Custom Pens by Dave

Pen making just got more interesting (MUST READ)

Hello all,

I have some great news for all you pen turners out there.

     Today I visited the Rockler website like I have been ever since we got them as a vender in the tool store I work for, when I came across this one item. I could not believe my eyes. Are you ready for this. I thought I new of just about every material known to man for making pens on a wood lathe, but boy was I wrong. The item I saw was a Corn Cobb . Can you believe that. They dry it out, then fill it with some type of rezen to harden it up for turning on your lathe. The even stranger part though, is that this material makes some of the most beautiful pens I have ever seen in my life, and I've seen alot - lol. I will be researching this further to see how to go about turning one of these beauties and as soon as I find out more, I will let you know. When I make one, I will post it on this blog for you all to see what a corn cobb pen looks like. It almost looks like snake scales. It's cool none the less.  My web site - http://www.pensbydave.com

     Ok, thats it for now. Thanks for reading.           David Terry  The Pen Man

P.S. - If you want to see one of these now, just visit Rockler.com and put corn cobb in the product search bar and you will see it.

Corn cob pen

{ 5:43 AM, 2008-Apr-1 } { Posted by Anonymous }

Hello,

few months ago I also discovered this amazing penturning possibility :)
The results are beautiful indeed, I like the coloured ones btw.
I haven't give it a try myself (yet) but I did a little research (google does a good job :)

A few links for all who's interested ;)

http://www.thepenshop.net/corn_cob_pens.htm

http://www.woodturningdesign.com/onlineproject/corncobpen.shtml

http://content.penturners.org/articles/2004/corncobpen.pdf

Hope some of this helps.

greeetzz, kristiaan

PS: very nice job on those pens David