Coolest pen so far for me

[Nolan]

Tell me what you think? I just love this awesome piece of wood. My first spalted blank!!! Still cant take pic of them though. Even made a plexi holder!!
Nolan

 

[chigdon]

It looks great. What kind of spalted wood?

 

[Nolan]

Its a spalted oak cigar with CA finish and I even got the spalted pattern to line up good. I guess im gonna have to read up on the pic taking advice on this site.
Nolan

 

[Johnathan]

Great job. It's amazing what surprises Mother Nature leaves us in theses woods.[]

 

[wdcav1952]

Nolan,

I don't blame you for being excited. That is a great pen!

 

[Ron Mc]

Nolan,
Beautiful piece of Spalted Maple.
May I suggest that on your next picture you use a different background color? The sheer beauty of your work is getting lost in the wood chips.[]

 

[OSCAR15]

nice cigar...great shape, great finish, awesome wood, lousy photo [)]

 

[Jim15]

Very nice pen.

jim

 

[airrat]

Nice pen good job on the finish. Use a neutral background and it will bring the pen out more. Lost of of the excitement with the background noise.

 

[gerryr]

Looks like very nice work and a great piece of wood. You would solve one major photo problem with a different background, the one you have is nearly the same color as the wood and extremely distracting. Also crop out as much of the background as possible. We don't care about backgrounds, only pens.[]

 

[GBusardo]

Really nice looking pen. That wood looks awesome!! I don't think the photo is so bad. Do something about he backround though. I have tried everything to get pictures that looks as good as some of the pen pics on this forum. I will blame my camera. hahaha
Gary

 

[GBusardo]

Oh, one more thing. I love the holder also, How did you make it [?]
Thanks Gary

 

[jdavis]

great looking wood

 

[chitswood]

I've got some spalted silver maple pen blanks, about 9 - 10
would anyone be willing to turn one fo these for me if I sent the rest?
I'm looking for one of those short pens -Sierra? and I think there is another style?

The wood is soft, not punky, needs to be stabilizied.

 

[alamocdc]

Sweet!

 

[Charles]

Really nice pen!!

 

[DocStram]

That's a dang nice pen. I bet it would really show well with a hunter green or maybe dark blue background.

 

[atvrules1]

Nice job Nolan, thats why we keep turning. You never know what will come out of the blank. Sometimes its just like opening christmas presents.