Woodworking Blog

After cutting up the Huon pine logs into veneer flitches, we sent them down to veneer slices at Britton Brothers in Smithton. After soaking in the vat for a few weeks to get the fibers nice and soft, they were put through the veneer slicer. We have...

Was experimenting making a Manly Sea Eagles (the team everyone loves to hate) pen for weekend. This is a Roman Harvest without all the engravings. I substituted the engraved bits with resin to attempt to make a maroon and white pen. The acrylic turned...

We have just introduced a small range of EU made pen blanks. We started with the animal skin blanks. I ended up importing about 25 different types. These blanks are a good contrast to the acrylic I currently sell. The vivid colors and striking patterns...

Following our great success with the perfume pens, we have introduced a new range of perfume atomizers into our range. Available in both the full size perfume atomizer and the pocket perfume atomizers. They are both made in Taiwan to very high...

News from the Birds Eye Huon Pine Log. We ended up cutting up over 500m2 of high quality Birds Eye Huon Pine veneer some of which are over 2.4m long. They will make some very nice panels. Received a shipment from Dayacom this week. The perfume pen and...

Just come back from Tasmania again. This trip we cut up some of the Spalted Sassafras logs that was really rotten. Really rotten means that the fungus and rot has gone through it and produced some really nice staining in the timber. Some of the logs...

We started to slowly peel back the layers 23mm at a time and flipping the log around once each side was ready. Cutting the boards back produced some really highly figured boards beautiful for boxes and cabinet doors - not to mention the most amazing...

Cutting up burl logs is like scratching a lottery ticket. You really do not know what you will find until you start scratching/cutting. In the earlier post, you saw some of the Huon logs that I purchased and now its time to start cutting them. I use to...

The prize of Tasmanian timbers is Huon Pine. While doing the run around Tasmania, I managed to source a small quantity of Huon Pine. I managed to buy about 5 Tonnes of Huon Pine - most if it highly figured. Lots of Burls and whitebait in the log. Can't...

Its been a while since my last entry. I have been so busy these last few months. Exciting times are upon this small business of mine. Were bursting at the seams with stock. The double garage is full of boxes, the living room, lounge room and hallways...

We have just introduced 2 new blanks into our vast range of timber pen blanks. These whiskey pen blanks are cut from the barrels used in the ageing of whiskey. Available in Jack Daniels or Jim Beam. When I received the shipment of the pen blanks, I...

It's been a while since I have pen posting pen photos. I have been so caught up in the rate race producing pens for sale that I haven't had much of a chance to take some photos to share with you. Making pen for sale, I usually sell wholesale to wood...