smokinghole
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I'd been wanting to do the Stars and Stripes. I think it turned out awesome.
The middle Eurpoean is rosewood with maple segment/scallops and bloodwood inlay. I wanted the rosewood to be equally sized on the top, but forgot to account for the tenon. Whoops. I also found it difficult to control the depth of bandsaw cut when making the "X's." I rounded the maple segment and tried to cut until the blade was just completely into the blank so that each X would be identical, but when I finished making the pen you can tell that some went deeper than others.
The bottom twisty segment was a gift for my father in law. I had to cut down a crabapple tree that grew in the front yard of his mother's house (where he grew up) because carpenter ants hollowed it. That one was made completely from a few branches I saved.
The middle Eurpoean is rosewood with maple segment/scallops and bloodwood inlay. I wanted the rosewood to be equally sized on the top, but forgot to account for the tenon. Whoops. I also found it difficult to control the depth of bandsaw cut when making the "X's." I rounded the maple segment and tried to cut until the blade was just completely into the blank so that each X would be identical, but when I finished making the pen you can tell that some went deeper than others.
The bottom twisty segment was a gift for my father in law. I had to cut down a crabapple tree that grew in the front yard of his mother's house (where he grew up) because carpenter ants hollowed it. That one was made completely from a few branches I saved.
