Black Heart Mango on El Grande

[G1Pens]

This is a El Grande Platinum Ball Point dressed in Hawiian Black Heart Mango. Finish is CA. MM12000 & Buff.

This was my first El Grande. I thought I had roller balls, but apparently I have ballpoints. Still, it is nice. It is a big pen but not very heavy with this mango on it. It is a very nice piece of wood and I am happy with the way it came out.

Thanks for looking

 

[G1Pens]

Okay....did I post at the wrong time? Is the pen boring? Bad choice of kit and wood? What?

Only 58 views and no comments in 4 hours. ??

 

[rizaydog]

I think the pen is great. Good choice...

 

[BSea]

I don't think it's boring at all. I don't really care for the El Grande, but that's me. I do like the wood. And it looks like excellent workmanship And for the record, this is the 1st time I viewed the thread.:wink: I do think there are the people that post comments, and others that just look. Then there are those that look at work, and comment later.

Having said that, I was just thinking last night how much more it takes to impress me than it did just a few months ago. I'm sure it's that way with many of us on the forum. I now can show a pen to somebody that's seeing these kinds pens for the 1st time, and a regular grained pen generates "OOOOHS & AAAAHS". Where now I would hardly give it a 2nd glance. Plus, as we all know by now, pictures rarely do our pens justice. It's just hard (for me anyway) to capture the depth & shine in a photo.

 

[Drstrangefart]

I love the mango, the first piece I tried I kinda mangled (sorry, Lee!). I have a second piece (thanks Lee!) and I'm probably gonna give it a shot once I figure out what I wanna do with it. It looks great on the El Grande.

 

[dtswebb]

Nope, sure not a boring pen or poor choice of wood. The craftsmanship looks great.

I'm partial to the El Grande ballpoint because of my big mitts. I'm carrying one I made out of cocobolo (some of jgerst's, which is great wood to work with) on a TI gold kit and won't part with it. The El Grande is a large diameter but light pen.

Matthew

 

[EarlD]

Looks great to me Gary.
EarlD