A natural look for pens and pencils !
5 to 30 mn
With sticks with marrow, leads from pens and pencils, and for pencils a little bee wax,
A knife, metal wire and pliers, and for pencils a little bee wax.
Any piece of dry wood will make a pen. With the hand-held metal drill bit, pierce a hole slightly shorter than the lead.
Put the piece of lead in the hole.
If the lead floats in the hole, just dip it in melted bee wax and place it again (be careful, it’s very hot). The wax will glue the lead.
Carve the end with the knife. Here are a few pencils made with leads shorter than 2 cm.
To make a pen, curve the end of the metal wire. Use this hook to hollow the stick. The marrow is rather easy to remove, but this step can be long. Note that if the hole is shorter than the stick, an air-entry hole must be pierced on one site with a drill bit in order to avoid ink leaks.
Insert the pen lead in the stick. If it’s loose, add dry grass (photo) until it’s fixed.
Carve the end, before you start another one !
Decorate as much as you wish !
Advantages
- From the most simple to the most technical, choose !
- Short time version or long time version, choose !
- Recycle broken leads by making pencils.
- Discover by yourself the other advantages !
Limits
- With hard wood without marrow, it’s difficult de make a pen without an electric drill …
- If you pick green sticks, it’s difficult to forecast the diameter of the marrow of the dry stick.
