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: Burned Purpleheart
Description: So, when I made this pen out of purpleheart it wasn't a deep purple like it originally had been. I looked up how to make it darker and then a thread from this website came up. It said direct sunlight and heat make it darker. So, I took a rag and held up against the blank on the lathe until it started to burn and become a great dark stripey purple! It's made of purpleheart and a chrome capped pen kit and I finished it sanding, burning it purple, more sanding, and a finishing wax.
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Entry Two
Title of Your Entry: Greek Olive
Description: Figured Greek olive wood in a gold panache kit.
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Entry Three
Title of Your Entry: Cocobolo
Description: These are shots of a chrome Concava from PSI. The cocobolo is sanded to 600 and then EEE, followed by three coats of Shellawax cream.
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Entry Four
Title of Your Entry:
Description: Honduran Rosewood Burl in a Jr. Monarch rollerball kit. Finished with friction polish and wax.
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Entry Five
Title of Your Entry: Alaskan Yellow Cedar
Description: Stabilized Alaskan Yellow Cedar on Mirage hardware. Hoping the right sized pics are attached—having to do this from a tablet, so all I can see is the thumbnails!
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Entry Six
Title of Your Entry:
Description: When I started stabilizing I was stabilizing everything and and not keeping track of anything.
So your guess is as good as mine but I thought it was cool.
The kit is a Hurricane and the finish is Glu-Boost
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Entry Seven
Title of Your Entry: Australian Red Coolibah Cigar
Description: This is an Australian Red Coolibah Burl Cigar Pen in Gold/Satin Gold. The blank was unstabilized, so I waited nearly a year before turning any of this wood. The finish is CA, micro-meshed through all the grits. Followed up with PlastX plastic polish.
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Entry Eight
Title of Your Entry: Black hole olive
Description: Olive wood heartwood, oil sanded and finished with pens plus in.
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Entry Nine
Title of Your Entry:
Description: Pretty Lacewood 2mm Pencil Kit
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Entry Ten
Title of Your Entry: Cherry Burl RB
Description: Cherry burl on a Diamond Knurl rollerball from Exotic Blanks. Finished with GluBoost
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Entry Eleven
Title of Your Entry: Elegant Amboyna
Description: This Baron fountain pen is dressed in a beautiful amboyna burl, one of my all time favorites. The components are fitted so that the grain aligns whether it is capped or posted. I treated it with CA a few times as I turned to prevent blowout. Finished with 10 coats of CA, wet sanded with Zona, then Novus 2 & 1 for the finishing touch.
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Entry One
Title of Your Entry: Burned Purpleheart
Description: So, when I made this pen out of purpleheart it wasn't a deep purple like it originally had been. I looked up how to make it darker and then a thread from this website came up. It said direct sunlight and heat make it darker. So, I took a rag and held up against the blank on the lathe until it started to burn and become a great dark stripey purple! It's made of purpleheart and a chrome capped pen kit and I finished it sanding, burning it purple, more sanding, and a finishing wax.
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Entry Two
Title of Your Entry: Greek Olive
Description: Figured Greek olive wood in a gold panache kit.
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Entry Three
Title of Your Entry: Cocobolo
Description: These are shots of a chrome Concava from PSI. The cocobolo is sanded to 600 and then EEE, followed by three coats of Shellawax cream.
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Entry Four
Title of Your Entry:
Description: Honduran Rosewood Burl in a Jr. Monarch rollerball kit. Finished with friction polish and wax.
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Entry Five
Title of Your Entry: Alaskan Yellow Cedar
Description: Stabilized Alaskan Yellow Cedar on Mirage hardware. Hoping the right sized pics are attached—having to do this from a tablet, so all I can see is the thumbnails!
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Entry Six
Title of Your Entry:
Description: When I started stabilizing I was stabilizing everything and and not keeping track of anything.
So your guess is as good as mine but I thought it was cool.
The kit is a Hurricane and the finish is Glu-Boost
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Entry Seven
Title of Your Entry: Australian Red Coolibah Cigar
Description: This is an Australian Red Coolibah Burl Cigar Pen in Gold/Satin Gold. The blank was unstabilized, so I waited nearly a year before turning any of this wood. The finish is CA, micro-meshed through all the grits. Followed up with PlastX plastic polish.
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Entry Eight
Title of Your Entry: Black hole olive
Description: Olive wood heartwood, oil sanded and finished with pens plus in.
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Entry Nine
Title of Your Entry:
Description: Pretty Lacewood 2mm Pencil Kit
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Entry Ten
Title of Your Entry: Cherry Burl RB
Description: Cherry burl on a Diamond Knurl rollerball from Exotic Blanks. Finished with GluBoost
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Entry Eleven
Title of Your Entry: Elegant Amboyna
Description: This Baron fountain pen is dressed in a beautiful amboyna burl, one of my all time favorites. The components are fitted so that the grain aligns whether it is capped or posted. I treated it with CA a few times as I turned to prevent blowout. Finished with 10 coats of CA, wet sanded with Zona, then Novus 2 & 1 for the finishing touch.