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Hi Folks, I see many selling these blanks and the prices seem to be all over the place. I would like to give this material a shot. Does...

Any of the above will work well. Before I started using buffing compunds, I used Meguiars 105, followed by 205, followed by any...

Very attractive. 👏 Bog oak or dark ebony would also make a nice pairing.

A friend gave me an old canteen of fish knives with Ivory handles, rather that dump them. I heated the bolster with a flame gun to...

Thanks. I didn't think the .04 " would make that much of a difference. I'll try one and see how it goes.

Have you successfully cast those exact cards in this exact resin and procedure before with success or is this the first try? I ask...

I’d have to go desert ironwood too. I just turned a couple really nice pieces of it and that looks very much the same.

Sorry, I really didn't intend on stealing this thread. The segmenting was very simple, just diagonal slices. I scuffed the metal really...

Good idea to have calipers to measure. I don't think that 0.04 would matter that much.

Thanks. Your pens are beautiful. I think you're correct. the color and grain almost exactly the same as yours.

I have never been very good at photographing my pens—until using ChatGPT. This is a cigar pen I crafted from teak wood removed from the...

It looks a lot like the Sonoran desert ironwood that I have made pens from. It has the kind of chatoyance that I see in your pen. Here...

It looks a lot like the Sonoran desert ironwood that I have made pens from. It has the kind of chatoyance that I see in your pen. Here...

It looks a lot like the Sonoran desert ironwood that I have made pens from. It has the kind of chatoyance that I see in your pen. Here...

According to the Bushing and Tubes app the Sierra tube length is 2.21 and depending on which Mesa the length can be 2.25 or 3.20.