Plain Walnut With Pickguard Knot

[W.Y.]

While I was playing with a few bottle stoppers today I had this on the go at the same time.
This time plain walnut with a plastic pick guard knot.
I have made quite a few acrylic with pick guard knot and several wood with wood knot and this time wood with plastic knot. .
They sure sell fast.
When you get the pieces lined up properly when gluing and get the hole dead center something unusual happens. When applying the BLO/CA finish at 1800 rpm as the piece is spinning to-wards you a strange phenomenon happens. The knot can be seen as a strobe rotating back-wards. Kinda cool to watch.
I put bright copper hardware on this one for a change. Quite a few of my customers have chosen the bright copper over gold or chrome so I try to keep a variety of all of them.

 

[maxman400]

Nice, Really Nice.

 

[W.Y.]

Thanks Max


Here is the same knot with a 1/8 turn .

 

[Glenn McCullough]

KNOT your usual pen, nicely done! Thanks for the heads up on the effect of turning a knot, it may cause someone to think their days smoking funny stuff, as a youth ,had crept back in.

 

[rjwolfe3]

That is beautiful. I can't wait to make a jig so I can try those.

 

[Bree]

Great way to turn an ordinary pen into one that is extraordinary!!
:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[W.Y.]

I will probably make a tutorial on my next one and put it on my Woodworking Friends Turning Tutorials board after some visitors leave and things settle down. My summer craft sales are over so I have a couple months of catching up time before the pre - Christmas ones.

They are really quite simple to make and easily repeatable . I have seen some elaborate jigs and clamping arrangements used used by some to make them which I find unnecessary . Just a few scraps of wood for jigs and one clamp is all I ever use.

 

[Ligget]

Excellent work as always William, that is one of the best knots I`ve seen!

 

[Chief Hill]

What a beautiful job. It does no get any more accurate then that

 

[W.Y.]

Members of my own site have been asking me to do a tutorial on my particular way of making the Celtic knot pens so yesterday afternoon I headed out to my shop with my camera and made a tutorial right from scratch for this particular pen of plain walnut with a Osage orange knot.

The tutorial has twenty three 640 x 480 size pictures and is posted in my Turning Tutorials board. If anyone is shy to get involved in asking further questions on it here , my email address is below in my signature and I would be pleased to be of service that way.

Here is the pen that the tutorial is on . The second picture is turned one eigth of a turn from the first one to see how it changes in appearance as it is rotated.

 

[bitshird]

Bill that Walnut and Osage Orange is beautiful, I've gotta go look at your tutorial.

 

[OKLAHOMAN]

William, went to the tutorial, thanks your jigs are so simple it's scary, just goes to show that you don't need deep pockets to do deep pocket pens.