laminations and shapes

[darbytee]

I'm doing a demo on Saturday for a fall festival in Wake Forest, NC so I've been busy making some pens to have on hand. These are: curly mango and african blackwood lamination, bocote, and pink ivory and olivewood. Tom was the inspiration for the ivory/ olivewood combo. Thanks for looking.

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[Tom McMillan]

Very nice Fred!!!

 

[tipusnr]

Well done! I especially like how you let the grain do the talking on the bocote.

 

[Old Griz]

Looking real good ... I really like that curly mango.. is that native to AU...
The olive and pink ivory is a nice combo... I might have made the lower band and the top ivory a bit smaller though... just enough to get the effect without overpowering the olive... I have found that highly colored woods like pink ivory, bloodwood, etc can easily overpower another wood they are mated with...
But you did a great job of jointing them....

 

[jwoodwright]

The bar is being raised again. Love the pens. That Pink Ivory is so... Pink! Nice.