Pick 4
There are a lot of great pens to choose from, your job, should you accept it, is to vote for the best 4. We will have 2 rounds of voting, the top 10 will face off in a final round for the top Pens in the Pretty Wood Pen contest. So vote now and vote often, then come back for the 2nd round to make sure your favorite is the winner.
Pen 1
The wood is Bocote
Pen 2
The wood is angle cut Kingwood (Dalbergia caerensis) and the hardware is a Jr Emperor fountain pen in rhodium and gold.
Pen 3
Here is my entry, I do not know what the wood is.
Pen 4
Texas Ebony Burl Caballero
Pen 5
a dyed, but not stabilized, Tortuosa (Corkscrew Willow) blank dressing a Jr. Retro.
Pen 6
Tassie Myrtle
Roman Harvest Kit
Pen 7
PSI RAW in Bethlehem Olive Wood w/Mercury CA finish.
Pen 8
Red Palm on a Vertex Gun Metal click pen kit.
Pen 9
Hi please accept my entry to the petty wood competition.
Pen 10
Turned an old piece of bocote I had and thought it was a really pretty grain structure.
Pen 11
Crosscut Cedar on a Knurl GT pen kit.
Pen 12
The wood is an Elderberry burl stabilized.
Pen 13
This is a bolt action dressed in Hickory burl.
Pen 14
here is my entry for the pretty wood pen.
Pen 15
Box Elder Burl on a JR Gentlemen Fountain Pen
Pen 16
Turning what I refer to as Spindle Shaped pen bodies may not be common but this Zebrawood turned perfectly to match the clip of the Faith Hope Love kit in antique copper.
Pen 17
Figured Cocobolo.
Pen 18
Gun-metal Vertex Click dressed in a cypress knot and Dr.'s Woodshop polish.
Pen 19
black and white ebony.
Pen 20
The pen is a Commander Rollerball with Royal Poinciana wood.
Pen 21
Jr. Retro rollerball & Thuya Burl
Pen 22
PSI Knurl Pen Kit in gun metal with a wood blank I made.
The "main body" is zebra wood with cherry burl at each end.
Four 0.125" wide chevrons rows are made from curly maple, padauk, and blue dyed eucalyptus.
The zebra wood circle within each chevron row was made using a 1/4" plug cutter.
Both ends and body where turned down on the lathe and then the 4 flats where created with a palm router jig affixed to my lathe bed.
The blank was then finished using CA.
Pen 23
Just simple, but nice...was an unmarked piece, so not sure what it is. Am still just learning and I like how this one finished out.
Mirage Rollerball in GunMetal
There are a lot of great pens to choose from, your job, should you accept it, is to vote for the best 4. We will have 2 rounds of voting, the top 10 will face off in a final round for the top Pens in the Pretty Wood Pen contest. So vote now and vote often, then come back for the 2nd round to make sure your favorite is the winner.
Pen 1
The wood is Bocote
Pen 2
The wood is angle cut Kingwood (Dalbergia caerensis) and the hardware is a Jr Emperor fountain pen in rhodium and gold.
Pen 3
Here is my entry, I do not know what the wood is.
Pen 4
Texas Ebony Burl Caballero
Pen 5
a dyed, but not stabilized, Tortuosa (Corkscrew Willow) blank dressing a Jr. Retro.
Pen 6
Tassie Myrtle
Roman Harvest Kit
Pen 7
PSI RAW in Bethlehem Olive Wood w/Mercury CA finish.
Pen 8
Red Palm on a Vertex Gun Metal click pen kit.
Pen 9
Hi please accept my entry to the petty wood competition.
Pen 10
Turned an old piece of bocote I had and thought it was a really pretty grain structure.
Pen 11
Crosscut Cedar on a Knurl GT pen kit.
Pen 12
The wood is an Elderberry burl stabilized.
Pen 13
This is a bolt action dressed in Hickory burl.
Pen 14
here is my entry for the pretty wood pen.
Pen 15
Box Elder Burl on a JR Gentlemen Fountain Pen
Pen 16
Turning what I refer to as Spindle Shaped pen bodies may not be common but this Zebrawood turned perfectly to match the clip of the Faith Hope Love kit in antique copper.
Pen 17
Figured Cocobolo.
Pen 18
Gun-metal Vertex Click dressed in a cypress knot and Dr.'s Woodshop polish.
Pen 19
black and white ebony.
Pen 20
The pen is a Commander Rollerball with Royal Poinciana wood.
Pen 21
Jr. Retro rollerball & Thuya Burl
Pen 22
PSI Knurl Pen Kit in gun metal with a wood blank I made.
The "main body" is zebra wood with cherry burl at each end.
Four 0.125" wide chevrons rows are made from curly maple, padauk, and blue dyed eucalyptus.
The zebra wood circle within each chevron row was made using a 1/4" plug cutter.
Both ends and body where turned down on the lathe and then the 4 flats where created with a palm router jig affixed to my lathe bed.
The blank was then finished using CA.
Pen 23
Just simple, but nice...was an unmarked piece, so not sure what it is. Am still just learning and I like how this one finished out.
Mirage Rollerball in GunMetal
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