To Be or Knot To Be

[John Terefenko]

This is my attempt at the Celtic Knot pen. The yellowheart pen is sitting on a Sierra Vista kit which is slightly larger than the redheart which is sitting on the Sierra kit. Combinations of woods are yellowheart, redheart, holly, and black veener. Thanks for looking.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/JTTHECLOCKMAN/yellowheartsierra-1.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/JTTHECLOCKMAN/reheartsierra-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/JTTHECLOCKMAN/comboknots-1.jpg

[Bernie Weishapl]

Those are beautiful John. Really nice pens and the knots look great.

[Dewey Torres]

John,
Are you saying you made these blanks?

[Gary Kvasnicka]

John,

Those pens are excellent, as are the photos...nice job!

[Curt Fuller]

Wow John, those are beautiful!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Exceptionally nice work John! Very clean - very colorful!

[Jim Kountz]

Very nice job, how bout a tutorial on making those blanks??

[David Christopher]

those are beautiful pens John...great work

[Ken Fitzgerald]

John....they don't get any better than that! Absolutely stunning! Nicely done Sir!

[Robert McGowen]

As asked already, if you made those blanks, they are outstanding. Nice job on the turning also.

[Brian Effinger]

Wow, those are stunning pens. You did an amazing job on those blanks, John. :)

For those of you looking for tutorials, try the International Association of Penturners' library (http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1488). They've got some good articles there, and I believe there are three on celtic knots.

Brian

[Don Carter]

John:
Great job! Very good looking pens! I love the color combinations.
Brian beat me to the IAP site link.

But it would be nice to see how you do it.

All the best.

Don

[John Terefenko]

John,
Are you saying you made these blanks?


Yes I did make the blanks. These were cut using a jig on my tablesaw that was set up to cut a 60 degree angle. There are tutorials as mentioned on the IAP site for making knots. They can be tricky but if you get things set up right and your glue up is spot on it is really not that hard.

Thanks for all the kind words.

[Dewey Torres]

Great work on the blanks John!

[Keith Burns]

Wow, absolutely perfect !!!

[Mike Golka]

Most impressive!

[steven carter]

Just Fantastic! I would say that your glue up was indeed spot on!

Steve

[John Terefenko]

I have been asked if the design goes all the way around?? I only have the red pen left so hope this works.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/JTTHECLOCKMAN/-animated-pen-knot-good-file.gif

[Don Carter]

Very cool, John!

All the best.

Don

[Toney Robertson]

Those are SWEET.

Great job.

Toney

[Robert McGowen]

Yes I did make the blanks. They can be tricky but if you get things set up right and your glue up is spot on it is really not that hard.

I think that setting things up right and getting the glue up spot on may be what makes it hard! LOL :D

[Steve Campbell]

John I have looked at these pens at least a half dozen times today and still can't find the right words to do them justice. I love them.

Steve

[John Terefenko]

OK I have a question. Why is it when sometimes when a person replys to a post they are not in order?? There were a few replys made that were in the middle of yesterdays posts. Can't figure that one out.


If I missed anyone to thank them for the kind words I am sorry and I do appreciate it. Just got into this penturning stuff so I am just learning and there are so many ideas I want to try. Thanks again.

[Toney Robertson]

OK I have a question. Why is it when sometimes when a person replys to a post they are not in order?? There were a few replys made that were in the middle of yesterdays posts. Can't figure that one out.


It all depends on which post the person responded to. Whenever you hit reply then your post is listed under that post.

Toney

[John Terefenko]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I see says the blind man to his deaf wife. Thanks for that explanation.

[Brian Effinger]

Check the "Display Modes" up at the upper right corner, right under "Page 2 of 2". If it is set for "Linear Mode", it will display all posts chronologically.

[Mike Vickery]

Very nice work, I do not think I have ever seen that take on the celtic knot before.

[Jeff Nicol]

John, They are absoulutly beautiful!! Gets my Irish/Scotch blood cooking!!

Jeff

[Mike Golka]

Had a second look.
Absolutly stunning. One question though, did you interchange parts from each blank with the other as you assembled the knots? That's the only way I see you getting that effect.

[John Terefenko]

Had a second look.
Absolutly stunning. One question though, did you interchange parts from each blank with the other as you assembled the knots? That's the only way I see you getting that effect.


Yes Mike. That is the way to do it. You are making 2 pens at the same time and after each cut you interchange the two. Here are the blanks glued up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/JTTHECLOCKMAN/penXblanks.jpg

Happy Turning.

[Anthony Welch]

Beautiful just Beautiful!

Anthony