A Pencil Upgrade: Woodturning on a Mini Lathe

For those who would like to do "the same", but might not have the tools, bore through thicker wood, and do the outside afterwards, and the off center won't matter.

Near the end of your video, when you were drawing a machine at a time lapsed high speed you caught me off guard, wow!!! You draw really good. I can only wish to half as good as you. Very nice. Well done and thank you for a great presentation 🙂

I love to make pen bodies out of wood and metal stock..👍👍.. great job on the pencil body !

Metal worker, woodworker, and you can draw a machine out of thin air...and a bit of graphite. Wow.

A fun little hobby in woodworking is pen turning on small bench top wood lathes. They are not to expensive either. You can find kits out there that includes all the parts needed and a mandrel to hold the wood or resin pieces. If you really get into it you can find centering vices for a drill press as well as a press to fit the external metal barrels. Nice work, and a beautiful sketch!

Very nicely done and explained :) I have the P203 version; nice to know there's no big mystery about the pencil body. May give this a go at some stage, especially if the original plastic body gets damaged. All the Best.

For the wood figuring, you are seeing Chatoyancy. This kind of grain is, as far as I know, produced generally at the base or lower trunk of some hardwood trees, where the full weight of the tree creates ripples in the wood (which you can sometimes see on living trees). When sawn in the correct way, you end up with the figuring that is often called Flame Maple, or Fiddleback. It's not only restricted to Maple though, it can be found in many species, such as Red Gum, Silky Oak and even American Oak and Walnut.

Very cool! My father always had a Pentel pencil, I remember going with him to buy new leads. Strangely, I don't recall him actually using it, he typically used pens. When I grew up, I followed in his tradition.

This was such a relaxing video

I'm getting Olivanders wand vibes from this vid. Please tell me you used dragon heart string as the core.🤩😍

What a lovely modification. Well done. And, was the drawing a tease for an up coming Stuart Steam Engine build 🤔

I don't know why YouTube recommende this to me, but it got me to this channel and I'm glad. Great work.

Thank you for the video, Your wife is very talented, I could watch a 2 hour video of her drawing. No matter how bad a day I am having can watch a few of your videos and it will always make the day better. They are so soothing and put together so well. Selfishly I wish they where longer and more frequent. with thanks, Craig. PS: Is the drawing for sale?

The Pentel Sharp mechanical pencils are economical and superior for shopwork. I think I'll do this for my favorite 0.9mm pencils.

Nice work. You reminded me that I bought some 205s a while ago to try this out and I’m now suitably inspired to give it a go.

Another interesting video from yourselves, you never ,fail love them. Graham.

Thanks, i really enjoyed this 👍

Nice

Something critical to my enjoyment of a good mechanical pencil the presence of metal knurling (Rotring 600, Graphgear 500, etc. are good examples of this feature). This also makes the pencil typically tip-weighted, which I like very much. Will you potentially make a video about making a knurled casing?

what spectacular figure are you talking about at 0:25?