SteveJ
Member
There will be two initial polls. Each will have 11 entries. Please vote for your top five choices. At the end of voting the top five from each group will proceed to the next round. Voting will end about noon Thursday, February 24 Mountain Time.
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Entry One
Title of Your Entry: Pau Ferro
Description: Pau Ferro on a Tycoon Kit
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Entry Two
Title of Your Entry: Paella burl Majestic
Description: This here is a piece of Paella burl that I cut from a tiny little burl. It was only enough for maybe 6 blanks, but they were all this beautiful 2 tone.
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Entry Three
Title of Your Entry: Snakewood
Description: Snake wood (Acacia xiphophylla) on a Headwind pen kit.
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Entry Four
Title of Your Entry: Amboyna Heart & Soul
Description: beautiful piece of two-tone Amboyna with traditional CA finish
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Entry Five
Title of Your Entry: Pretty Wood Two-Toned Khamphi Rosewood Burl
Description: A rare Khamphi Rosewood (Dalbergia cultrata) two-toned burl finished with CA on an Antique Copper Caballero rollerball kit from Smitty's Pen Works.
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Entry Six
Title of Your Entry: Honduran Rosewood Burl
Description: This Jr. George fountain pen is wrapped with a beautiful piece of Honduran Rosewood Burl.
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Entry Seven
Title of Your Entry: Koa Turtles
Description: Koa wood sanded to 600 finished with lacquar
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Entry Eight
Title of Your Entry: Red Mallee
Description: I was lucky enough to find a beautiful piece of Red Mallee Burl just long enough for this Panache kit in 10K gold, which shows it off without distraction. The finish is Glu-Boost CA, polished with zona paper, then buffed with tripoli and white diamond. I lost count of how many layers of CA were used since the blank was not stabilized, but it took quite a few extra dabs here and there and a good scraping to level it all out.
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Entry Nine
Title of Your Entry: 500 Year old crosscut Old Growth Pine
Description: This is a custom pen made for someone who had some old growth pine. This is cross cut and his forester estimated the wood to be nearly 50 years old. The chatoyance doesn't come through in the pictures but this was a fun pen to turn. The land this guys wood came from had only been owned by two families in its history and had been given to one of them as a gift from King Arthur of England. This old growth pine came from stakes that were used to mark out property lines.
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Entry Ten
Title of Your Entry: HRB... what else?
Description: Dayacom 3mm sketch pencil dressed in Honduras Rosewood burl. One of the longest single body pens I have identified, 1/16 inches short of 4 inches (1.6 mm short of 102 mm for metric speakers) body length of gorgeousness. Birthday present for an urban sketcher friend so... cheers to more sketches!
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Entry Eleven
Title of Your Entry: Graduate in Buckey
Description: This is a Magnetic Graduate fountain pen turned with a beautiful piece of Buckeye Burl. Nothing out of the ordinary to turn it. Sanded to 600 grit before applying CA finish.
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Entry One
Title of Your Entry: Pau Ferro
Description: Pau Ferro on a Tycoon Kit
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Entry Two
Title of Your Entry: Paella burl Majestic
Description: This here is a piece of Paella burl that I cut from a tiny little burl. It was only enough for maybe 6 blanks, but they were all this beautiful 2 tone.
________________________________________________
Entry Three
Title of Your Entry: Snakewood
Description: Snake wood (Acacia xiphophylla) on a Headwind pen kit.
________________________________________________
Entry Four
Title of Your Entry: Amboyna Heart & Soul
Description: beautiful piece of two-tone Amboyna with traditional CA finish
________________________________________________
Entry Five
Title of Your Entry: Pretty Wood Two-Toned Khamphi Rosewood Burl
Description: A rare Khamphi Rosewood (Dalbergia cultrata) two-toned burl finished with CA on an Antique Copper Caballero rollerball kit from Smitty's Pen Works.
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Entry Six
Title of Your Entry: Honduran Rosewood Burl
Description: This Jr. George fountain pen is wrapped with a beautiful piece of Honduran Rosewood Burl.
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Entry Seven
Title of Your Entry: Koa Turtles
Description: Koa wood sanded to 600 finished with lacquar
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Entry Eight
Title of Your Entry: Red Mallee
Description: I was lucky enough to find a beautiful piece of Red Mallee Burl just long enough for this Panache kit in 10K gold, which shows it off without distraction. The finish is Glu-Boost CA, polished with zona paper, then buffed with tripoli and white diamond. I lost count of how many layers of CA were used since the blank was not stabilized, but it took quite a few extra dabs here and there and a good scraping to level it all out.
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Entry Nine
Title of Your Entry: 500 Year old crosscut Old Growth Pine
Description: This is a custom pen made for someone who had some old growth pine. This is cross cut and his forester estimated the wood to be nearly 50 years old. The chatoyance doesn't come through in the pictures but this was a fun pen to turn. The land this guys wood came from had only been owned by two families in its history and had been given to one of them as a gift from King Arthur of England. This old growth pine came from stakes that were used to mark out property lines.
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Entry Ten
Title of Your Entry: HRB... what else?
Description: Dayacom 3mm sketch pencil dressed in Honduras Rosewood burl. One of the longest single body pens I have identified, 1/16 inches short of 4 inches (1.6 mm short of 102 mm for metric speakers) body length of gorgeousness. Birthday present for an urban sketcher friend so... cheers to more sketches!
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Entry Eleven
Title of Your Entry: Graduate in Buckey
Description: This is a Magnetic Graduate fountain pen turned with a beautiful piece of Buckeye Burl. Nothing out of the ordinary to turn it. Sanded to 600 grit before applying CA finish.
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