The weekend's finale

Great looking pen. Very nice inlay.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Gary, another great job of turning. Keep it up.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

I agree with Karson. Nice Job with the inlay. What process do you use to create the inlay. Do you do it in the blank before turning?

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Thanks y’all.
The inlay is cut on the bandsaw, assembled, then installed in the blank prior to turning.
Pretty complex for a little circle.
This one’s good, although I hope to do even better on the next one.
Gary

Nice looking pen. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

does the circle remain as such when turned, or do you need to start with an oval to wind up with a circle shape?

It’s interesting how things can change when turned, especially assembled pieces.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Scott,
In many instances, if you start with a circle, you end with an oval. In this case it was critical that the circle be a circle. So, I turned a blank to finished size to deterine the diameter of the largest circle that wouldn’t distort and made a plain inlaid circle test blank. Once I had that down, I went on to the real yin-yang.
Gary