Sequel to my X pen

[Ron Mc]

Below you will find links to my X pen sequel. It consists of Purple
Heart / Osage Orange / Paduak. After careful consideration I have
decided that I wanted to create a pen that I now call, "Evolution" I
call it this because the lid of the Baron starts out by trying to
create a design as it travels down the lid. The wood starts coming
together and it starts creating an angle. At first there are 1 piece
that is at a 90* angle / Then 2 pieces form together at a 11* angle /
with a single at a 22.5* angle. The final combination of wood that
finds itself at the bottom of the lid is at a 22.5* angle. The woods
finally evolve into their final design on the lower half of the pen
at a 45* angle.

Your thoughts?

http://tinyurl.com/8v3aw
http://tinyurl.com/cy7dj
http://tinyurl.com/9jwg8
http://tinyurl.com/7nwca

Ron Mc

 

[ctEaglesc]

My thoughts are to post them here rather than links, but that's just me.[]

 

[ilikewood]

The design is really good Ron and creative and really looks good. I do have one comment on the red square on the barrel...Is it square or is the picture a bit skewed (I can't tell)? If it is not square, maybe your blank drilling vise wasnt quite straight up and down. Pretty minor though.

 

[Ron Mc]

Originally posted by cteaglesc
<br />My thoughts are to post them here rather than links, but that's just me.[]

I'll figure out how to do this and start putting the pics in the message. The other pen turning groups prefer URL's to the pics so that is what I am used to.

 

[Ron Mc]

Originally posted by ilikewood
<br />The design is really good Ron and creative and really looks good. I do have one comment on the red square on the barrel...Is it square or is the picture a bit skewed (I can't tell)? If it is not square, maybe your blank drilling vise wasnt quite straight up and down. Pretty minor though.

Actually it is a rectangle. I did this so that the design wouldn't become to cramped and more of the "ribbon" look would be visible.
Thanks for your comments.

 

[ilikewood]

I see what you mean now. I just couldn't tell from the picture. Thanks.[8D]

 

[Fangar]

Cheers,

James

 

[Ron Mc]

Fangar,
Thanks for the assist!

 

[Fangar]

Originally posted by Ron Mc
<br />Fangar,
Thanks for the assist!

You bet. It is as simple as addint the img tags around your links that you posted. I can't type it without it trying to HTML it, so it should look like this:

(img)http://www.blahblahblah.com/image.jpg(/img)

Replace the () with [].

James

 

[Czarcastic]

Ron:
A stunning pen. Well executed.

 

[WoodChucker]

Very nice, thanks for sharing!

 

[PenWorks]

Very fine work Ron, love the pen. Excellent detail in the photos as well. []
One of these days, I will have to learn how to glue more than 3 pieces of wood together to make a pen. []

 

[Paul in OKC]

Very impressive, Ron.

 

[Ron Mc]

Originally posted by Paul in OKC
<br />Very impressive, Ron.

Paul,
I just looked at your albums. Was you pen with the dots at Provo?

 

[Glenn McCullough]

Very nice, Ron. Excellent series. I had an art professor, while in college, who priced each of his collection series works at double the previous piece price as a collectors gimick. Usually the more you produce, the lower the price. When he was done with each series, it was because the price got to be too much for traffic to bear, but people raced to get in as early as possible to beat the price increases. Interesting....but he was always ready to move on to the next series anyway.

 

[Ron Mc]

Originally posted by oobak
<br />Very nice, Ron. Excellent series. I had an art professor, while in college, who priced each of his collection series works at double the previous piece price as a collectors gimick. Usually the more you produce, the lower the price. When he was done with each series, it was because the price got to be too much for traffic to bear, but people raced to get in as early as possible to beat the price increases. Interesting....but he was always ready to move on to the next series anyway.

Interesting that you would bring this up. My mom is a retired art professor than had studios in CA. She always had about 5 pieces in her series and that was it. Luckily I was able to get some of her work for my home. I guess it was a son thing.

I just looked at your album and your "Blk chr cigar, oriental striped ebony" is one of the nicest pens I have ever seen! Very classy looking. Where did you find oriental striped ebony?

 

[Justin_F]

Fangar they are great! Especially like the last one

 

[Ron Mc]

It just became apparent that I need to make sure that everyone realizes the pictures are of the same pen. Just one pen.
The first X pen is in my album or on my website on the "gallery page"