Wooden Pen

Do you want a unique pen? A wooden pen is very simple to make. All you need is

• a branch of about 4 inch length; it is important that the wood has a large enough pith in the centre (e.g. elder wood)
• a pen mine
• a knife
• a rod of the diameter of the pen mine

• Take an about 4 inch long branch with pith
• Cut it into an about 3.5 inch and an 0.5 inch piece

• Hollow out the middle of the cut branch using a rod in the diameter of the pen mine
• Get the pith completely out of the 3.5 inch branch. You will be left with a hollow tube.

• Push the rod partly into the smaller cut branch in order to make a cover for the pen mine tip
• You will be left with a partly hollow tube.

• Push the pen mine gently into the larger cut branch where the pith was removed
• The pen tip sticks out

• Put the smaller cut branch on the pen tip so it doesn't dry out