Maple burl stabilized with epoxy

[MesquiteMan]

This is a maple burl cigar where I stabilized the wood with epoxy in my pressure pot. It has a prickly pear cactus center accent band and is finished with CA.

 

[huntersilver]

Very nice looking pen!

 

[johncrane]

Looks great Curtis top finish. was it a two pack epoxy you used [?][]

 

[mrcook4570]

Beautiful piece of wood!

 

[Darley]

Great pen Curtis I like the wood and the CB

 

[Penmonkey]

Very nice! What kind of epoxy did you use?

 

[chitswood]

You did a great job![]

 

[rpasto92]

Originally posted by MesquiteMan
<br />This is a maple burl cigar where I stabilized the wood with epoxy in my pressure pot. It has a prickly pear cactus center accent band and is finished with CA.

I like everything about it but the accent band. Maybe a customer would never think about it but to me it kind of looks like you screwed up the length and try to fix it by adding the band. I'm thinking if you put another accent band on the lower barell or a second one at the other end of the top, to balance it out, it would look more like an intentional design feature rather than a fix. Just my opinion though and I'm guessing I'll take some heat for saying so.

 

[GBusardo]

Originally posted by rpasto92
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Originally posted by MesquiteMan
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Maybe a customer would never think about it but to me it kind of looks like you screwed up the length and try to fix it by adding the band.

LOL A customer would never think that it was a fix. Woodworkers in general see things that no ordinary person would even think about. []
Pen looks great to me!
Gary

 

[gerryr]

Very nice looking pen. To me, it might look better with an accent band on both barrels or two on the upper barrel. But it looks great just the way it is too.

 

[Jim15]

Great pen, nice job.

 

[challagan]

Good looking pen. Was the maple that dark or did the epoxy darken it. Nice work.

corey

 

[chay]

Very Nice[]

 

[Dario]

Nice pen and same question as Corey about the color of maple.