Curly maple. Birds eye maple and cherry

[splinter99]

I recently did a blank exchange with tdiblasio for some cherry burl..
This is the first one that I have turned from it. Really some nice burl
Cherry Burl platinum cigar (Thanks Tom)

The other day my wife needed some of the green food coloring that I swiped from her (borrowed) for dying pens When she was looking for the bottle of green (that somehow ended up in my shop) she found a bottle of orange..I had just ordered some pen kits that GouletPens had listed in the classified..I couldnt wait to try the orange on a black chrome atlas
(Thanks Brian)

Last is a dyed birds eye maple on a copper slimline..the center band is a copper washer

Thanks for looking
Comments welcomed

 

[desertyellow]

Those are great looking pens.
Way to show of the wood.

 

[bitshird]

Nice looking pens, the Atlas is outstanding, and the Cherry Burl Cigar is beautiful.

 

[el_d]

I think I like the Orange and Black color mix.

 

[Skye]

All three of those are cool, the orange one just pops! Something happened near the nib on that green one. Dull pen mill?

How did you color that green one? I'd be interested in trying that, very good looking blank.

 

[CaptG]

Nice work. I like how you added some body to the slim by using the washer.

 

[tipsteve]

Greast looking pens, I would of never thought to use food coloring. great job.

 

[toolcrazy]

Those are all very cool. Nice work.

 

[splinter99]

Thanks all
Here is a link to an article that I wrote about using food coloring for dying pens

http://www.turnersanonymous.org/Newsletters/TAnon_NLtr_Dec07.pdf

 

[Skye]

^ Cool man, that green is a winner! Have you kept any of these colored items for a year or two to see if the color fades in indirect sunlight? I don't know how colorfast food dye is.

You may want to consider donating or rewriting that for the IAP library.

 

[splinter99]

Yes I have had items for several years..my mother uses one everyday that I made 2 years ago..it hasn't faded a bit