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[ctEaglesc]

It ok to "PICK" this one apart, I did it for fun.
edit in
I just love those fancy slimlines!This one is Tn from Woodturningz

 

[dfurlano]

tooth picks. I can see where you are going. The biggest issue with the lite bright was the sides where the toothpicks get elongated. I see many different pens that suffer that design issue. Lets see if you can be the first to resolve a symmetrical design.

 

[Fangar]

That looks like you "Picked" a winner. I like it. They almost look like flowers. I have named this pen "Flower Power".

Thanks for sharing,

Fangar

 

[PenTurnerJohn]

Eagle,
I won't pick on you...only to say I like your creative design a lot! Well done. Do you have a side view?

John in Olathe KS

 

[ctEaglesc]

Originally posted by dfurlano
<br />tooth picks. I can see where you are going. The biggest issue with the lite bright was the sides where the toothpicks get elongated. I see many different pens that suffer that design issue. Lets see if you can be the first to resolve a symmetrical design.

I already did it in LItebrite II
It is on the second page of my album, the pattern repeats on 4 sides.

 

[dfurlano]

oh, need to check that out.

 

[alamocdc]

Originally posted by Fangar
<br />They almost look like flowers. I have named this pen "Flower Power".

Thanks for sharing,

Fangar

James, the first thing I thought when I saw it was, "Hey, it's a hippy pen."

Definitely has an interesting look, Eagle. In fact, you gave me an idea, if I can ever get around to it.[]

 

[Paul in OKC]

Cool pen, Eagle. Inventive as always. Did you just make some 'toothpick' dowels, and did you drill the holes all the way through or just spot them in?

 

[ctEaglesc]

Originally posted by Paul in OKC
<br />Cool pen, Eagle. Inventive as always. Did you just make some 'toothpick' dowels, and did you drill the holes all the way through or just spot them in?

I don't want to do a turtorial, but basically I made an octagon blanks and drilled the holes on the DP.
I used graph paper taped to a makeshift fence for the spacing.
I would drill one one hole advance one space and rotate the blank and drill again.I wound up with a spiral set of holes on the blank.
What I was experimenting with was the method of gluing and coloring the toothpicks in.
All the tooth picks were put in right out of the box, I didn't colore them until after each drilling session was done.Some of the toothpicks were colored four times.The blank was maple.
I expected each "Dye" session to produce something like a rainbow around each new hole, but that didn't happen.
The whole blank was dyed each time I redrilled .Of course it had to be resurfaced each time I took it out of the dye mixture.
I didn't put any CA on the tooth picks until after the blank was drilled.

 

[emackrell]

Eagle what a neat design! Bet it was fun to make. It certainly is fun to look at!

Just for my curiosity, you said you expected each dye session to produce a rainbow around each new hole -- that's the only part of your post I didn't follow. What would create the rainbow effect? The overlapping layers of dye?

Cheers Eileen [8D]

 

[ctEaglesc]

What would create the rainbow effect? The overlapping layers of dye?

Perhaps "rainbow" was a poor choice of words.I did expect a blending of colors. Each time I drilled a spiral of holes and inserted the tooth picks and dyed them, I expected the wood surrounding the hole to absorb the dye.
Since there was four differnt colors used I thought the wood surround the picks to absrb the color.
What suprised me was the color of the finished pen.
Yellow was the last color I used because it was the lightest but it is the predominant color of the blank.

 

[GBusardo]

VERY creative!!

 

[Rifleman1776]

I couldn't be that patient if I were in a coma.
Another U-Neek Eagle hit.