Alan Morrison
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A couple of pens and a blank in Sycamore and Mahogany composed of triangles and a couple of parallelograms, and an assembly photograph. Photographs not great.
Mostly triangles
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Bryguy
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Beautiful work as always!
BULLWINKLE
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Absolutely awesome work. For me, I simply don't have the kind of patience it would take, nor do I have that kind of skill. I do however admire your work and the skills it took to create it.
Alan Morrison
Member
Thanks for your comments.
I studied a segmented pen made by Mark @mark james for two years before even attempting something like it....even with Mark's assurances that his design was very do-able. In the end I tried it and sure enough it was very do-able. Mark has written some excellent tutorials in resources
which helped me enormously.
Once you can cut equilateral triangles then these designs are most definately very do-able, and simple enough.
You should give it a try sometime.
Alan
jttheclockman
Member
Very well done. One of these days I am going to have to travel down this path myself. The key is to be able to cut that small of pieces safely. Using the right woods brings out the designs and you do a great job with that. Thanks for showing.
BULLWINKLE
Member
Alan, to me the hardest part would not be the cutting. It would be gluing up all those segments at angles. All in all, your work is excellent.
mark james
IAP Collection, Curator
Superb artistry Alan. I love your unique designs - very special. 
Those look great Alan. Your work is very inspiring. I have been studying Mark's tutorials for sometime now and recently started down the advanced segmenting (that's what I call it) road starting with the Squares and Triangles tutorial. Hopefully I will have something to post in the next week or so. It definitely takes patience and attention to detail. Your patterns remind me of many of the Yosegi designs. Very well done!
Alan Morrison
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Looking forward to seeing them, John.
I am in the process of re-making these as the triangles were just a tad too big, meaning that I lost too much definition in the pattern.
I will post when completed.
Hope that you are well, John.
Alan
Alan Morrison
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I find it easier to glue the triangles in twos, if using CA, or glue the whole thing with carpenter's glue and clamp overnight in a jig.
Alan Morrison
Member
Thanks for your comments, Mark.Superb artistry Alan. I love your unique designs - very special.
Trust that you are well.
Alan
Alan Morrison
Member
Thanks Tim. I get inspiration from Yosegi patterns, decorative inlay strips, Tunbridge Ware, wooden floor borders, to name a few.
Alan
mark james
IAP Collection, Curator
I'm doing well my friend. I got home from my FIL yesterday, so have 4 days off. The schedule is OK. I have gotten a bug to crank up the metal lathe and cut slotted blanks for end caps. Each segmented blank takes 6-10 hrs from slotting to inlays done and cut. Less if I do 10-12 blanks at a time. But then, I also work slowly. My wife is pushing me for a better respirator, and to be cleanly shaven before I do those
. She is correct (she's an industrial chemist), so when I get my new respirator, I will cut 10-15 blanks with 6-8-12 slots and do the inlays. All is well!