Purple Swirl in a Statesman

[Wolfdancer]

This was the hardest blank that I have ever turned. I could make one swip with the tool and then its back to the Tormek for reshapening. But its well worth it. I love to turn the tru-stone.

 

[bdonald]

Wow, looks awesome! Although it answers my question from another post I was going to do inquiring how hard it was to turn tru-stone

Bob

 

[Wolfdancer]

Hey bob dont let that stop you as most of the tru-stone are very easy to turn.

Wow, looks awesome! Although it answers my question from another post I was going to do inquiring how hard it was to turn tru-stone

Bob

 

[GoodTurns]

Nice pen Rodney, love the trustone. It's not hard to turn trustone, trustone's just hard! sharp tools and patience make for very pretty pens (see above :biggrin

 

[toolcrazy]

A lot of the Tru-Stone turns like PR or Acrylic.

Beautiful pen. Nice work.

 

[VisExp]

That's a very nice looking pen Rodney.

 

[rd_ab_penman]

Very well done Rodney!!

 

[rdunn12]

Wow that is a beauty.Great work!

 

[Ligget]

Well worth the effort Rodney!

 

[bdonald]

Well, I am always up for new things, who's a good supplier for this?

Bob

 

[Wolfdancer]

You will love it Bob its really fun turning this stone. There is only one seller that I know of and he is a really nice person. Here is the info its an IAP member. He is under the Business Classifieds and his name is **TRU-STONE** randbcrafts His name is Richard. He is out of Florida. I hope this helps.

Well, I am always up for new things, who's a good supplier for this?

Bob

 

[bdonald]

Helps immensely, thanks! I'll post a pic as soon as I make one, provided I dont screw it up! Better order 2

 

[Texatdurango]

Nice looking Rodney! Next time you want to spend all day on a blank, try a piece of Chilean Lapis, it makes a beautiful pen but is, in my opinion, ten times harder to turn than the charoite.

And Just a reminder on hardness since it always come up in Truestone threads; Richard probably offers a few dozen different truestone blanks and out of all the ones I have tried, only three or four were noticably hard to turn while all the rest turn about the same or easier than most polyester resins.

 

[bitshird]

Rodney, the Charoite is bad even in the pliable Tru-stone I did a regular Charoite on an American with some I had from when we used to make jewelry, I have a bunch of the old original stuff, I had a customer that was too cheap to use real stone. I cheated, I used my metal lathe and carbide tooling, I want to try the new pliable Tru-stone it's supposed to be pretty decent in most materials, with the Charoite and Lapis being the hardest, you did a fine job on that pen.

 

[desertyellow]

looks good!