{"id":957,"date":"2007-09-10T14:17:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T04:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2007-09-10T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T04:17:32","slug":"pen-turning-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"Pen turning success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the second go, and after watching a video on YouTube, I made quite a passable pen in which the retraction mechanism works perfectly \ud83d\ude42 The acrylic is easy to work and I now understand how the kits go together &#8211; there were no instructions included with the kits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image956\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/jerrypen1.jpg\" alt=\"hand turned pen\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the video that made the difference<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"353\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GYZWL2ZSE8g\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GYZWL2ZSE8g\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"353\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I reckon some purpleheart timber would look pretty good!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the second go, and after watching a video on YouTube, I made quite a passable pen in which the retraction mechanism works perfectly \ud83d\ude42 The acrylic is easy to work and I now understand how the kits go together &#8211; there were no instructions included with the kits. Here is the video that made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-journal","category-woodwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}