kyaggie
Member
Hello all,
I know that to many on the forum this segmenting job is kids play but we all have to start somewhere, right?. To ad to the eye catching factor of 50,000 year old Ancient Kauri wood, I flanked it with Irish Bog Oak obtained from KeithKarl2007 here on IAP. This was my first stab at segmenting so I took a bunch of tips from various threads to put together a plan. I sized the wood blanks to the same width and height on a tablesaw and since I don't have a bandsaw I cut the segments to length with a compound miter saw. I then stacked the segments in my blank vice and drilled them (I also drilled the aluminum can). I then epoxied everything together on the tube and clamped it all together to cure overnight. Squaring the ends and turning them went without incident and I finished the wood with walnut oil and Penturner's Plus. I'm not a photographer so the pen is not really as dark as it appears in the pictures. The kit is a gun metal Stratus from PSI that was a request from a friend (that I've known since 5th grade in 1976).
Mike
I know that to many on the forum this segmenting job is kids play but we all have to start somewhere, right?. To ad to the eye catching factor of 50,000 year old Ancient Kauri wood, I flanked it with Irish Bog Oak obtained from KeithKarl2007 here on IAP. This was my first stab at segmenting so I took a bunch of tips from various threads to put together a plan. I sized the wood blanks to the same width and height on a tablesaw and since I don't have a bandsaw I cut the segments to length with a compound miter saw. I then stacked the segments in my blank vice and drilled them (I also drilled the aluminum can). I then epoxied everything together on the tube and clamped it all together to cure overnight. Squaring the ends and turning them went without incident and I finished the wood with walnut oil and Penturner's Plus. I'm not a photographer so the pen is not really as dark as it appears in the pictures. The kit is a gun metal Stratus from PSI that was a request from a friend (that I've known since 5th grade in 1976).
Mike