Four For A Snowy Weekend

[Lathemaster]

Snowy day - nothing beats making sawdust.

Decided to try the CA/BLO finish approach and play with something a little different.

3 pens on the left are all from some Wild Virginia Cherry left from another project. The blanks were cut on a 15 degree bias. This cherry really darkens with age, so I'm anxious to see what the pen with the Cocobolo cap looks like in 6 months. The other 2 have walnut segments.

Pen number 4 is from a pommelle bubinga blank I got from Stan Cook of Long Hollow Pens.

All four were sanded through MM12000.

 

[alxe24]

You did good. That is a nice set of pens. The finish looks good from here

 

[johncrane]

Nice bunch of pens Mike![]

 

[Ozzy]

Those are some nice looking pens.

 

[NavyDiver]

Nice pens. I like the segments!

 

[Tanner]

Nice job on the segments.

 

[Lathemaster]

Thanks for the comments especially on the segments. I'm such a traditionalist - I've been looking at all the segmented pens here and on the various artist website - beauty is in the eye of the beholder - truly.

So the "simple" walnut segments in these pens is truly "radical" for me. Hope to learn more from the wonderful folks here - maybe more thinking outside the box.

I am really pleased with the CA/BLO finish even though the pictures don't do it justice. - LOML has already told me not to give the Bubinga pen to anyone even though she has yet to let me photograph the Cocobolo pen she ran off with 2 weeks ago.

Cheers
HotJoe (Mike)[]

 

[grumps]

Being as I'm from Virginia, I'm partial to the Virginia Wild Cherry flavors![] But all 4 pens look great.

jt

 

[jjenk02]

Very nice.

 

[BigRob777]

Nice work on those knots and the pomelle bubinga. I just invested a week's pay in some PB and I hope it works out. You did a good job on these.
Rob