Fat boy!

[Marc Phillips]

Osage Orange chrome cigar... decided to try some whooopdedooos... and man, it came out so fat!

I am gonna try and find some much smaller wire for burning... I think a tiny line left by a smaller wire would look a lot better... plus making the overall pen a lot smaller... I gotta learn subtlety!

I had a lot of fun though... and that's what counts

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[wood-of-1kind]

Marc, that is more like a billie club rather than a fat boy. The shape and burn rings are nice but this baby needs to slim down and lose the extra tonnage.

-Peter-[]

 

[mwenman]

Since it is OJ and Black and you named it Fat Boy, I'd say you have a perfect Harley pen there

 

[Marc Phillips]

Originally posted by wood-of-1kind
<br />Marc, that is more like a billie club rather than a fat boy. The shape and burn rings are nice but this baby needs to slim down and lose the extra tonnage.

ROFL!!

I'll tell ya, the funniest thing about all of this is that I don't notice anything until I assemble the pen! ... then it's "holey smokes, this thing is HUGE!" Guess that comes with experience eh... being able to kinda tell what the pen will look like before you stop turning []

Funny stuff...

It'll make a good gag gift.... []

 

[sah6139]

If you need to ship it
try motor freight with
tailgate service[]

steve

 

[R2]

That is one beautifully Ruebenesque pen![][] Certainly catches the eye.

 

[txbatons]

Hey! You may have stumbled upon a pen/bottle stopper combo! Love the wood. []

 

[wdcav1952]

Careful, R2, fat pens tend be sensitive!!!!!!!!![][}][]

 

[gwilki]

Your finish is beautiful, Marc. I think that's the first two-hander I've ever seen. []

 

[DaveM]

For finer burning wire, make friends with a guitar player, and get their cast off strings. "E" and "B" strings will cover the finer end of the size range.
(High E, that is. The Low E string gets pretty big!)
Dave

 

[Blind_Squirrel]

Originally posted by DaveM
<br />For finer burning wire, make friends with a guitar player, and get their cast off strings. "E" and "B" strings will cover the finer end of the size range.
(High E, that is. The Low E string gets pretty big!)
Dave

Or try the wire from a twist wrap. []

 

[redfishsc]

Originally posted by Marc Phillips
<br />Osage Orange chrome cigar... decided to try some whooopdedooos...

And I would have to say, goal accomplished!


For a one-time pen, maybe as a show-off pen, I think it looks fantastic. I wouldn't care to try to write with it, at least more than once, lol, but it sure looks nice to me.

 

[alxe24]

Seems like you are on the something there. The looks are not bad. I can't comment on the comfort.

 

[Marc Phillips]

Originally posted by Blind_Squirrel
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Originally posted by DaveM
<br />For finer burning wire, make friends with a guitar player, and get their cast off strings. "E" and "B" strings will cover the finer end of the size range.
(High E, that is. The Low E string gets pretty big!)
Dave

Or try the wire from a twist wrap. []

Hey, it worked! []

Thanks for the tip... the next pen looked a lot better with the smaller burn lines...