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I'd like to have a go at making a candlestick. Please could someone let me know where I can buy metal candle cups, is that what they're called? I've been googling it but just getting lists of pretty candle holders for sale and so far haven't found anything that would be suitable as a metal...

I haven't posted any pictures of my work before, a bit afraid you folks who are much more experienced than me will think it's rubbish! But oh well. The first three pens are made from oak from my own little wood and then there's a yew and a spalted beech. Mod edit:- URL link edited

Hello everyone, I haven't been on the forum for a while. But I have been making pens and finally mastered sharpening my tools which is a relief. I have a pile of broken blanks and I'm just wondering what is the best way to extract the brass tubes from the blank? Any help would be much...

Does anyone know if it's possible to just buy a new spindle for a universal pen mandrel? I don't need the whole kit, just the spindle. I've looked it up and got completely lost in a sea of websites all selling pen mandrel kits. As you know my old spindle is bent from being stuck on the lathe...

I have a mini lathe and use a universal pen mandrel, my problem is the mandrel keeps getting stuck in the lathe, I don't think it's my fault, I oil the mandrel so it shouldn't get stuck but after making a couple of pens I absolutely can't get the mandrel off the lathe. My husband had to wrench...

I see that the advice from Axminster pen making instructions is to put three coats of super glue as a final coating on a wood turned pen. Is that absolutely necessary? I suppose it seals in the linseed oil and the wax...but isn't there anything else that could be used? Super glue seems a bit...

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum. I'm planning to start a small business making pens. I got a grant to buy some equipment but to get the grant I had to buy everything in the same shop. The shop I chose could not get the pen mandrel. I looked up pen mandrels on line and got so many...