Making a Slim Style Pen

I made a pen on the Lathe that took me about 5 hours.

First I got three pieces of wood, two of which were dark Walnut and one piece was Canary? The solid piece of Walnut was 6 cm by 1.5 cm by 1.5 cm. The two smaller pieces 3 cm by 1.5 cm by 1.5 cm. The two smaller pieces of wood were glued together using Cyanoacrylate Adhesive that took about 35 minutes to cure.

After that dried I drilled holes in the wood. I found the center of both the pieces of wood on the side that is 1.5 cm by 1.5 cm, by drawing two diagonal lines from corner to corner. Where the two lines met that was the center. Afterwords I took a pieces of wood to the drill press and drilled a hole that is 0.7 cm in diameter. Next, I glued a brass tube into both wood pieces and waited another 35 minutes for it to dry. When all the glue was dry I went back to the drill press once more and changed from the 0.7 cm drill bit to the Pen reamer. The Pen reamer does two jobs at once, first it clears out any glue in the brass tube, second it cuts down the block of wood down to the size of the brass tube that is 5.25 cm.

Finally after about an hour fifteen minutes I finally could put both blocks of wood on the mandrill and put the mandrill on the Lathe to shape the pen body. Once I screwed the mandrill on the Lathe I turned on the Lathe to the lowest speed and gradually sped it up to be a little over 1000 revolutions per second (RPM). The first tool I used was the Rougher with a square carbide bit. I used the Rougher to smooth the outside so it would not be a rectangle. After I rounded it I used the Finisher with a circular carbide bit to add the grip to the solid Walnut piece. The two tone piece was round. The third tool I used was Beader to bead the pieces on the edges. Lastly I pressed the pen together.