Woodturning for cash! - Pen turning is fast, easy and makes money! 

It's good to see you making a pen (mostly) without a drill press and also without a pen press. This is something I'm going to try now that I've seen it done without those things. Thanks.

Nice video. As far as pricing goes, your price is your price, if you’re too high the market will bring you down. Negative comments are going to come if you said you charged 5 dollars. Your pen is worth what you and your customer have agreed upon (although you probably want to disclose the break and repair). In the hand turned pen marketplace people are pricing their pens below actual cost due to the hobby aspect of it. In order to have a viable business you need to factor in all the costs, not just the cost of the wood and kit. Most people don’t include cost for the lathe/shop equipment, your labor (not just the time for turning the wood, but all the time spent to buy everything and setup), marketing costs, supplies, and rent for the shop space. When you factor all that into your price as well as the CAD exchange rates, then I don’t think your price is excessive. I think it would be hard to get that in the DFW Texas market unless you get a unique niche, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a fair price. I wish I could sell hand turned pens for a business because I love the process, but for me the economics aren’t there and I keep my corporate job. If more people explained pricing from a business perspective maybe it would help raise the water level for all ships.

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$80 for a slimline pen is quite a price! Must be a sellers market where you are. Here in U.K. that same pen would be about $30 !

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great job ,good comments on fixing a chipped piece,really nice looking pen.

good video, to sand the tube, I take about a 6" dowel, sand about 2 inches at one end, insert other end into a drill, snug on a tube, hold sandpaper in one hand, drill in the other and get excellent sanded tube in 10 seconds, quick and easy..Blessings..

hey man, great vid. just wanted you to know you tool rest is way to far away from the blank on the lathe. you want it to be about 1/8 of an inch away so your tool doesn't get caught and isnt as hard to control.

Hi, linda caneta torneada! Estou a pensar fazer algumas, mas até agora não encontrei lojas online que tenham este material na UE. Países fora da União Europeia fica tudo muito mais caro por causa da alfandega, fica tudo retido e as taxas são altas.

@HighSpeedWood You can put the tubs on the mandrel turn it on then sand it.

What's your stance on the carbide insert tools you have? Would you take them over the traditional turning tools?

Depending on the wood type, I can see this being an $80 pen. But given the chip that had to be repaired, I feel that's too much. personally wouldn't sell a repaired pen for more than 75% of what I originally wanted to list it for

I am not sure who turns in U.S.A, but it is hard to see if there is even a market for it in America. I wanted to get into making and selling pens, but I haven't the slightest clue on what to even do

Nice pen, I used to turn pens but certain people, like my husband said no one buys pens these days, and not at that price. What is your opinion?

How long did it take to turn and assemble the pen?

How much was the pen kit and wood?

Did the pen sell at that 80 dollar price tag?

Any chance I could send you a couple blanks of wood and you could turn them into pens for me? I want to give it as a little gift to the first furniture customer I've had. I think a pen from the same wood as the project would be kinda neat. Thanks! (I'd obviously pay for shipping and time and materials too)

Where do you sell your pens at?

I turn pens and I would never sell a pen after it splits it's a weak spot after that. My prices are quite a bit different than yours. Your getting quite a profit for a pen that only costs 5 dollars at the most to make. You must be charging a fortune for your labor.

this stuff is far too expensive, profitable woodwork takes timber and turns it into saleable items without the use of expensive kits to make highly repeatable items, to buy the turning tools and inserts to make a batch of 10 pens is a quite an outlay and if nobody buys them your stuck, try making salt and pepper pots, the bungs are just pence to buy and you can turn a small chunk of wood that costs 50p into a fancy looking cruet set you can flog for a tenner 100times over