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[saftrep]

Thank you Laurie for the inspiration. I have a lot of BIG (at least 80 years old) of Southern long leaf pine trees in my yard. I used to burn the cones. Imagine that.

 

[johncrane]

they look great. I think you have started somethink now mate' do you use two cones per pen?

 

[saftrep]

Yep, the cones I used are about 6 to 8 inches long but I could only get one good size blank out of one cone. the pics are of one pen. I wanted everyone to see how the colors and the eyes wrap around the pen. Very unique. I'm going to try a wasp waisted slimline but I may turn off all the interesting stuff to get it right. I have hundreds of these things. We always burned them.

David

 

[Dario]

David,

Those look very sharp. Want to sell or trade some pine cones?[]

 

[huntersilver]

Very nice!!

 

[Penmonkey]

Nice! So how do you "stablize" them?

 

[saftrep]

no stabilizing that I am aware of. The cones are dry. Once you get the seed pods off it's just like a dry wood blank. Turns, sands great. You will have some voids to fill with CA but nothing special. I used a CA finish on it.

 

[BigRob777]

Cool pen. I don't get the big cones around here, that I know of.
Rob

 

[jthompson1995]

Awesome pens. I don't get any cones big enough in my area to turn, though I've looked. I'd be interested in buying or trading for some of the cones. PM me if interested.

Jason

 

[challagan]

Nice work, those are cool!

Corey