Sometimes You Get Lucky!

[Jim in Oakville]

Hi,

I just thought I'd share this image of one of my pens from last night, every now and then you get a blank that makes you go WOW, this one did for me...A blue BEB from BB...

 

[Boomalia]

Wow is all I can say!!!!!!!!

 

[Tangboy5000]

Very cool. Your choice of kits compliments the wood nicely.

 

[Skye]

Very nice, and good job not blowing that out! Looks like a Google Earth pen.

 

[JimGo]

Originally posted by Skye
Looks like a Google Earth pen.

That was my thought too. Somewhere over the Pacific, I think!

Jim, that's a beauty!

 

[rduncan]

I'll take luck anyday!! Although in this case talent plays a part. []

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Originally posted by Skye
<br />Very nice, and good job not blowing that out! Looks like a Google Earth pen.

Can you say Thin CA is your friend!![8D]

Yeah you really have to be careful with this type of blank, lots of super light cuts and re honing every few passes helped a lot.

 

[NavyDiver]

Excellent pen. That looks spectacular.

 

[TBone]

Some people are lucky, some are good. Jim, you obviously are both. Beautiful work!
Is that a shark swimming near the equator...I mean center band? []

 

[Skye]

Oh, and isnt this in the wrong forum? Hate for it to miss views being in the wrong one.

 

[Jim15]

Great looking pen.

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Originally posted by Skye
<br />Oh, and isnt this in the wrong forum? Hate for it to miss views being in the wrong one.

Skye, it was about the wood, not the pen...[]

 

[Skye]

Well, it's my belief that the wood should always make the pen. You've made a nice pen from this wood []

 

[woodbutcher]

Beautiful piece,
Jim

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Originally posted by Skye
<br />Well, it's my belief that the wood should always make the pen. You've made a nice pen from this wood []

Thanks Skye,

In the last week I have made about 38 pens in prep for a craft sale this weekend, I will have 120 pens on my table...some times it's hard to see the pen for the wood...you know how it gets sometimes akin to White line fever when you have been driving all night....well I think I have 10 pens left in me before the weekend, hoping that the wood left on my work bench is half as nice as this one...I smile when they move on to thier next life...yeah...right!!

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Thanks to every one for your feed back, finding an awesome blank on your lathe is a true gift of the turning Gods, eh!

 

[clement]

Very nice pen Jim, i like the kit too,
clem

 

[kent4Him]

I would go with blessed on this one. Special piece of wood there.

 

[chigdon]

Originally posted by JimGo
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Originally posted by Skye
Looks like a Google Earth pen.

That was my thought too. Somewhere over the Pacific, I think!

Jim, that's a beauty!

That was my thought as well. Awesome!

 

[johncrane]

looks fantastic JIM'you allways do a top job mate.[]

 

[Penmonkey]

That is nice! My little brother said WOW!

 

[bananajeep]

I'd have to say Wow too! The pen really compliments the wood!

Nice Job

Mike

 

[Jim in Oakville]

It's funny,

When I would get a great blank in a colour and wood type I would call back and order 10 more of the same thing (How many of you have done that, Hands UP!![])

.....and I would never get another one that was quite as exceptional...never mind the expense of the mega reorder....

Now I just enjoy what I get, if I see a good one going on the lathe I sometimes save it before I press it, trying to find the right type of hardware in that design chosen to match it...but once it's drilled it's pretty much a done deal, I still have a hard time seeing in the rough blank what it's potenial is...

And.....I AM A PEN BLANK JUNKIE!!!

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Thanks for all the kind comments...

 

[Tropical]

Beautiful pen!!