Also knocked out a few pens today..

[TellicoTurning]

I have an outlet in Knoxville that carries some of my pens and other turnings... they wanted some black pens so I did some today... first is a water buffalo horn Baron with Sterling fixtures..

wet sanded through 12000 and then Hut plastic polish.
Second is a Gentlemen's rollerball, water buffalo barrel with an african blackwood cap. Had planned to make the cap water buffalo also, but because of the size of the cap, I blew out the blank when I was drilling...

This last one is all African Blackwood .. the blank was a 1 x 1 x 12 that I got at WC and was labeled Ebony.. there is some brown running through it, so suspect it's not true ebony... I also cut the cap of the pen above fromt the same stick..

 

[R2]

Good match up of materials and well made but for me they are suffering excess girth.[]

 

[Ligget]

Originally posted by R2

Good match up of materials and well made but for me they are suffering excess girth.[]

I agree with Arthur about the girth, I like them a little slimmer!
Good work though, lovely kit and blank marriage![]

 

[Buzz]

Very classy looking pens - considering they were just "knocked out"

 

[wdcav1952]

I find the title interesting since it was posted on Valentine's Day. [:0]

 

[Mather323]

Nice group of pens!

 

[johncrane]

l agree R2 also Mark the black looks good with that kit nice job.

 

[Tanner]

Nice looking pens! You may want to keep an eye on the buffalo horn. I've heard they tend to crack, sometimes days after being made.

 

[simomatra]

Nice looking group of pens Chuck

 

[ones]

Nice looking pens! I also make mine a little big around. I like the look.

 

[TellicoTurning]

I'm going to post this and may have to eat the words later, but I've had good luck with the Buffalo Horn.. To date, I've never had one crack. I've cracked a few drilling, because I was drilling with a very large bore drill and cutting very close to the limit on the size... the second in the series above was supposed to be a gentlemen's rollerball in all water buffalo horn... the cap is huge and I was almost all the way through the blank when I applied a little too much pressure and wound up with 4 pieces for the cap.... after a few choices words for my Sunday school lesson, I took the ebony and finished the pen.
I drilled each piece with a tub of cold water handy... I would drill for about 1/2 inch and then toss the blank in the water for a couple of minutes... keep the horn cool. Same with turning and sanding... watch the heat... I did a quick dry sand to rough smooth the blank then switch to cold water wet sanding of the tubes to final finish. And the water was cold... I keep a gallon jug of water in the shop for wet sanding... there was ice floating in the jug from the night before.

 

[TellicoTurning]

I was going to post my gloat above... I took the pens up to my outlet to show them... along with 6 others I finished last week... plus the 3 peppermills I show in "other things"... they took them all... over $500 whole sale today.

 

[TellicoTurning]

Originally posted by wdcav1952

I find the title interesting since it was posted on Valentine's Day. [:0]

Cav,
I had to read this a few times to make sense of it... I must be getting slow in my old age[:I]... shame on you this is a family site.[:0][:I][:I]

 

[wdcav1952]

Chuck, surely by now you know I have no shame!! [}]

 

[B727phixer]

Wow...those look great!