New Shop, New Pens!

I have recently been making brass dip pens. Individualy turned by hand on my little old lathe, filed, polished and finished with precious stones. Each pen is a one of a kind precision drawing instrument. And now they are for sale on my new Etsy shop. Each pen is stamped with a unique number depending on how recently it was made, I am up to number 12 so far.






head over to www.etsy.com/shop/HarryShotton to view the individual pens and my other items for sale!

I heart lathes

i recently became the proud owner of a pre war Super Adept lathe, and as such have been busy lathing away. Here is one of the results

this is a brass fully poseable armature. It stands around 8cm tall and comprises mostly of ball joints machined on the aforementioned lathe. Here also is the plans for the armature which i managed to stick to fairly accurately!
this was only a prototype version, I will be ironing out the design flaws and making more on a slightly larger scale more appropriate to stop motion work.