Totem Pole Roller Ball Pen

[Ruby pen turning]

I went crazy and made this pen. It uses Honduran Rosewood Burl as the main body. The scallops are Maple, Paduk and Purple something or other. I found some colored guitar picks on Feebay for around $7.00 and used those in the scallops. I used small gauge electrical wire for the copper dots which was my big screw up as I found that a small drill bit will drift quite a bit in hard wood, or I just went to fast. So I had to compensate and do the best that I could with spacing more copper wire dots to were it looked semi descent because I was NOT going to start over. I think there are around 30 pieces and 16 picks to make it.
The finish is the usual 10 or so coats of CA sanded and polished through all colors and finally heavy scratch and fine scratch remover.
Any comment bad or good wanted/welcome.

 

[Jim15]

That is really cool, great work.

 

[Ruby pen turning]

I forgot to add that it is 6 1/2" long =Totem Pole.:biggrin:

 

[crabcreekind]

very cool pen, good photos too

 

[SGM Retired]

Very nice pen and great design. How long did it take to glue togeather? Did you use CA to glue? Thanks.

Gary

 

[Ruby pen turning]

Oh I dont know, maybe 3 1/2 - 3 hrs pidling around in the garage and I used CA. While turning one of the guitar picks came unglued but no damage so I just glued it back on.

 

[G1Pens]

Very cool. I like it a lot.

 

[johnspensandmore]

I really like that pen! Superb work!

 

[aggromere]

Very cool pen. I like it!

 

[Jeff Barnett]

Holy crap! I have some learning to do. Very nice pen.

 

[DrBills]

Very cool. Can I come over and learn how to do that? :laugh:

Bill

 

[Ruby pen turning]

Very cool. Can I come over and learn how to do that? :laugh:

Bill

Thanks everyone. It is not perfect but it was fun to make.
My turning room is only 5x8ish so you cannot come over.:biggrin:

 

[johncrane]

Great looking pen Brian! the seg work is first class.

 

[Edward Cypher]

Nice job. Very original and inspiring.

 

[wiset1]

You've just taken that step into a class of your own. These pens are truly a work of art and require further attention on the forum. I think this is the type of pen I would like to be working up to one day. Thank you for the inspiration!

 

[wizard]

Wow! You have really mastered the art of segmenting and this pen is no exception!! ...Definitely inspiring! Beautiful Pen! Thanks for sharing. Doc

 

[jasontg99]

Very unique. I like it a lot.