Three lessons that change how your next pen turns out. Watch the videos, then shop the tools and materials that make them stick.
Three blanks that look identical today can look completely different a year later. Fresh wood shrinks. Kiln-dried wood pulls moisture back in and cracks. Stabilized wood holds its shape for years.
The pieces you’re about to throw away can become your best blank. Bury offcuts in pine shavings, glue them, and clamp them into one blank.
Those chips in a polyester blank aren’t air bubbles and the blank isn’t defective. Polyester is brittle. Steel tools dull fast, and standard carbide cuts too aggressively.
