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This is my response to Karson's challenge to make a pen from the cherry burl he found in his driveway one day. If you haven't seen this, here's the link to him having the burl sliced http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Karson/blog/5906 . Anyway, I have been eagerly awaiting the pen swap box because I...

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...

Don't know what Challenge391/391challenge is all about??? It's a challenge issued to the participants in Pen Trade 3 by Karson and you can check out the details here. ---------------------------------- Thanks Karson, for the excellent challenge and for sharing '391' with all of the Jocks in the...

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I finished my 391Challenge pen. The blog is here. that describes the rules and how this wood came to be. I found a log in my driveway and it was a Cherry Burl. I had it sliced and gave some pen blanks out in the Pen Trade Swap. Turning the blank was quite easy. I had no chipouts from the...

June 20/09 This week, following the posting of my first pen, Karson sent me some pen blanks to help me become addicted to turning pens. That was your goal, wasn't it Karson? :) Amongst the package of blanks were pieces of: birdseye maple and a piece for the 391 challenge. (photo #2) I started...

This pen is made from the 391BChallenge wood that was provided by John in Pen trade 3. He gave us some spalted Willow and he said that it was quite flaky and hard to turn. I found that it turned ok but the finish that I used didn't work to well on the open pores of the willow wook. Here is...

When I set up the 391Challenge it was meant for those members of pen trade 3 to make a pen from the Cherry Burl that I provided to each member of the trade. I told others who wanted to make a pen and didn't have the official blank that they could enter a pen in the 391Xchallenge category. Those...

I told the story about where the 391 pen blanks came from in this blog So for a pay forward - that doesn't sound right. So for a pay back - That sounds even worse. Anyways for the two people who were instrumental in me getting the Cherry burl - The farmer and the wood worker who offered it to...

Not long ago Tim organized round 3 of the Pen Trade. You can see the details by going here: http://lumberjocks.com/itsme_timd/blog/8098. Karson asked Tim to send the box to him first so he could put enough cherry burl blanks in for each of the pen trade participants to have. Karson then...