The timeless SlimLine pen ... my overall favorite kit to turn

[Willee]

Of all the Pen kits available today the SlimLine is still my favorite pen to turn.
The possibility's are limited only by my imagination and creativeness.
This is one I just turned using two brass washers and a plastic bead for the center band.

The material comes from Brunswick bowling alley lanes.
The Brunswick bowling alley that was in the Flour Bluff area of Corpus Christi Texas closed
many years ago and the lanes were dismantled and stored.
About 6 years ago the owner decided to sell them off as bench tops.
I bought a few sections for the old aged maple (makes super pool cue shafts) but also found some black material I used in this pen.
It was the foul line and the pin placement markers inlay-ed into the wood lanes.
It is a very hard rubber and is layered with one black layer and one lighter grayish layer.
When turned it the layered grain structure comes out very subtle and looks like an Ebony.
The eye can see what is very hard to photograph but I will give it my best to show the grain pattern in this material.
Photo #3
Such beautiful material almost trashed.
Still need a bit more polishing on this one.

 

[Mortalis]

Interesting.
My daily driver pen was the first pen I turned and was a slimline turned from Elm. Talk about a tough material.
I really like your pen stand. I think I'm gonna steal the idea.

 

[JohnU]

Beautifully done, and what a great use of items to make it custom. Black is always hard to finish. It's just too easy to see those light scratches. I've found that a couple light coats of ultra thin Gluboost hides them well. Thanks for sharing!

 

[GaryMGg]

Beautiful work.

 

[Willee]

Interesting.
My daily driver pen was the first pen I turned and was a slimline turned from Elm. Talk about a tough material.
I really like your pen stand. I think I'm gonna steal the idea.

I sell those stands for $3 each ... or if you want the SVG file its $5

 

[Mortalis]

I sell those stands for $3 each ... or if you want the SVG file its $5

DM sent

 

[Smokey S]

Just absolutely beautiful Willee. Just as the other 40 or so enventory of SlimLine pens that I observed when visiting you last time. If available I would like to get seven of the pen holders. I will be in CC on Saturday 4/12. I can get by probably about 1:00pm after the Coastal Bend Woodturners meeting. I will give you a call. Oh, by the way, the pens that you engraved for the Bayside Vol. Fire Departments' 50th Anniversary celebration were a big hit! Take care and I will see you soon.
………Smokey

 

[egnald]

Very nice. I like Slimline pens made with a Comfort center band (even though I don't make very many of them). Recently I've also started to really like the Streamline kits which are 7mm tubes and also have a larger diameter center band. (I started turning them recently in the PenPal style (based on the turning style of Peter Hay). - Dave

 

[Willee]

Just absolutely beautiful Willee. Just as the other 40 or so enventory of SlimLine pens that I observed when visiting you last time. If available I would like to get seven of the pen holders. I will be in CC on Saturday 4/12. I can get by probably about 1:00pm after the Coastal Bend Woodturners meeting. I will give you a call. Oh, by the way, the pens that you engraved for the Bayside Vol. Fire Departments' 50th Anniversary celebration were a big hit! Take care and I will see you soon.
………Smokey

OK Smokey Just call when you are headed this way.
William Lee 361-563-1303

 

[randyrls]

Beautiful!

 

[sorcerertd]

Beautiful. The accents really make that one stand out. The "grain" is very cool.