Salute to Eagle

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I never knew Eagle - he passed before I started turning. But, I htink I know a master's work when I see it. So, Eagle emulation has been on my bucket list for some time now. With talk of an Eagle contest for the bash, time to figure it out.

From top to bottom, the first 3 tries. Number 2 is not what I was going for, but is an interesting accident. Lets call it spiral feathers. It's on a long click tube.

The last one is what I'm going for, but the cut pattern is still not quite Eagle's, but now I think one last tweak and I have his pattern.

I hope no one is upset I can copying Eagle. IMO imitation is a high form of flattery, and, based on a pic I saw in the past, I'm pretty sure my method is very different from Eagle's.

HOpefully I 'll have time to finish turning these into pens this weekend.
 

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Dennis I think that the only thing that would have upset Eagle would be missing conversations with you on ideas and methods. He would almost never tell anyone how to do something, but if you were willing to try and learn he would help you anyway he could. I think doing it that way helped him to come up with new ideas and ways of doing them.

You did a dam fine job! Now did you turn it with a sharpened screwdriver? :biggrin:

Skiprat would have loved to see that too.
 
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Looks great. Looks like a very advanced version of something Dad showed me a while back. Now I gotta go sharpen up an old screwdriver into something BESIDES an ice pick.....
 
Eagle hated it when people would say "Nice pen, good job" . . . so, I won't say it to Dennis.

As we all know, eagle was also very reluctant (to say the least) to show us how he actually did something. He would give hints ("use a tool from HF") and was a proponent of the "discovery method".

Out of respect to eagle, I would suggest that Dennis not reveal the steps that he followed when making the pens. Just my two cents. :smile:

BTW, I sure miss our old friend Lou.
 
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Wow Dennis! I can only imagine how long each of those took. Congrats on figuring out something that I don't think anyone has replicated since Eagle left.

Like the above said, the little I knew of Eagle, I agree that he would be happy, not upset. Keep up the good work and keep sharing!
 
Dennis, here is a photo of 4 of Eagles blanks that I have. The second one frm top was never finished and is thought to be the last one he worked on, as far as is known it's the only feather blank he attempted in antler.Hope this good inspiration for you. As I said in a privious post he would be smiling.

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I have seen posts with this person's blanks and I can't wrap my head around how they are done. Good job figuring it out.
 
unfortunately I never spoke or typed with Eagle, he did answer a question I asked on the forum in an email which for some stupid reason went into my junk mail folder, it came about a month before he passed away. But from what I have heard from his many friends, I agree he is looking down with a big grin.
It looks to me with out seeing one of his feathers side by side with yours, that you are there or damn close.
The sad part of this is I went to clean my junk email folder and there was this note from Eagle this was about a month after he passed away. Being a crotchety old phart my self, I think he and I would have gotten on well,
and like every one has said, if someone is close to having it right, a suggestion or two would be a nice gesture. Leading them by the nose through do step 1 and well end at step put it on the table for sale, tell them why don't you do it like I did , just don't tell them how you did it. or ask how would you do this part.
I hope to see these on finished pens, they look like they could fly.
 
You did exactly what he wanted us to do when he was shoing is work. Don't ask how i did it, try to do it, try, try and try again untill you nail it. And you are definitelly on the good path. He his not only smiling he is surely proud to see these.
 
Thanks for the comments.

I'll need to turn these into pens somtime, but right now I'm a but hung up on refining the process. Been re-engineering things today to improve my process.
 
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Thanks for the comments.

I'll need to turn these into pens somtime, but right now I'm a but hung up on refining the process. Been re-engineering things today to improve my process.
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Queue the pen turners getting in line to volunteer to turn these into pens for you....... right behind me! :biggrin:
 
Very well done my friend! :smile::smile: The fact that you could figure out where to place all of the inserts boggles the mind. :eek::eek: I hope you will bring them to the January meeting as I would like to see them in person so then I can drool over them. :beauty::beauty:
Ron
 
Dennis
Those are spot on I have been trying make a feather blank on and off for about 2 years bellow is the best I have come up with. It is very time consuming but the reward of turning the experiment is worth it.
 

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Dennis,

You've certainly made a lot of folks smile and I'm willing to bet my CA'd blue jeans this made Eagle smile broadly too.

Congratulations on some very fine pen blanks.
 
Eagle's final resting place is across town from where I live. I put the picture of your blanks on my Xoom along with some pic's of what I've been up to and went to visit on the 3rd. I'm sure that he's smiling and looking forward to seeing the finished pen. He also wanted me to remind you guys that he's partial to the PKMont kit; which is the Penn State Industries designer kit.

http://www.pennstateind.com/store/PKMONT.html
 
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