DH had some fellow woodworking enthusiasts and newbies over to make a fun project, a perfume or oil holder, turned on the lathe. He ordered some kits ahead of time with the 10K gold fittings, from Craft Supplies USA. I think he cut some pen blanks from cocobolo wood, but one can easily use little remnants of wood leftover from another project, or chunks of acrylic or various other hard substances that can be chucked up and turned on the lathe. Here’s a little gallery of the process:
cocobolo blanks being drilled out
drilling out the blank
cocobolo blanks
sand the drilled blank
turning tools
lathes
tool for burning a groove into the wood for decoration
pressing the turned vial into the fittings
finished project
we had to put a sign out because people kept stopping
