Hi Tim,
Nice idea for a thread.
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Originally posted by tseger
<br />...my personal pen. It's very special to me because several good people from this site made it possible for me to be able to turn this pen. Tim
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I'm guessing buckeye burl w/ bloodwood and alternative ivory or holly?
As yet another neophyte, these won't wow anyone but I'm having fun, learning, and selling a couple of pens here and there.
I haven't turned that many pens yet to have one that is
the keeper but the pen I'm currently using on a daily basis is a Copper baron dressed with Amboyna Burl.
I have a slimline in my truck console made from a spalted blank I took off a dead standing tree that came down in my driveway. When I turned it, I forgot to pay attention to the fact that, while dead, it's still `green' wood. Two days after I completed the pen, it no longer fit the hardware. The barrel shrank in both directions, coming up off the nib and cracking a bit at the cap. It's a great looking piece of wood, and writes just fine. I keep it to remember: even an item as small as a pen requires properly seasoned wood.
Gary