VOTING IS NOW OPEN !!

[bobleibo]

Here it is...what everyone has been waiting for!! The Voting for the ​

Simple Ball Point Pen Contest ​

is now OPEN! ​

First let me thank our very generous vendors and members
for their prize donations.
They certainly add a lot to the IAP 2015 BASH.
After you vote, please take a moment to visit them and say Thank You! ​

- Kallenshaan Woods
- IAP Member RHerrell (Rick Herrell) ​

- IAP Member TLTHW (David Redburn) ​

Also a big Thank You to our entrants for showing us just how much talent is hiding out there and making this contest so much fun. ​

Now, on to the voting. ​

- Round 1 – please pick your favorite (3) entries
- Voting for round 1 will close on Feb 24th at 7:00 a.m.​

Once we have the top (3) from round 1, we will open a new poll for round 2 to our pick 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners
- Round 2 will open on February 25th and close on February 27th. ​

Winners will be announced on Feb 28th
Good luck to our entrants~​

 

[bobleibo]

PEN 1

Kit used: Wall Street II
Process Used Burls are amazing but in my opinion, they sometimes need a little help in contrast and texture. I used 2 pieces of Padauck at a 45degree angle and segmented both pieces with aluminum accents to provide an effective contrast and clean line.

 

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PEN 2

Kit used: Nevus
Process Used This is a Nevus ballpoint pen kit created per the kit instructions with no modifications. The blank was made by segmenting multiple dyed and stabilized box elder burl blanks and strips of brass.

 

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PEN 3

Kit used: PSI executive
Process Used My pen is intended to showcase a very pretty piece of stabilized Flame boxelder. Simple contour and low gloss finish to let the wood speak for its self.

 

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PEN 4

Kit used: Wall Street II
Process Used I used Bull Pizzle to create this. I first saturated the section with CA before drilling and again after. Black painted tube and inside of blank. Turned blank using skew. Finished with 14 coats of CA and finish to 12,000 and then 105 and 205 Mequires

 

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PEN 5

Kit used: Majestic Squire Gold TN and Black TN Kit
Process Used Acrylic Lava Bright Copper with Gold Thread blank. Turned and sanded to 12000 Micromesh. Polished with One Step plastic polish.

 

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PEN 6

Kit used: Mesa pen
Process Used Used an Inlace Acrylester blank called "jungle-moss". I felt the green offset the black nicely, and the chrome brings out the blue-green reflections. Simply turned and finished through 2000 grit and polished with McGuire's plast-x. The pen does see daily use and has performed well.

 

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PEN 7

Kit used: chrome phoenix
Process Used I started with a blue curly maple blank.Made the inlay material for the knot and cut the pieces for the scallops. I cut the blue blank to make the knot glued them in with ca. Cut and installed the scallops. drilled and installed the tube. turned it and finished with ca.

 

[bobleibo]

PEN 8

Kit used: Nautical Pen Kit Antique Copper
Process Used I chose Tulipwood because of its color to complement the pen kit design.

 

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PEN 9

Kit used: Black Ti Cigar Ballpoint
Process Used This pen started with a bag of lentils, glued individually to the tubes and cast in clear resin for a scale look. The turning was minimal with tools and mostly sanded to shape and sealed with a CA finish.

 

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PEN 10

Kit used: Triton Ballpoint
Process Used This contest required an non modified ball point pen kit. I selected a Triton Ballpoint. The blank is an original Parker Pen Company blue Crushed Velvet blank. The challenge was that the blanks are 3/4" x 5/8" which doesn't leave much room for error when drilling. The blank was reverse painted bright silver to increase the contrasts in the blank. The blanks were turned, sanded, micro meshed and buffed with goal of an exceptional fit and finish.

 

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PEN 11

Kit used: Patriot from PSI
Process Used Perfect for America -- needs no modifications. Carefully handcrafted and buffed to a high gloss.

 

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PEN 12

Kit used: Atlas-Black Enamel
Process Used After blowing out the end of the Glow in the dark pen blank I cut the length and added the Paduak ends. Glued them up using a bolt for a clamp and then trimmed to the proper size. Finished with several levels of sand paper and then resanded with abrasive pads. Hut friction polish applied. Pen will glow blue once it has been charged for a short period of time.

 

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PEN 13

Kit used: Nautical
Process Used This is a blank I got in a box of blanks from another member.I don't know what its made of.Standard drill and turn,sand and buff process.

 

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PEN 14

Kit used: Cigar Kit
Process Used Cocobolo sanded to 500 using Abranet. CA finish, 6 coats thin, 3 coats medium. Micromesh thru 12k. Polished with Meguiar's PlastX.

 

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PEN 15

Kit used: Gold Lancer
Process Used For the Simple Ball Point Pen entry, I chose a Gold Lancer. This Lancer is dressed out in beautiful Honduran Rosewood Burl, with a hint of sap wood showing.

 

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PEN 16

Kit used: Vertex Click Pen Antique Brass
Process Used Huon pine cut to segments. Glued 0.5mm thick brass washers to segments. Drilled brass and timber in one pass together. Glued drilled segments onto tube aligning grain and turned at 1500rpm with square carbide tip. Sanded, then 20 thin coats CA, wet MM to finish. Yep, that's blood on the timber segment in the second photo. Cheers, Frank

 

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PEN 17

Kit used: Sierra Button Click
Process Used This is a Sierra Button click in two tone chrome. The blank is cedar and aluminum scroll sawed that I made. This is the hardest blank I have turned to date. Can't even remember how many times it blew apart.

 

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PEN 18

Kit used: Apprentice Classica Pen Kit Gun Metal
Process Used This pen was made with two separate blanks. The outer blank is dark curly spalted maple. The inlay is birds eye maple. This was my first attempt at this style of pen. I drilled a 29/64 hole in the outer blank, and a 27/64 hole in the inlay blank which the brass tube was epoxied in. The inlay blank was turned down to 29/64, finished and epoxied into the darker blank. Caution was taken not to take material off to quickly to prevent chipping away the outer blank. Sanded to 1200 grit and finished with a home made recipe of French Polish, which brought out the depth in both blanks creating a nice even finish.

 

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PEN 19

Kit used: Rockler Black Titanium/Gold Manhattan
Process Used This pen blank was cast by fellow member "Marko50" and is of an area south of Atlanta where I used to live. The blank was turned to size and polished with micro pads to 12,000 grit.

 

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PEN 20

Kit used: Vertex Click
Process Used This is a Vertex Click chrome pen with a red & black Spectraply blank that cut into slices and rotated on the tube for a spiral, segmented design. It was finished with CA/ BLO and wet sanded and polished and buffed.

 

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PEN 21

Kit used: Berea Cigar Satin Black
Process Used The soft brown tone of the riftsawn white oak complements the double celtic knot and satin black plating. The double knot and accent rings in the upper barrel comprise black veneer sandwiched between golden yellow veneer. I made the double knot by spacing the "rope" one saw kerf width between segments at 45° angle. A light wipe of walnut oil highlighted and enriched the colors before applying a CA finish.

 

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PEN 22

Kit used: Gun Metal Executive
Process Used This is a gun metal Executive matched with a molten metal inlace acrylester blank. This is the first inlace I have turned and although a bit tricky it is a beautiful blank and polishes so nice and deep. I think the gun metal is a great plating to match it with.

 

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PEN 23

Kit used: Wall St 2
Process Used Used some crosscut Olivewood to do this one. Finished with 6 coats of BLO and CA then another 15 coats of medium CA. MM to 12k grit then plastic polish. With the left over blank I had enough to make a matching key chain. Never sold this one, kept it for myself....as usual.

 

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PEN 24

Kit used: PSI Bolt Action
Process Used This pen is my first attempt at segmenting. The center portion is stabilized Crosscut Flamed Boxelder. Segmented on each end is a thin piece of aluminum from a pop can and a piece of Crosscut Gaboon Ebony. Pen was finished with CA. Chrome Bolt Action kit from PSI.

 

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PEN 25

Kit used: Liberty
Process Used I Used four corian 1/2 inch x5 inch blanks. Glued them together. Drilled the tube hole then cut segments. Assembled on tube by rotating each segment 90 degrees to create the step pattern.

 

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PEN 26

Kit used: SPW Le Roi Elegant Royale in Rhodium (Schmidt EasyFlow 9000 refill)
Process Used I wanted to use a kit that showed off more of the blank than usual. I knew I wanted to use one of Robutacion's (George's Bits of Timber) Resifill blanks so I made a total of 3. Sanded each through 600 grit sandpaper then through 12,000 grit micromesh then applied 4 to 6 coats of Doctor's Woodshop Pens Plus. Finally I buffed the assembled pen with Renaaissance Wax Polish, then picked the best. Thanks for looking.

 

[twinsen]

Very good pens all. The artistry this year of the beginner entries is fantastic.

 

[Dale Lynch]

Nice pens contestants.I couldn't justify a vote for mine this time.Yours are better.

 

[MarkD]

Now how can you pick just three from that bunch of beautiful pens!

 

[bobleibo]

Now how can you pick just three from that bunch of beautiful pens!

Exactly....every time I received an entry, it reminded me of the level of talent we have amongst us~

Well done by every entrant. Let's show them how impressed everyone is and VOTE.

 

[MDS]

All very nice pens!

All 26 are winners in my sight!!

 

[eajacobson]

Only three? I can vote for only THREE? My head hurts. They are all so nice. Great work everyone.

 

[Edward Cypher]

This was the toughest one yet so many excellent pens!! Congrats to all who entered. You are all worthy of being in the top 3.

 

[SteveJ]

There are some amazing pens there. One of the unfortunate things about this contest is that invariably someone will get only a few votes. That doesn't really reflect how much we might appreciate the work done. I kept switching my choices, depending on if I was in the mood for segmented pens, acrylic pens, wood pens, burls or whatever. Finally just asked my wife and son to weigh in. There are some amazing pens which didn't receive one of my three votes. Congratulations to all who entered.

 

[bobleibo]

There are some amazing pens there. One of the unfortunate things about this contest is that invariably someone will get only a few votes. That doesn't really reflect how much we might appreciate the work done. I kept switching my choices, depending on if I was in the mood for segmented pens, acrylic pens, wood pens, burls or whatever. Finally just asked my wife and son to weigh in. There are some amazing pens which didn't receive one of my three votes. Congratulations to all who entered.

Well said~ and much agreed

 

[wyone]

But you know.. for me.. and I KNOW that my pen will not win or even come close, even ONE vote means a significant amount to me. It just shows that someone else can see the same things we saw when we were creating it. I know there is a huge difference in what I can see is the most creative, the prettiest, the most skilled, and what I might actually want to have an use. I will never feel badly for low votes. I am just proud that I had enough gumption to enter.

 

[triw51]

WOW That was a hard choice. Wish I could have voted for more than 3 like maybe all of them

 

[twinsen]

There are some amazing pens there. One of the unfortunate things about this contest is that invariably someone will get only a few votes. That doesn't really reflect how much we might appreciate the work done. I kept switching my choices, depending on if I was in the mood for segmented pens, acrylic pens, wood pens, burls or whatever. Finally just asked my wife and son to weigh in. There are some amazing pens which didn't receive one of my three votes. Congratulations to all who entered.

Well said~ and much agreed

Agreed. I especially have a hard time with segmented vs non segmented pen in the same competition. I think the beginning contest (and others) should be split into two. Same rules as this year, but make a segmented contest and non-segmented contest.

 

[MarkD]

Looks like a tie for the top spot and a tie for the second highest. Are you taking the top three pens or the top three vote getters to the final vote?