Three amigos

[Vern]

Three Patriot wood pens! Top one is Satin Silver and the wood is sawn from my first board from the exotic wood store. It's called Black Limba and cut at a 45 to the grain. Middle one is spalted buckeye burl from AS. The lower is paltinum made with oven baked purpleheart.

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Thanks for lookin'

V

 

[jeff]

Vern, those are just outstanding!

 

[Daniel]

I love the spalted Buckeye, But then again you can't miss with a B.B. Blank, or would that now be B.B.B.
How do you get a cubed symbol on here. well it's B Cubed (B3)
now I'm really gonna confuse the newbies []

 

[PenWorks]

Beautifull Vern, Love the buck eye & limba, now that is a first, never heard of oven baked. Only in pizza. Bona Patite ! Anthony

 

[Tom McMillan]

Very pretty!!! Nice pens!!!

 

[jbjwood2000]

Very nicely done Vern! like the color in the oven baked, will have to try sometime.

 

[tipusnr]

I must agree - those are three good looking pens. How is that style of pen to write with?

 

[darbytee]

Nice looking pens Vern, especially the buckeye. I wasn't a fan of the patriot pen until I turned one. I just wish I could get them to sell as well as my other styles.

 

[Fred in NC]

Ah three beauties !

Did you add any condiments to the purpleheart?

 

[melogic]

Very nice crafstmanship Vern. I like the patriot pens also. They write really nice.

 

[Fred in NC]

Ah Mark! The fact that they do WRITE is a plus!!!

One time I forgot to put a refill in a pen.....

 

[Vern]

thanks all,

Daniel... if html was on in the fourms you could do B&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; []

I've been messing around with cooking purpleheart in the oven. 350 for a half hour seems pretty close. Have a large pan of water in there to hopefully keep some moisture in the wood, this last one seemed to turn ok.

Earlier efforts involved waiting till the pen was turned and applying the torch.... let's just say that it didn't work so well. If I didn't burn 'em black they got quite brittle and cracked when I was assembling them.

So far no condiments...

As far as writing with the Patriot, it's ok. I'm a rollerball/fountain pen fan personally. It fits the hand well... just that the ballpoint feels different than a rolerball.

V

 

[Fred in NC]

My purpleheart loves basking in the sun.. after it is turned, of course....