25 Speices Sierra Puzzle Pen

[Ken Wines]

25 species - 25 piece Sierra puzzle pen. The woods are maple, cherry, walnut, osage orange, spanish cedar, redheart, aromatic red cedar, teak, mango, sapelle, mahogany, padauk, pink rosewood, bocote, cocobolo, purpleheart, yellowheart, black palm, chechen, sycamore, Brazilian walnut (IPE), zebrawood, macawood, elm and east Indian rosewood. The fourth photo shows a matrix of the 25 source blanks that were used to make this pen. The pieces were removed diagonally to allow for the mix in the species. There were 25 mixed species blanks when all was said and done.

 

[ajollydds]

Beautiful work, simply amazing.

 

[magpens]

Fantastic, Ken !!! . I am glad you thought of doing this !!

Dashing to Signature now to buy !! . Hope they are listed.

Oh oh .... not listed yet .....

 

[Ken Wines]

Beautiful work, simply amazing.

Thanks, Arthur. You're too kind.

 

[bobjackson]

Great work Ken You're the man.

 

[Ken Wines]

Fantastic, Ken !!! . I am glad you thought of doing this !!

Dashing to Signature now to buy !! . Hope they are listed.

Oh oh .... not listed yet .....

Mal, They won't have them at this moment. I just finished assembling the other 24 blanks and will be mailing them out tomorrow. They should have them by the early part of next week. They won't last long, there's been quite a bit of interest for them. The guys on the other side of "the pond" are talking about a group buy to help save on shipping costs.

Ken

 

[Ken Wines]

Great work Ken You're the man.

Thanks, Bob.

 

[gtriever]

Fantastic work!

 

[mark james]

Wonderful artistry! I do love seeing your work, and appreciate however-the-heck you make these.

Keep it up!

 

[Ken Wines]

Fantastic work!

Thanks, Art.

 

[Ken Wines]

Wonderful artistry! I do love seeing your work, and appreciate however-the-heck you make these.

Keep it up!

Thanks, Mark. The matrix board was definitely a plus for keeping this project organized. After I got the matrix loaded, to get the 25 species mix I started removing rows of pieces diagonally from upper left corner to lower right corner. When ever you came off the matrix at the bottom you just moved right one column, go the top at that column and continue the diagonal from there. The only mistake I really made was with the yellow heart and osage orange. I placed them 5 rows apart on the matrix. Because there are 5 pieces in each ring of the puzzle, that placed the two similar color side by side on adjacent rings. There was enough duplication of shapes that I could move pieces around, for the most part, and adjust the color balance on the puzzle blank pieces. I'll know better next time if I can remember.

 

[OLIVE WOOD]

Love the look of puzzle pens. Nice job