the curse of the sketch pencil

[paintspill]

so a while back i made a sketch pencil for a friend/customer for his son who is an artist. while making that pencil it exploded on my lathe. we've all been there. so i decided to do a segment. well it exploded again. so i cut my loses and threw it in a drawer with my parts. i made a new one and it turned perfect, and he loved it, so much that i had to make another one for his other son. but all the while that cursed pencil has been taunting me. in total it exploded on me three times. it stares at me every time i go in that drawer.

well today pulled it out and gave it another try. i opted for a friction finish cause i've got enough time in this one already. its not perfect, but this one is for my personal shop use.

and i didn't give up.

 

[Mossy]

looks great..
Mossy

 

[firewhatfire]

I would use it.

 

[SDB777]

A+ for not giving up!

If you hadn't mentioned anything, I would have thought it was planned out to look as it does.





Scott (blown up what....:wink B

 

[paintspill]

i understand that., but it was such a great story i wanted to share it.

A+ for not giving up!

If you hadn't mentioned anything, I would have thought it was planned out to look as it does.





Scott (blown up what....:wink B

 

[paintspill]

the sad part is i don't even remember what kind of wood i started with, i know the dark ones are ebony, one was more brown and one more black, 2 strips of aluminum, but can't remember the lighter wood

 

[mikespenturningz]

That is a fine looking pencil. I checked out your site you do some very nice work!

 

[paintspill]

thanks mike. might start to get busy soon,. theres a lot of christmas buzz going around

 

[Jgrden]

WOW , beats any sketch pencil I have made. Congrats.

 

[IPD_Mr]

DCBluesman use to refuse to do pencils. He still had good customers that would insist. So Lou would throw out a price that was just plain crazy to get them off his back without upsetting them. Now that sounds all fine and dandy, but his customers would still order the pencil, and Lou would still scream bloody murder about doing them. I have seen him take six months or more on a custom ordered pencil and the customer was still ecstatic. So it was a pain in his rear to turn and it was a pain in his rear because his wallet was fat.