| Project by itsme_timd | posted 238 days ago | 779 views | 2 times favorited | 19 comments | ![]() |
![]() |
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 pen trade. Here’s my entry for the challenge and the project details.
I started off with a gorgeous piece of burl with excellent pattern and some challenging voids in it. I started by flooding the voids with some thin CA glue. When I made the pen Woodcraft had just introduced some new pen kits so I grabbed one of their Sedona kits to pair up with the blank.


After cutting the blank and gluing it up I had some voids near the tube, I knew this could cause issues so I gathered the sawdust I generated when squaring the blanks and made a slurry with CA glue.


OK, now it’s time to get this on the lathe! I made sure to sharpen my tools up extra (to the best of my ability!) and turn this one extra-cautiously – it’s amazing how much patience helps in woodworking. I know one of the Jocks here has a sig line that states woodworking-patience=firewood – so true!
As you can see in the pic, there’s a large void all the way through, I expected that to be the case and was ready to get creative with it…

HMmmm???? I wanted to patch this up with something darker to contrast the lighter wood, a little bit of plucking around and I decided to try cinnamon for this one – it is just ground up tree bark! ;-)

I was pretty pleased with the results of the repair, the patch held well and the color was exactly what I was looking for – success!

A little more turning, some TLC on the finishing, and here’s the finished pen. This has been a few months and for the life of me I don’t recall what method I used to finish this one.


Thanks for taking a look at my pen, I’m eager to see how this ‘turns’ out for others.
-- Tim D. - Woodstock, GA
































19 comments so far
Karson
home | projects | blog
25792 posts in 1294 days
posted 238 days ago
Tim A fantastic showing. I hope that I can do mide proud.
I do have a little different situation though. If I blow mine apart I can go and pick up another blank. LOL
OK I’ll do it with the first blank I selected.
-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
Karson
home | projects | blog
25792 posts in 1294 days
posted 238 days ago
Tim I stated that the tag should be 391challenge. You’ve got yours backwards. maybe what we want is to make a tag both ways so we are totally covered.
-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
Napaman
home | projects | blog
3482 posts in 970 days
posted 238 days ago
wow…great result!!! this is just wonderful…I may be stealing some cinamon from the BOSS…thanks for all the details on the process…
DO you smell cinnamon still? And how about sanding…did you still go through all the grits
matt
-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...
itsme_timd
home | projects | blog
676 posts in 724 days
posted 238 days ago
Oops! Thanks for pointing that out Karson – I changed my tags to show both, just to be sure.
-- Tim D. - Woodstock, GA
itsme_timd
home | projects | blog
676 posts in 724 days
posted 238 days ago
Thanks Matt. I don’t smell cinnamon now but it was very strong when turning and sanding, I did go through all the grits as well as micro mesh, the warm cinnamon was a nice fragrance in the shop. =]
-- Tim D. - Woodstock, GA
darryl
home | projects | blog
1392 posts in 1220 days
posted 238 days ago
that’s a great looking pen Tim!
I really like how that cinnamon filler looks (very clever too, don’t think I would have come up with that!)
best of luck in the contest!
-- www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com
ryno101
home | projects | blog
248 posts in 558 days
posted 238 days ago
Looking good, Tim… Gorgeous pen!
I’m definitely sorry I didn’t have time to get in on this swap… next time around? Definitely.
I’ve got a couple of trees that had lost some big branches in the big ice storm around here early in the season, and there are plenty of blanks in there that I would be psyched to share with all my Pen Swap friends…
-- Ryno
MsDebbieP
home | projects | blog
14156 posts in 1054 days
posted 238 days ago
delicious!!!
-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
CanadianWoodChuck
home | projects | blog
159 posts in 807 days
posted 238 days ago
Where should we post the 391 challenge pictures? Is that in a seperate area or just post them here?
-- Canadian Wood Chuck (Bruce)
itsme_timd
home | projects | blog
676 posts in 724 days
posted 237 days ago
Bruce, post it up as a project and tag as noted in Karson’s instructions. There’s a link up top to Karson’s post.
-- Tim D. - Woodstock, GA
jeepstyx
home | projects | blog
9 posts in 238 days
posted 237 days ago
That’s a great looking pen. Love the cinnamon filling. It never ceases to amaze me, the number of materials you can use when turning pens.
-- Tim • Tampa, FL
a1Jim
home | projects | blog
16696 posts in 471 days
posted 237 days ago
Very nice Pen.
Jim
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
MarkWilk
home | projects | blog
183 posts in 770 days
posted 237 days ago
Great job and ingenious use of a spice in a woodworking project!
-- Mark, Florida, http://penturner.wordpress.com/
jimp
home | projects | blog
157 posts in 654 days
posted 237 days ago
Great Pen, Tim! I like your cinnamon idea.
It looks like I need to get into the shop and make my two challenge pens.
-- - Jim, Vancouver,WA
NedB
home | projects | blog
257 posts in 459 days
posted 237 days ago
Way to Spice up your turning Tim!... and thanks for the good tip, I’ve been wondering what I’d do if I had a blowout on that blank.
-- Ned - 2B1ASK1 http://nedswoodshop.blogspot.com
itsme_timd
home | projects | blog
676 posts in 724 days
posted 234 days ago
Thanks for the info Jeff!
-- Tim D. - Woodstock, GA
taylodr
home | projects | blog
30 posts in 227 days
posted 200 days ago
That pen is beautiful! Thanks for post.
Dustin
-- Dustin
scottb
home | projects | blog
3402 posts in 1220 days
posted 197 days ago
Spicy Sedona, love it. – genius.
-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/
Dick, & Barb Cain
home | projects | blog
7034 posts in 1193 days
posted 191 days ago
Very nice, I like the cinnamon trick.
-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1