Bill
I have plenty of maple for the HB360 demo.
One can use pen blanks to cut the pieces from, but I prefer to use larger flat stock (eg 4/4 stock) because I like to run it through my jointer and planer to mill the stock flat and square first. Pen blanks tend to be on the small side for these operations (at least in my book, and I beleive smaller than what is technically recommended by manufacterer of my tools). If the pen blanks are really "square" to begin with we could give it a shot. The worst thing that can happen is you'd potentially have some gaps between your pieces.
That said, I think Darci does have a chunk of purpleheart that she bought recently for a pen for her... we'll probably have some left over so she may not mind if we saw some up...
Andy
I have plenty of maple for the HB360 demo.
One can use pen blanks to cut the pieces from, but I prefer to use larger flat stock (eg 4/4 stock) because I like to run it through my jointer and planer to mill the stock flat and square first. Pen blanks tend to be on the small side for these operations (at least in my book, and I beleive smaller than what is technically recommended by manufacterer of my tools). If the pen blanks are really "square" to begin with we could give it a shot. The worst thing that can happen is you'd potentially have some gaps between your pieces.
That said, I think Darci does have a chunk of purpleheart that she bought recently for a pen for her... we'll probably have some left over so she may not mind if we saw some up...
Andy