A gift for Sophie
Light blue over Dark Blue Spirit Stained Sycamore and Chrome Ballpoint Twist Pen
SYCAMORE - Acer pseudoplatanu
Sycamore is a creamy white colour with a silky lustre, and is easy to work. With an oil finish, Sycamore can turn a light tan colour. This stained pen is finished with acrylic spray.
I started this range of pens as my display needed a splash of colour and it is not always practical to turn acrylic pens on the canal side. The debris from wooden turned pens causes no harm at all and blows around with all the leaves and stove wood chippings. The acrylic waste is obviously more chemical based and as such I am only happy making them on wind free days when I can collect and bin as much as possible.
Ordinarily we would have spaced out a journey like Norbury to Fazeley (our next market in ten days time) to seven or eight short days travelling. Even though the weather at Norbury Junction wasn’t very nice to say the least we did sell quite a lot of pens and I’d need to get some serious hours on the lathe to replace the stock. The decision was made to get some long days in and try and condense the eight days journey into five to give me some work time. We arrived at Fradley Junction and moored above Shadehouse. Lock by Thursday afternoon and three days longish cruising including a stop off for shopping in Stafford and visiting boat trading friends who had managed to get a spot at Penkridge market.
Luckily the weather was firmly on our side and we had a marvellous few days cruising and the weather for our four day stop off was just about perfect and pauses in long days pen making were punctuated with sitting out under the dappled shade of the trees watching other boats on their journeys.
Next stop, Fazeley Junction and their first Roving Canal Traders Association Floating Market.
Pen #506 was turned at Shadehouse Lock above Fradley Junction on 6th May 2016
You can follow my pen making here on this blog and our travels on another blog here
SYCAMORE - Acer pseudoplatanu
Sycamore is a creamy white colour with a silky lustre, and is easy to work. With an oil finish, Sycamore can turn a light tan colour. This stained pen is finished with acrylic spray.
I started this range of pens as my display needed a splash of colour and it is not always practical to turn acrylic pens on the canal side. The debris from wooden turned pens causes no harm at all and blows around with all the leaves and stove wood chippings. The acrylic waste is obviously more chemical based and as such I am only happy making them on wind free days when I can collect and bin as much as possible.
Ordinarily we would have spaced out a journey like Norbury to Fazeley (our next market in ten days time) to seven or eight short days travelling. Even though the weather at Norbury Junction wasn’t very nice to say the least we did sell quite a lot of pens and I’d need to get some serious hours on the lathe to replace the stock. The decision was made to get some long days in and try and condense the eight days journey into five to give me some work time. We arrived at Fradley Junction and moored above Shadehouse. Lock by Thursday afternoon and three days longish cruising including a stop off for shopping in Stafford and visiting boat trading friends who had managed to get a spot at Penkridge market.
Luckily the weather was firmly on our side and we had a marvellous few days cruising and the weather for our four day stop off was just about perfect and pauses in long days pen making were punctuated with sitting out under the dappled shade of the trees watching other boats on their journeys.
Next stop, Fazeley Junction and their first Roving Canal Traders Association Floating Market.
Pen #506 was turned at Shadehouse Lock above Fradley Junction on 6th May 2016
Luckily the weather was firmly on our side and we had a marvellous few days cruising and the weather for our four day stop off was just about perfect and pauses in long days pen making were punctuated with sitting out under the dappled shade of the trees watching other boats on their journeys.
Next stop, Fazeley Junction and their first Roving Canal Traders Association Floating Market.
Pen #506 was turned at Shadehouse Lock above Fradley Junction on 6th May 2016
You can follow my pen making here on this blog and our travels on another blog here
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