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(that's pod, not paw) No bad luck wishes here. Platinum and Black Titanium dress up this twist pen, with a Hawaiian flavor. Very easy to turn wood, with a little bit of tear out at the ends, and a little bit of open grain and voids that sanded smooth beautifully. -- to completely steal from my...

Pink Ivory (Berchemia zeyheri), also called Red Ivory, is a very rare African wood. The Pink Ivory tree grows predominantly in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa, and is said to be sacred to the Zulu. The wood is extremely hard and exceptionally dense. It works well, and will hold fine detail...

A few months back, Karson gave several of us in the Pen Turners Swap a piece of cherry burl that showed up on his doorstep and challenged us to make a pen with it. I managed to squeak two out of that blank!.. The Wall street click pen on top (I'd previously blogged having some technical...

I was going to say, 'another day, another cigar' But apparently that's what I said last time I posted the sister of this gorgeous koa pen in my first 30 days challenge. My first intentional remake of a pen. (cause the other one sold). I guess it really is one of my favorites, and thus, this one...

I don't know why I made these today, I'd meant to get around to them sooner or later. I guess subconsciously I knew it was my parents anniversary, wonder if that's why I made a "his and hers" set. Sure, I had glued up enough wood for two rings made from this "sandwich" of walnut between two...

Forget Darryl's, several hundred piece stoppers, this is only two pieces of wood (not ten, oh how much fun would that be?). Maple and Walnut. Glued, cut, cut cut cut, (flipped between each cut), glued in a slightly asymmetrical diagonal pattern. Drilled and turned into a nearly 6" stopper from...

Olive wood from the Holy Land (yes that Bethlehem). I've read about other projects made with this wood, and how it smelled like olive oil when turned. As soon as a piece finally made the rounds in the 3rd tour of the pen traders box (I love being a lumberjock!). I snagged it. Olive wood from...

Approximately 19.75 cm inside diameter (US size 10, or just smaller than a nickel), this ring (currently on my finger as I type this) is 7/16ths of a inch (11mm) wide. Cocobolo, cut from the block it's sitting on - you can almost make out the pinks, purples, oranges, reds and various browns in...

Even though these were my High School colors, (well, purple and white - Go Panthers! - but you get the point.) I wondered if this wood combination would work. It wasn't until I saw the two of these woods stacked together at my "local" Woodcraft when I knew it would go perfectly. Approx 5" from...

Did you know that this combination of wood, when spun at high speed on the lathe looks like silly putty? Well this one did. Just a little fun fact for the non-turners in the group. 4 quarter design with a walnut stripe down the side. center? So that makes this stopper maple walnut walnut -...

I made one of these pens back in my 30 days challenge last November, and I think it was the first pen I sold. This is one of the few that I really didn't want to see go, so I decided to turn another one for myself. Funny thing is that I've turned a few projects out of this mesquite, and every...

A thin band of Cherry bisects the continuous grain of this Osage Orange ring. (pictured on the piece of wood it was cut from. From, or near my BILs house in TX. Thanks Rob!) Beautiful, durable, and strong, the heavy, close-grained yellow-orange wood is very dense and is prized for tool handles...

I received this piece of wood in the pen turners swap box that toured the country… continent actually, as we had participation north of the border. SteveN added these as a supplemental challenge blank (to the Cherry Burl Karson put in… that I'm "working up towards") we were encouraged to take...

Bocote and Bubinga rings The bigger, redder one of the pair is Bubinga, which is bookmatched - cut from the same piece and glued up so that the both outer bands seem to mirror each other. This is cut from the same block as this bottlestopper: Accented with a walnut center band and finished...

One for you and your pet. (or bracelet and napkin ring… or start a new trend, give your guests a napkin, and a towel ring ;) Bookmatched purpleheart, with a maple center band. As with the rings and other bracelets, the center band is glued (waterproof polyurethane glue) with the grain running...

My smallest ring to date. Cut from the same block as the previous OO ring. Approx 16 mm inside diameter, 17 mm outside. - that's barely 3/4 of an inch across, and 1/4" wide. I can barely get this one halfway down my pinky finger. I only managed to partially finish this one, as I was remounting...

Not to be confused with the yellow-green wood of the tuliptree, found on the Eastern side of North America and also in some parts of China. (Aka tulip poplar or yellow poplar, even though the tree is not related to the poplars). Brazilian tulipwood is a different species altogether. Also called...