What`s been keeping me busy

[Doug Barratt]

I`ve started turning a few pens again.

Pink Ivory & Maple with aluminium inlay on a sierra kit.





Padauk & Cherry Celtic knot with aluminium & black plastic inlay on a Euro pen kit.





Brown Oak Jr Gents pen with aluminium & black plastic inlay.







Cocobolo on a Jr Gents kit with scalloped aluminium & black plastic inlay.





Acrylics on chrome sierra kits.







Cheers.

Doug.

[woody]

Like them Doug especially the inlay pens outstanding as always my friend 

[John D Smith]

Hello Doug, great pens lovely finish I have often wondered how you do the celtic knot.

                                                 Regards John

[Roderick Evans]

Hi Doug,
A beautiful selection of pens, well done
Rod

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

hi Doug,
 well done , lovely pens.
Regards
JohnBHT

[woodndesign]

Hi Doug, one very nice group of pens and mix of materials,  albeit as a puritist, it's the Jr Gents for me, the brown oak looks in part as an Ichthys, and the Cocobolo maybe masonic.

Well done.

David

[John D Smith]

Hi Doug, In my earlier posting about your pens I asked about how you do the Celtic knot? any chance of helping me please

                                                                   Kind Regards John

[Bellringer75]

Hi Doug, In my earlier posting about your pens I asked about how you do the Celtic knot? any chance of helping me please

                                                                   Kind Regards John

here you go have a look here this is doug's tutorial http://www.penturners.co.uk/wood-turned-items/2607-segmented-celtic-knot.html

[John D Smith]

Hi Alex, Thank you for your help most appreciated Regards John

[jabba2003]

Your pens are stunning.  In relation to the aluminium you use, how thick is it and do you use any special tools?  I was given some very thin stainless steel recently, but it simply blew the blank when I tried to drill through it.

[Bryan Milham]

I love the inlay work on the Cocobolo pen.

[Graham]

That is a lovely selection. I particularly like the cocobolo one.

[edbanger]

Very Nice I Like All Of Them 

Ed

[Rlewisrlou666]

WOW Very nice indeed!
The first turned Pens I have seen that really make me want to buy a mandrel.

[Doug Barratt]

Sorry for the slow reply I don't log in that often these days, in fact I'd forgotten this post as it's nearly a year old, thanks for all the kind comments

Your pens are stunning.  In relation to the aluminium you use, how thick is it and do you use any special tools?  I was given some very thin stainless steel recently, but it simply blew the blank when I tried to drill through it.

Heat is the problem when you come to drilling, the glue gets hot & gives up the ghost resulting in the blank coming apart as you discovered.
I tried several glues on some thick aluminium but even the heat resistant ones wouldn't hold the blank together so I went back to using aluminium from beer cans as in the pens above. In those I have sandwiched a piece of black plastic between 2 pieces of aluminium which gives me an insert the same width as the kerf of my bandsaw blade which in turn aids alignment when gluing up the blank.

Cheers.

Doug.