Dicin' and Splicin' Again......

[Jim in Oakville]

Hi,

This is one of those pens that has died a few deaths on the lathe. I had terrible end chip out on the amboyna that almost lost the whole pen. I actually started this pen on a close friends lathe last fall and had problems. While there we spliced the ends with ebony. Well it sat on my bench till today, and when I turned it the ebony blew out.........hmmmmmmm, I looked around the shop, found a nice sized piece of buck eye burl to compliment the amboyna ...any way...it now lives, like a cat I guess, many lives...wonderful memories.

 

[rtjw]

beautiful pen. I am starting to get into splicing woods together. I cant wait to see how it turns out
RTJW

 

[Fleabit]

Great save! Excellent job on the seam too!

 

[KKingery]

The match is excellent Jim - nice save!

 

[tipusnr]

Great job! I would have never considered that color combination and it works well. Congratulations on your perserverance.

 

[tomwojeck]

Jim,

Nice work on the lamination! Great save

 

[jkirkb94]

Great save with the laminations! Kirk[8D]

 

[PenWorks]

I thought I was going to see a commercial for veg-o-matic []
But another good looking poen. nice save, I like the color combo.

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Thanks Every one!!

 

[Ken Massingale]

Beautiful!
ken

 

[dougle40]

Great save Jim . Looks great .

 

[mick]

Great save Jim!, Great combo of woods!

 

[alamocdc]

SWEET! I like that, Jim. If you hadn't gone into the specifics, I'd have thought you did it on purpose.

 

[woodscavenger]

It looks like a photo where only part of it is colorized. The rest is still black and white.

 

[JimGo]

Wow Mick, you went WAY back in the archives for this one! But it is a good looking pen!

 

[WoodChucker]

Good save, it turned out great!

 

[opfoto]

Looks great. Nice save!

 

[Rifleman1776]

Nice save. Amazing how many problems can be solved by leaving the seemingly disastrous failure set on the bench for a few days.

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Thanks Guys, I was surprised to see this one come back to the panel. This pen is now in a Canadian Peacekeepers hand...how about that for a great finish!!