patmurris
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Hi all! 
This is not exactly a finished pen but rather a proof of concept for a 'skinnable' sierra like pen idea, where you can replace the main wooden barrel. The easiest way to think about it is to imagine a slimline pen with shorter top and bottom blanks, leaving a good portion of the tubes exposed in the middle for a large floating 'ring' - the wooden barrel, which can be removed as you would for a slimline ring. I wouldn't be surprised someone tried that already...
For this one, the fixed parts are in ziricote and mapple. I turned five different 'skins' using spalted boxwood, prune, european olive, wacapou and larch.
Setting up the parts, the barrel is olive wood:
The assembled working pen 'naked':
...and wearing the larch barrel:
I'm rather new to woodworking, wood turning and pen making - less then a year. Although i've turned over fifty 7mm euros and a limited number of more sophisticated kits, i only very recently started wandering off the beaten tracks with 'custom' designs and this is my second such project.
I have to admit there are a lot of things that are slightly off with this first iteration - i have a lot of work to do to achieve the necessary precision while cutting, drilling, squaring and even turning the parts.
Anyway, here it is, a working sierra like pen with a different wood for each (working) days of the week... (thanks Jean-Pierre for mentioning it). How do you like the idea? :neutral:
This is not exactly a finished pen but rather a proof of concept for a 'skinnable' sierra like pen idea, where you can replace the main wooden barrel. The easiest way to think about it is to imagine a slimline pen with shorter top and bottom blanks, leaving a good portion of the tubes exposed in the middle for a large floating 'ring' - the wooden barrel, which can be removed as you would for a slimline ring. I wouldn't be surprised someone tried that already...
For this one, the fixed parts are in ziricote and mapple. I turned five different 'skins' using spalted boxwood, prune, european olive, wacapou and larch.
Setting up the parts, the barrel is olive wood:
The assembled working pen 'naked':
...and wearing the larch barrel:
I'm rather new to woodworking, wood turning and pen making - less then a year. Although i've turned over fifty 7mm euros and a limited number of more sophisticated kits, i only very recently started wandering off the beaten tracks with 'custom' designs and this is my second such project.
I have to admit there are a lot of things that are slightly off with this first iteration - i have a lot of work to do to achieve the necessary precision while cutting, drilling, squaring and even turning the parts.
Anyway, here it is, a working sierra like pen with a different wood for each (working) days of the week... (thanks Jean-Pierre for mentioning it). How do you like the idea? :neutral:
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