Dyed Chestnut - critiques welcome

[KKingery]

Here are a couple of pictures of Americana Rollerballs I made from Dyed Chestnut. Interesting wood. The top photo is dyed black. The blank outside was jet black, but it lightened up as I turned it. The green blank did not lighten up as much. Both blanks came from CSUSA.

Comments are welcome -

 

[jwoodwright]

Nice Pens, I like Chestnut. []

 

[jkirkb94]

I like them both! I agree that they are interesting![] Kirk[8D]

 

[DCBluesman]

Beautiful work. I'm not a big fan of chestnut, but you've made two excellent pens.

 

[JimGo]

Ken,
As one who is still in the early stages of my training (I'd be lucky to get a white belt at this stage), they look great! Is the metal piece at the bottom of the black/blue one offset by a bit? From a critique perspective, that's about all I can see wrong!

- Jim

 

[KKingery]

It is just a tad large. I usually make my barrels a bit oversize, and round off the ends. The pic really highlights that for some reason.

 

[Gregory Huey]

Nice pens! Why are the bands reversed on the pens? The Chestnut is nice wood. I have been working with some wormy chestnut but have not come up with a good piece yet.

 

[KKingery]

Reversed? I don't know what you mean?

 

[KKingery]

Now I see it! I never even noticed!

 

[Gary]

I was wondering that too, it looks like the trim ring is on the wrong end of the barrel in the lower photo.

 

[KKingery]

Greg - Nice catch! I never even noticed! All fixed now.

 

[KKingery]

Actually, they can go at either end. I prefer the black accent at the bottom, since the middle portion of the pen has a black accent from the band.

 

[Gary]

OK...creative license.[] Just for reference, you might ant to look at the assembly instructions and how the pen was designed to go together.

Originally posted by KKingery
<br />Actually, they can go at either end. I prefer the black accent at the bottom, since the middle portion of the pen has a black accent from the band.

 

[KKingery]

It's designed to go the opposite, but it does'nt matter, because the screw ends are interchangable.

 

[DCBluesman]

Creative license. I love it! It's what makes each of our pens just a little different.

 

[dougle40]

Nice pens Ken . I've never turned Chestnut for a pen , did a bowl out of it once , but it almost looks like some of the curly Maple that I've dyed before although that could almost be considered Tiger Maple .

 

[PenWorks]

You did a good job on the pens Ken. Not sure about the dyed chesnut. I have cut some spectacular blanks out of that stuff, but the majority of them, have been in the ho/hum range and I never put them together. I haven't bought any more because of that. I'll spend my money on something that's a better bet.

 

[tipusnr]

Nice pens! I'm curious about the banding on the chestnut. None of it that I have turned has done that. Is that the wood, the dye, or the turning, causing the darker bands in the wood? Maybe they aren't as noticeable in person as somethings are exaggerated in the graphics conversion.

 

[JimGo]

Bill, I was wondering the same thing. Any comments Ken?

 

[KKingery]

Those bands are in the wood. I don't know what caused it, unless it has something to do with how they were dyed. I've seen that before on other folks pics as well.

 

[wayneis]

According to the catalog it is all "Highly figured Chesnut" Looks like fiddleback and nice at that. Good job.

Wayne

 

[KKingery]

Maybe that's where I've seen that look before - fiddleback.