Maple and walnut giraffe sierra

[alphageek]

My wife's blind support group did a trip to our local zoo and Neil, the director of the zoo gave us a tour, including a behind the scenes tour of the giraffe area and we got to pet a penguin. I had made a pen ahead of time as a thank you. Here is a picture of the maple and walnut "giraffe" pen I made him. The second picture is Neil holding Tweedle the penguin. And just in case your wondering, Tweedle LOVES the attention. Neil says he's the first one near the door whenever he hears someone coming to do a group interaction.

 

[mark james]

Very cool blank. Well done.

 

[leehljp]

Great post. And ingenious "giraffe" pen!

 

[Dalecamino]

That's just cool!

 

[Lucky2]

That's a very sharp looking pen, Neil should be impressed with getting such a nice and unique gift.

Len

 

[John Eldeen]

That's one good looking pen.

 

[cozee]

Great pen!

 

[Alan Morrison]

This thread cheered me up today reading it.

 

[WarEagle90]

Great story to go along with a fine looking pen. I'm amazed at the designs you guys are capable of with segmenting. Something I can look forward to trying down the road.

 

[LR9788]

Really impressive pen. I would love to see how you managed that.

 

[alphageek]

Really impressive pen. I would love to see how you managed that.

This is the first pen made of a design that I made and laser cut. Most of the work was in design, testing and layout. The size of the holes and the inserts have to be slightly different to account for the laser cut. Eventually these will likely be available for sale, but at the moment - I'm still working out how to make them consistent. If you were at MPG, there was just a few of them that I sold, but I don't know who all bought them... so you might see some more?!

 

[LR9788]

Wow! Really impressive work. I will be looking for these to hit the marketplace

 

[johncrane]

great looking pen well done

 

[George883]

You did an awesome job on the pen.

 

[Danie Maartens]

Awesome blank, very cool pen.