flat plates and soft grips on for finishing the bottom. It also has jaws to grip the rough bottom shown and some smaller jaws for small pieces and to grip centered holes from the inside.

Denim Blanks

These are a couple of denim blanks ready to have the brass tubes glued in and turned. This is what you start with using any kind of wood or acrylic for a two piece pen.