I wanted to see if it is possible to make a resin and wood pencil. It took much time, resources and effort to actually do it. But it worked!
I begun by turning pieces of oak, maple, basswood and olive true.
I then tried to split them in half using a chisel. Oak had pretty straight grain so it split really nicely.
To make a mold, I turned a piece of spruce true. I drilled a long hole using a forstner bit.
Then I epoxied a 2mm pencil refill in place. I then epoxied the whole piece in the mould.
I filled the mould with epoxy and then de-gassed it in the vacuum chamber.
I started turning the piece on the lathe to reveal the core of the mould.
Once I was close to the core, I used the skew chisel to avoid adding too much pressure on the piece.
I then recounted the piece between centres using the graphite of the pencil as centres. I turned the piece true on the edges and then moved on the machinist’s lathe.
The machinist’s lathe is more accurate and has less vibrations.
I dry sanded from 100 to 300. I wet sanded from 400 to 1000 grit. Then I polished using my micro mesh pads.
You can sharpen the pencil with a regular sharpener but it’s kind of hard. So I used the belt sander instead.
And my pencil was ready. It was a really cool experiment but that was it. See you soon with a new project video.
I would like to thank jedrek29t because he made a similar project from which I got much inspiration. You can check it here.
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