Bree
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I found this cool kinda stripey Padauk board. To preserve the stripeyness, I cut a couple of blanks end grain style. Here are the two blanks.
I turned one of them to go with a Black Titanium Cigar kit. When I was finished I noticed that the pen had a lot of nice chatoyancy (which is hard to see in the PIX). I also noticed that it had some black lines that looked like a big ole bear had clawed the wood. So I thought I would post some PIX for your enjoyment. Sorry that the photos are not very good.
Flash shot shows the chatoyancy a little better than the top two PIX.
It was tough turning this pen. The end grain orientation forced me to go very slow and light with my Lacer skew and Spindlemaster to keep from chipping out and destroying the blank. Had to really strop down the chisels for this pen!
It's funny that the "bear's claw" was totally unpredictable to me when originally looking at the blanks. On hindsight, you can see the claw on the bottom of the blanks... faintly but it's there.
Not much else to report on the pen making front. I was wood shopping today and scored a lot of cool stuff but that is another story all together.
:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
I turned one of them to go with a Black Titanium Cigar kit. When I was finished I noticed that the pen had a lot of nice chatoyancy (which is hard to see in the PIX). I also noticed that it had some black lines that looked like a big ole bear had clawed the wood. So I thought I would post some PIX for your enjoyment. Sorry that the photos are not very good.
Flash shot shows the chatoyancy a little better than the top two PIX.
It was tough turning this pen. The end grain orientation forced me to go very slow and light with my Lacer skew and Spindlemaster to keep from chipping out and destroying the blank. Had to really strop down the chisels for this pen!
It's funny that the "bear's claw" was totally unpredictable to me when originally looking at the blanks. On hindsight, you can see the claw on the bottom of the blanks... faintly but it's there.
Not much else to report on the pen making front. I was wood shopping today and scored a lot of cool stuff but that is another story all together.
:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
