Antique ornament marketry pen

[chrisk]

Hi all,
Hereunder an Artist Sketch pencil scrollsawed by Greek marketry craftsmen, Misailidis (*) father and son. The pattern is inspired by an antique ornament. The woods: Macassar Ebony and Birdseye Maple.
(*) a) - marquetry
b) humidors-cigars
c) dimitris's Woodworking Projects @ LumberJocks.com ~ woodworking community

 

[D.Oliver]

I don't think I've ever seen a Sketch Pencil look so good.

 

[glycerine]

Holy crap, that's is awesome work!

 

[Alzey]

That some precision scroll sawing. I had to pick my jaw up off the table.

Let me make sure I understand what I am seeing. The 2 woods were scrolled so they would slide together and lock along the pattern?

 

[Ruby pen turning]

Outstanding.

 

[Sataro]

Amazing pen! It's hard to imagine the work went into that scrollsaw effort to get it to come looking like that!

 

[chrisk]

That some precision scroll sawing. I had to pick my jaw up off the table.

Let me make sure I understand what I am seeing. The 2 woods were scrolled so they would slide together and lock along the pattern?

Yes, the two woods (7/8" square blanks) were scrollsawed separetely with a sketch glued on each of them. Afterwards, we have two scrollsawed maple patterns and two Macassar Ebony ones which are sliden (and glued) together to give us two pens. Yes indeed this precision is amazing.

 

[BRobbins629]

Very nice design and execution. I like it.

 

[Haynie]

 

[azamiryou]

Ditto!

 

[Dustygoose]

WOW

 

[NewLondon88]

ok, that's just cool

 

[Atherton Pens]

What they said!

Ditto!

 

[boxerman]

Wow very nice blank you used.

 

[paintspill]

that is incredible. i had a request a while back for a pen with a water theme. even if i could have thought of that i don't think i could do it. well done.

 

[MattTheHat]

Great gobs of goose gunk!

That is just too cool!

-Matt

 

[mrcook4570]

WOW!

 

[John Den]

Howd U do-Dat,
Regards
John

 

[bluwolf]

Holy crap, that's is awesome work!

What he said, and then some.

Mike

 

[chrisk]

Thank you all for your kind words.

 

[nava1uni]

Astonishingly beautiful work and finished product.

 

[scotian12]

Beautiful work Chris.

 

[daliclimbs]

Wonderful work! Exceptional to the point of me not being able to describe it!

 

[chrisk]

Thank you all for the warm words.

 

[chrisk]

And some update with behind the scene pics. The woods: tulipwood and kingwood.

 

[chrisk]

And a new experiment with the meander. The woods: maple and african blackwood. I agree with my "scrollmen" friends that the antique flood is far better than the meander.

 

[DurocShark]

I am stunned. Amazing!

 

[thewishman]

Makes me think of the sapient pear wood magic luggage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld, if you turn it upside down.

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