Who relates?

[Alan Morrison]

Last week John @JohnU showed some lovely pens that he made from scraps and I was thinking that I should be doing the same. I need a bit of a thin out.

Camphor Laurel, Shiraz grape vine, Bloodwood, Indian Rosewood, Purple Heart, and Cocobolo included.

 

[Woodchipper]

Very nice blanks! Do we understand this to be a challenge to the members?

 

[mark james]

The process of thinning out materials can lead to new designs, new thoughts of how to use small cutoffs, small end caps. I rarely threw away any scrap, (not used) potential segmenting materials - they were gold!

Enjoy!

 

[leehljp]

Your top picture looks like mine several years ago. Although the pict below is a small area, I had a table top covered with pieces similar to yours.

Blank construction

30 Pieces of Silver blank construction layout pict

www.penturners.org

Currently I am not doing anything - back problems with pinched nerve with electrical like fire just above my shoulder blade, and a lower crushed disk or something that hurt like the . . . ..

 

[JohnU]

Well done Alan and very inspiring! And I love your choice of woods!

 

[jttheclockman]

Oh I have that problem also. But this past winter I did amajor cleanup in the shop and have to say I had a shelf full of those pieces but I put them in a plastic container. I did not throw them away because that is not nice but did store away to be used at a later date hopefully.