SteveJ
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I have advanced 11 pens into the final vote since the sixth place pen in one poll had more votes than the fifth place vote in the other poll. Please vote for your THREE favorites in this poll. This poll order is unrelated to how many votes a particular pen received in the first two polls.
Entry One
Title of Your Entry: Paella burl Majestic
Description: This here is a piece of Paella burl that I cut from a tiny little burl. It was only enough for maybe 6 blanks, but they were all this beautiful 2 tone.
Entry Two
Title of Your Entry: Pretty Wood Two-Toned Khamphi Rosewood Burl
Description: A rare Khamphi Rosewood (Dalbergia cultrata) two-toned burl finished with CA on an Antique Copper Caballero rollerball kit from Smitty's Pen Works.
Entry Three
Title of Your Entry: Honduran Rosewood Burl
Description: This Jr. George fountain pen is wrapped with a beautiful piece of Honduran Rosewood Burl.
Entry Four
Title of Your Entry: HRB... what else?
Description: Dayacom 3mm sketch pencil dressed in Honduras Rosewood burl. One of the longest single body pens I have identified, 1/16 inches short of 4 inches (1.6 mm short of 102 mm for metric speakers) body length of gorgeousness. Birthday present for an urban sketcher friend so... cheers to more sketches!
Entry Five
Title of Your Entry: Graduate in Buckeye
Description: This is a Magnetic Graduate fountain pen turned with a beautiful piece of Buckeye Burl. Nothing out of the ordinary to turn it. Sanded to 600 grit before applying CA finish.
Entry Six
Title of Your Entry: Greek Olive
Description: Figured Greek olive wood in a gold panache kit.
Entry Seven
Title of Your Entry:
Description: Honduran Rosewood Burl in a Jr. Monarch rollerball kit. Finished with friction polish and wax.
Entry Eight
Title of Your Entry: Alaskan Yellow Cedar
Description: Stabilized Alaskan Yellow Cedar on Mirage hardware. Hoping the right sized pics are attached—having to do this from a tablet, so all I can see is the thumbnails!
Entry Nine
Title of Your Entry:
Description: When I started stabilizing I was stabilizing everything and not keeping track of anything. So your guess is as good as mine but I thought it was cool.
The kit is a Hurricane and the finish is Glu-Boost
Entry Ten
Title of Your Entry: Cherry Burl RB
Description: Cherry burl on a Diamond Knurl rollerball from Exotic Blanks. Finished with GluBoost
Entry Eleven
Title of Your Entry: Elegant Amboyna
Description: This Baron fountain pen is dressed in a beautiful amboyna burl, one of my all time favorites. The components are fitted so that the grain aligns whether it is capped or posted. I treated it with CA a few times as I turned to prevent blowout. Finished with 10 coats of CA, wet sanded with Zona, then Novus 2 & 1 for the finishing touch.
Entry One
Title of Your Entry: Paella burl Majestic
Description: This here is a piece of Paella burl that I cut from a tiny little burl. It was only enough for maybe 6 blanks, but they were all this beautiful 2 tone.
Entry Two
Title of Your Entry: Pretty Wood Two-Toned Khamphi Rosewood Burl
Description: A rare Khamphi Rosewood (Dalbergia cultrata) two-toned burl finished with CA on an Antique Copper Caballero rollerball kit from Smitty's Pen Works.
Entry Three
Title of Your Entry: Honduran Rosewood Burl
Description: This Jr. George fountain pen is wrapped with a beautiful piece of Honduran Rosewood Burl.
Entry Four
Title of Your Entry: HRB... what else?
Description: Dayacom 3mm sketch pencil dressed in Honduras Rosewood burl. One of the longest single body pens I have identified, 1/16 inches short of 4 inches (1.6 mm short of 102 mm for metric speakers) body length of gorgeousness. Birthday present for an urban sketcher friend so... cheers to more sketches!
Entry Five
Title of Your Entry: Graduate in Buckeye
Description: This is a Magnetic Graduate fountain pen turned with a beautiful piece of Buckeye Burl. Nothing out of the ordinary to turn it. Sanded to 600 grit before applying CA finish.
Entry Six
Title of Your Entry: Greek Olive
Description: Figured Greek olive wood in a gold panache kit.
Entry Seven
Title of Your Entry:
Description: Honduran Rosewood Burl in a Jr. Monarch rollerball kit. Finished with friction polish and wax.
Entry Eight
Title of Your Entry: Alaskan Yellow Cedar
Description: Stabilized Alaskan Yellow Cedar on Mirage hardware. Hoping the right sized pics are attached—having to do this from a tablet, so all I can see is the thumbnails!
Entry Nine
Title of Your Entry:
Description: When I started stabilizing I was stabilizing everything and not keeping track of anything. So your guess is as good as mine but I thought it was cool.
The kit is a Hurricane and the finish is Glu-Boost
Entry Ten
Title of Your Entry: Cherry Burl RB
Description: Cherry burl on a Diamond Knurl rollerball from Exotic Blanks. Finished with GluBoost
Entry Eleven
Title of Your Entry: Elegant Amboyna
Description: This Baron fountain pen is dressed in a beautiful amboyna burl, one of my all time favorites. The components are fitted so that the grain aligns whether it is capped or posted. I treated it with CA a few times as I turned to prevent blowout. Finished with 10 coats of CA, wet sanded with Zona, then Novus 2 & 1 for the finishing touch.
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