A Pencil Upgrade: Woodturning on a Mini Lathe
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2023
- In this video, we machine a new body from flame maple for a P205 mechanical pencil. We use a miniature lathe and simple tools to do this so anyone can give this woodworking project a go!
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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 🙂
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 information ,thank you for sharing.
I don't know why UA-cam recommende this to me, but it got me to this channel and I'm glad.
Great work.
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.
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!
This was such a relaxing video
I love to make pen bodies out of wood and metal stock..👍👍.. great job on the pencil body !
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.
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?
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 🤔
Metal worker, woodworker, and you can draw a machine out of thin air...and a bit of graphite. Wow.
I believe it was someone else that drew the machine. Although I totally agree with them being talented in metal and woodworking!
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 👍
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?
Hi Iron Gears,
We don’t have another pencil video lined up right now but you'll probably spot us knurling other parts in future videos.
Nice
Very nice work! Curious about the titanium tip - did you turn the lead pipe (the actual tube the lead comes out of) integral with the rest, or is it a piece of small-diameter tubing pressed in? I've never attempted making a tip (I do a fair number of metal-bodied P200-based pencils), the most modification I've done to them is stripping the nickel plating off to reveal the brass.
Hi Lindsay, I salvaged the tube from the commercial tip and pressed it in to the titanium part. I see no reason you couldn't machine the tip as one piece though, if you are comfortable drilling small holes.
what spectacular figure are you talking about at 0:25?
Hi NiceOneChameleon,
“Figure” is the wavy or stripy pattern in the wood. Hope that helps!
Wow you’re a good artist too! How long did that take to learn??
My wife did the drawing - she's also part of the Chronova team. She's been drawing her whole life. Thanks for watching! Cheers, Mike
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What a stunningly talented team !
Thank you so much for taking time to share your expertise !
Kind regards,
Steve A.
Hi thanks for sharing. Is it possible to share more of this scale down lathe and its features? Can it cut metal than wood? I have a Sherline lathe which is less rigid than yours.
Hi Steve, we will do a video on this little lathe in the future. I do use it for cutting metal but typically only small components. Thanks for watching!
Hi thanks for the reply. Do drop me a note of the video as I would be turning a wood lathe to cut metal. Already subscribed your channel with delights :)
Mmmm chatoyancy
Oooo say it again
anyone know the make of his lathe
It’s something I custom built. I used a Boley Watchmaker’s lathe bed and tailstock, a Pultra compound slide and I machined the headstock to my own specifications but I based the design off the Leinen WW82 and 83 ball-bearing headstocks. I will discuss this in more detail in a future video. Thanks for watching!
Can I have it? Thank you asking for myself
Where is the damn continuation for the Watch Screw???!?
I subbed now in case you might upload it soon, but Im really only waiting for that vid so might unsub in 2 weeks
That was a rude comment. Perhaps he is busy, he isn't here for your entertainment alone...