Show me your favorite Pen and finish Combination

[Brian Kent]

Having fun starting Christmas presents early, mixing different local woods with Chrome, Cold, and Gunmetal Pen Kits. Can you show me your favorite combinations of wood and metal finish?

Lots of pics, please :D!

[Steve Paxman]

Olive wood with gold fittings, definitely one of my favorites.

[Dick Mahany]

Here's one I did in a Gent Jr. type pen in Amboyna burl with General Finishes Woodturner's Finish. It has become my favorite finish for pens as it is highly durable and polishes like glass. I wipe ~10-15 coats on, wet sanding every 4th coat or so with 320 or 400. The final coat gets cut back with 400 or 600 wet and polished with a Beall wheel and white diamond compound. The second one has more bling and is an Ultra Cigar in Amboyna burl with the same finish. The picture doesn't show the gloss on the finish as I was trying to eliminate glare, but it looks like glass in room light.
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[Dick Mahany]

Olive wood with gold fittings, definitely one of my favorites.

Beautiful wood and pen! That olive wood is wonderful to work with.

[George Conklin]

I can see why thats a favorite, Steve! Very nice. Thanks for sharing :)

[Dave Mueller]

Vertex magnetic kit with an acrylic/burl blank and CA finish. I really like the gel pen and the magnetic cap - it is pretty unique.
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[Scott Lux]

I don't have a good picture, but apple with copper is gorgeous.

[Dan Masshardt]

I do not like gold at all. Black titanium, chrome, gun metal, rhodium are all good for me and work well with just about any wood

Favorite regular woods - Bethlehem Olive wood, cocobolo, Irish bog oak Or just about any kind of burl Here's a few...

Most wood gets a ca finish Sometimes stabilized wood is buffed without added finish there are exceptions

[Brian Kent]

The wood in the second from the left is amazing. What is that?

[John Terefenko]

As far as kits go, I like Majestic, Triton, Baron, and Cambridge kits with all the higher end finishes. As far as woods go I love all burls, olive woods and combinations of woods because I like to do segmented work. I finish all my woods with CA as the finish. Here is a couple examples.

Bloodwood and curly maple for the first one and Gabon Ebony and Holly for the second one.

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[Dan Masshardt]

The wood in the second from the left is amazing. What is that?

If they are lined up the same on my mobile browser, the second from left on top is blue dyed stabilized box elder burl. (With the cap off)

The bottom second from left (metal cap) is maple burl with purple resin.

[Brian Kent]

Yup. It was the blue-dyed one that I was asking about. What a great effect.

[Dan Masshardt]

Yup. It was the blue-dyed one that I was asking about. What a great effect.

I got that one from Barry Gross at Arizona sillouette.

There is no finish on it. The stabilized wood buffs up nice and there is nothing to wear off.

[Rich Aldrich]

These are bolt action pens. The first is Gun metal / Ash Burl. The second is Gold metal / Ash burl. These are both finished with CA, buffed with Tripoli only.

[Peter Turbide]

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This is my current favorite pen. The kit is an executive T/N from pen state. the blanks was made by
Bryan Meissner

Regards
Peter

[Brian Kent]

That is fascinating. What material is that made from?

[Peter Turbide]

Brian,

The tube is covered with Aluminumand copper tape, that has been textured and colored with a black patina and cast in aluminite. Opens up a whole bunch of ideas.

Peter

[Ken Glass]

Brian,
I can't seem to decide which combination of Pens I make are my favorite. Here is a few that I have made for our annual MG car show this June at MG2014 at French Lick, IN. You be the judge......

[Brian Kent]

Ken, I guess the ones with the most contrast are my favorites - the far right and the celtic knot third from the left.

[Dan Masshardt]

Brian - Bethlehem olive wood is really easy to work with and has some nice contrasting grain in many of the pieces.

[Brian Kent]

Dan, what color metal do you like the best with olive wood?

[Rick Gibson]

I have carried this on in my pockets for about 4 years now. Pants pocket with keys when no shirt pocket. The plating is just about worn off the metal but the CA finish on the Olive wood is like new. Modified it a while ago to add the tip for my tablet.287522

[Ken Glass]

Rick,
That's good to know that the CA finish last so well. I use the CA finish with Micro Mesh to 12,000 for every pan I turn.

[Rick Gibson]

Ken
I use CA for all of mine, 2 coats of thin to soak into the wood and seal any pores then 8 coats of medium. I do not sand between coats. Then I wet sand with 2000, 2500 and 25000 grit sandpaper then plastic polish.

[Dan Masshardt]

Dan, what color metal do you like the best with olive wood?

My favorite is black titanium or gunmetal. Chrome is also good. I almost never use gold for anything.

I've had a good response from the magnetic cap rollerball pens with olive.

[Rick Gibson]

My favorite is black titanium or gunmetal. Chrome is also good. I almost never use gold for anything.

I've had a good response from the magnetic cap rollerball pens with olive.

I'm with Dan on this Black Ti. or gunmetal. I keep a few gold kits around for the odd wedding pen I do where the bride insists on gold.