Here's a few pens I did this weekend. Please give me your opinions on good bad and ugly. The first one is a Traditional fountain pen turned from a rotted monkey pod branch I found. I dried it and tried soaking it in Minwax wood hardener. It turned well by definitely not enough to be "stabilized." It wound up having a big void from some critters right down to the tube so I stuffed it with wood shavings and CA. The second on is an Traditional fountain in Ebony. I had a time with it too. I don't know if ebony is always this hard or if I just got a crappy batch of wood. The first blank exploded right at the end of turning, the second piece had huge cracks running through the ends after squaring it up and the third piece I thought was gonna blow out but held together. The third pen is my first time turning acrylic. Thanks Mike for some really cool blanks. Let me know what y'all think!
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