New Years Day Pens

[UKpenmaker]

Or you could say a BigRob Showcase (all of the wood is from him cheers Rob)

Black Striped Paduak, a pitb to turn wants to tear out at the first possible moment. Very gentle cuts and very sharp tools are the answer for this wood.

Huangana Negra, doesn't look much good when you get as a blank but when it's finished, it's very nice indeed, well i think so.[]

Another one of my Swirling pens (well 3 actually) taken a step further and tried it with 3 different blanks rather than just the 2.

Blue & Red Dyed Curly Maple & Holly

I had a read of Kiddo's tutorial on cleaning photos thought i would give it a go.

comments welcome as always

 

[Penmonkey]

Those swilling pens are NICE! I love the color combinations. Your photos are very well done.

 

[TBone]

Pens are great. I have some of those from Big Rob also, can't wait to try them. First picture looks like it's glowing, others look good

 

[Jim15]

Great pens, nice work. Love the swirling pens.

 

[csb333]

Well, your doing the new year proud!!

 

[BigRob777]

Andrew,
Man, you're making me blush.[][:I] Thanks for posting this. I couldn't have asked for a better testimonial. Your handling of the materials really stands out, especially with those fantastic finishes and awesome segmentations.

Tommy,
That's a combination of some amazing wood, which is all sold, and his excellent finishing technique. It took me half an hour to turn my fat pen, that was given away for Christmas and I barely got it round. This stuff is really hard and I wish I had two of them. It was a single board I found at an AAW meeting. Nothing else looked like it and I thought it was cocobolo, at first. I had to ask the folks at the desk, and they identified it as padauk. The open grain attested to that as well.

Thanks again Andrew and keep on turning,
Rob

BTW Andrew, you just qualified for a free pomelle bubinga pen blank, with your next order.[]

 

[NavyDiver]

Very nice! I really like the swirling pens.

 

[JDPens]

Wow! Those look really good!

 

[johncrane]

Andrew!! your pens look fantastic' your off the start of 2007 with flying colours well done mate'[]

 

[UKpenmaker]

Many thanks for the comments.

Tommy, the Paduak is a stunning colour, probobly a tad darker in real but not much.

Rob, Many thanks i will be needed some more Holly & A/Blackwood shortly (amognst others[])

 

[angboy]

OK, how did you keep the holly from getting color into it from the other darker woods? The swirled ones look great by the way!

 

[UKpenmaker]

Hi Angela, i have never had much problem with the darker colours gettign onto the holly (whether it's because the other blanks are stabilized[?]). the little bit i do get i just clean the blank with White Spirit before finishing (DNA would probobly do the same.)

 

[TellicoTurning]

Andrew,
Good job on the pens.. beautiful woods.

 

[BigRob777]

Andrew,
Awesome. I have to cut up some of the holly logs, but they'll need to dry and the blackwood supplier is on vacation (holiday). I ordered the blackwood a week ago, but they haven't gotten back to me yet, with my bill. It should be here in a week. It's big stuff too (1" squares).
Thanks again for mentioning your source (me).
I might be able to stand long enough today, to do some work. My back's been out all year.[8D]
Rob

 

[bob393]

Nice job!