GaryMGg
Member
I ordered some cast Worthless Wood from Karl Kuehn who has created a
combination of dyed Box Elder and PR he calls the Simbawa series.
In the raw, these blanks resemble portions of a world map with continents and oceans.
As a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) professional, it's something I had to have.
The question remained, how would they turn.
I turn pens exclusively with a skew and had no problem obtaining the results I wanted with Karl's blanks. The wood/resin combination requires a little bit of extra care as skew point down can cut really quickly across the PR->wood transition as the box elder is a soft wood. Karl informed me that'd be the case, and I had no problem maintaining my line with a sharp skew and sheering off ribbons from the blank.
Once I get a blank round, I tend to run across the high line of a blank with the skew's central edge shear cutting and doing that long ribbons were peeling off the blank and rolling along the mandrel.
The blank produces a beautiful looking pen.
The blanks turn wonderfully.
I'm proudly going to offer this new Mapping series as a premium pen.
Thanks Karl, job well done.
I heartily recommend these blanks.
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combination of dyed Box Elder and PR he calls the Simbawa series.
In the raw, these blanks resemble portions of a world map with continents and oceans.
As a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) professional, it's something I had to have.
The question remained, how would they turn.
I turn pens exclusively with a skew and had no problem obtaining the results I wanted with Karl's blanks. The wood/resin combination requires a little bit of extra care as skew point down can cut really quickly across the PR->wood transition as the box elder is a soft wood. Karl informed me that'd be the case, and I had no problem maintaining my line with a sharp skew and sheering off ribbons from the blank.
Once I get a blank round, I tend to run across the high line of a blank with the skew's central edge shear cutting and doing that long ribbons were peeling off the blank and rolling along the mandrel.
The blank produces a beautiful looking pen.
The blanks turn wonderfully.
I'm proudly going to offer this new Mapping series as a premium pen.
Thanks Karl, job well done.
I heartily recommend these blanks.
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