Snakewood Sierra

[JBCustomPens]

Hey everybody,

Here is a recent one I've finished, it's snakewood on a sierra. I got the snakewood from Rockler a long time ago. Hopefully it won't crack. CA finish mm to 12000. Comments and questions all welcome.

 

[Ligget]

A beautiful pen Gregg, the Snakewood looks fantastic, fingers crossed!

 

[altaciii]

I love the wood. That wood would look good in any style of pen. Great job on the sierra. I'm with Mark on this one, fingers crossed for you.

 

[JBCustomPens]

I love the wood. That wood would look good in any style of pen. Great job on the sierra. I'm with Mark on this one, fingers crossed for you.

Thanks. Good job by the way on the snakewood euro in the beautiful pen contest! I really liked it.

 

[chrisk]

Beautiful. Gregg, you are really a lucky man. I've turned only two snakewood pens so far: an Elegant Beauty and a slimline. Both of them are plenty of cracks that appeared some days after I made those pens.
How do you prevent those cracks?

 

[Wheaties]

It looks great! Let us (or at least me) know how it holds up for you.

How do you prevent those cracks?

I have a theory, but I want to do an experiment or two to have some sort of data before I start just running my mouth (and no it does not involve stabilizing- you can't stabilize it)

 

[JBCustomPens]

Beautiful. Gregg, you are really a lucky man. I've turned only two snakewood pens so far: an Elegant Beauty and a slimline. Both of them are plenty of cracks that appeared some days after I made those pens.
How do you prevent those cracks?

I wish I could say there is a secret, but there isn't. Just chance for most of us.

 

[chrisk]

Jesus Christ! For years I wanted to give snakewood a try. Recently I found and bought, here in Belgium, a piece about 25". I was so happy. Drilled perfectly, turned like a dream, finished like few species... and after a few days the horror!