Christmas Gifts and Raffle Prize

[ryannmphs]

Well, I finished most of my Christmas pens and pencils. One pen & pencil set is for my works Holiday Party. I am donating the set as a door/raffle prize.

Here is the door prize. Slimline Boxelder Burl. finished in CA and TSW.

Here is a black walnut Pen & Pencil Slimline for my BIL.

And finally the last of the Pencils & one Pen for my neices and nephew. The top pencil is redbud and had a nice void/inclusion that was not visable when I started turning, what a nice surprise!!)

Hope you enjoy looking as much as I enjoyed makeing them!! (naw, one can never be truely happy unless they are standing in front of the lathe )

Have a Merry Christmas everyone!!

Ryan

(please forgive any typos, the spell seems to be on the fritz)

 

[KKingery]

Excellent! I'm sure the door prize winner will be extremely happy with those!

 

[tipusnr]

Should be a LOT of yuletide smiles from those pens and pencils!

 

[Fred in NC]

Ryan, the pens and pencils are beautiful. Wow, and they are very nice matched in sets too. Great job!

 

[Mac In Oak Ridge]

Ryan,
Who's kits are those with the fat center band?

 

[ryannmphs]

Who's kits are those with the fat center band?

If you mean the kit for the bottom cherry pencil in the last photo that is the Satin Slimline from Woodturningz. I really do like the satin finish over the shiney silver myself.

Ryan

 

[dougle40]

Good stuff Ryan .
I agree that there's going to be a lot of happy people Christmas day and at least one at your X-mas party .

 

[C_Ludwigsen]

Hey folks, a point that Ryan left off for the Boxelder Burl at the very top... That is from a tree that he and I had the goo fortune of cutting done here locally. All of these are VERY nice up close.

Great job, buddy.

 

[ryannmphs]

Actually Chuck, ALL of those pens were made with wood that I have harvested.

The cherry came from LOML's uncle's land where he had a cherry tree down and I got a few pieces.
The redbud came from my FIL's neighbor who cut a tree down, just because she didn't like having to rake the leaves (dumb plan, my FIL's house has 2 cherry trees and a LARGE black walnut tree along with some sassafras trees).
The black walnut was the pith cut from some wood that a gentleman in our wood turners group was getting rid of.

So my out of pocket cost for the above pens was the cost of the kits from Woodturningz and a little CA.

Ryan