White Oak Birdseye Burl

[bitshird]

About a week before I cut up my hand, I made a bottle stopper mandrel for one of the members here that has taken some hard hits from a lot of us. But we all seem to forget that he's just a 16 year old kid, still a bit wet behind the ears, in exchange for making the stopper mandrel and throwing in a 3/8ths tap he sent me some wood, This is one piece of the box he sent, it's beautiful White Oak Birdseye Burl, done on a gunmetal cigar,
Thanks Jared for some great wood :wink::wink::wink:

 

[ahoiberg]

cool looking pen ken. nice work.

 

[CSue]

Beautiful pens, Ken!

Jared has some beautiful wood there! I'll have to see what kind of work he's posted.

And thanks for this "reminder" post.

 

[Hayseedboy]

Very nice pen! Jared's a good one

lr

 

[ldb2000]

Another winner Ken . I really like that wood .

 

[1JaredSchmidt]

I wish I could post pics on here but I can't. I can't see how you can get that kind of a shine on there. Of course I'm using Shellawax (I have yet to learn how to do a CA finish) but that looks awesome! I thought about selling some of those blanks,but I only have about 25 of them. Thanks Ken!

 

[angelofdeath]

nice looking pen ken... i really like the contrasting dark kit with the brightness of the wood. Nice finish

 

[Fred]

Ken ... You did good by Jared's chunk of wood. The completed pen is indeed a very, very nice pen! :biggrin:

 

[igran7]

Very nice pen Ken, and indeed a choice piece of wood.

 

[wdcav1952]

Nice collaboration!!

 

[maxwell_smart007]

I wish I could post pics on here but I can't. I can't see how you can get that kind of a shine on there. Of course I'm using Shellawax (I have yet to learn how to do a CA finish) but that looks awesome! I thought about selling some of those blanks,but I only have about 25 of them. Thanks Ken!

Only way to learn is to mess up a few blanks and try! Don't be afraid of failure - just give it your best try, and you'll come out on top!

Andrew

 

[PaulDoug]

That is a great looking pen. Beautiful wood! Jared, I learned CA finishing from watching Russ Fairfields video and this tutorial:

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?t=71248

I have evolved my own way from applying their methods.

 

[novop711]

That's a beautiful pen, and one nice piece of wood.

 

[desertyellow]

Magnificent wood.
Nice pen too.

 

[reddwil]

I love the grain, Nice pen

 

[bitshird]

I never thought much of white oak for a pen, but the pieces Jared sent me are outstanding, one is going to be allowed the pleasure of wearing Lotus Rollerball hardware,
I wish the kid would get a camera so we could see some of his work and wood he gets.
Jared the only way to get a good ca finish is to do a couple, I don't use any BLO just 3 or 4 coats of thin CA wet sand to 400 then 2 or 3 coats of Medium CA wet sanded to 1500 then buff put the CA on with a paper towel. it helps accelerate the drying, I also use accelerator but not absolutely necessary. Try it on any junk wood, CA is cheap

 

[VisExp]

Ken, I'm not a huge fan of the cigar kit, but that blank and your finish sure do make it look good!

 

[SamThePenMan]

Amazing grain on the white oak. The finish is really nice as well. I normally just use a lacquer finish, but I may have to try out CA one of these days. The picture is really nice as well.

 

[toolcrazy]

That has some really cool grain, nice work.

 

[Ligget]

WOW, that is a beautiful pen!

 

[papaturner]

Ken,That is absolutely the best oak pen I`ve ever seen(bar none ). The wood is awesome and you did an excellent job with it. Have a :coffeen me.lol