One Piece Cigar

[louisbry]

This is my attempt at a one piece cigar. I was inspired by Ron Hossack's (IAP Member RHossack) post last month. It is made with a crosscut spalted crabapple blank and a TI gold cigar kit. Comments are always welcome.

 

[maxman400]

Great grain, fit and finish, Beautiful Pen. JOB WELL DONE!

 

[BryanJon]

That is sweet! I really like that. I will have to try it. How did you do it?

 

[djpnevans]

That is well done, I take it the nip stay's out. Did you cut the coupler down so it still holds the twist mechanism inside the tube?
David

 

[Jim Smith]

Louis,

Beautiful job! I love the look and design of this pen as it really shows off the terrific blank that you selected. What a great looking pen.

Jim Smith

 

[thewishman]

Beautiful pen, great photo, excellent finish and killer blank!

 

[bruce119]

I like it also

It has the look of a long click really shows off the wood BTW is very very nice.

I seen this done before I believe you can twist the NIB to advance the refill.

Only thing I would do different is photograph it with the refill retracted (if it is retractable)

Bruce

 

[jyreene]

And now I'm off to search for that post. I like that. Good work. Of course now I also need to buy a few cigars and slimlines and try my hand at figuring out a one piece.

 

[Dalecamino]

Nice work Louis . The blank is eye catching . I like what you've done with the cigar .

 

[cnirenberg]

I like it as well, you have shown off the beauty of the wood with style. I am going to have to try this out myself. Great job.

 

[wood-of-1kind]

Louis, is it retractable as Bruce asked? If YES, do you use a standard cigar tranny? That is a beautiful pen that you have crafted. Well done.:good:

 

[RichB]

You have made a beautiful pen. I like the idea. It really shows off the blank. What finish did you use? Thanks for showing, Rich

 

[rjwolfe3]

That is a beautiful blank and pen.

 

[louisbry]

Thanks everyone for all the kind compliments! The refill is retractable and I used standard cigar parts.

 

[louisbry]

You have made a beautiful pen. I like the idea. It really shows off the blank. What finish did you use? Thanks for showing, Rich

I used my regular CA/BLO finish micromeshed down to 12000.

 

[broitblat]

That is a beautiful combination and well done. I think I like the one piece better than the traditional cigar -- especially for that blank.

-Barry

 

[workinforwood]

Looks real good Louis. Nice hunk of wood in there.

 

[savi2]

Beautiful pen. The cigar looks very good in the one piece configuration and the blank is very exquisite.

 

[johnnycnc]

looking good, nice design change.
And a super piece of wood!

 

[louisbry]

That is sweet! I really like that. I will have to try it. How did you do it?

Thanks everyone for all the kind words. I could not disclose on the web site how I did it because it was not my idea to pass on. Now I can give you a link to instructions: http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=48327&page=2. As far as I know our own John Ferrell came up with the original idea.

 

[DurocShark]

Nice!!!

 

[Wayne]

Thanks to RHossack and his wonderful tutorial and louisbry's influence, I had to make one!!

Mine is here http://www.penturners.org/photos/images/3336/1_One_Piece_Cigar.jpg

RHossacks tutorial at http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=48327&page=2

 

[Ligget]

That is beautiful wood, you made a fantastic job of the finish too!