Lee Koepke
02-06-2011, 4:58 PM
Well, this is (by far) my favorite pen so far (only done a dozen, so not a huge sample size) ... its a silver plated slimline ..
This particular piece of cherry, I have had around my shop for a couple of years, I turned two bowls from it (the lidded bowl that I dropped, if you remember) and the prettiest part couldnt fit in the bowl, so I saved it for a pen! Its very figured, so I did my best to be careful, but the bottom of one of my blanks blew out during drilling. I stewed on that for awhile, until I read a thread at IAP about turning off the 'stupid' part and putting something else back, so here it is. The blow-out replaced with a bit of solid surface 'sample' material I got from a local cabinet shop.
Thanks for looking, any comments, critiques, suggestions welcome.
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This particular piece of cherry, I have had around my shop for a couple of years, I turned two bowls from it (the lidded bowl that I dropped, if you remember) and the prettiest part couldnt fit in the bowl, so I saved it for a pen! Its very figured, so I did my best to be careful, but the bottom of one of my blanks blew out during drilling. I stewed on that for awhile, until I read a thread at IAP about turning off the 'stupid' part and putting something else back, so here it is. The blow-out replaced with a bit of solid surface 'sample' material I got from a local cabinet shop.
Thanks for looking, any comments, critiques, suggestions welcome.
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