Box elder Kitless

[firewhatfire]

This has been giving me trouble all day long. I don't think I have ever broke a pen so many times. Not to mention ruining the finish on cap and barrel. I made it from box elder and alumalite. I used a number 5 bock nib. 12 mm triple start for cap and finial to post it on. The cap finial is box elder(not fun threading). I included a pic of my last Kitless and a jr statesman for comparison. Comments and critiques are welcome and thanks for looking.

 

[mhbeauford]

Nice! Have you tried stabilizing the box elder first? I have done some with Cactus Juice in regular, crosscut, spalted etc, and they soak up quite a bit of resin and work much better. Haven't tried threading any though.

 

[MikeL]

Good looking pens. The statesman is very cool.

 

[plantman]

Excellent looking pens. Fine craftsmanship on both. Ji S

 

[hard hat]

Very nice work. The difficulties look to have paid off

 

[Charlie_W]

Very, Very Nice Phil!....and no glue scarred hands i the pic! :biggrin:

 

[termitedave]

Wow very nice!

 

[Haynie]

No offense meant but my eye is drawn straight to that piece of segmented hottness in the last photo.

 

[Tom T]

Great pens looks real nice

 

[Joe S.]

Holy Cow! That's an amazing pen! And when I scrolled down to the segmented pen, is just stared at it for a few minutes... It was hard to keep from drooling! Incredible workmanship on all 3!

 

[firewhatfire]

Thanks for the kind comments. There is a lot of hours in those 3 pens.

Charlie the fingers looked pretty bad even for me.

 

[mrcook4570]

Three very beautiful pens!