Chuck Ellis
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- Tellico Plains, Tennessee
Frank, do you mean “gag” like playing a gag on someone, or “gag” like in eating brussels sprouts?
I know the smell from burning a hole in the tip of powder horn. Yaacht (gag)!
I googled Johnson’s cartridge pen kits but couldn’t find anything. Could you send me in the right direction?
First off, I like brussel sprouts... even tried to grow some in the garden last year... they take forever to grow.
Everyone has given you great advise... turning antler is not all that difficult, and the end results can be spectacular... This is the last pen I did with antler... it had a lot of marrow as well as good bone... it's finished with CA. The barrel is York Gum Burl blank.
I've started drilling my antler on the lathe... I use a CMG3 chuck from PSI and line up the blank with the end of the blank against the drill bit and then eyeball the run through the blank, then tighten down the jaws of the chuck... I seem to get a higher rate of success... not quite high school sex level , but probably a little better than 50/50.
Here is pictures of my chuck and the last pen.