I while back I posted a thread raving about Dawn's blanks. Well here are a few pens I made over the last week since I got them.
The first picture is a few elegant beauties I think, a couple of ultra cigars and a segmented sedona. I learned something about scale and contrast making this pen. It's for a lady that owns a nail salon, but I'm gonna make her another. The white really doesn't contrast well with the pink and the white is too wide i think to be attractive. I dont remember the names of all the blanks, but the purple one is purple metallic. I don't know what the yellow is but it looks really sharp in person.
The other two pics are for a closed end (my first) Jr. Gent made from Dawn's Alt Briar. It turned very easily and finished up very nice. I just went to her site and bought some more of it.
I bought the closed end mandrels from az sil and it was very easy to do. So if you are thinking about doing a closed end - do it! It looks really sharp (may be my best pen yet) and it was fun to make.
Next stop - double closed end, if I can ever figure out how to handle the clip.
The first picture is a few elegant beauties I think, a couple of ultra cigars and a segmented sedona. I learned something about scale and contrast making this pen. It's for a lady that owns a nail salon, but I'm gonna make her another. The white really doesn't contrast well with the pink and the white is too wide i think to be attractive. I dont remember the names of all the blanks, but the purple one is purple metallic. I don't know what the yellow is but it looks really sharp in person.
The other two pics are for a closed end (my first) Jr. Gent made from Dawn's Alt Briar. It turned very easily and finished up very nice. I just went to her site and bought some more of it.
I bought the closed end mandrels from az sil and it was very easy to do. So if you are thinking about doing a closed end - do it! It looks really sharp (may be my best pen yet) and it was fun to make.
Next stop - double closed end, if I can ever figure out how to handle the clip.