Padauk and Turquoise

[bitshird]

This is one that took some time to finish, slimline satin pearl wrapped in Padauk with two crushed natural Turquoise inlayed bands tenon cut down to the tube then painstakingly placed chips of Turquoise then some more CA and so on till it got close to the top then a bazillion coats of CA actually closer to 5 or 6 coats of thin, I crushed up some Malachite, but I'm a bit afraid to try sanding it dry, I got poisoned cutting the stuff about 30 years ago, something about copper and arsenic and lead I dunno.

Thanks for looking, comments welcome.

 

[rdunn12]

Nice,I love the color combination.

 

[Glenn McCullough]

nice job! great colors and contrasts. Not a fan of that kit but it DOES look good with the body.

 

[toolcrazy]

Very nice pen. Good work.

 

[markgum]

excellant. Great colour combination

 

[bitshird]

I'm not much on turning slimlines any more, but I need some less expensive pens for shows and sale on Etsy

 

[RMB]

Nice! looks like a lot of work for a slimline though, I hope you can mark it up enough to make it worth it. Also the real turquoise looks really nice, actually better than the fake stuff. I bought a "turquoise" string of beads from Micheals a while back, i was gonna crush them up and do something like that, turns out they where some kind of white material with a turquoise colored coating... sure had me fooled, oh well, it was like $2.

 

[Dalecamino]

Looks like your efforts paid off Ken . Very nice results .

 

[el_d]

Nice Ken. I Like it
My son got a piece of raw turquoise from Nevada...... I wonder if he would notice a piece missing from it???