purpleheart

Redheart, Purpleheart and Yellowheart fountain pens. Jr. Statesman kits with CA finish. We aren't very creative with those wood names, aren't we?.. (Also, I managed to Improve my images a lot just by setting my phone's camera exposure and saturation to manual mode and increasing them a bit).

G'day! Sleeved this beautiful chunk of purple 💜 with some ebonite and made a massive pen! Ebonite section, Jowo #6 b, marble acrylic finials with abalone coin inlay, spacers, watch crown roll stop, CA finish. Thanks for looking! Casey.

Baron Rollerball in purpleheart, silver, CA glue finish.

Baron Rollerball in purpleheart, silver, CA glue finish.

I scored a large piece of purpleheart, one of my favorite woods, at a local symposium; 12x12x3. It is covered in wax. I can take a cheap knife and scrap off the wax from pen blanks. However, to tackle a large piece of wood is a different story. Cut and just clean what is being used? Your...

I think I am hooked. These Longwood pens are my first attempt at segmented pens. What an engaging activity. I hope that I will be able to go back to non-segmented pens after this. Which one is your favourite? I can't decide. These are both Tulipwood Blanks with Purpleheart feature...

First time with this pattern, learned a few things, will be trying it again. Its a fairly time consuming project, but produces an interesting pattern. You end up making more sawdust that penblank! Anyone have any tips from when they tried it?