David Walser
05-21-2009, 10:42 PM
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Here are pictures of a couple of pens I made recently. None of these are going to Tom Henry as part of the pen exchange. Tom, sorry, I had to get these done. I'll get to yours right after Memorial Day. Promise.
Both pens are made with the Sierra Elegant Beauty kits from Berea HardWoods. One in black titanium/gold titanium and the other in black titanium/platinum. The pen made with the "money blank" is for someone who is leaving our firm tomorrow to start dental school. The other pen is made with a grand piano inlay kit from Kallenshaan Woods. The pen is for the director of our church chior. The piano pen is finished with CA and buffed. The money blank is finished by going through all the micro mesh grits. No buffing.
I really like the money blanks. Everyone seems to prefer them to the same pen made with wood -- even if it's exceptional wood.
I also like working with the Kallenshaan inlay kit blanks. They are far more difficult to work with than I had thought they would be. While I'm pleased with the pen, there are a number of errors in it. First, I didn't get the tube centered in the length of the blank (which is why the piano keys are off center). I'd wrapped the tube in wax paper and used it as a "backer" as I pressed and glued the keyboard in place. (This was NOT how the instructions said to do it.) However, the CA glue leaked through the waxed paper and fixed the tube in place. Second, I was a little too aggressive in taking the tube down to close to finish size and got some tearout that required my reducing the diameter of the blank more than I'd planned. Don't hurry and follow the instructions!
Here are links to the kits and pen blanks:
http://bereahardwoods.com/Merchant5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=Sierra_Elegant_Beauty&Store_Code=BW&search=sierra_el&offset=&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high=
http://www.kallenshaanwoods.com/servlet/Page?template=5153&s=Grand+Piano+Pen+Inlay+Kit
http://www.woodturningz.com/Inlace_Acrylester_Pen_Blanks.aspx
Here are the pictures.
Here are pictures of a couple of pens I made recently. None of these are going to Tom Henry as part of the pen exchange. Tom, sorry, I had to get these done. I'll get to yours right after Memorial Day. Promise.
Both pens are made with the Sierra Elegant Beauty kits from Berea HardWoods. One in black titanium/gold titanium and the other in black titanium/platinum. The pen made with the "money blank" is for someone who is leaving our firm tomorrow to start dental school. The other pen is made with a grand piano inlay kit from Kallenshaan Woods. The pen is for the director of our church chior. The piano pen is finished with CA and buffed. The money blank is finished by going through all the micro mesh grits. No buffing.
I really like the money blanks. Everyone seems to prefer them to the same pen made with wood -- even if it's exceptional wood.
I also like working with the Kallenshaan inlay kit blanks. They are far more difficult to work with than I had thought they would be. While I'm pleased with the pen, there are a number of errors in it. First, I didn't get the tube centered in the length of the blank (which is why the piano keys are off center). I'd wrapped the tube in wax paper and used it as a "backer" as I pressed and glued the keyboard in place. (This was NOT how the instructions said to do it.) However, the CA glue leaked through the waxed paper and fixed the tube in place. Second, I was a little too aggressive in taking the tube down to close to finish size and got some tearout that required my reducing the diameter of the blank more than I'd planned. Don't hurry and follow the instructions!
Here are links to the kits and pen blanks:
http://bereahardwoods.com/Merchant5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=Sierra_Elegant_Beauty&Store_Code=BW&search=sierra_el&offset=&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high=
http://www.kallenshaanwoods.com/servlet/Page?template=5153&s=Grand+Piano+Pen+Inlay+Kit
http://www.woodturningz.com/Inlace_Acrylester_Pen_Blanks.aspx
Here are the pictures.