Wooden kitless integral

[Pierre---]

Worked with some nice woods : lignum vitae bicolor:

Snakewood, kingwood and bofopaya:

And one of my favorites, royal ebony from Laos, with an ebonite section:

Comments and critics are very welcome.

 

[Jim15]

Those are beautiful.

 

[mark james]

Wow, those are beautiful. I love the Lignum Vitae the best. Very creative.

 

[leehljp]

THAT is making wood look like it was meant to be. You certainly know how to find the pen in the wood!

BEAUTIFUL!

 

[GaryMGg]

Gorgeous workmanship.

 

[Teodor]

Wow that is really beautiful.
I'm very tempted to work with wood.
Great job.

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[Kyle Crandall]

Beautiful work!

 

[Brotherdale]

Tres Jolie. Love the lignum vitae. Did you put a finish on them? I love the way they look.

 

[Pierre---]

Thanks for the kind words.

No finish, Brotherdale. The woods are hard enough to get a high sheen just by polishing. I sometimes do a CA finish on kingwood, but I rather feel the bare wood under the skin...

 

[Talltim]

All Very nice. The lignum vitae is my favorite. Has a classy simplicity to it.


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[TonyL]

Outstanding...seldom see wood kitless!

 

[TG Design]

Excellent! Love the wooden threads. I also like that you used wood for the sections, very nice!


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[MRDucks2]

Quite nice


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[magpens]

Fantastic pens !! . Thanks for showing ... VERY well done !!!

What threads did you use ... cap to body and section to body ... ?

 

[Pierre---]

What threads did you use ... cap to body and section to body ... ?

Both are M 1, but cap to body is a double start. I tried M .8, but that is too weak in wood...

 

[Fred Bruche]

Awesomeness, thank you for sharing Pierre!
I have some of these wood, I have some of the taps and dies, I guess I'm going to give it another try one of these days. So far I've gotten pretty dismal results in my attempts at threading wood but you show that it can be done! Any wood species you tried and didn't work? Any attempt with boxwood (buis)?

 

[Pierre---]

Boxwood is great for threading. Light woods are the worst, but impregnating with CA or linseed oil may help.

If you want to thread wood, you may use taps, but you have to forget using dies, take a 10 000 rpm cutting tool instead!

 

[johncrane]

best i've seen in wood, great work Pierre!

 

[Ironwood]

Superb work.

 

[darrin1200]

Boxwood is great for threading. Light woods are the worst, but impregnating with CA or linseed oil may help.

If you want to thread wood, you may use taps, but you have to forget using dies, take a 10 000 rpm cutting tool instead!

Beautiful pens Pierre. I have a piece of Lignum that I would like to try this with, but I too have struggled with cutting threads in wood.

I am not sure I understand what you mean for cutting exterior threads. What type of 10,000 rpm tool you are referring to. Are you referring to a Dremel type tool? I would love to see a picture.

Thanks

 

[Pierre---]

Darrin, I use a stronger machine than a Dremel, but it is the same. In front is the threading machine, home made on the same idea as Hope's threading jig. Here are the tools I use, made from a HSS bar. Hope it helps.

 

[darrin1200]

Darrin, I use a stronger machine than a Dremel, but it is the same. In front is the threading machine, home made on the same idea as Hope's threading jig. Here are the tools I use, made from a HSS bar. Hope it helps.

Those look like threading tools for a metal lathe.