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Maple Leaf with bloodwood...laser cutting by Ken Nelsen. Why is it we let the best ones go?

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Feather with African blackwood (no finish)

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I'd like to see the feather pen on it's side. I am sure it looks great but it is hard to see with a front view. Very cool Idea!
 
Thanks for the views and comments. As for the feather, I don't know what more to say. It's actually four feathers. The tubes are coated in white epoxy, feathers applied, lacquer build up, then micro-meshed with a final of TSW. Here's a side view.

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Great looking pens, Lou. Ken really opens up the possibility with his engraver and ingenuity. The feather is a very unique idea. That will certainly generate some pen discussions!
 
Those are both very nice, but I especially like the feather. I tried that on a cigar pen a few weeks ago and discovered that feather do not like CA. I knew what would work exactly but was impatient so I tried CA. The feathers lifted off the blank. I need to get back to that and do it right the next time. What kind of feathers are those? I've been a fly tyer for better than 30 years so I have lots of feathers.
 
Brilliant job on the feather, Lou. I like the maple leaf pen too, and it looks great, but the feather is clever and something else that's hard to come up with after a while, it's DIFFERENT!

I also happen to do some birding (aka bird watching) from time to time (when I can pull myself away from the lathe) and I imagine this would appeal quite a bit to birders, especially if you could use feathers from a known species and present it that way, IOW a Red-Tailed Hawk pen, or a Hooded Oriole pen....

Get right on that, wouldja? LOL

Excellent job. [:)]
Nancy (heading out to the lathe today)
 
Why do I sense that I will be seeing the "fly fishermans special pens" coming in the future. Classic salmon flies with jungle **** eyes perhaps.......
 
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Why do I sense that I will be seeing the "fly fishermans special pens" coming in the future. Classic salmon flies with jungle **** eyes perhaps.......
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MMMM, I just happen to have a couple of jungle **** necks with some eyes too big for salmon flies... MMMMMMM
 
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