My first pine cone pen

[Gary Beasley]

We found these next to the restrooms at Chewacla State Park yesterday, the squirrels had chewed off all the tabs and made it much easier to work with. Fortified with CA, drilled on the lathe, CA coated again, turned down and finished with a CA/BLO finish.

 

[B727phixer]

Hi Gary!
It looks very nice.:biggrin:

 

[Lenny]

Still looks good seconds later!

 

[David Keller]

That looks great... Maybe the best looking cone pen I've seen.

 

[hunter-27]

cool

 

[rdunn12]

Those are nice,great work on them.

 

[workinforwood]

Great looking pen Gary. Those are a lot of work!

 

[Mark]

They look like a lot of work. Very nice looking.

 

[jeffnreno]

Hi Gary

Great looking pens - were the cones dry or was there some sap?

Thanks Jeff

 

[Gary Beasley]

Using papaturners advice he posted in an earlier thread I really didn't have too hard a time with it. I think the most delicate part was the drilling, going slow with the cone in the chuck trying to keep it from breaking off at the tapered end where it got too small to be drilled. I wish I knew how to get the depth of finish he gets on his stuff.

 

[Gary Beasley]

Hi Gary

Great looking pens - were the cones dry or was there some sap?

Thanks Jeff

They seemed to be quite dry, maybe last years crop just downed by the squirrels.