TX Ebony, Black Mulga and Tru Stone

[gerryr]

The results of the last couple days. First is a chrome cigar made form a piece of x-cut Texas Ebony from Dario with a CA finish. Beautiful wood, but really hard.

Next is a Jr. Stateman using Curly Black Mulga I got on eBay from Scott with a CA finish. This is really beautiful wood, turns easily and takes a great finish, but hard to photograph.

Finally, my first Tru Stone. This stuff cuts like butter, but I harder time with finishing it than regular acrylic or lucite. Probably just me.

Comments and complaints welcome.

 

[tseger]

nice pens, nice finish, nice photos....what more can I say?...... Oh yea, where do you get the tru stone?

 

[Dario]

All look great Gerry...but I am partial to the TX Ebony []. No really bias aside...I really like it the most.

 

[leehljp]

I have been thinking of the trustone. Great finish on all of them. Beautiful pens!

 

[thetalbott4]

Gerry - I'm wiping a tear from my eye. You make me so proud. A great job. You did a better job than I can get on the photography. That black mulga is one of my favs. Thanks for doing it justice. You got that CA finish down to a science.

 

[alamocdc]

I like them all, Gerry, but my heart goes to the TE... What can I say? Native Texican to the core!

 

[wdcav1952]

Damn, Gerry, I'm going to play Jimmy Buffet all night long to see if it inspires me do do work like this. Bravo, Sir, those are great!!

 

[Ron Mc]

Boy I like the way that Tru stone looks! Nice job.

 

[pete00]

all very nice....however the mulga is extra special nice...

 

[Jim15]

Great looking pens.

jim

 

[OSCAR15]

Gerry: all are great...I vote for the tru stone as the nicest of the lot!

 

[gerryr]

Originally posted by wdcav1952
<br />Damn, Gerry, I'm going to play Jimmy Buffet all night long to see if it inspires me do do work like this. Bravo, Sir, those are great!!

William, it ain't the Jimmy Buffet, its the Cannonball Adderley, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis(pre Sketches of Spain), etc that does it.[8D]

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. I don't think I have the CA finish down to a science yet, but its getting better and easier. CSUSA sells Tru Stone, it isn't cheap but it pretty neat stuff. I have 2 pieces of the Blanco Nero that are being made into wedding presents. Hope I don't mess them up.

 

[jdavis]

Those are very nice

 

[csb333]

excellent! your ca finish is beautiful! - Chris

 

[thewishman]

Beautiful work. Each pen looks good, my favorite is the malachite.

 

[angboy]

They all look great Gerry! I like the trustone the best- so how did you finish it, given that you commmented on it being hard to finish?

 

[jscola]

Great pens Gerry, I love the tru stone & this is the first time I have seen Black Mulga looks nice.

 

[Buzz]

All beautiful pens. The Black Mulga is interesting in that it appears to be endemic to us here in Western Australia, but I had never seen or even heard of it before. One of several Mulga species that we do have. So many beautiful timbers and so little time[]

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Beautiful Work!


I have some of the CS Tru Stone and not tried it yet, I was wondering what you turned it with, I like using a skew and wonder how it will do?

Thanks[][]

 

[gerryr]

Angela, I finished it with MM as always on plastics, its just that it was really hard to get all the sanding marks off, probably need to scrub my MM pads. I spent a lot of time at the buffing wheel with white diamond.

Jim, I've never had much luck on plastics with a skew, I do them all with a 1" round nose scraper. Had to use the scraper on the Texas Ebony too, but used my skew on the Black Mulga.