One of our member penmakers, Matthew has kindly showed us how to make this fantastic pen.
Over the last few days I have been experimenting using different types of material
Here I have been using sections of Corian glued together.
1.Select the combination of Corian of your choice
2. Glue together into a Battenberg configuration using
some thick CA glue. I tend to stick two sections together
then glue the two blanks to form an overall blank made up
of four smaller blanks.
3. Once I have the main blank, I use a linisher to square
off the ends as during the gluing process I am more
concerned about getting the pattern to match up rather
than neatness.
4. Using the lathe, I drill the appropriate sized hole to
accept the brass tubing. In this case it was 10mm.
5. After the hole has been bored, I set about cutting up
the
blanks with the band saw. Depending on how brave I am
feeling at the time the sections range from 5-10 mm in
width.
6. Once all the bits are cut, I have a look and work out
how many sections I am going to need, and this allows
me
to see if I am going to have to add another material to
make up extra space such an acrylic or aluminium
accents.
7. Ready for gluing
Gluing setup with CA glue and accelerator
First block glued
From here just keep going until you end up with the following
8. Square up the ends of the blank
9. Mount on the lathe and away you go.
10. Turn to the desired shape.
11. When It comes to finishing the Corian blanks I tend to
follow this sequence
• finish with round nose scraper
• sand to 800
• wet sand with wet and dry at 1400
• polish with Brasso
• burnishing cream
• remove excess with workshop towel
And thats all you have to do.