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Spent part of the day making a few segmented pens. The first one is bloodwood and birdseye maple on a Jr Gent chassis in Rhodium finished with CA. Something new and different are the maple diamond segments in the bloodwood.

The second is blue and gold box elder burl on a Jr Gent chassis in Black Titanium finished with CA.

I'll give everyone a break with the daily pens, I've got to fishing!

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I don't usually comment on people's pens, as all that I've seen are great, but these are absolutely stupendous. The craftsmenship is out of this world. Great job. Bob I.
 
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Originally posted by fstepanski
<br />Excellent work!! The diamonds [8D] are way cool.. When cutting these do you glue or attach two blanks together? Awesome work!!
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In the case of the bloodwood and birdseye maple, I sawed the blank in half then sandwiched in-between a piece of maple then glued maple segments on the top and bottom of each barrel using black dyed wood in-between.
 
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Originally posted by GaryMGg
<br />Ho hum, another day, more gorgeous pens! [8D] [;)]

Mortising machine inlays?
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Well yes I do have a mortising machine, it sits fairly close to my lathe and I got to staring at it the other day when some glue was drying and... well, you see the result.

I got to staring at some other tools too! [:D][:eek:)]
 
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Yea, why don't you go fishing, and make sure to post a pic of the whopper you catch....if your segmenting skills have anything to do with your fishing skills, you will catch a "record" of some kind![:D]
You make some beautiful pens......and you have given me some ideas for my mortising machine...[8D]
 
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George where do you purchase your "Black Dyed Wood"? I would like to try this, hwoever am concerned with color bleeding. Appears you have identified a good color fast souce for this strips.. Thanks! Happy turnin' Frank
 
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Originally posted by wayneis
<br />I don't know what else to say but, WOW.
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I don't know if you saw my other segmented pens but I did two amboyna burl red/gold pens then two box elder green/gold pens, then two box elder blue/gold pens... but, I only photographed one blue/gold pen because I misplaced the other one... perhaps it'll show up sooner or later then I'll post a photo of it![:D]
 
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I have to tell you something, I am not a segmented pen fan...

well , until I saw these...WOW....I REALLY like the way you see design.....these really are beautiful, wonderful colours and placements of the segments, totally stunning![:)]
 
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Originally posted by Jim in Oakville
<br />I have to tell you something, I am not a segmented pen fan...

well , until I saw these...WOW....I REALLY like the way you see design.....these really are beautiful, wonderful colours and placements of the segments, totally stunning![:)]
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Jim, To be totally honest, this is my first year making pens and I've already gotten a bit bored with just going out to the shop, opening a bag of parts, picking a blank then going through the motions of making a pen.

The last bloodwood/maple pen for example, was inspired by just staring at my mortiser while waiting for some glue to dry.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words. Since I took my boat to the shop yesterday, I have the weekend free to make more goodies, but that's just fine, I get to avoid the crowds at the lake, I'll go next week. [:)]
 
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