Rifleman1776
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These are here in penturning because the 'show off' category is for best work. These are not my best. Not bad, just not my best bragging stuff. They will be put in my display case for cheapskate retirement market here. You know, these folks will spend $10,000.00 on a cruise but drink free coffee all day at the Senior Center. Oh, well. The pen on top is made from South American Citrus. I don't know what kind of citrus. I have a chance to purchase a fairly large quantity of this and planned to make quite a few duck and game calls from it because it is hard and dense and somewhat oily. But the wood has a lot of cracks that destroy cosmetics of the calls. Smaller pieces will become pens. The yellow color, in my opinion, does not compliment the platium I choose. Wanted to try it, usually I stick with dark woods for the platinum/silver fittings. Note the center band. The kit came from Bear Tooth Woods and has three options for the center band: plain usual style, one as shown or two as shown. Interesting. The lower pen is made from what I believe is Bill Baumbecks 'steelwood cocobolo'. It is neither steel or pure coco. It is laminated and plasticized. I got it in a trade. This is not my favorite type of turning material, I like wood that looks like wood. This stuff is very hard to turn. It dulls quality tools rapidly and takes a great deal of time to turn. It makes a DO NOT BREATH dust instead of shavings. It doesn't show but this is a black line clip kit. Two more things of note. The first is a change in the style of the tips, no longer plain. They now have a little step thingy in them. Not bad, but I'm not overly impressed either. The second, on the coco pen, I burned some black lines to compliment the clip. Stuck my big toe a tiny bit into the world of innovation. Uh, Oh! [:0] Brian Gisi and Eagle, watch out, here I come. 
