A Box of Cigars

[AlexL]

Here is a set of cigar pens I recently finished. They are cross grain morado with a CA finish.
They were purchased by a group from Ft Bragg as Christmas presents.

All the pens were made from the same piece of wood and kept in order from 1 to 14.
I prepped 15 pens just in case one blew out and it's a good thing I did.
After I delivered these the customer asked if it would be possible to make a 15th pen to match. alex

 

[Chief Hill]

Nice job Alex... if you keep doing great work like that you should be able to start Pens for Medical School website soon.

They all look like photocopys. Great job!

 

[el_d]

Congrats Alex, Nice work and good score on the order.....

 

[broitblat]

Impressive line-up/handsome collection.

-Barry

 

[hewunch]

Great work Alex!

 

[DFerguson777]

What beautiful pens!!!

 

[Rick_G]

Good looking pens and a nice order, congrats.

 

[GaryMGg]

Good job.

I don't know what I like better -- the pens or the fact that you aligned the nibs perfectly in the second photo.

:biggrin:

 

[snowman56]

Alex
You did a great job there they all look wonderful.

 

[Rmartin]

Man, I love seeing beautifull pens lined up beautifully!

 

[rjwolfe3]

Holy Cow those are some sweet pens. I love seeing a professional's work.

 

[JohnU]

Very Nice! Ive never worked with morado but I like what I see. (putting that wood on my list of things to get)

 

[nava1uni]

Beautiful work

 

[bitshird]

Great work Alex, doing work like that, paying for college will be a little bit easier.

 

[robutacion]

G'day Alex,

What great timing...! :biggrin:

Never heard of that wood before but, I certainly like it!

Not so easy to get so many pieces (blanks) so identical as those ones, even if cut from the same board, nice job there!

Them you made them all in my preferred pen kit, just when I'm thinking/trying/asking for a swap of those kits with some of my woods :wink:, obviously your costumer has good taste and selected of of the kits that produces great results for a very affordable price (kit).

Now, that you have done 15 of them, how do you feel about making Cigar pens? sorry, I have to ask, I did make this same observation on my thread swap request, only this time I will be confronted with 120 pens, 2 of each wood and cut type I have...!:redface:

Anyway, I really thing that you made an excellent job in creating so many identical pens, with an outstanding wood and finish! Sure will make the job a lot easier to work out who get's which, even easier if the boss puts them all on a table top and let people pick, hahahah, I would like to see those people faces hahahaha...!:biggrin:

PS: Got any kits left?

Cheers
George

 

[Ligget]

Gorgeous group of Cigars Alex, great pictures too, a definate home page candidate for featured pen!

 

[johncrane]

Alex! you've done well, there a great looking bunch of cigars.

 

[jeffnreno]

WOW - Those are terrific! Nice work.

 

[tim self]

Great collection. Surely they will be a big success. Nice mirroring.

 

[jasontg99]

Morado, huh? That is a beautiful group of pens. I love the grain and colors of the wood!

 

[CaptG]

That is an awesome looking group of pens. You did yourself proud. Nice job.

 

[KenBrasier]

WOW! Beautiful work, I love the cross-grain.

 

[CSue]

What a great set of pens! I love Morado wood. The Crosscut really looks nice.
Great work! Outstanding photos as well!

 

[glycerine]

Man, those are beautiful! You should just skip college and keep making pens for a living! I'm just kidding, you need a good college education so you can figure out the geometry for some of those segmented beauties that I see posted every now and then...

 

[jbostian]

Wow those are awesome!

Jamie

 

[razor524]

Great work!!

 

[Bree]

Great work!!
:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Cross grain looks great... well done!