Project Information
Long time no post. The last few years my woodworking has mostly consisted of pen turning. At some point I'll post a few of my favorites that I've made. For now, I'll post these two. A couple weeks ago I was feeling festive and decided to make some segmented Christmas colored pens. The segmented blanks took most of a Sunday to make, and I'm getting better at the scalloped tips, though they still aren't perfect.
The red is figured Ash that I stabilized in Cactus Juice with red dye. The green is curly Maple that I stabilized and dyed. That one was supposed to come out blue, but it turns out that a ton of oil was leaking into my vacuum chamber and right into the stabilizing resin. Who knew that blue + oil = greenish? That was a happy mistake! The yellow is Yellowheart and is white Holly veneer.
I had a mishap with the thinner slimline pen. When flattening the scalloped tip with a barrel trimmer, I got a catch and lost a part of the Yellowheart. I ended up gluing back on the pieces that I could find and fit together, along with another piece to make up the rest. Didn't turn out too bad, though if you look closely you can see some gaps where the woods didn't mate back up very well.
The red is figured Ash that I stabilized in Cactus Juice with red dye. The green is curly Maple that I stabilized and dyed. That one was supposed to come out blue, but it turns out that a ton of oil was leaking into my vacuum chamber and right into the stabilizing resin. Who knew that blue + oil = greenish? That was a happy mistake! The yellow is Yellowheart and is white Holly veneer.
I had a mishap with the thinner slimline pen. When flattening the scalloped tip with a barrel trimmer, I got a catch and lost a part of the Yellowheart. I ended up gluing back on the pieces that I could find and fit together, along with another piece to make up the rest. Didn't turn out too bad, though if you look closely you can see some gaps where the woods didn't mate back up very well.
