Borouz Woodworking

Four Corn Cob Pens

Yes, corn cob pens!  I’ve made a dozen or so of these over the years, they are very popular around here.  We recently brought a bunch of pens in to Legacy Outfitters, a store in Logansport that sells items made by local artists and craftsmen, and several of them sold.  One of these was a corn cob pen.  The customer who bought it asked if I could make three more.  So here they are being made.

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Here are a handful of pens we turned.

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Kitchen Island Legs

One of the things about little local craft shows is that you might not sell much. You might spend a lot of money on a booth. You sit there all day peopling. You have to pack and unpack and sometimes drive down many a long and winding road. And it all seems like you do it for nothing. I won’t try to tell you that you will always make back what you spent on the booth, drive, and all the food you ate at the venue. It takes some tweaking to find your market and what types of events work best for you. That being said even though you don’t sell at the event you need to get busy handing out your cards, talking to people, make sure that you have interesting things for them to look at and talk to you about.

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Two Bolt Action Pens

As I mentioned in this article, Sam likes the acrylic pen blanks. He’s wanted to turn these for a while, so we did a little reorganizing in the shop, and made our turning area a little bigger.

We brought the Rikon lathe down from the basement studio, and set it up next to the Jet lathe.  We set up the counter next to his lathe with all of the pen turning equipment and supplies.  Continue reading →