Give that man a cigar.......

[gad5264]

This is my first attemot at a cigar kit. The wood is Honduran Rosewood.

Other than the photography (I know I need to work on it), I always welcome critiquing from the experts here.

 

[redfishsc]

Your choice of wood and pen worked well. The cigar shows off wild grain patterns like what you have.

I can't tell, is the plating gold? I would hope so--- the medium/dark brown you have screams for either gold or black ti.

Nice shape too--- great job.

BEWARE THE BUSHING SWAP. THIS PEN IS NOTORIOUS FOR CAUSING HEADACHES BY SWAPPING THE BUSHINGS! I did it last weekend, but not that I'm going to tell you....doh[B)] I had two osage cigars to make and accidentally chucked up two short blanks instead of a short and a long.

I managed to salvage one of the pens by turning the corresponding long blank, but the other blank was ruined.

 

[stevers]

Bushing swap,,,,,what's that? I've never done that. I don't have "any" blanks in a box under the bench that I swapped the bushings on. (sarcasm intended)

Nice job Grant. Looks like the lower barrel dives in a little in the middle. Be carefull, those cigars are pretty thin on that lower tube. Nice first Cigar. The Cigar is one of my favorite pens. I like the fact that there is no trans to press in yet it is still a twist pen. It's one of the few "I" turn like that.

 

[1JaredSchmidt]

I'd say it's Black Titanium. Looks awesome. My first cigar was a BOW in Black Titanium. Turned out ok.

 

[bitshird]

Grant, Great blank, As Steve said watch the shape of the lower barrel, with wood like that it would have been nicer to see a slight outward bulge in the barrel and the cap, and remember this is a pen forum , photography is secondary, the Pen shall conquer all else.
All in all I'd say a decent job for a first try on a cigar,
Frankly I have no clue what the others are talking about swapping bushings [:0][:0][:0]

 

[fernhills]

Hi, Awesome, Rosewood Burl is one of my favorite woods. nice work all around. Carl

 

[TellicoTurning]

Good looking pen... the cigar is one of my favorites to make.. just wish they sold better.. to date (all fingers crossed)[] I haven't been afflicted with the "Bushing Swap Syndrome", but I pay close attention to other's admission of "sometimes, perhaps, maybe once in a great while", that they may have made that mistake and always check my bushings very closely before I chuck up a blank.

 

[Ligget]

Looking good from over here too, well done![]

 

[VisExp]

That's a beautiful piece of wood and your finish looks very nice. The lower barrel looks a bit concave. If you want to work on your photography I'd highly recomend Gerry's tutorial on the home page.

http://content.penturners.org/articles/2008/pen_photography.pdf

 

[Dalecamino]

Beautiful wood ! Nice work !

 

[Skye]

Originally posted by VisExp

The lower barrel looks a bit concave.

That's funny because I said the same thing on TPS. I think I was mistaken though, I think there's a shadow on the left side near the centerband that makes the left side look really concave. Better photos would be good.