Learning Turning Turning Pens with Kip & Rex: The Basics and Beyond Volumes I and II DVD

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with Rex Burningham & Kip Christensen
Rex Burningham and Kip Christensen have done it again. After producing Turning Pens and Pencils, the definitive book on pen making, they follow with two videos about turning pens. Through detailed steps, Kip and Rex cover basic fundamentals, advanced techniques, design variations, and material selection.

Video I:

• Making the basic Slimline Pen
• Creating unique pen styles using the Slimline Pen
• Decorative techniques including wire burning, finger grooves, no-centerband designs and a fixed antler centerband design
• Adhesives for pen making
• Materials for pens, including woods, plastics and antler
• 68 minutes

Video II:

• The European style pen
• Making a European style pen with a blackwood centerband
• The Americana style pen
• Techniques for turning plastics
• Turning Antler
• Tips and Tricks including: Drying blanks, cleaning tubes, the "potato trick", drilling jigs and tips, barrel preparation, repairing defects, and buffing
• 88 minutes